The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGRAPHS.

IEnmA al n aANlaall AAA4 A---nA -
Aeree on verdict-yIacon Work
fu- Hard 20 secure some Of the
Cotton Factories Coming 60 the
south-The Burke Printing OuthI
at Macon soId-The Rankin Case
Settled without Going 90 Trial.
GEORGIA
A rev school house IS to be built at
CorCcle.
O. F. Goodwin's gin factory IS 10 be
moved from Adel 20 su-tman.
About 5375 bales Of sea island cotton
have been sold in Naldos-a this season
The Americas .mcs-Rccorder, after
changing from a morning 10 on attefnoon
paper. has decid % so oacS mo he
morning letc again.
The law arm OF Hopkins & Smith st
ThOmasvla was d-sz0.N6d saturday hy
mutual consent. T. r. hopkins wall con
tinue al the same stand
r Simmons Of statesboro has pur-
chased The mercantile business OF ).
WaIelbaum s. SON. inclrding the mouse
and lot. Inc consideration IS $500
Dr. Henry Quleg delivered his farewell
sermon 10 a large audience az the Pres-
byterian church az Conyers last sunday
He sails on fore. gn tour in few days
A fire occurred al Cochran Friday
night The Lanfair building was COM
pletely destroyed. The loss VIII amount
10 ABOUT eafllNt AAl az Alt-AAl AlAAE 20 aAHt3-
The city council OF Montezuma has
raised the license on selling fresh mullet
TO $50 q year. The object of this license
Is not 10 prohibit but 20 encourage one
dealer to keep fresh mullet all through the
season.
After two or three weeks Of suffering
from the effects Of terrible burns re-
ce.ved while stand ng near an open CRATE
little Louise. the 4-ye1r-cld daughter or
Mr. ana Mrs. John 4. Argo Of Americus.
died Friday.
Frnt-growlng has taken a new impetus
in Macon county. An lndiana syndicate
is to plant Mrs. ". p. AaNWells entire
plantation in fruit trees and establish
an evaporatng and canning factory. Other
farmers have taken hold OF the business.
A lady, while algthing from a buggy,
tripped and fen on Jackson street at
man who went 70 her assistance stepped
upon a banana skin just before reach
tng her and likewise measured his length
In the mud.
Judge Hardemau has accepted bid OF
s., 500 for the machinery and printing out
ut Of j. ". Burke 6. Co. of Macon. The
bid was made by DR.. W. X. Holmes. Re
ceiver E. w Burke was ordered 10 sell
the remaining property at public and pri-
Vate auction.
The cigarette nuisance in Americas
practically came to an end Saturday
morning. Recently the city council i'm
posed special license tax Of 500 upon
all dealers in cigarettes, the same TO be
effective on and after to-day The tax
is virtually prOhibitiVe.
An order was passed by Judge Harde-
man in chambers al Macon Saturday af-
Macon Hardware Company 10 OFFER the
stock Of the company at private sale for
cash until the hrst Tuesday in March. If
II is not sold by that time it viii be put
upon the block BY order of court.
During the past month there was
shipped from Darten. coastwlse and for
eign, 4223,0lg feet of hewn and sawn
timber and lumber. During the month
ending Jan. 80 there was measured at the
public boom In Dar4en $500 900 feet CT
square, scab ana sawn timber. This does
not include the saWn timber and lumber
which came in during the month and
was carried direct to the private booms.
President George a. Smith Of the in
formation bureau is putting Ia some hard
Macon, and has laid down all else now
20 work for the enterprise. Mr.. Smith
Mayor Horne and one member from the
chamber OF commerce leave shortly for
Boston to invite the cotton manufactur-
ers to Macon, but before they go it viii
be necessary to raise 100000 as an in
ducement
The case against Jesse W. Rankin. son
Of the late Dr. Rankin of the S. S. s.
fame. for embezzlement, has been set
tied outside Of the courts. Mr.. Rankin
was arrested at Atlanta and placed IN
der bond last week. at the instance Of the
Atlanta Glove Company of which he was
at one time manager. He was charged
with embezzling about S400. Pending pre-
Urinary trial the case was settled and the
warrants Withdrawn
Dahlonega Signal A little child Of
John Anderson, colored, was burned to
death last Saturday in Crumhy's dis
trict. Its clothing caught IN some way
while being left alone. It's cries were
heard by its grandmother, who had
stepped out into the yard but a few mo-
ments before Il occurred 70 pick up some
e1ar
met the little one at the door burned
nearly all over into a crisp.
James Brady and General Reese, both
negroes, living in the Seventy-ffth dis
triet OF Burke county, became involved
in a difficulty 3ast Wednesday. which
resulted in the shooting of Brady with
a gun by Reese. killing him almost in
stantly, The jury after inve sigaton of
the affair found, "That James Brady
came to his death by gun shot wounds,
at the hands of General Reese, and find
the same justihable homicide"
The trial OF W. J. Whitehead at Wat
kinsville. charged with attempting to as
sassinate DR.. Z. W. Ware, has resulted in
a mistrial. This Is the third time the case
has been before the courts, and it has
cost the county $4,000. DR. Ware was
shot from ambush several years ago, and
the evidence against Whitehead Is only
cireumstantial, This last trial has re
suited in getting two witnesses in Jail
fer perjury. Bill Smith and Bob G-ifin.
both colored, sWore that a negro named
Palmetto was near the shooting al the
time it occurred, and IL was clearly proven
that Palmetto was in South Carolina.
a short while since Mrs, Mary 2. Long
of Jefferson, after a lingering illness.
breathed her last. She left six sisters to
mourn her death. viz: Mrs. H. ". Bell
Of Jefferson. Mrs Sarah z. Turner OF Jef-
ferson; Mrs. Story Of Greensboro; Mrs
George Daniel of Ganielsvlle; Mrs. w.
A. Burns of Athens, and Mrs Leila Para
mour of Florida. Mrs. Long left will
disposing of her property and its provis-
loHs left the bulk OF her estate to Mrs
Bell. Mrs. Story and Mrs. Daniel The
other three sisters were not provided for.
There has arisen some talk about the
will, and there Is a probability of its be-
ing contested. The heirs at law Of Mrs
Long are now at Jefferson talking the
matter over, and while settlement may
be reached the probabilities are that a con-
test viii be the result. A gentleman ac-
uuasnted with the facts of the case said
Saturday that several years since, Mrs
Long made a will that left her property to
her six sisters, share and share alike, and
that the grounds OF the contest, if ii is
Instituted, will be that undue. influence
was exerted to secure the changing of
the will. The property left by Mrs. Long
amounts to about S22 COO.