The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.


| The State Agricultural association will
1 meet at Cumberland Aug. l3, IA and Is.
/ The building prospects in Triton for the
| last halt Of ISIS is the expenditure Of
| about $1,000
| James Bryant Of Dahlonega recently
! killed a rattlesnake measuring three feet
/ and ten inches and having thirteen rat
/ ties.
/ There VIII be more work in the way
I OF new houses and additions In Cleve-
/ land than the carpenters can do from now
until winter.
] Fireman Hodo of the Georgia road who
was injured in the wreck at Union Point
I some weeks ago, has brought suit against
I the road for 5000 damages
The Macon and Indian Springs Electric
| Railway Company wants to extend its line
I 70 Central City Park. The Consolidated
Company at present owns the only line 10
l the park.
The dry goods store OF W. W. Miller
| az Milledgeville was entered by burglars
| Monday night About 500 in silver ana
/ some goods were stolen. No clew 70 the
robbers has been found.
Sheriff Fisher Of Colquitt county, Is
now corresponding with some regular
Z dealer in Kentucky in reference 10 pur-
chasing some bloodhOunds for the use of
the county in catching criminals.
Many farmers of Houston county say
more corn viii be harvested in Houston
this year than IN any year since the war
I The acreage Is more extensive and the
u
Il has been ordered that, commencing
this week, all conductors, firemen, engi-
neers, and other trainmen Of the Port
Royal railroad will have 10 reside at Port
Royal! Heretofore they lived In Augusta.
The Reformed Associated Presbyterians
| of Atlanta, who have been w0rshpping
l for some years out in Whitehall street.
have bought lot corner Lloyd and Gar
nett. They are preparing to build hand
some church. The work was begun Mon
day.
A meeting has been called in Atlanta
on Aug. 10 for the purpose OF organizing
a Southern Travelling Passenger Agents
and Passenger Agents Association. The
territory Will include the railroad region
south Of the Ohio and Potomac rivers
and west of the Mississippi
Up to date but one man in Lumpkin
county has registered to make brandy
this season and that is Thomas Sain Of
Mill Creek district, The bond is not 50
easy made as heretofore. 1t is $500 and
two of the bondsmen have 10 be worth
over and above the homestead.
Ex-County Surveyor Bryant of Lump
KIN county relates an experience he has
had In Irish potato raising. Last year he
planted an eastern potatoe weighing one
and three-fourth pounds, with seven eyes,
from which he gathered peck and and
three-quarters of potatoes. This year ne
planted two commons sized mountain po-
tatoes and without any work produced
peck and half. W. ], Worley OF Dab
lonega has already made three crops on
one piece of ground in his garden this
year and expects to make another.
T. l.. Kennedy, teacher of one of the
public colored schools In Ebert county,
at one OF the cOlored churches at Elber-
ton last Sunday made an GRAFTON 10 quite
a number OF his people In which he took
occasion 10 throw out many unbecoming
expressions highly calculated to incite
race feeling and to create bitterness be-
tween the whites and blacks. Commits
sioner James n. Wall quietly investigat-
/ ed the matter and found the charges true
I and promptly revoked Kennedy's license
/ Kennedy is also editor of the Elberton
/ Progress.
Jesse Hardeman, the negro who as
| saulted Mrs. Robinson, at Symrna has
not yet been arrested. 1t was reported
| Tuesday morning that he was being con-
cealed at a negro's house near Gilmore
station, four miles south of Symrna. A
large posse of men has gone 10 search
for him. Jake Thomas, who furnished a
mule for one of the negroes to ride the
night Of the assault, was discharged
| Tom Hardeman and Berry Padgett are
/ held for court. Nothing of Berry Smith
has been learned since his mysterious dis
| appearance.
Tax Receiver r. L. Foster has finished
| making up his returns for the year and
/ Floyd county joins those which show a
| slump. This is in spite of the fact that
| the county is prospecting In the way of
/ new industries and the organization of
/ old ones. Many attempts are made to ex-
plain this seeming Inconsistency, but moth
/ Ing appears to fit the opinion of officials
except a general shrinkage in valuation.
| The shrinkage amounts 70 S292694 The
/ valuation of the property is something
! over S7,50O,00, a shrinkage of about 81, 000
| COO in the past two years. AS the population
| has increased and many improvements
have been made and money circulated, the
normal increase should have been twice
/ the amount of the slump.
| Ben Arnold, while blowing the other
/ day near Dawson, had IN experience with
a. rattlesnake that was anything. but
| pleasant. While passing cluster OF bush
| es and a stump In the field he heard the
| well-known signal of this most venom
Gus of reptiles, and stopped to make an
! investigation of its whereabouts. Mr..
! Arnold had not turned loose his plowstock
/ when, looking down, he was Mortified to
| find that large rattlesnake had II fangs
| fastened in one of his trousers legs. He
| realized the danger of his situation at
once, and, placing his foot on the reptile S
head, soon dispatched It, 1t was soon af-
! forwards discovered that the horse Mr..
| Arnold was blowing had been bitten by
| the snake. Antidotes were applied and the
animal is now about we'll.
Cosby E. Smith committed suicide at l
] o'clock Monday afternoon by cutting his
\ throat from ear to ear at the home of his
/ sister, Mrs Nall, at Newman. Mr.. Smith,
who had been III with fever in Florida
came home Monday and went TO the resi-
| dence of his sister. He told Mrs. Nall
/ he was not feeling well, and went to his
room in the second story of the house
/ Mrs. Nall sent a servant with his dinner
/ About l o'clock a crimson spot showed
on the ceiling of the room under that oc-
| Cup1Su Dy MI. smith ana DIOOQ began
| dripping TO the floor. Mrs. Nall and the
| servants ran to the room above and found
| the suicide with a horrible cash in his
throat which had severed his jugular
vein. Beside him lay bloody razor
/ Smith was already dead. No cause for
| the act is assigned except i'll health. The
| suicide was A years old and unmarried
Considerable building is being done at
! Cochran and several handsome buildings
| have already been completed. A fine
brick building is being built by Dr. c. e.
Taylor to cost $1,000. The Masonic build
ing just finished cost between six and
! seven thousand dollars, and a splendid
hotel cost nearly $4,000. The new brick
stores are being built by Wynne and
| Brother and w. NJ and J. N. Wynne
The dwellings belonging to Messrs. Nor
gan Thompson, S Phillips, DR.. Hender-
son, II. Hanell and Mrs. Pace on Cherry
and Sixth streets are fine additions The
| residences of Mrs. A. z. Grundy r. j.
| Morgan, ]. NJ. Blackshear, ]. c. Dunnam,
| W. NJ. Wynne and J. w. Jenkins, adorn
| the town with new and identifying ap-
pearances, while two new dormitories at
| the college and an artesian well building
| swell the list of Cochran's improvements.
About o'clock Saturday night, a crowd
| Of negroes stood talking at the corner of
| Peters and Fair streets at Atlanta In
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