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

Card Sharps at MacOE-W ork BE
gun on the Moody Revival Taber
nacIe at Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
The street vendors pay Atlanta S1.O0
,,er week for licenses.
The Milledgeville Times has been resur
rected. W +. Reynolds viii edit IT,.
The town council of Jefferson at thei
last meeting elected W. r. Mcdaniel tow
marshal.
A bin will be introduced in the mex
legislature 10 abolish fhe county court o
Jackson.
The bicycle craze has struck Valdosta
and the riders are going 10 build regu
lar bicycle track.
T. J. Dozier of Schley county has stack
ed up fifty bales of cotton under shed
on his plantation and Is holding IL for ],
cents a pound
Several steam boilers have exploded in
South Georgia recently The fault has
been that inexperienced men have been
running the engines.
The officers have just raided a number
OF blind tigers at Reynolds, and three viO-
laters have been caught and jailed. All
of them were cOlored.
More Montfort son Of Hon. D. T Mont
fort died saturday at his fathers home
at Reynolds There is an unusual amount
OF sickness in the county.
A great many hunters think Oct. / too
early 10 shoot .partridges. A bill viii be
introduced to change the law so as TO pro.
tect the birds until the lst of November.
Gov. Atkinson has authorized a reward
OF $50 for the arrest, with proof TO con-
Wet OF the person who burned the barn
of John I. Miller in Heard county, on the
18th of September. 1895.
Superior court is in session at Reidsville
this week, with Judge Gamble on the
bench. The civil and criminal dOckets
are heavy and the term will continue
rorh ara
several murder cases TO be tried.
J. w. Huott of Savannah ana Miss
Lula Gibbs were married at Offerman
last Sunday morning in the presence of
large number of friends and acquant-
ances. They are spending their honey
moon at Atlanta and the exposition.
There is one Davis family in Wash
ington county comprised of father nine
sons and one sOn-n-law. They cast
eleven votes for Black. There are other
Davis families in the county, and every
one bearing that name, with one eX-
ception Is democrat
s. S. Coggins, the postmaster. mer-
chant, farmer and prominent citizen of
Beeks, Pike county, was himhammed
out of SIS at Macon Tuesday by a man
who induced him to enter den of card
sharks. The sharpers escaped with the
money before the police could arrest
them.
A Chinese laundry at Columbus was
burglarized Monday night and a large
created considerable excitement among
the colony OF Celestials as this is the Sec
ond time in few days that a laundry has
been burglarized and large amount of
money stolen.
John b. Nolan and M. A. Wheless. two
white men, were participants in a duel
IN Walton county Tuesday They had
been drinking together for several days
and quarreled over some trivial matter.
They drew pistols at the same time and
fred one time each. Wheless is expected
TO die; Nolan is unhurt
"Aunt' Whey Bruce, an old colored wo-
picking record. On last Tuesday she pick
ed W pounds sitting in a chair, moving her
chair along as she picked, and quitting
Work an hour before shutdown. Aunt vi
ney Is known to be over IS years old, and
IL Is thought she is about 100.
William p. Ridley, assistant postmas-
ter at Beeks, in Pike county. was given
a preliminary hearing before United
states Commissioner L. NJ Erwin at
macon Monday, on the charge of having
stolen 81 from letter addressed 20 An
ME Jones and then destroying the letter.
hluley was bound over in the sum of $780,
The body Of an unknown negro man
was found in Clayton county Monday. MS
person mutilated and his head gone. 1t
Is supposed that the negro was murdered
and the head severed from the bodv i'm
order to make the identification dF1icuH
There is no clew as to the murderer. but
the crime IS supposed TO be the outcome
VI 6dnUlNE.
The Ihe big yellow pine mill Of the Hilton
lodge Lumber Company. at St. Simon
Is 10 be oVerhauled, and will resume rum
nlng at once on fun time and with a full
I9rce OF hands. The mill suspended opera
ions several months ago, the cypress mill
on the island continuing work Increase
IN business now necessitates the starting
OF the big mill, and it viii be done.
There were S0e1 names of qualified vo-
tiers on the registration lists of WASH
AuEtOu county. Some
tered twice. The full registration was
approximately 1900 and the total vote
istered failed 10 vote The total va
was about l,l0O less than last Noveuher
at which time 3,6l5 ballots were cast.
In the case Of T. n. Gibson and Others
o osl .. ", Ihornton, G. j; Thornton and
sued before Judge w. b. Butt at Talbot
Ton this week the action being a petition
LOT a,l, Injunction and receiver, the officers
ana agents Of the Talbotton Railroad
company are enjoined until further hear
ing, on Nov. g. at which time a decision
VIII be rendered in the case.
While the advent, OF the liberty bell
70 Atlanta brings JOY and gladness to the
heart of the average man. If brings a
pang TO that of Felix Lowenthal a Young
Hebrew, now an occupant of cell at the
central police station at Atlanta, charged
With burglary. His crime so il is
Claimed, was forcing an entrance to a
Pryor street store and taking therefrom
badges.
Miss Mamie Mehan an attaehe of the
Mexican village at the exposition grounds
al Atlanta, died Tuesday night at the
Grady hospital, after an Illness of only
a short time When the exposition first
opened the young lady came to Atlanta
from Boston to take charge of a place
operated by the Lawson Catering Com
pany OF that place. After being at Az
lanta few weeks she was stricken
down and fingered until Tuesday night
when she died.
Work has been started on the Moody
tabernacle, located on Williams street
at the corner of Cain street, Atlanta and
by the first of October the structure will
be completed and ready for the meetings
which Mr.. Moody viii hold during the
exposition The building is to be only
frame structure, without any floor
except around the pulpit, where flooring
viii be placed 1t will De 16Sx2O0 feet
with seating capacity of 5000 people
1t will cost S2,475.
Chairman James Barrett of the popuHst
executive committee of the Tenth district
has returned to Augusta from a confer
ence with Thomas Z. Watson and other
prominent populists and states that Mr.
Watson viii contest Wednesdays election
in which Maj. j. c. c. Black was returned
to congress by a majority of 1.602 votes
1t has been stated that Mr. Watson would
be the pOpulist candidate for governor
in 1886, but Mr.. Barrett would not affirm
or deny the report.