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


Brunswick Druggist sell out.
A Negro Made Happy by the Res
toration of His sight-Work on
WindeF's Cotton Factory TO Begin
Nov. IA Child Meets n Singular
Death in Bed.
GEORGIA.
Hon B. T. Rawlings is the new mayor
OF Sandersville.
Rome boasts that there g. not an unoc-
cupied store in its limits
The name of the town of the western
colony will be Fitzgerald.
A larger area than usual viii be devoted
to oats i'm Houston this fan and winter
The Perry Rifles expect to go TO Atlanta
in November and camp at the exposition
several days.
AbbevilIe has organized a business
league for the advertising and deNeiop-
ment of the town.
A colored woman. living three miles
from Augusta, has given birth to thirteen
children IN SIX years
The work of building the cotton factory
at Winder viii begin on Nov. ]. All OF the
stock has been subscribed.
The Oak city Barrel factory at Balm
bridge is turning out about $50 spirit ana
syrup barrels per day and are taxed TO
the extent of their capacity TO Keep up
with their orders.
J. ]. Black, the tax collector of Floyd
county. is now critically in at his home
near Rome. DR.. J. Is. 5. Holmes of At
lanta was called 10 see him. ana pro-
nounced it appendicitis.
At Macon, during the month of Septem-
Der, there were fifteen deaths among the
white people and forty-seven among the
colored people OF the cOlored there were
twenty-four deaths Of children under 3
years of age and eleven under one year.
Horace Reaves has sold out his interest
in the drug business Of Bishop y Reaves,
at Brunswick, to DR.. /. n. Bishop, VINO
win conduct it in future. Mr.. Reaves will
leave shortly for Atlanta, where he VIII
enter the medical college and prepare MIN
SET for a course in the larger universities
of the east.
on account of a failure or procure the
services of a qualified judge to try the
case of the state vs.. DoWdy in the APP
preaching term Of Telfair superior court
on the third Monday in October, Judge
Smith has adjourned the court TO the frSt
Monday in November next at Whlcn Tune
he will have judge TO try the case.
Four conductors of the Southern rail-
way, who are well-known in Macon,
have been relieved. They are members or
the order of Railway Conductors, ana
their division will take cognizance of their
enforced rest from duties. The four men
who have been relieved are Frank Mar
shall. Dave Miller. J. NJ. Kendall and Joe
Brown.
The ground pea is prolific in Clay coun-
ty. Mrs. Quattlebaum has a ground pea
patch at her home on Quattlebaum hill
and the other day, while inspecting it,
she came across a hugh bunch, nearly
waist high, that measured in cHcumfer-
ence nearly thirty-two feet and three inch
es. When pulled up the bunch contained,
by count, 225 good peas.
Tuesday night the child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kline, living near Pleasant Hope churcn,
in Floyd county, met singular death.
Sometime during the night 1t crawled
up to the head Of the bed and got be-
tween the mattresses. 1t fell through the
Stats and caught by the head. When
found, early IN the morning, II was dead.
How the child got in such q position is
mystery.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at Washington writes as follows, under
date Of Oct 3 Oscar Booker, ST., an old
citizen OF Washington, died at Union
Point Wednesday morning. Mary Will
liams, an old colored woman, lost her
house by fire Wednesday night. The loss
was small and there was no insurance
The new paper is the Recorder instead of
the Reporter.
The cadets at the college at Dahlonega
are anxiously awaiting the coming of the
new commandment when it will be de-
cided whether or not the battalion of the
college viii go down to attend the EXPOSE
tion- II they are not permitted to go
many of them will leave school, for al
most to a man, they look forward TO
week taking in the sights of the eXposi-
ton with great delight.
The 1900 postofiices ir Georgia are MAX
ing their returns to the Atlanta office,
paying their postal funds and sending in
their general quarterly report Every quar-
ter the offices settle the balance due the
government, and to do so they remit 10
the office at Atlanta. The majority OF
the returns are received between the 1st
and 10th Of the month, and the amounts
range from / cent to $500.
In the superior court Wednesday a bin
was Med and an order granted placing
the Macon Plumbing Company in the
hands of a temporary receiver. The COM
pany is composed of Messrs. Cason and
Murray, who recently went to Macon from
Alabama. The gentlemen were doing a
big business. The petition for receiver
was MED by the n. .. Nelson Manufac-
turing Company. D. II. Riley was appoint
ed temporary receiver
The death Thursday morning at O'Clock
OF little Maggie, the 12-year-old daughter
Of W. II. Ferrin, a prosperous farmer,
who lives thirteen miles south of Quitman,
was the result of a sad accident Mr. Fer
riH was in his field and saw something
he wished to shoot. He sent one of his ne
groes to the house for his gun. The negro
Went to the door and asked Murray. the
1Q-year-old son of Mr.. Ferrill, to hand him
70 hand 1t to the negro. The hammer
struck the door facing and the gun was
discharged. The entire load struck the
boy S sister in the abdomen.
Mayor Horne thinks that the city of Ma
con will have no deficit at the end of his
administration, which closes on Dec "a
next. de states this as his belief in the
race OF apparent figures of Indebtedness
others that there will be a heavy deficit
at the end of the present year. He has
reasons for the faith that is in him He
calculates on settling whatever floating
debt Macon may now owe with revenue
10 be derived from the three following
items: Encroachments, $1,000; taxes from
corporations previously exempted, $4,000;
past due street taxes, 5000 10 IS 200; total,
$4,000 to $4,000.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at Abbeville writes as follows, under date
OF Oct. 3: New citizens are locating here
daily from the NORTH the west and from
adjacent states. The Abbeville Land and
Improvement Company, capitalized at
$4,000, has bought one hundred acres OF
choice land, suitable for building purposes
which they intend to divide up into town
lots. Every alternate lot will be donated
to desirable parties, who will erect good
and satisfactory dwellings on them. Capt
l.. e, Hollowes. member of the syndi-
cate, VIII erect ten handsome dwellings
on these lots at once Mr.. r. A Wilson
another member of the syndicate, will
build half dozen residences, and other
parties who are locating here will build
other houses for their own benefit A tile
and sewer pipe plant will also be started in
few days, and a barrel factory that will
employ a hundred hands, will soon be es-
tablished. The foregoing are industries