The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

GE.OhtrlA.
Efforts are being made 10 establish in
Talbotton a butter and cheese factory.
T. A. Livingston, an old and respected
citizen of Glynn county, died Wednes-
day.
u. ]. oxford has sold his farm near
Mil Greek, in Whitfield county, for 5000
cash.
While attempting 70 couple a train at
Decatur Thursday Frank Erwin Of At
lanta had his left arm so badly crushed
that il may have 10 be amputated.
Lieut.. c. b. Satterlee viii be at Bruins
wick on Memorial day. He will inspect
the Naval Artillery CORPS and formally
muster the men into the state service.
Warren Leland. Jr.. the famous hotel
manager, has accepted the managership
of the kimball house at Atlanta. He ran
the OglethOrpe at Brunswick this winter.
The trial of Joe Quinn for the murder
of his wife came up in Whitfield superior
court at Dalton Thursday. The defense
IS that quinn was insane when the crime
was committed.
The leading Merchants of Hogansvilie.
with the aid of several planters. win ar
range TO raise $4,000 as a local investment
10 join party of Boston capitalists furn-
fishing $4,000 to build a cotton mill al
Hogansville at an early date
Mrs. Fanny Atkinson. wife of Solicitor
General 4. A Atkinson died at Green
vile Wednesday night after a protractod
illness. Mrs. Atkinson was a daughter OF
sX-Congressman II. r. Harris. Gov. At
kinsOn attended the funeral.
J. c. T. Baker. the lumberman who was
so severely burned in Edgewood last Sat
urday, is somewhat better. He is still in
y dangerous condition, and his recovery
Is doubtful. Baker raves continually, and
u ne changes TO recover, IL is probable
mat ne VIII be permanently insane.
Robert Martin, the mail carrier between
Eatonton, kinderhook and Stanfordvlle
was attacked with apoplcxy while en-
route to Eatonton Wednesday. He fell
over on his horse and frightened the ami
mai. II ran away. MT Marin M
badly hurt but the horse was killed.
y. f. Duncan, who lives three miles
from Gainesville, lost his stable, barn.
buggy, three horses, three cows all his
fodder, cotton seed, corn and 200 gallons
OF syrup by fire Wednesday night There
was no insurance. His loss aggregates
VILE
The store of r. H. Watson & Son nj
Wellston was broken into last Monday
nlght. Inc safe was opened, and in addi-
non 70 about $40 in cash, several valuable
papers We're stolen Tuesday night INC
burglars, Willis Sanders and WIN Bloom.
negro men, were captured. Bloom is now
IN jan at Perry. Sanders escaped.
The public and private Indebtedness
OF georgia Is ui1ng in comparison with
ihat OF other states, and the people owe
state, except Arkansas where it is Si8.
In Georgia It is SIS, in Alabama S2G in
9 1nalana sol, 500 In Illinois, Sl0 in Iowa,
$lfs in Kansas and $l52 In Minnesota.
Thursday morning while a negro man
was digging bait in the back yard OF a
mouse in the rear of the Broad
way Methodist church, at Au-
gusta, ne unearthed the dead body OF
q white boy baby about three months
old. The child had been dead perhaps
Tour or five days, but there is no possible
itwas found.
William j. ShinhOlseu- was born dn
WILKINSON county, near AllledgeviIe In
I IeiL ana IS now Is years old. Susan Il.
county, an 1925, and is now 20 years Old.
On April 10, 1876, they were married near
Seaiiys hoeuSton county, by Rev. Thomas
Speight OF the Methodist church. Wednes-
day they celebrated their golden wedding
az me residence of their son. Edward
Shinholser. IN South Macon. whore thew
nave liNed Tor the past fourteen years
Sandersville Progress: Although ice
FORMED, ana the ground in some places
was frozen during the cold spell last
week, yet the fruit crop is believed 10 he
unhurt. W. J. Brooks tells us he had
Etumps about his orchard fired, and thinks
me canopy Of smoke kept off all danger
IN Inc year 1871 during the freezes I'm
April; ne says his father saved his or
chard and melon crop by burning fires at
night. That year he had melons in June,
others had fruit.
While experimenting a Marty Of negro
laDorerS on c. NJ. Shackelford's place a
snort distance east of Albany, Thursday.
~ Y. Milner unearthed a small treasure
1t consisted Of Sl4 in silver hidden in an
ancient Royal Baking Powder can which
mad accumulated "a thick coating of rust
from Its long contact with the moisture
OF the ground, but the coins bore only
sight signs of having lain so long unused
an eI their r rude vault. The money was of
dates of 1890 and 1891.
Within the past few days a sale of
STOCK mas been made which places the
control OF one OF the best known banks in
Atlanta-the Atlanta Trust and BANKING
Company-into the hands of entirely new
parties. The gentlemen who have recent
ly secured a controlling interest ~ ~
institution are ]. ID. Collins Il r. C,oIlins
:. II. Nenable, John +. Ryan. Joseph n
GGatlns, Hiram Middlebrooks ana Others
shares of stock. The / .050 shares ~ s+oS!y
was bought from the Equitable Mortgages
company OF New York, and the price
PAD Tor 1t was $50 per share.
A negro named Mitchell. from Kan
lucky, who made Atlantis his head0uar-
ters while in Georgia, scooped in a largo
sum OF money by organizing an anti
separate coach association and has now
left town.. He said the money was to he
eSsea IN nghung case in the United
States supreme court Mitchell also han
another method of getting money He
progressed to be the representative of a
mouse publishing an Africo-American d.
Ieetory In this would appear the names
and pictures of all the prominent colored
men IN the United States He was any
3IO4s 70 get the weH-known men in At
lanld 10 place themselves in it, If they.
paid him $3.50 and gave him their photg
ne would see that they had proper men,
llon and that their picture would apDear
IN the big book. He received a number
OF names and at the same time the cash
was turned over to him. One of his vic
inns was Reaves, a postal clerk To
him the sharper proposed that he buy =
share IN the concern that was getting out
the book. 1t was a splendid investment
SO Reaves paid down $1,000, which he lost
entirely. Nv i0S'
Prof. B. f. Fernow, chief of The for
estry department, is at Triton for The mr.
pose OF conducting a series of experiments
regarding the saving of the pine forest
OF Georgia from the ravages of the naval
store operator. The pine forests are ran
idly being depleted and it has long hem
under advisement with this department
70 devise some scheme by which the nine
trees could be saved from utter extermin-
alton. The French have a method ~
which pine trees furnish turpentine ami
rosin for hundreds of years Those IN
this country are worked out and rendered
worthless, except for saw mill purposes
IN very Few years BY the French svs-
tenn pine forests are handed down from
sire TO son for an indefinite period and
are an unfailing source OF revenue. While
the receipts do not equal those in this
country worked for the same length of
time, they seem to be everlasting. Prof
Fernow is at Triton in the first place 70