The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

Steamer at Brunswick-The sheriff
of Webster County Fined $40 for
Obstructins the Mails by LevyinG
on a Mali rain.
GEORGIA.
Rev John r. Ianges died at his home al
Marietta sunday afternoon aged "a years.
The Empire mills We're sold at Eastman
were bid off by the Williams Lumber
Company OF Eastman.
The Farmers Alliance warehouse al
Athens has been sold. II was put st
public cutlery tuesday morning and sold
10 r. /. Moss Of that city for Sl.60.
a company has been organized 20 esta b.
llsh trouser factory az Whitehall FIVE
miles from Athens. Ii viii be known as
the Whitehall Manufacturing Company.
Monday night at = o'clock the roof Of
the residence OF Col. John W. EchOls. at
lnman Park, at Atlanta. was destroyed
by nre. The flames were kept confined 70
the roof and the total damage viii be
about 500.
The property OF the Atlanta Car Com
pany was sold Tuesday and brought about
$4,000 The real estate sold for 81. 90
and the rest Of the property for about So
Oeo. The greater portion of the estate was
purchased by the Healys.
The stock Of H. Joseph al Columbus
was sold al sheriff S sale Tuesday. 1t was
bought by the II. y. Claiiin Company Of
New York for $4,000. The inventory re-
Gently taken OF the stock by Sheriff Bur-
rus places a valuation upon il of $4,000
Sheriff j. l. Horn Of Webster county
was hned $40 in the federal court at COL
umhus Monday afternoon for obstructing
mails. Sometime ago Horn levied on a
Columbus Southern mail train as II was
passing through Dawson, to satisfy a tax
execution.
The farmers Of Wilkes are dissatisfied
with the present system of working the
public roads. They are holding mass
meetings in each district. and petitions
are being signed asking the grand jury
TO rescind the action by which the present
system became a law.
The wedding of Thomas r. Sally, a
prominent young business man Of Rome
and Miss Hattie c. Darlington, daughter
o: capt ]. c. Darlington, one of the most
prominent farmers Of Floyd occurred
al the home Of the bride, eight miles from
Rome at noon Tuesday.
John Ansley has purchased the lot on
Pryor street directly facing the old sta
age of twenty-five feet on this lot he will
shortly begin the erection of five-Storv
Duiidlng. The cost OF the new structure
VIII be in the neighbOrhood of $4,000
p. l. Jennings of Dawson met with a
most painful accident a few days ago
While trimming his horses foot with a
very sharp knife, the horse suddenly
moved and the knife slipped II cut a big
gash IN Mr.. Jennings leg, going to the
bone and narrowly missing an artery.
Cicero Hatcher. a negro who has been
employed In the yards OF the Central rail-
road at Atlanta for several years is pos-
sessed of the idea that ne is slowly bur
surely dying from the effects of drinking
milk which contained powdered glass. He
thinks that the powdered glass was put
into the milk for the purpose of killing
him.
w. S. Tatman, president Of one of the
fruit companies at Fort Valley has been
at Dawson several days, experimenting
the work Of getting timber from which
TO make shipping crates. The timber is
being cut in the woods near the city and
at least twelve car loads of gum and pop
lar viii be shipped from Dawson to Fort
Valley.
Fruit growing is assuming Importance
as an industry at Dawson. A number of
growers nave made orders for crates and
although the Industry is yet in its infancy
the Indications are that no less than a
thousand bushels of fruit will be shipped
from Dawson. Among the large shippers
j. X. Mercer and F. A. Ruggles.
Carson Lawrence of Gainesville has be-
come rengiously insane. For some months
ne has been suffering from nervous de-
rangement and il was once reported that
his mind became unbalanced. During the
three weeks of religious meetings al
Gainesville, Just now over, he was very
much interested. He attended regularly
and the theme OF religion took such hold
upon him that in the spell of nervous ex-
haustion he became insane.
The crew of the steamship Capello. load
ed with naval stores and bound for Am
sterqam, mutinied Monday just as she was
ready to sail from Brunswick United
states Commissioner Lehman refused to
issue warrants for the arrest of any of the
parties, as all the sailors and officers are
cltlzens OF Holland. 1t is probable that
the Dutch consul at Savannah will be
called on to settle the trouble as the
steamer cannot leave until the crew is un-
der control.
Nearly the entire day was spent in the
United states court at Columbus Tuesday
p ~ a.
charge of this nature q. A Kidd of
Heard county was found guilty and SEN
fenced TO four months imprisonment in
the Fulton county Jail and to pay a fine
of 500 and all costs. James REYNOLDS
OF Miller county was sent to the Muscogee
gall Tor one month. j. c. Barr and w. J.
Barker OF Heard county were each fined
slOO and sent to the Fulton county Jail for
one month.
The firm of Wingate & Nell of Atlanta
was closed Tuesday on mortgage given
70 Mayson d Hill to the amount of $7R
The chattel mortgage was only one Of
several that were filed Tuesday after
noon. The other chattel mortgages We're
pany $500; to w S. Granting and T.
Z. Mayson to secure a bond signed, 5000:
to the B; G. Bibb Stove Company. 1881 /;
TO the Western Brass Manufacturins
pany, sl21. --'e' >0'i'-
The water question is exciting more in
terest than the liquor question in Rome
hibits the council from making debts for
future council, or assuming any obli-
cations for its successor to meet So
when the deal was cleared for the pumps
Tor the new water works an Obligation
was Incurred, of which $1,000 is stiil out
standing for the pumping apparatus The
contractors now demand payment of this
sum, but the present council demurs
claiming that the contract specified 5 1000
UoO gallons per day, when the actual ca
pacity is but 100000 gallons and that tho
debt should be scaled in consequence The
question is exciting much attention ana
there are those who claim that the pres
ent council is under no legal obliga-
ton to comply with the terms of the con-
tract.
A special to the Columbus Enauirer-Sun
from Cusseta, states that a negro giving
his name as Rev. d. N. Brown, d. D. was
arrested and lodged in jail at that place
Tuesday morning on the charge of swind-
ling the ignorant colored paOple of that
section. Brown represented himself as be-
ing the agent of the Boston Educa tional
Society of Boston, Mass, that
he had been delegated by the society
to select a site for the erection of a s35, oO0
college for the benefit of the colored
youth, which was to be donated by the ne
groes He held a number of meetings
at Cusseta, and at each a collection wa :
taken for money to defray preliminary ex-
penses- In this way he worked the ne
groes who mad become very enthusiasts
tic over the project He secured from,