The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
II PARAGRAPHS.

A Drunken Prisoner Tries 10 set Fire
TO the Jail at Orlando and Later
Gets Into a Fight With other Pris-
Oners-MOrphine Taken with sui
cfdaI Intent at WiIIistOn-A Hotel
for Negroes 10 lie Built at Atlanta.
A Gainesville BOY Who Is Natu-
raj Born Trader.
GEORGIA
Mrs. J. /. Cook OF Macon died Sunday.
A cigar factory will soon be established
at Dawson.
ON April 10 the corner stone Of the new
academy at Waynesboro will be laid.
Last year. the farmers Of Burke coun-
" used over $4,000 worth Of guano, more
than viii be used this year.
The three ice companies Of Augusta have
entered into an agreement or pool and
will act in concert during the coming
summer.
Bishop Nelson preached to a large con-
gregation at st. Pauls church at Macon
Sunday morning Twenty-Five candidates
were confirmed.
Several thousand dollars have been sub
scribed at Dawson towards building
cotton factory and a proposition has been
made by northern mill man TO move his
plant to Dawson.
Brunswick's harbor range lights arc to
be six in number. Two viii be placed near
near the mouth Of Back river for the St
Simon sound range. and two near quaran-
tine for the Brunswick Point range.
The stove dealers Of Athens are kick
ing because Chancellor Boggs Of the State
University has ordered from a St Louis
firm ranges for the normal school without
consulting other members of the board
or giving the stove dealers of Athens a
chance to bid.
Seven hundred and thirty-seven per-
sons have registered for the bond cleo
ton to be held at Macon on April II. OF
this number thtrty-seVen are negroes
The books closed Saturday night at
O'Clock 1t is not known how many of
the registered names will vote against
the bonds.
The directors of the exposition at At
lanta have decided that although the
funds they have in sight would be suf-
hcient TO carry the exposition to sue
cessful termination, TO ask the people
of the city for more money to be eX-
pended in making the exposition a great
er AFFAIR than even the most sanguine
have anticipated.
Hon John II. Hanahan, grand chief Of
the Order of Locomotive Firemen, whose
time is taken up looking after the inter
est of the more than $4,000 hard working
men who heap shOvels fun Of coal into
the furnaces TO speed the moving trains
along, was in Atlanta Monday. There will
be a reunion Of the locomotive iiremen in
Atlanta next month.
The work of erecting a hotel for the ac-
cOmmodatiOn Of negro guests during the
exposition at Atlanta viii be begun very
shortly. The hotel is to be located at the
corner of Decatur and Collins streets,
and Will be built to accommodate one
hundred guests. The structure will be
19xlO5 feet in size, viii be three stories
high, and will have a roof garden on top.
A clergyman of Gainesville has boy
who is a remarkable snapper mot many
months ago." says his father, Il bought
him a knife. Like a boy, he left It out
one night and il got rusty. Then he lost
interest IN IL and began at once to swap
1t OF. Well, the little rascal has natural
ly knaek for trading, and. sir. he took
that rusty Knife, and with a little work
on II and a good deal of talking he sue
ceeded in exchanging 1t for two good
knives, These knives in turn
he traded for three knives worked con-
siderably on them and got a cheap watch
for the three. He kept trading till he had
completed forty-seven different bargains,
most of them in his favor At the end
of the forty-seventh trade he owned a
shotgun, hound puppy, two jac6-kniVes
and So cents. in money, besides other
smaller trinkets too numerous to men
ton"