The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TUE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGRAPHS.


the Albany Academy-A Golden
wedding Celebrated in Jones
COunty-A Negroes Narrow Escape
From Being hurled Alive Mt At
Ianta-Contest for the Cotton-Picl>-
ms Championship OF Lee County.
DastardIy Act at Griffin.
GEORGIA.
Buffalo Bilrs wild west show is expected
in Columbus Oct o.
D. F. Comes. an aged confederate veter-
an Of Columbus. died at his home, on Sew
enth avenue. Thursday afternoon
Columbus has a chewing gum factory IN
fun blast And fresh homemade gum viii
soon be very popular with the dear girls
The throng gathered about the Americus
courthouse Saturday was not celenlatln8
ing. The old street sprinkler had been un-
earthed, and the populace was merely re-
Joicing
Mr. Mcdonald fisherman. from Flint
river. brought i'm TO Americas three large
Surgeons saturday, measuring nVe ieet
in length and weighing ovar 40 pounds
each. The fish were cut into steaks ana
sold readily.
Times Recorder: Capt. O.. C. Clay re-
turned TO Americas Saturday from his
plantation. where he has been Superiu-
tendins the gathering OF his cotton corp
for the past Week. Already he has gathered
nearly 200 bales. and with continued fair
weather viii soon have the ci'p picked
out; The yield. Capt. clay says,
bulk of the crop in this section VIII De
picked before oct /.
b. j. Mann. one of the clever and ac-
cOmmodafing clerks Tor Messrs. Mayer &
Crane of Albany, was forced To- quit work
Saturday on account az the intense PAIN
caused by sticking nail IN MS loot. Inc
accidGnt occurred at his home saturday
morning while Mr.. Mann was working
about the yard. The nail was buried deep
" in the flesh. Dr. J. W. Gillespie dress
ell the wound. and expects Mr.. Mann 70
belout in a short while
Banner-Athdns: The young ladies' who
belong TO the Christian Endeavor Socfe-
~ of the Presbyterian church nave deter
mined to re-establish the sewing school
thai did so much good in Athens a few
years since The object OF the school is to
teach little girls how to sew. II Is laud-
able Undertaking ana VIII 20 q srg1I go
of good. Several young ladies' VIII take
charge of the little children and give
them all the necessary instruction
Coroner Brison Hill of Albany received
a telegram from Hardaway about 9
O'Clock Saturday night saying that. Frank
GuytOn, colored, had been shot and in
stantly killed by Dan Griffin, also colored.
The telegram asked the coroner to come
and hold an inquest. Soon after receV-
ing the telegram Coroner Hill and jury
left the city for Hardaway Griffin made
his escape The difficulty was caused by
a misunderstanding about a woman.
The trial of William o. Green at Madison
consumed all Saturday The evidence is
all in and two eloquent speeches have been
made by Messrs r. W. Butler and f. c.
Foster. assistant counsel for the state.
Three more speeches will consume nearly
all OF Monday and the case viii probably
20 TO the jury Monday night Green, in
his statement. claimed that old man Estes
and his son We're armed and that they
fired on him first. lie pleads self-defense.
Herald: About 10 o'clock Saturday
morning two six-mule wagons came into
Albany loaded with hay, each wagon haul
ing thirty bales. The entire lot came from
the plantation of Col. S. T. Jordan, of Lee
county, and was only a sample Of what
that prominent planter has been doing this
year in the way Of hay raising II was
sold to n. F. Tiff, and when weighed II
was found that there were 1000 pounds OF
At. Mr.. Tiff paid Col. Jordan $3.50 per ton
for the hay.
tHogansville Bee: Little Miss Mervyn
McGahee, the 4-months-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. a. W. McGaheS, received q
diamond engagement ring from Howard
Woody of Maysvile week ago Wednes-
day. The package came registered and
Miss Mervyn come up to the government
building and made her mark; owing to her
neglected education, she could not write
But the letter which accompanied 1t was
the sweetest Of sweet love letters. The
young ladies envy little Mervyn.
Stewart county Hopper department of
Lumpkin Independent: Miss Alma Jones,
a pretty young lady of Orletta, has pre-
scented the Hopper staff bucket OF nice
honey in the comb. Sweet honey in the
sweet comb from a sweet girl, is hard to
beat when It comes to bein' sweet. Miss
Alma has the thanks of the entire Hopper
family. The Georgia poet viii
soon be caryin. the Georgia 'possum with
makes de dew drops fly from de nlggers
heel in de cotton patch, Ike mist from a
Times Recorder: A terrible accident, re-
sulting in the death OF Moses Simpson, a
colored brakeman on the Georgia and Ala
bama railway occurred at Richland, thirty
miles west Of Amerieus, saturday morn
ing. simpson was working at a switch
when his foot was caught and held be-
tween the guard rails. The freight train
upon which he was employed backed
upon him. cutting off both limbs below the
knees Simpson was brought to Americas
by the incoming passenger train, where
he. died shortly afterwards Inc Pody VIII
be sent to-day TO Montgomery, where the
deceased resided.
The friends of John Thompson. an At
lanta composer says the Constitution, are
congratulating him upon the success Of his
song THE Tallyho Picnic" which Is Just
out Copies of the song reached Atlanta
Saturday for the first time and TO select
crowd in Freyer & Bradley was sung
with great success Mr.. Thompson is a
young man of much popularity ana pos
sesses rare talent for composing calchy
songs. 1t was the intention OF j. Aldrich
Libbey TO bring the song out hrst, puI
through the delay Of the publishers It gid
not get here in time. II Will be sung TINS
season, however, at the Grand.
Columbus Ledger. An aged white man,
paralyzed TO the extent that he has bur
partial use Of his tongue, who lives al
Weston. Ca. applied to Ticket Agent I. x
Peabody at the union depot Saturday for
a ticket to his home. but on account OF
his affiction he could not pronounce the
name of the town sufficiently well for the
agent to understand IT. Here was a pre-
dicament Various devices We're employ
ell TO discover the place and finally, by
accident the right name was uttered, and
Immediately confirmed by the joyful shak-
ing Of the old mans head. To his great
disnlay however, he discovered that his
train had left him, and so had TO wait
over until the next morning.
Banner: Street Commissioner Barnett
has finished the new map of the city OF
Athens, and il is a beauty. 1t contains a
world of information and is finished ex-
ouisitely The wards, streets, blocks, pub
lie buildings and the like are all desig-
mated on the map. But the chief value OF
the work is in the accompanying facts
that have been tabuated by Street Com
missioner Barnett. The grades and meas
urements of all streets, the lines OF streets
and everything pertaining to them are sci
forth in tables and proiile maps drawn by
Street Commissioner Barnett. The mar
tho city two or three hundred dollars but
it establishes many points that in the
future will be a great saving TO the city
Morning Gail: Between and O'Clock
Saturday, morning. some devil in human