The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES tod
IN PARAGRAPHS.

An Augusta Boy Has Narrow Is
cape From Being Killed by a
Cartridge which He ExPIOded-The
First of the Much Talked of BUN
Fights at Atlanta, Very Tame At
fair-A Macon Minister Dead.
GEORGIA.
Miss Juliette Cabaniss of Atlanta died
Monday morning.
j. r. DeGraffenried a druggist Of Al
bany, has assigned. Bad collections IS
attributed as the cause.
The Dunn Grocery Company Of Cuth-
bert have executed and placed on record
several mortgages on their stock of mer-
chandise.
f. b. Kern was fined 500 and costs in
the police court at Atlanta Monday, for
violating the law governing the sale Of oils
and naptha.
Sunday night at 10 O'Clock Rev. George
r. Mccall, one of the leading Baptist
ministers in the state died at his home
on Orange street. at Macon, aged 66 years.
Secretary Hoke Smith, who spent Sat
urday and Sunday with his family at
Athens, has agreed to send a large num-
Der Of valuable government publications
to the library of the university law school.
The ginnery and about four bales of lint
cotton belonging to J. d. Lester, Jr.. of
MonteZuma, was burned Saturday. Inc
fire caught from the press while packing
bale Of cotton. There was no insurance.
one of the biggest flower shows that ever
took place in Atlanta Is booked to be
given in the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION building on Nov. u, Is, IA and l5
fair
Young ladies' from different sections Of
the state continue to enter Andrew Fee
male College at Cuthbert. The prospects
of the college for best work and for largest
attendance are the brightest in the history
OF the institution.
The very low condition of the Chatta-
hoochee river, caused by the prolonged
drouth has rendered its navigation very
difficult and the steamers which ply the
river from Columbus to Appalachcola are
unable to maintain regular schedules.
The work Of remodelling Muscogee
county's court house, At a cost of about
$56O0e, viii be begun in few days. A
temporary structure for the use of court
house officials is TO be erected upon the
block. in the center of which the court
house is located.
Another party of colonists arrived at
AbbeVille Monday, and went Immediately
to the colony lands. Swifts saw mill has
been bought by the colony management
and will be used in furnishing lumber for
buildings 70 be erected on the lands. The
surveys of the lands for subdivision was
resumed Monday, and this work viii be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
Mills & Crenshaw. a legal firm Of Griffin
has filed a suit against the Central Rail-
road and Banking Company for $1,000 in
favor of Allen Swanson of Columbus and
John Bird of Valdosta, who were injur-
ed on Aug. %, last, between Griffin and
Orchard Hin, which is just six miles be-
low. In their bill Mills & Crenshaw claim
that the plaintiffs We're badly used by
employees Of the road and without provo
cation.
The ticket scalpers of Atlanta have sur
vivec the attack made on them by the tax
committee OF the city council. Each of the
nineteen has paid 500 city license for a
full year, although many of them intend
TO do business for only the exposition Pc
sioH TlFa ROT fFr.1 1e l.,
vigorously at the freedom given the scalp
efs and the tax committee Of the coun-
Gil decided TO make the scalpers pay a full
years license instead of allowing them
TO pro rate for the time wanted.
The correspondent of the Morning
News at Taylor's Creek writes as fol-
lows under date of Oct. z: Yesterday a
negro settlement, known as GREASY
Town, near here, was full of excitement
caused by two negroes Quarreling, which
terminated in VIII Ponder, alias Stone
wall jackson, shooting Henry Futch
the ball taking effect in the latters lerl
side 1t is not certain whether Futch's
wound is very serious or not. Ponder
was arrested, but made his escape last
night.
The suit of C. II. Wiggers. trustee fol-
Walter, Mamie and Annie Maddox VS.
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York has been removed from the city cour
of Macon to the United States court. Tn,
suit is for 5000 insurance on the life o.
Alonzo Maddox, deceased Maddox dice
May g. 1895. His life was insured on Apri
4, 1895, and on April 10, 1895, the policy wa.
assigned to plaintiff. A similar sui
against the New York Life Insuranc,
Company has also been removed from tn,
city court to the United States court.
very painful accident occurred to ;
boy years of age at Augusta Monday
Robert Irvine Bryson is the son of Capt
W. Bryson, who lives on the corner o
Gardner avenue and Walton way. Will
the little fellow and one of the neighbor'
children of the same age were playing il
the backyard, they came across an oil
pistol cartridge of thirty-eight calibre
They placed the cartridge on one roc
and pounded it with another rock. TIL
cartridge exploded and the bullet wa
sent through the wrist of young Brysor
It entered the left side and came out a
the right side. inIliicting a painful fies
that member of the body.
The correspondent of the Morning New
at Washington writes as follows, unde
date of Oct. Z: Capt Lot Abrams of Iowa
who was captain of a federal compan
stauoned here Just after the war, is her
on visit. Capt. Abrams uniformly kin
treatment OF our people greatly endeare
him to our citizens, who warmly welcome
nag swung on the signal service pol
IN his honor on the day of his arrival
GOOD middling is bringing from 81 to $3.50
me receipts up to date are about zoo
bales.--The excitement over the strang
case Of the negro girl, Fanny Heard VIII
claimed TO have been tricked by anothe
ana filled full Of reptiles, has about sub
sided, as the general impression is tina
painting herself with carbolic acid.
AT Atlanta Monday a bill of sale for a
me goods in the store of the A. L. Delkl
company was made out by j. b. Hollis
the receiver, by order of Judge Lumpkir
70 the Atlanta Trust and Banking Com
paIly Tor the sum of 1886. The stock o
sooes' some time ago, was placed in IN
h4nns OF Mr. Hollis ae nermanent receive
am ne was instructed to advertise 70
dos rms was done and the highest bi
w. LOT p Sbo. made by the Atlanta Trus
80 ranking Company. Judge LumDkf
passed an order instrueting the receive