The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLL
II PARAGRAPHS.

p. Hall Has Been Awarded tn
Shropshire Medal in the Athen.
OratoricaI Contest squabbI,
over the Furniture for EIberton's
New Court House.
GEORGIA
Maj. George ". Crane OF Augusta dice
Tuesday night.
The colored Baptist people are ereetint
a new church building at rlr-ushe-l Rap
fist church, 10 n ashIuston county
Second Lieut.. J. b. ID enry # The Floy
rires OF macon has res suc1, aa he e.
poets to remote to Atlanta 10 reside
A tire destroyed Inc store Of J. "
Rogers at Chambers m.ll, near ION
late SUNDAY nlgAe The l0-s vas luu.
COY ered ~ insurance.
Judge Butt las appointed as registrar
for Talbot county unQer the new "a"
Col. J. J. Bull, Judge 7. Il. Mcdowell
Belleview, aud~si. c. Trussell Of Max
Hon. Hoke Smith. score airy OF the In
terror, has purchased the home OF Alfe-
NJ. A. L.pscomb, on M.ned7e avenue
Athens, and wall. oulAs the a-Mln-i
seasons, live IN Athens
The governor has issued two more re
wards, amour Ing 10 500, IN the eilyrt Y
reach the Troup county sang OF high
waymen who have tcrTorizpd the counr.
around Long Cane and GapbettsVile.
Monday Joe Quinn. runner for a sailor
boarding house on lay street, nj Bruins
wick. struck Frank Collins 80,
head with i beer glass or .schOon
err Collins wound may prove fataL
Will A Smith. young lawyer. lately Q.
Rome, who moved 10 Fort olth ias
fail, has become tired Of Jaw, ana, goini
10 Fort Mcintosh on the RIO Graude, Ia
enlisted for three years IN the United
states army. he was the son Of Ilalstec
Smith, city attorney.
Several farmers OF Washington county
have moved 10 Bulloch, and other coun
ties in the wiregrass section, where they
viii engage in the cultivation OF Iona
staple cotton. II brings a better prIcs
thaa the short staple, but the yield pei
acre is not so great
John NJ. Heath of Talbotton, has perfect
ed a register that for completeness In
has been on the market II IS on an en-
tirely different principle to the cash regis
ters now being used and will, without
doubt, reWoluLonize the cash register sys-
tenn.
At Reidsheld. in wilcox county. Ber
Cumbus and l.. Il. Shepard fought will
knives Monday. Shepard was cut 10 Tvs,
places in the body and one wrist wa
scratched. DIT. A. r. Royal ottendel
their wounds and fears shepard /.
MORALLY wounded.
Judge ~ L. Hutchins, Of the western
circuit, has appointed the registrars fol
Clarke county, as called for Dy the new
registration law OF the state. They ar
W dFIeu a Bowl Adm T. bearing dnc
Levi J. Henriek. Messrs. Brown ana
bearing are democrats and MIR. Eemrick
is one Of the poDul.5t leaders o. lie
county
There is a squabble over the furniture
for the new courthouse at Elbeltln. Il
seems that the old comm .ssiOners OtQereu
a bill of furniture from a company wh.c CHI
was 10 arrive In EiDer,on on certa
date The order was cOun ermanded from
that date to arrive later on. During that
period the new commissioners were N
stalled into office. A few days ago, the
furniture came subject TO oruer. The new
commlss. oners, however, would not ac-
cept it.
While no public announcement has been
made II is CLAIMED that the judges of the
oratorlcal contest in the state Universe
~ at Athens have awarded the Shrop-
shire mccall for the best speech to al. +.
Hail. son Of lion. John l. Ball of Griffin.
Mr.. Hall at first declined to accept tre
medal, but when assured by the judges
that he was the second choice, ans way,
he decided TO take Il. The medal was at
declined 1t because ne was charged with
plagiarism.
The executive committee OF the far
mers national congress and agricultural
parliament, irrigation congress and roaG
parliament having confirmed the appoint
ment of suhoiiic ais b. Maj. w G. VIII d
by assistant secretary, they are now
authoritatively announced. They will re
ceiye their comm ssOns in d few days
and serve during the entire sess. ons of
these bodies at Atlanta from October 7th
TO 18th, inclusive. Sergeant-at- arms. Col.
WIberforce Dan el of Augusta, Ga
Doorkeepsr, Capt +. l.. Hudgens OF
Charleston Ca Postmistress, Miss Grace
Brastngton Of Cincinnati, y.
Saturday night Lee Jester, a farmer liv-
ing near brushey, in Spaldng county left
Griffin for his home, driving a pair Of
mules to his wagon. When he reached
the bottom of the hill couple of miles
east Of the city, he was confronted by
three negroes, who covered him with their
pistols and demanded his money. Mr.. Jes-
ter had but a small amount of change In
his pockets, which he silly took out in his
hand and held it until the robbers searched
his pockets. Finding no cash, the high
Waymen stripped Mr.. Jester of his oVercoat
and took from his wagon a jug of whisky
and sent him on his way home.
During the early part OF last fall line
man for the telephone company by the
name OF Owens was killed near Inman
park at Atlanta. Tuesday he suit OF $
wife, Mrs. Susie Owens, against the At
lanta Consolidated rect Railway Com
pany was taken up in the city court. The
out Of order and it was found that the
call line had to be cut. This Owens at
tempted to do. 1t had been crossed, how
ever, by an electric road feed wire. and
IN consequence, the current gave Owens
a severe shock. He was hurled to the
s59pInd and and gea in short Thf While oeing
the Consolidated was the cause of his
death
Brunswick Tlmes-Advertiser: pretty
young German girl came to Brunswick on
the Mallory steamer on Jan. 81, in the role
of an apprentice TO the stewardess. She
left her parents in New York, with the
intention of remaining on the ship as a
etewardeSs. On the voyage. however, she
met young man who said he owned a
large orange grove in Florida. He made
love to the pretty young German So,
when the ship reached here, the young
lady was fairly hypnotized by the pre-
tended orange grove owner, and had re
solved to follow him, to The end of the
world. II need be. That night Marie VAIN
wright held forth al L Arioso in Daught tiers
of Eve. The couple attended. Rhoda
Daintry's impassioned love me, Robert
may have had something to DO with COM
pleting the hypnotism. At any rate. the
would-be steWardess did not return to the
steamer after the show. She. was subse-
quently located at boarding house on F
street The Floridien, Gle ming he We her
husband, paid her board for several weeks
in advance. Yesterday however, he left
town, and the pretty German girl is be-
ginning 70 see the cold, unromantic side
OF life. Her baggage, including all of her
clothing, was sent back TO New York on
the steamer, and Is now held in the NAL
lory lines Office there.
Monroe News: The News has come into
possession of and VIII reveal to the pub
lie the circumstances which point to a
foul crime in this county. The pan ties in
UOIyed in the herpfOfOrp SMDprasSad to IL