The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Big Land Trade between the
Dodge Company and herman Pros
pectors-An Atlanta Man offers 90
Put Up a building 10 he Leased 10
the City for n City HaII-A Minnie
Hall Found Imbedded in Tree
After Thirty Years.
GEORGIA.
The Baltimore base ball club for 1895
expect 70 leave home on March J., and
20 20 Macon where they viii practice
Until April 1.
First Lieut. Bell has been elected cap
tain OF the Macon HusSars. vice kenau
resigned. Curren Ellis has been elected
nrst lieutenant.
An agent for q life insurance company
said Thursday that he had written poll
cies amounting 10 10000 Ia Americus
Within the past week.
a mail pouch thrown from the down
train on the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad was stolen from the de-
not at Triton on Monday.
=. s. Brunson OF Perry has sold his in
tsresL IN the mercantile business OF
Srunson & Cooper and the business IS
now conducted by j. =. Cooper 4 Co.
Hnburn, Hunt * Co. who have been
doing a general business in AdairsvlIe
for several years, closed their doors on
Tuesday morning as result of poor
collections.
Capt. John J. Calhoun receiver or
Scheuer Bros, of Gainesville. has fiu-
lshed taking stock and viii advertise
ano sell II as a whole, within thirty days.
5000.
While out hunting last week Ed Shackel-
tord found six barrels, three of which
were empty and the other three We're fun
of whisky. They We're round in swamp
about two miles from Lawrenceville and
they were partly covered with pine tops
Some time ago "a negro named Elisha
Burrows assaulted the daughter Of Robert
Williams Of Franklin county. Wednes-
day night c. r. Bond of Ebert county
in attempting TO arrest Burrows near
Hantwell, shot him so that he died We'd
nesday afternoon.
Wednesday, a negro named James
Kemp went to Woodstock get drung and
proceeded TO tear up things
He was arrested and in an
attempt to escape was shot
through the neck and viii probably die
He completely wrecked Walter NcCraw. g
wholesale ana retail commission house.
A big land trade between the Dodge
Company aud German prospectors has
been perfected. The purchase consists
Of 10000 acres, and embraces the site of
Nofmandale, excepting only the homes
of Messrs. Knox and Oberlv. Some es>
detrimental farming on a small scale win
be done this year. and il success crowns
The EFFORTS many German families viii he
settled on the lands next year.
John r. Pace Of smyrna recently. in get
IN Cobb county came across "A minnie bail
that had been shot into a tree during the
war thirty years ago. The ball was
Embedded in the tree 10 a depth of nine
inches, a new growth of the tree having
completely covered II. The most remark
able thing about it is that a piece of the
paper Of the cartridge was sim wrapped
around the bail perfectly sound and with
out the least touch of decay.
]. w. Grant of Atlanta has made q pro-
position 10 the city to erect 4 city hall at
- cost of 10000. The building. under the
specifications. is TO be fire proof four
stories in hight, and ample for the needs
OF the city officers for many years to
come: MIR. Grant IN talk with Chairman
W elch or the council committee on public
buildings ana grounds, suggested as an
admirable site for city ban the property
on the northeast corner of Lloyd and Hun
ter streets. Mr.. Grant proposed 10 erect
building on the lot fronting eighty feet
ON Loyd and 100 feet on Hunter streets
Tor the exclusive use OF the city. The
amount 10 be Invested was placed as S60 .
Oe. The city was 70 take the building on
q ten year lease and 1t was TO he ready by
the time the present lease on the chamber
OF commerce building expired. Nothing
Uennite IN regard to the material to be
used IN the building was settled lInou