The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

CIergymen of Rival Denominations
10 Meet in Joint Debate at Live
Oak-SaIe of the Marietta Paper
Manufacturing Company bishop
Atticus &. HaygOOd suffers slight
Stroke of ParaIysis-A score of
Cows Shot to Guard Against Hydro
phObia in sumter County.
GEORGIA.
Perry is trying to organize a company TO
make busgies and wagons.
In some of the prohibition counties con-
traband whisky is being put in tomato
cans and sold for canned fruit
Capt. Lewis H. Kenan, who was jerked
from his horse during the parade in At
liant and badly injured, is getting better
Mrs. Elizabeth Still. widow of David
Still, committed suicide near Monroe
Tuesday night, by hanging herself 10 the
Joists of her cook-rOom She was wel-tO-
do and no cause for her act can be given.
Gov. Atkinson has pardoned Charles
Kelly, sentenced to the coal mines for
life for the murder of Capt Hardeman. of
Newton county. Kelly has served twenty
three years, is an aged man and in feeble
health.
The warrant sworn out some time ago
by J. +. Nichols charging John S. Smith
with forgery. was dismissed at Atlanta
wednesday morning by Judge Landrum
Tor want OF prosecution. The case has
been set repeatedly for trial but the pros
ecution always asked for postponement.
Wednesday, afternoon the jury i'm the
case OF Perry Chisholm against Jonathan
Norcross which had been on trial for about
a week IN the city court at Atlanta, re-
turned a verdict for $50 against Mr.
Norcross. Mr.. Chisholm was the owner Of
the soda water fountain located in the
building when the walls of it fell. The
fountain was ruined.
Tzharn Gresham well Irpourn ip1ug
trous, thrifty cOlOrCd man, who owns
about $40 acres of land in Cobb county.
last week bought nihety-siX acres of land
about six miles north of Marietta, owned
by Miss Anna j. Hunt When Isham came
in with his wife to pay for the land and
get his deed he unrolled his handkerchief
and there in a pile We're $500 i'm gold. which
he paid over, receiving so back in change
The United States revenue department
IS kept busy issuing whisky tax stamps
70 the Georgia distillers. Ii is stated by
the officials in Atlanta that more STAMPS
have been issued this month than in any
month before. For several wears there
has been but little peach brandy made
Dut II Is now selling at a great rate. Corn
and rye whisky are also being taken out
ties.
Elder H. Y. Skipper has Just returned
to Brunswick from Live Oak Fla, where
he has conducted a big revival While
there Elder Skipper was challenged to a
debate by the followers OF the Church of
Christ As a result, public discussion
Will be held at Live Oak for four days.
beginning Oct. %, and continuing four
days between Elder Skipper, UNFOLDING
j. f. Love of Naldosta, attacking it,
Two suits have just been filed in the
county court at Brunswick against Mrs
NJ. Undertake. in whose name Manager
Undertake ran Hotel St Simon last sea-
son. One is damage suit for $500 in which
n. r Judge is the plaintiff. he claims
that the hotel management promised to
m. he
bought new stock and improved his dairy
facilities, after which they refused to pa
tronize him. The other is a suit on ac-
count of J. J. & J. L. Maddox, for 1921 49,
Some time since a mad dog attacked
drove of cattle in the lower portion of
Sumter county, near the line of Terrell
several of the animals afterwards dying
Since that time. however, a number of
COWS in that vicinity have developed un-
mistakable signs of hydrophobia and
more than twenty have been shot recent
~ IN order to prevent a further spread of
the disease. 1t is thought that these ami
mails, from eating grass where the cows
bitten by the dog had grazed, absorbed the
poisoned saliva and hydrophobia resulted
Tuesday B. H. & c. d. Hill as attorneys
for r. 3. Sperry. filed suit against the
Consolidated Street railroad of Atlanta TO
recover $3.50 interest on the bonds of the
company that was due and unpaid Mr.
Sperry alleges that he holds some of the
bonds of the company to which interest
bearing coupons are attached. He says he
has thirty-one of these coupons, ten OF
which We're due last January, and the
other twenty-one on the first of last July.
They are all, he says, unpaid, although
he has demanded payment from the com
pany.
Lord Beresford is again writing his ac-
qua1ntances in Rome urging them to write
TO the governor and plead for mis- release.
he writes very pitiful letter and states
MS ease very plainly and strongly. He
says he has an incurable disease and is
supported in his statement by the camp
physician. the camp superintendent and
the superintendent Of the lumber comma
ny He says that one of the Hamiltons
MS original prosecutor, signed his former
petition for pardon. This however. Mr.
hamilton denies. His letters meet with no
approval.
While on Kennesaw mountain last
thursday, Z. II. Chandler, of Marietta
observed a curious worm, resembling a
caterpillar, yet not a caterpillar He cap
tureq II on the platform or observatory
on the mountain. 1t is about two inches
long, with white and brown spotted
body. 1t has hooded head beneath which
are Two eyes, mouth and a round nose
from winch, when angered it shoots out
Iorked red tongue. 1t has an extremity
resembling the skull of a human 1t mas
zen neshy feet on its body and six horn
leet beneath its hooded head 1t clings TO
suck with its flesh feet only. Mr.. Chand-