The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS

HerseIf-Aususfa's Negro Military
Companies to Make Fight
Against DIsbandment.
GEORGIA
Col T. r. Eggleston died Monday night
at his home at Atlanta
The Pinkerton detective agency has es-
tablished an Office at Atlanta
John n Quinn. city treasurer Of Rome.
is seriously i'll from an apopletic STROKE.
The supreme lodge order Of the Golden
Chain will meet in Atlanta the first week
in May.
Hog cholera has made its appearance
in Berrien county. The farmers, however,
have saved the most Of their meat for
1896
Mrs. Mary II. Query has entered suit
against the Atlanta and West Point rail
road for $4,000 for the killing of her hus-
band, near East Point.
Miss L. A Clarkson, publisher of the
Dixie Cook Book Company. at Atlanta,
died Monday night at the Delbridge ho-
TEL after an illness of three weeks with
pneumonia.
II. G. Saunders, secretary Of the At
lanta Chamber Of Commerce for more than
five years, and publisher of the Atlanta
an illness of only three weeks.
A new furniture factory has been organ
tied at Rome. The McDonald-Sparks-
Stewart Company has associated with
them r. w. Lewis, late OF the North
Rome furniture factory. They viii begin
on $4,000 capital.
John A. Strickland has been appointed
temporary receiver for the business of
NJ. E. McDonough at Patterson. The liza
bilitieS are about 1900, and the assets
about $500. Failure to realize on ac-
counts is supposed to have caused the fall
ure.
A telegram from Washington announces
that Casper NJ. Morrison of St Louis has
been nominated by President Cleveland to
be judge advocate general of the United
States army. This is the position for which
Col John S. Gambler OF Atlanta was
candidate.
At a recent meeting of the Sumter coun-
~ agricultural society. Capt. James f.
Ross was elected president and d. c. N.
Burkhalter, secretary. The following
convention: NJ. l.. Lackey, A. 5. Num-,
G. H. Sieg; alternates. II. II. Glover,
James A. Wilson, s. McGarrah.
''Trilby," one of Hagenback's bears,
committed suicide at Atlanta Tuesday by
hanging herself with chain The cause
Of Triby,s suicide was jealousy. Both
Trilby and Trixie were in love with Jack
a Siberian wolf. Jack formerly loved
Trilby, but has recently been paying at
tention to TriXie. Trilby refused her food,
and Tuesday hung herself.
A meeting of those interested in fruit
growing will be held in Adairsville on
Feb 20. Hon r. T. Nesbitt. commission
er of agriculture, will deliver an address;
H. n. Starnes of the experiment station
viii read paper on The Right Bower of
the Fruit Grower-Spraying," and also
one on the Pear Blight" J. c. Miller
will have a paper on Picking, Packing
and Preparing the Peach Crop"
Rome has never had a negro council
man, and when it was announced that
Rev. G. w. Lewis, a colored Methodist
minister, would be a candidate, quite a
ripple of excitement went over the town
The reverend gentleman is from South
west Georgia. He is said to be fluent
speaker ana staunch republican. During
the race for governor there being no re-
publican in the field he stumped his part
OF the state for Atkinson.
Mcintosh correspondent Morning News:
The truck farmers of Liberty are getting
in their crops for 1896. Although last year
was a disastrous year to many of them,
there are some that are willing to try it
SSaln-Rev. II. l.. Baker, who preached
his twenty-tifth anniversary sermon in
Monticello, Fla, last Sabbath, was born
IN Liberty county, one of the sons sent
out from old Midway church, and a broth
er OF Mr.. w. II. Baker, superintendent of
your schools.
In response to the invitation of Mayor
Swift of Chicago the governor has named
ten gentlemen to represent the five lead
ing cities OF Georgia at the cotton conVen-
ton to be held at Chicago. They are:
Atlanta, Hon. ]. l.. McCullum and Hon.
A J. West; Savannah, Hon. Herman
Myers and Hon. ID. G. Purse; Macon Hon
T. ]. Corling and Hon. John Noon; Au-
gusta, Hon. Patrick Walsh and Hon. c.
Fl. Phindzy; Columbus, Hon. Il, NJ. Foley
and Hon. T. e. Blanchard.
A verdict of guilty was rendered in ev-
cry criminal case tried in Milton superior
court last week. The most important
murder of Robert Howell, Col Graham and
Tom Blodgett for perjury Howell was
convicted of manslaughter and Judge Co
Der sent him TO the penitentiary for ten
years. The jury convicted Tom Blodgett
of perjury, and Judge Gober gave him
Tour years in the penitentiary Mr.. Blod-
gett gave $3.50 bond, and will make
move for a new trial.
Waycross correspondent Morning News:
The Wilson Shoe Manufacturing Com
pany's plant has arrived from Brunswick,
and the machinery is being put down in
the opera house block.-A warehouse is
being erected In this CITY by the Standard
OIL Company. ]. r. Whitman will have
Jones. the well known evangelist. will be
invited to come here and preach in the
near future. He will be asked to conduct
a meeting of several days, It is said and
he may accept.-Mrs. S. w Hitch gave
a tea tonight for the benefit of the Metho-
dist parsonage fund.
Dublin correspondent Morning News:
The house of Mr.. S. L. Miller, residing
near Lowery's District, was totally de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday nighttime
Oconee river is on boom, and one of the
biggest freshets since the one that came
five years ago is anticipated The roads
are impeded, and the bridges will be
ahoat in twenty-four hours. Farmers are
busy getting out their stock, and already
several hogs have been drowned. The loss
will be very heavy. Two timber RATS
which started on the drift to Darien last
week, have met with an accident and the
timber is partly sunk.
Maggie Henderson, the young girl who
was outraged by a convict "trusty" in
North Georgia last fall, has entered suit
against the Dade Coal Company for 500. -
600. The Dade Coal Company leases hun
dreds of convicts from the state of Geor-
gia and then Sub-leases them. The negro
who committed the assault on Miss Hen
derson and who was burned by mob
afterward, was in the hire of a sub-lessee.
He was allowed TO 90 outside the mines