The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

Mans stock of Goods Restrained.
A Fight over the VIII of the Late
A. J. Cheney of Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
A rich bed Of kaolin has been found
about three miles from Whigham-
An unusually large crop of hay has been
safely harvested in Schley county
There are ffty-nine white and nine ne
gro shoots in Paulding county in fun op-
Grafton
The Lee County Enterprise says there
are enough grumblers and crOakers in
Smithville TO kill town ten times Its
size.
Charles Skinner has been elected second
lieutenant of the Burke Light Infantry,
to fill the vacancy created by the resig-
nation Of Lieut.. +. L. Scales.
Albert Calhoun. white brakeman. fell
from a Southern Railway freight car al
Macon Tuesday morning and was badly
hurt. but not seriously injured
A heavy frost fell in the valleys Of Fan
min county Monday night Most of the
corn in the county is beyond damage and
no damage has as yet been reported
The Toccoa Furniture factory now em-
ploys sixty-five hands and is run night
and day 10 keep up with its orders. 1t
cuts up 1000 feet of lumber each day.
Capt. James L. Johnson of Hartwen,
who was lately elected ordinary of Hart
county, TO succeed the late A. c. Stephen
son, died Monday night with aneur1sm.
The Baptist parsonage at Quitman was
burned at II O'Clock Tuesday morning,
There was very little insurance. j. f.
Eden, the pastor, lost nearly all OF his
furniture.
The people of Montezuma are fond of
mullets Last Saturday LIPS strings Of
that variety were sold in Montezuma, and
the dealer said he could have sold more
II he had had them.
Henry Briscoe a negro laborer, was run
over by a train on the Butler street cul-
vert at Atlanta Monday night, and both
legs were crushed. He was taken to the
hospital. He will lose both legs.
Cotton is being rushed TO market in
South Georgia to get the benefit of the
present prices, and the compress at Thorn
asville is being worked night and day to
get the staple ready for shipment
w. c. Harris, who has been conducting
retail grocery business on the corner
of Washington and Pine streets. al AL
bany, made an assignment Saturday night
were local.
A heavily yelled young lady, under name
OF Matte Jones, was married at Cochran
Monday afternoon to Bryant Churchwell,
farmer. A sensation was sprung when
the bride was discovered to be the cele-
brated Debby Mobiles. Her identity was
vouched for by her brother-in-law. The
couple left on the first train going south.
Collector of Customs John ID. Stocker
reports the opening of new and impor-
tant business in Atlanta, 1t is a NAM
moth lace store on Whitehall street. The
proprietors, according to Mr. Stockcr, have
duties upon Imported goods, and have
nearly $1,000 more to be paid upon the ar
rival Of the goods from Europe.
Lagrange is to have a new cotton mill
carrying 1900 spindles. The new factory
will be known as the Dixie Mills"
New Hampshire gentleman will be sec
Rotary and manager and the board of di-
rectors is composed of some of the lead
ing citizens of LAGRANGE and three prom
tnent New England manufacturers The
principle article manufactured will be shoe
Innings.
Rev. ]. L. White, pastor of the First
Baptist church at Macon, and one of the
ablest of the young divines in the south,
will begin soon a crusade against popu-
lar amusements, and announces that, be-
ginning with next Sunday, he will preach
series of sermons on that subject, taking
ing" and then "The Wine Gun ana the
Modern Dance"
AT Atlanta Monday Afternoon Judge
Lumpkin passed an order restraining c.
=. Reynolds, the administrator of the es-
tate of Baker A. Bass the murdered man.
from selling the goods in his store which
was to have been done Monday. This was
done at the request of two-thirds of the
creditors, who claim the stock belongs to
Mrs. Bass. Judge Lumpkin granted a re-
straining order and set the case for a final
hearing on Oct. s.
John Allen, who was shot at a negro
dance on A. T. Smalfs plantation, near
Macon, Saturday night, is expected to die
The affair is yet a mystery The negroes
present and dancing in the room at the
time of the shooting know, or claim to
know, very little about it. They say
they don't know who shot Allen. With
out any notice whatever some negro in
the room drew pistol and fired at Allen
ana made MS way out OF the room before
anybody thought to see who did it. Allen
fell desperately wounded.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at Douglas under date Of Oct J. writes ne
follows: The Douglas district Sabbath
schools met IN convention here on Sat
urday last, with President Roberts in the
chair, and Gus l.. Brack as secretary
Addresses were delivered by Mr. r. 81
Kennedy, Revs. w T. Patrick. q. w m IN,
iinger Newsome Pafford and H. c. Fen
dress and Col w. w. Mcdonald A beau
tltul repast was spread at the grounds
Through the kindness of Rev G. w IN
nnger and Mr.. Walter T. Lott, the chill
dren and teachers were given a free ex-
cursion to McDonalds and back. The con-
Nention closed on Sunday afternoon. At,
night series Of meetings was started al
the Methodist Episcopal church by the
pastor Rev. II. G. Fentress, which has
already resulted in three accessions to
The church. Immediately after a slight
shower on sunday night cold wave
struck the town. lowering the temperature
very rapidly. Fires and wolens are yet
comfortable.
+, fight is to be made in the courts at
Atanta over the will of the late A. ]
Cheney, who died at East Point and left
a large estate to be divided among a num-
per OF relatives and Mercer University
MONDAY afternoon Judge Lumpkin grant
cd an order restraining the executors Of
the viii, E. w. Martin of Atlanta. and
!. {. thompson, from paying certain sums
over TO some of the relatives of Mr.. Che
ney and this is the beginning of what
may be a long law suit. Mr.. Cheney Ieff
an estate worth about $150OOO with The
provlso that $1,000 should be given 10 each
OF his nephews and neices. children If
MS brothers and sisters. The residue Of
MS estate was willed to Mercer ITnIver-
Sly. The trustees now claim that after
al the expenses are paid and the beuuests
are settled there will be 100000 of the es
tate exhausted, but the executors Mr.
Martin and Mr.. Thompson refuse to nav,
the balance to the university as thew saw
there are at least thirteen neices ana
nephews who were dead when the will was
made but whose children should share in
the estate. az
special from Macon to the Atlanta
journal says: Tt has been runlored FOR
several weeks that an outfit of boomers
had been received in Macon, and every
body has been listening to hear from ana
watching to see the woman who owns
them: Sunday night, as the Bellevue car
pulled up the hill near the Napier Mace
on Its way out to the park a ladv was
seen TO fall from her wheel Her com
panlons rode on a considerable distance
before they missed her. AS the car rolled
up 10 the place where she was seen Ia
nave Iallen. two Young men and tho