The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Vein of Iron Ore Relieved to he
Beneath the Ground Around
Acree-Leading Citizens of Coch-
ran in Favor of Sound Money.
Delinquent Subscribers 20 the
stock of the Atlanta Exposition
Company TO BE Sucd-Nncnnt
Houses at Atlanta to lie Rented
by n syndicate of Spectators.
GEORGIA.
Work on the new cotton factory a. Rome
IS being pushed forward vigorously
The business men of Perry have decided
10 have a vegetable and trull lar at
Perry on Friday June y.
The big Faby building at Rome is being
pushed forward to coI M, sd1't anu VIII
be ready for occupancy by sept l.
President John ]. Hunt of the Spalding
County Silver League has issued a call
for the state convention TO De heId al
Griffin July Is.
The new government building at Rome
has reached the top of the thlru stoIy
and the structure is beginning TO snow
up handsomely.
A suit tor damage has been filed by
Jumbo Hunter against the Atlanta Coih-
mercial Jumbo claims that certain pun
lcations in that paper have injured ms
character and besmirched his 1alr name
before the public.
John S Watson died "Wednesday nisnt
nj his residence, two miles below Ihom-
son He was the father of Hon. Ihomas
E. w A, ]. f. and the late j. :. wa
son, and has several married daughters.
He leaves a widow.
Tho democratic party of Hart county
assembled in mass meeting at the court
house at Hartwell Wednesday ana noml-
mated A. ]. Cleveland TO fill the uneX-
pired term of the late Hon r. = Ste-
NJ
Thursday morning at o'clock Mrs. Jen-
ME Howell Gwin, wife of Rev. ID. W.
Gwin formerly pastor of the tlrst 5ap-
trail BAPTIST church at Atlanta, died az
the family residence on Ivy street. her
death was very sudden.
The Morning News Correspondent Of
Cochran writes as follows: The major
itv Of our leading citizens seem to he on
the sound money side, and they are fear
less and outspoken. Some OF the above
class are in favor of silver but the gem
eral impression places them In the MI
nority."
A day or two ago thieves entered the
home of z. Rich at Atlanta and stole
a lot of valuable jewelry. Among them
was a fine gold watch and rope twist
gold chain, a square locket with the mon
ogram "E. r." engraved on II and pair
OF gold eyeglasses. No trace OF the thleI
has yet been discovered by the police.
A $4,000 suit against the Seaboard Air
Line brought by Henry Parks, for the
loss of an arm in coupling cars, was
tried Wednesday before Judge =. =.
After argument on both sides the court
gave judgment for the defendant Lins
and Georgia Harper are also suing, the
same road for damages to their child.
The hearing of the Oconee county con-
tested election case, which was
to have been heard on last
Thursday, was postponed on account of
the inability of Judge Hutehins TO be
&c feeling Athens
In regard to this case, the populists be-
lieying that they have been very badly
used.
In another month there will not be a
vacant house in the city of Atlanta, Ger
tain parties have formed syndicate tor
the purpose of renting all the available
houses in the city and then reletlnS
them at greatly advanced prices during
the exposition. BY the end of another
month the syndicate will have rented all
the houses in the city which are in good
localities and of modern architecture.
Delinquent subscribers to the stock of
the Atlanta Exposition Company will find
themselves in court very shortly if they
dc not promptly meet their obligations
with the exposition company. Already
several suits have been begun and all
will be sued for the amount of their
stock on the July return day of the SUI
perior court. This course has been deter
mined upon by the exposition officials and
Attorney Jack Spalding has been instruct
ed to act accordingly. 1t seems that
there are several thousand dollars of I'M
collected subscriptions. Much OF this is
owed by prominent business men.
Albany Herald: B. w. Hill of AGREE
brought to the Herald Office Wednesday
a piece of iron ore that was taken from
q well on c. w. Hilrs place, near AGREE
Mr.. Hill dug a well, and struck what APP
pears TO be vein of rich iron ore, at q
depth of about thirty-fve feet Water
was finally reached, but it could not bt
rsed an account of the iron The water
looks and tastes like it had had a barre
of rusty iron emptied into 1t. Mr.. Hill
Gays that another well in the same neigh
borhood had to be abandoned on account
of the presence of iron rust in the water
and he believes that the vein of iron orr
extends some distance from where II ha;
been located by the well on c. w. Hill'
place.