The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-27
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPH.

Georgia Negroes Go 20 the CntskiIIS
to Work I'm Brick Yards-A CntId
Killed by Falling on n Scissors.
Rome offered Land for n Public
/ Park-A Buried House Unearthed.
Valuable Invention of n Georgia
Railroad Mechanic.
GEORGIA.
/ Walter Nelson has been elected a COM
/ missioner of Bibb county.
/ Members of the Young Mems Christian
Association at Griffin have organized a
/ bicycle club.
/ be shipped from Montrose, Allentown and
/ Danville this summer
The trial OF John Mosely for the murder
! OF George Campbell was commenced al
Mount Vernon late Wednesday afternoon.
A northern peach buyer was in Calhoun
/ last week and tried to make arrange
/ ments to buy at 81 a tree all the peaches
4 raised in Gordon county this year
One Mercer University Club" Of ten
/ hires cook and lives on less than 81
per caput a month. And they do not live
on .piety either though they never eat
without blessing,
The residence Of n. H. Clark. at Cedar
/ town, occupied by John b. Lacey, was
almost totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
night. 1t Is supposed that IL caught from
| a stove. The dwelling and furniture were
| partly insured
There was a mad dog scare in Perry
/ last week. Wednesday a valuable black
pointer belonging to Capt w. G. Davis
4 was discovered to be mad, and he went
over town snarling, swapping and foaming
at the moth. Before he could be con-
/ hned he had bitten several other dogs.
| The dogs were killed.
! Barlow county will have a big cotton
factory and the day is not far distant
when the machinery will be in motion
| for the manufacture of all grades OF cot-
ton goods. Col. &. NJ. Jones of Carters-
/ vile has closed a trade with ID. Il. Morgan
Co. OF Atlanta, by which the valuable
mill property on Pumpkinvine creek be-
| comes the property of the latter for the
consideration of $1,000.
Col. Ira e. Smith of Brunswick had a
/ narrow escape for his life Wednesday He
was crossing the Southern railroad track
/ on Gloucester street. and did not see a
freight train which was coming down the
track, The locomotive was blowing ana
its bell was ringing but Col Smith being
deaf did not hear II. The train had to
come to a full stop to prevent a catas-
trophe. AS It was Col. Smith escaped by
narrow margin.
The Julian stock at Macon was sold
at auction Thursday. The stock was
bought in by Attorney Cohen of Augusta,
/ who represented II. b. Clafin & Co. of
| New York, who held preferred claims
| against the firm to the amount of $l2, 300.
The stock was knocked off to Clafiin &
1 Co.'S representative at $500. 1t invoiced
a few days ago at s.. 900. The notes and
| accounts, aggregating $1,000, were also
sold to Clafn & Co. for $152
The Rome Land Company has offered to
| donate to the city of Rome sixty dcres
| of land near Seaborn Wright's residence,
on the Summerville road, just two miles
from the center of the city, to be used
public park. Besides the liberal gift
| Of the land company, the citizens living
in the vicinity Of the proposed park have
| offered to contribute 81 500, provided the
park is located. 1t remains now entirely
| with the city council to decide whether
| Rome Will have park or not.
There was a peculiar accidental death
| in Hamburg, opposite Augusta. Thursday.
/ Mosella Weaver, the 1l-year-old daughter
| of Lawyer Weaver colored, farmer was
sitting on the doorstep OF her parents
| home. Having occasion to change her po-
| sition, she lost her balance and fell down
the steps TO the ground. She had a scis-
I sors in her hand, and as she tumbled, the
/ scissors was under her. one prong of the
scissors struck her in the left breast and
penetrated the heart causing almost in
slant death. The little one uttered one
/ cry and then expired.
/ Marietta Journal: A lady of this city
| had made after weeks of careful work,
/ enough of crochet trimming for a skirt.
/ One morning the husband in some way
got the thread wound round a button I'm
his coat, and as he walked about the
garden examining the growth of the veg
etable kingdom, the lace was growing
! beautifully less as the raveling process
/ continued When he discovered It only
/ about an inch of the lace remained He
had to go to a store and buy several yards
/ Of tOrchon lace to restore peace to his
wife's troubled breast
Chipley and Hightower who shot the
negro Moore and killed a fine mule, the
property of Johnson e. Howell turpentine
/ distillers, near Tweed, are endeavoring
! to effect a compromise on Friday night
a crowd of negroes and whites went to
the swamp to meet the two men. Chip
1 ley and Hightower observing the crowd
thought n mob was coming TO lynch them
+ They jumped out of a wagon and fed
/ thinking their lives were in danger. In
the meantime the still men took possess
! sion Of the team and are holding it as
/ payment for the dead mule.
Canton Advertiser: We were shown
+ 20-baded pearl handle knife last week by
I b. W. G. McCanless The knife belongs
Z to his aunt, Miss "Betsie" McCanless and
/ has been in her possession about eighteen
I years although the knife itself is, per-
haps, ninety years old II once belonged
4 to Rev. George Bright. who was an itin-
/ crate preacher and will be remembered
! by many OF the older citizens, as he
I preached in Canton quite frequently before
1 the war The knife Is a curiosity with
/ It's twenty blades, ten at each end, open
/ ing 1--WE on each side, and while the blades
/ are small, all appear TO be good as new.
! Brunswick Times Advertiser: Twenty
/ five negro men Of this city left Thursday
morning over the Plant system for Savan-
steamship Kansas city for New York and
Will go thence 70 the Catsklll mountains
I The negroes are not taking the long trip
I for fun. Each has a contract IN his pocket
/ whereby he VIII be employed for six
months IN the brick yards Of the Catskills
al wages Of S45 per month. The same
/ gang Of worHmen makes this trip every
z year The brick yard owners need men
who can work day after day ~ the hot
sun and have found that. for this kind
T 81 labor. abe southern negro is pre-emi-
nonfiy the beet nftcd. The negroes live
( economically a. me brick yards ana return
I home IN october with snug savings.
John miller, residing ~ the northeastern
part 81 MONTGOMERY county. called af the
foetdence ~ his nfiFhb0r. Frank Cooper.
near lsQfhair 1ueldas, fof The purpose m
enecting a settlement 90 reference % sof4e