The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-29

Incendiary-A woman Run Down
by n Bicycle at Thomson Dies From
Her InJuries-A Big Watermelon
sent TO President Cleveland.
GEORGIA.
Col E. u. Huguenin admits that he IS
In the race for mayor OF Macon, and is
there 10 stay
The two new stores being erected at
8eidsville by J. ". Higlt1Wer are near
ING completion rapidly
on Aug. 9 the cornerstone Of the. new
court house az Zehul0n viii be laid. 1t
s proposed 10 have basket dinner
". II. Landlord. eX-county treasurer Of
Heard county, died az his home IN Senoia
the past week, after protracted illness.
The Atlanta Journal SAYS that Solicitor
General Charles ID. Hill VIII very probably
be opposed for reelection by Thomas X.
K. Cobb.
An effort Is being made 10 have a con-
gress Of AlasonS held at Atlanta during
the exposition This congress VIII Pc con-
fined to Masons OF the United States.
Peach growers Of Spaulding county.
WnO shipped their fruit TO a Chicago firm
ind il hard TO set the cash called Tor by
their drafts. The paper is going 10 pro-
test.
The Wilkes County Farmers Alliance
met at Washington Friday for the pur-
pose of reorganization. q. ). Stroller
vas elected president and L. VI. Anthony
secretary. The officers elected are lead
ing pOpulists.
Judge speer IS expected 10 arrive at Ma
con to-day from New York. He is said TO
be very much improved by his trip to the
east He will spend only one day IN Ma
con, leaving Tuesday or Wednesday Tor
Mount Airy TO join his family, who are
spending the summer at that delightful
resort.
Capt Nynck Of Americas. who has been
desperately Ill for the past week. is "A
little better. There Is some hope of his
4 8
his continued assertion that he is not going
10 die, made in the face Of the opinion Of
the attending physicians that his chances
for life are hardly even.
Henry c. Williams brought to Waycross
Saturday sixteen melons of the Williams
variety that weighed SIS pounds. The
melons completely filled the wagon, and
were big load for one horse. The aver
age weight of the melons is a fraction less
than 50 pounds. The largest melon weighed
81 pounds and the lightest AZ pounds.
The old Quitmaln academy building viii
soon be a thing of the past. At meeting
of the board of trustees of the graded
school held Monday, it was decided TO
tear down the old building and replace il
with a handsome new one. The new build
ing is to be a twO-story wooden one. on a
brick foundation, 10 cost not exceeding
5000.
The old court house at Norganton is un-
safe. A new one must be built. Blue
Ridge wants it and MorgantOn wants il.
Both OF these towns are pulling for all
cated BY the Post MOTgantOn and Min
eral Blun by the Morganton News. Con-
siderable excitement and some ill-feeling
Is the result.
james Presley colored. was arrested at
Atlanta late Friday night and locked up
3n the station house. The negro is wanted
at EatontOn for a crime committed over
Tour years ago He is charged with as
eault with intent to rape in Putnam couu-
~, II seems that the negro has been evad-
ing the officers for four years and was not
found until Friday afternoon, when Mar
shal Webster of Eatonton came TO Atlanta
after another negro under arrest and
found Presley.
Instead OF a provisional building erected
Tor the use Of Mr.. Moody, at Atlanta this
fall, a handsome auditorium, with a
seating capacity OF several thousand peo-
pie may be substituted This has been
the talk FOR several days among the mem
bers of the Moody committee. No definite
action has been taken as yet and the prop
ostton is still without official sanction or
consideration; but several members of
the committee favor the erection of such
"a building and a strong movement will
likely be made in this direction.
b. a. ] Smith. who has been running
W n. Htlfs plantation in Heard county
the past year or so was the victim of an
1ncendiary IRE on Friday night last Short
ly after midnight his barn and stables
We're discovered in flames, but the fre
had made such Roadway it was impossible
70 save anything. Mr.. Smith lost eight
head of horses and between three and four
hundred dozen bundles OF oats upon which
there was not dollar of insurance Gov
Atkinson has offered reward Of 500 for
the apprehension of the miscreant
Col. b. w. Sperry's lease of the Brown
mouse at Macon expires on Oct. l next.
He did not desire to release it. as he in
tends TO devote his entire time to running
the Hotel Lanier. A. G.. Allen has leased
the Brown house for five years, commence
ing Oct. I. He was formally connected
with the Kimball house in Atlanta, then
clerk at the Hotel Lanier, and has been
steward at the Brown house several years.
A Proudht and Morris Harris the own
ers of the Brown house, will put $1,000 to
Sl5,oOO Improvements on the building.
Atlanta Constitution: Circus bills-big
red, white and yellow posters wide enough
and high enough to cover whole fences
and telling about the glories Of The great
SNposltlon-are to be put up on all the
blank fences in the country. They will be
tndEnlnceht designs, in gorgeous cOlors,
and will contain, besides bird s-eye view
OF the exposition, resume of important
information concerning the great show to
be held here. They will be printed in
Cincinnati right away and the work Of
posting them up will be commenced Just
as soon as practicable.
Zebulon Journal: Sheriff Gwyn lodged
Claud Etghtower, colored in jail here fast
week on two or three misderneanor charg-
es. Claud was arrested in GAINESVILLE
some time ago and placed in the guard
mouse but when the sheriff went after him
he was seemingly in a dying condition
from poison. So instead of bringing him
10 jail the humane officer sent him home
on a hitter where the wife could have the
privilege of comforting him in his dying
moments, but as soon as the negro got
nome he got well and skipped He was
found IN Atlanta driving a dray and ar
rested as above stated.
Thomas VILE imes-Enterprise: The "a
pound melon raised by W. r. Pittman. and
which has been on exhibition in this office
Tor several days, was forwarded yesterday
by express to President Cleveland at GRAY
Gables. A letter was forwarded to Mr.
cleveland on the same train notifying him
Shat the melon was grown by Mr. Pittman
tartd-reform-soun money Cleveland
democrat. and that it was sent with the
complim ents of the unterrfed unffinchine
democrats of Thomasville and Thomas
county, of men who had stood by his ad-
ministraticn and was sim standing by it,
OF men whose faith in the wisdom of his
course could not be shaken.
Sheriff Davenport and Deputy Sheriff
Bishop had a lively chase Friday night
after Joe Eaton. who killed Malachi Pitts,
near NfcaJack, in Cobb county Some par
ties, among them a son of Mr. Pitts had
been keeping a close watch upon Eaton s
nome, to see If he ever visited his family
Friday they noticed a cousin OF Eaton s
coming out of the woods near his house
and, upon an investigation, found where
some one had just eaten a meal at the
loot Of a tree, leaving biscuit male of