The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-12

Deadly Rather Gets in His Work
in Several PIaceS-A FIorida Town
swept by severe Fire.
GEORGIA.
Rome Tribune. Many magnates VIII be
attracted 20 Atlanta by the exposition.
The Rockefellers viii attend in q body
DeKalb New Era: Decatur is not such
q sleepy town after ais Two fights and
man and his wife have tussle all the
same day.
Roswell Banner: a fellow can sortcr
stand of Bill for q sack of flour. a
bucket of lard or a peck Of meal, but when
the rent bill IS pushed in your face IL
means cash up now, quick.
A charter was applied for al Atlanta ia
the superior court pE W. J. Hail, w n.
jackson and 5. L. Williams for the purpose
exposition. The capital stock of the COM
pany IS named at $1,000.
+. 6. Benham Of Dahlonega is receiving
lumber for the construction Of another
dredge boat TO be Put IN the Chcs-atce
river some two or three miles below New
Bridge. This one IS TO De the largest that
has ever been launched in this river
Hawkinsville Dispatch: "The country
editor who viii boldly assert that we are
now in the midst Of great prosperity
when his subscription book shows that he
has not been able TO collect s. in six
months is entitled to the belt as the cham
piOn liar"
Dublin Courier: Wonder who is go
ing TO get the Courier one year for the
largest watermelon and six months for
the finest peck Of peaches: We are of
the opinion that there are finer melons
growing in Laurens than have yet reach
ed this office"
AIoutrie Observer: The Atlanta EXPOSE
tiOn Is going TO have a Ferris wheel The
Albany Herald remarks that This will
enable the man who subscribes for his
home paper and doesn't pay for IL an OPP
portunity of getting as near heaven in
life as he will in DEATH
The new machinery at the Garnet mine
at DahlOnega will be ready for operation
in a few days. The signal expects soon
TO hear of good results, as experienced
miners say they already have large
quantity of excellent ore ready for the
mill.
Cleveland Progress: White county
should be proud Of the fact that she is
OF which have SO far been sent in, that
shows an increase in the valuation of her
property. All the others show decreases,
some OF them large. The increase for this
county is only S5907 over last year.
The other day some parties of Dahlonega
made up purse, according to the Signal,
and purchased a Bible with large print
and presented II TO an old cripple gentle
man who thanked them for IL and appre-
~ciated the gift. Recently Dr.. Howard gave
an old man IN our town one of these holy
books and he said he had no use for it.
Capt. George +. Hunt, the weather man
of Atlanta, expects TO issue, in connection
with the local bureau, a magazine giving
the state weather reports. This sheet win
appear weekly. No appropriation has
been made by the state for this purpose
and Capt. Hunt will have to get enough
advertisements 10 make the enterprise pay
for !tself
es-Recorder: Arthur Rylander made
a shipment of two carloads of lie COnte
pears TO the eastern markets from Amer
tcus Friday. The fruit was grown I'm Mr..
Rylander's large orchard and filled several
hundred barrels. Il. ID. Ansley will reach
New York to-day and personally super
intend the sale Of the fruit for Mr.. Ry-
lander.
Signal: Last week at Dahlonega the
Wmpy brothers went down to the Cor
don mine TO haul the 800 pound boiler up
10 the Garnett mine, distance Of about
twelve miles. They loaded and had IL at
the Garnett in twelve hours notwithstand-
ing they were delayed al the YahoOla
bridge on account Of its being so low that
they had to take off the wheels and slide
the wagon and its contents through the
bridge on skids.
Prof. Lyman Hall of Atlanta is at
Americas in the interest of the Georgia
School Of Technology! He is visiting some
OF the counties of that section to furnish
Information TO county officials regarding
the school and will be at the Windsor sew
eral days. Sumter county is not now rep
resented and is entitled to six scholarships.
We advise those of our young men lean
ing TO mechanical lines to take advantage
of this opportunity.
Times-R Recorder: During the bicycle
races at Lection park, Americas, Thursday
afternoon a serious accident resulted from
a collision between j. II. Allison and Har-
Vey Weaver, both Of whom were taking
thrown violently from his wheel, the fall
breaking his left shoulder bone as well as
dislocating the collar bone. His injuries
were given prompt attention and ne will
soon be a BILE TO resume his duties at the
Central depot.
Lizzie Roberts faced the music in the
sumter county court at Americas Fri
day. according TO the Times Recorder, and
plead guilty to the theft of pair Of dom
inecker hens of the vintage of 1880. Upon
learning the circumstances connected with
the case Judge HiXon let Lizzie off with
a sentence Of seven months or a fine of
SIS, which was paid. The woman has six
children whose sole support she is the
eldest of whom is only 6 years of age and
doubtless dire necessity forced her TO
commit the theft.
Joe Williams the young man who was
declared insane several days ago by a
jury summoned by Ordinary Calhoun of
afternoon by the chief of the county police,
Werner. Williams Will be placed in the
state insane asylum at that place. Will
liams is believed to have been the MUIR
derer of =. II. Wylie, the Waterman for
the Old Dominion Guano Company, who
was shot and instantly killed while walk
ing along a platform around the building
of that company one night about three or
four weeks ago.
Constitution: Two Atlanta negroes were
seriously injured Friday, one by being
crushed between two box cars and the 9TH
er by being caught in some machinery Cul-
Yer Weems was standing between two box
cars in the Western and Atlantic railroad
yards yesterday morning with his hand
on the car bumpers. An engine bumped
against one of the cars and Weems's hand
and wrist were badly mashed The negro
was taken to the Grady hospital where it
was found necessary to amputate his arm
below the elbow. The other negro got hurt
at the Atlanta machine works where he
worked. He got his leg caught In some ma
chinery and his ankle was bruised seri-
ously He was taken tic the hospital where
his wound was dressed.
The Dahlonega Signal was shown this
week by w. II. McAfee a note made paya-
BILE 10 him just after the war. The man
ner of drawing up notes then was quite
different 10 what II is to-day a descrip-
tion of which may be Of interest to some
of our readers who have grown up since
that time. The law then required gov
eminent stamp to be attached to the face
of note. THIS one was for a sum less
than 500 and contained a five cent stamp.
1T seems that the note was given when q
stamp could not be procured. On the left
contained a certificate from the giver stat
ing that one would be placed on the note
as soon as Il could be had. Then when
the stamp was attached the initials of the
and date al ~