The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-27
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Negro Arrested at Columbus for Civ
ing His Daughter Dose of Rough
on RatS"-"WhistIing Devil" Causes
Row in ThOmasviIIe-A Black Co.
Iumbus DesperadO's Attempted As
sassInation of a Citizen-RecOrd-
breaking Rain storm in LumpISin
COunty-Three Persons shot at
DahIonega on Their Way Home
From Church.
GEORGIA.
James T. Grindle Of Dahlonega has about
week his saw mill damaged considerably
and his grist mill turned over
Dahlonega Signal: A large rock which
PASSED over tbs TahoOla dam last Friday
and hursted, was picked up afterW ards
and found TO be perfectly speckled with
gold.
A little white tramp. hardly in his teens.
but thoroughly up 10 date" in his pro-
fession, struck Americus Saturday and
reaped a harvest OF dimes and quarters
begging on the streets.
GAINESVILLE Gazette: Two new bales of
cotton were sold in Dawson last week
the first for cents and the second for Z
cents q pound. Cotton Will probably bring
Z cents pound this fall.
Early County News: There will be
plenty of cash-gold, silver and green
backs-kept on hand in Blakely TO handle
the cotton crop, not only Of Early and
Clay, but all adjoining counties, this fall.
The corn, potato and cane crops in Sum-
ter viii be enormous this year. The Times
Recorder remarks with cotton selling at
cents ara "hoecake. sop and later" at
eeGf si the people viii again be in the sad
r. L. Herndon of Echols county brought
to the Lake Park News Office on last
"Wednesday the largest pod OF pepper we
have seen IN some time. 1t measured
inches in length and inches in circum-
ference.
Meriwether Vindicator: To farmers
have bought little this year and raised
worth from to 10 cents and we are bound
10 have free silver. Cheer up, boys, all is
not lost.
At Americas Lee street man heard a
racket in his chicken coop a night or two
ago and rushed out to find the old fam
lily rooster in mortal combat with big
fat 'possum. He captured the varmint and
has set out" the old rooster again.
Americas Times Recorder: The average
baldhead citizen is now casting about for
some excuse that will account for
his presence in the neighborhood of the
base ball park Tuesday afternoon. The
''marbletops" can't afford to miss that
game.
Just after the rain at Dahlonega Friday
the Signal man, in company with friend,
went down for the purpose of making an
examination. When he looked over and
saw that part of the elevated side walk
was gone, the friend remarked, with tears
IN his eyes, that it reminded him of some
of the breast works about Richmond after
being blown up by the yankees.
Dahlonega Signal: During the drench-
ing rain Thursday evening we heard of a
certain fellow travelling down the brick
yard road at an almost break neck speed,
endeavoring to get across Cane creek
bridge fearing that 1t might wash away
In one hand he held his license while the
other was used in keeping his intended
bride from falling out of the wagon. He
desired country minister to tire the knot
and was rapidly making his way towards
ones residence.
Signal: John Hun and Jake'sLoggins
nave leased the celebrated Calhoun prop
erty at Dahlonega from the trustee OF the
NORM Georgia Agricultural College,
and are now engaged in cleaning out a
ditch preparatory TO work a deposit. They
recently struck a very rich chute which
cannot be beat in the county for rich
ness. 1t Is small and they have no way
OF crushing II except in a hand mortar.
With excellent property and experienced
miners we need not be surprised at hear
ing Of good results
Saturday afternoon at Columbus a slick
tnlef harnessed up a horse which had
been hitehed behind a buggy on First
avenue, near Eleventh street, to feed,
and deliberately drove off. Those who
saw MIN OF course thought the team be-
lIonged 10 him and they said nothing.
shortly after the owner Willard Griffin, a
colored farmer from near Cataula, arrived
on the scene and was surprised to find
his team missing. He offers a reward of
$40 for the return of his property and proof
to convict the thief.
Signal! Many years ago a bloody, drum
Ken row occurred in Dahlonega. Imme-
dfiatsiy afterward a man went up in front
OF the bar, where they all purchased the
liquor and wrote the name of the bar
keeper in blood on the rock pavement in
front of the door. 1t is one of the prin-
cipal sidewalks of the town and has been
Travelled by thousands of people and many
orenching rains have fallen on those rocks
since, but the name has never been rubbed
or washed out and shows almost as plain
as the day 1t was written.
Dahlonega Signal: Sunday night while
Cinda, daughter of Wash Walker and
Mary Postell were returning from va
hoola church after services, accompanied
by two gentlemen, some unknown person
IN ambush fired gun at the hack and
face, the other in one of her legs and Char.
lie Mcdonald. the driver, in the back The
driver and the other two men lit out of
ehe hack in haste leaving the girls to hold
the fort the best they could.
Jesup Sentinel: When the farmer pros
pers then merchants, lawyers and other
professions and callings will prosper-not
before. They tell us that there Will be
millions of bushels more corn made this
year than ever before, and up Jumps a
goldbug and says: oh amt that pros
won't be worth more than So cents a BUSH
el. Who in the d-l can get prosperity out
of southern corn at So cents a bushel
when, maybe, they had to pay rs cents to
Sl;25 bushel to feed mules on to make il
with?
Two young white men were arrested
by the Columbus police Friday, charged
with the serious crime of burglary Early
that morning the building Of the Georgia
Manufacturing Company had been broken
into and a half dozen pairs of pants
stolen The police were notified and at
once went to work on the case. During
the day clews We're secured tending to
1asten the crime on Ed Griggs. He was
arrested at house in Girard where three
pairs of the stolen pants were found
Gr1ggs implicated Charley Foster as his
partner in crime, and upon being arrested
he disclosed the wherea bouts of the other
stolen goods.
Lumpkin Independent: r. w. Rood of
Florence had the misfortune to lose his
1aVorite saddle mare by death one day
last week. That she was humanity cared
Tor IS attested by the fact that she lived
TO be Sc years old. For several years she
had been superannuated and did little
but roam the green pastures and verdant
fields at her will; had so nearly lost the
dental organs of mastication that she
almost literally starved TO death in the
midst of plenty. Col Rood gave her de-
cent burial and will plant a tree over