The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
II PARAGRAPHS.

cideS Adversely 10 the Existence
of the Gate Cisy Guard a. an indie
pendent military organization.
GEORGIA.
coffee county's delinquent tax list for
1884, is said 90 Le not over SO
The 4-year-olG child of Charles Howard
was burned 20 death near Antioch We'd
nesday afternoon
The three children of Georgia Head a
negro woman were burned 10 death j. rl-
day morning near Forsyth
a charter has been secured for the Har-
mCny Grove and Athens Telephone Com
pany and active work viii begin on the
line on Jan /.
Mrs. Hattie Lumpkin of Rome has
beautiful display of 500 hand-paiuteG
gourds at the exposition, which is the
work of her own fingers.
+ A Riley. q New York stock broker.
was suddenly stricken with acute mania
Clans say he VIII recover.
It is rumored that President Gambler
dency of that college and so more act-
lively into ministerial work.
J. 2. Pauik has purchased the mer-
camille business of ". w. Gaskin x Co.
at Ashburn and Will continue il under
the firm name of J. f. Paulk * Co.
James Goldman. collector for the Acme
Brewing Company in Macon, was bitten
by mad dog a few days ago. ana has
q
New York, for treatment.
Capt. r. II. Leonard, ordinary Of Tai
bot county, died at TalbOttOn Thursday
after a protracted illness. Capt Leonard
was 20 years old and had been ordinary
Of Talbot county for sixteen years.
The matter of sowing oats is begin
ming to be serious problem for the
farmers of Sumter county. Owing 10 the
prOtracted drought planting is impossib le.
while the time for this is rapidly pass
ing by.
Florence Anderson, a 13-year-old negro
girl was shot and instantly killed low
Lucius Jones, a l7-year-old negro hoy.
at Atlanta Thursday night Jones has
been arrested and claims the shooting was
accidental.
Thursday morning A. Roobin. dry goods
merchant Of COrdele, had mortgages
amounting to $7.000 or $500 filed on his
stock of goods These mortgages We're
10 secure Indebtedness for goods pur-
chased and money borrowed.
The Southern Railway Company has
settled with Thomas +. Warwick. guard
ian of W. +: Kennedy, son of James A.
of Pythias wreck last August. A check
for 5000 was paid to Guardian Warwick
at Macon Friday.
The Admission National Bank Of Annis-
ton, Ala, has instituted suit i'm the United
States court at Macon against the own
ers Of the Cuyler and Woodbury. railroad,
twelve-mile short line running in Bryan
and Bullock counties, and applied for
receiver of the road and property owned
by the company. Judge Speer made al,
order appointing ]. D. HarroI temporary
receiver and Mr. Harroll left at once to
take charge of the property under in
structions from the court.
Lige Johns was killed near Franklin
Tuesday by the accidental DISCHARGE az
aishotgun. Mr.. Johns had been bird hunt
ing and on his way home stopped at a
place where he made brandy in the sum-
mer He placed his gun ON the old peach
mill and was leaning against it. 1t Slip
ped and the hammer struck the mill and
the gun went off. The whole load en-
tered his right arm and shoulder sever
ing the arteries and he bled to death
before medical aid could be summoned.
There was shooting ARRAY Wednes-
DAY on r. ii. Jacksons place. about
three miles from Franklin, between Gus
Hepson and Harry Kidd. Hepson shot
Kidd through the neck, INJECTING a fesh
wound; Kidd got a Winchester rifle and
shot Hepson as he was going down the
road The ball entered the right arm and
passing through the arm entered the
Dreast, striking rib and passing around.
flesh wound. Report says that woman
was the cause of the shooting.
The Gate City Guard Of Atlanta has
ceased TO be a military company unless
the members see fit TO reinlist In the SER
vice of the state. This was decided bv
Gov Atkinson Friday morning, and he
Immediately wrote a letter to Cant /
b. Hollis, commander of the Guard. no
ufying him that he would revoke the
license granted the Guard to bear arms.
that the attorney general has rendered
MS opinion as TO the law in the case and
mat opinion is adverse to the Guard
ON this account he sees nothing else to
do except 10 revoke the license issued
recently 10 the company authorizing it
10 bear arms.
The damage suits instituted by Roland
Reed and Mrs. Mary Myers and Mrs.
John G. Whyte of the Roland Reed Com
pany against the Southern railway for
SipW" EACH We're removed Friday from
the superior court of Telfair county to
motion of the railroad company. Reed
and the ladies' We're injured in the wreck
OF southern railway train at Scotland
about 100 miles below Macon March 8
last by the derailment of the train They
were en- route from Macon to Jackson
Vile at the time. and their chief com
plant on which damages are based is in
the fact that they We're prevented from
nlung valuable engagements in Jackson
vile and other cities.
About eighteen months ago a man
named Guthrie canvassed Meriwether
county collecting data for a book to be
published entitled Memoirs Of GEORGIA -
he succeeded in obtaining biograDhical
sketches of more than fifty of the most
prominent families in the county The
SUBJECTS OF the sketches certified to the
correctness Of the same, signing their
names. To their establishment a man is
now delivering or attempting to deliver
70 each person whose family is immOr-
talized in its pages. this great work. pre-.
senting at the same time a note with a
bona nde signature attached, promising
10 pay S25. A few whose pictures are in
serted in the Memoirs are presented with
notes for SIPS The people are very in
dignant, claiming they never signed any
notes, and refuse to pay, almost to 4
man. The claims in the county aggre.
gate more than 81 200.