The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGR Apis.

Death of Woman Who Fought ~
Private Soldier in the Ranks OF
the COnfederacy-An Exposition
Restaurant Keeper Charged with
Cheating and swindIinE-A Good
story on a Prominent Virginian Of
Auanta-TweIve Thousand Bales
of Cotton Tnaccounted for.
GEORGIA
Mr.. and Mrs. H. X. Hickman Of Augusta
will celebrate their golden wedding on
Nov. T.
James Lowe Of Athens has been SEN
fenced 10 twenty years Imprisonment on
q charge Of rape
Lewis Beach and Radford T. Hitch Of
Brunswick have purchased 10 acres of the
famous New Field" tract on ST. Simon
Island for which they paid 81. 400.
William Ellis an old and highly re-
spected citizen of Atlanta. was stricken
With paralysis few days ago, MI Ellis
is u years old and his friends fear the
worst.
G. p Wood and Alex Bowling Of Bar
tow county. plead guilty TO counterfeit
ing in the United states court az Atlanta
Wednesday. and were sentenced 10 three
years at hard labor.
Andrew McLendOn, a negro OF Wilkes
county, owns already 800 hundred acres
of land IN that county; on which ne does
not owe a dollar and he has Just pur-
chased from g. r. Ramsey another tract
Of 500 acres
a settlement Of the electric light ques-
ton Is now IN progress AT Athens and IL Is
certain that compromise between the
city and the present owners of the plant
Will be made and the election for Saturday
on bonds called off,
The department of insects in the Ma
tional museum. Washington, informs Ell
IL Chandler of Marietta. that the peculiar
worm sent on by him for Identification is
a caterpillar of the Tiger SwallOW-tail
Butterfly PapiliO Turnus.'
Ii is said that there is a man in Mariet-
IA who viii not sign his own name to
any kind of writing. III he writes let
ter. he will ask a friend or some one at
hand 10 sign his name for him. lie says
he does ii 10 prevent forgery.
Capt r. W. Boone has sold the triangle
lot, near the Marietta Canning factory al
Marietta TO G.. Al Crosby. of Kentucky.
who will improve the property for the
Standard OH Company and make IL sup
ply station. The lot was bought for $500
Joseph w Weiss. who has been running
a small restaurant al the Atlanta expo
sition has been arrested on q charge of
cheating and swindling NJ. Abromowitch
by incorporating the value Of the res
taurant when he sold ii TO him for $1,000
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta has been
presented with beautiful silk flag by the
members of the woman's board of the
exposition in recognition Of the courtesies
the command had extended the board Incl
dental to its work of preparing for its eX-
hibit
The negro John Davis. who murdered
Adam Harrison, porter on the Millen ana
Southern railway on the night Of Oct. u,
was captured at Mclean on Saturday ana
carried to Swainsboro on Sunday. He
was indicted for murder by the grand jury
of Emanuel county on Monday and IL
now on trial for his life.
Several of the merchants Of Sanders
Vile report that they have been paid ac-
counts made years ago, which they had
considered lost. The people now have
a OF fhnir
obligations, both old and new, in a COM
mendable manner. Cotton is coming in
at lively rate now and trade is BOOM
ing.
Lowrey & Shields, one of the prominent
dry goods firms of Dawson, have decided
to go out OF. business on the first of next
January. Mr. Shields will go to the
Plains Of Dura where he will engage in
merchandising with j. S. French of Amer
icus, they having bought the extensive
business Of r. S. oliver of the Plains.
Mr.. Lowrey will continue in the ware
house business in Dawson.
There was quite lively shooting match
last saturday night at a negro frolic two
miles from Barlow Hiram Scott and an
other negro by the name of Elliot got into
a difficulty with a white man from john
son county by the name of John ID. Page
and Barlow negro named Dave Carswell
When the smoke cleared away II was
found that Dave Carswell had three bull
let's in him-one in the hip, one in the
groin and one just above the knee. Page
and Elliot escaped and IL is not known thar
they received any wounds.
Pike superior court convened at Zebu-
lon Wednesday in the storehouse of r.
Y Beckham, now occupied by the or
binary and clerk of the superior court Ow-
ing to the want of a suitable building in
which to hold the court Judge Beck dis
charged the Juries and then proceeded to
dispose Of a number of cases that re-
CURED no jury. Court was then adjourned
until the first Monday in January neXt
a q n hul hon
tot have the courtroom in the new court
house ready for business The court house
will not be completed before February or
March.
The city council of Rome has named the
following gentlemen to take charge of the
water works affairs as commissioners. so
soon as the bill, to be introduced, shall
pass: r. l.. Bosworth, to serve three years;
j. T. Warlick to serve two years and w
w. Nandiver to serve one year As the
matter now stands there is a debt of about
$4,000 to be met and there are about twelve
acres of land around the pumping station
and reservoir, with privileges to lay mains
through other property, all lying outside
the city limits. BY deciding this property,
worth $4,000, to the commission, the coun-
CT relieves itself of further responsibility.
The commission may issue bonds on the
property, mortgage 1t, or do as NAV seem
best thereby settling the vexed question.
A good story is told on a prominent Vir-
ginian of Atlanta: When the Virginia
Military Institute boys arrived the gem
tleman referred to, thinking to pay some
little pleasant attention to the boys from
his old home, bought two bushels OF fine
apples, and inviting a score or more of
the men TO his room, he asked them to
help themselves. painful silence fol-
lowed. Surprising that they had not under
stood him, the host again requested them
TO dispose of the apples. The boys gazed
at him reprOachfully for a moment, and
then they rose as one man and filed ont
of the room and down the steps without
word. The gentleman was utterly nom
plussed and sought an explanation from
an oihcer OF the company. He informed
the puzzled gentleman that the Virginia
Military Institute Cadets had had moth
ing to eat during the entire day coming
down except apples. The restaurants
along the road would not undertake to
feed them for fear the train would leave
and the boys had to content themselves
with apples. Consequently, when they
were invited to partake of more of that