The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-21
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

tance Telephone Line Soon-At-
kinson Hall at the Industrial Col
Iege-A Hopeless Drunisard sui
cides-The Women Of ~. Angus
tine Anticipate the Beer seller.
a Legislative Candidate Arrested
for illegal Liquor selling.
GEORGIA.
Before oct. ]. Americas VIII have tele-
phonic communication with Macon.
More than twenty-five divorce suits
were fled for record in the superior court
al Atlanta on Tuesday.
Atlanta ordered dve car loads of ice 10y
fast special from Cincinnati on Tuesday
90 relieve the ice famine
A citizen OF Perry last week refused an
offer Of 500 for half an acre OF land. The
man who made the offer desired TO build
a dwelling house.
The railroad employees OF Thomasvilie
have organized base ball club and pro-
pose 10 play the clerks at an early day
for the benefit of the Methodist chuTch
organ fund
Mfuedge Roberts Of Atlanta sues the
street car company for $1,000 for being
nut of by a conductor after dropping his
nickel In the now disused slot box and
refusing to pay again.
There is a decided sensation in colored
circles in Augusta. Maggie Blocker. the
16-year-oid niece of Prof Isaiah Blocker,
of rhe FIRST ward c0iored grammar school,
disappeared Sunday and has not yet been
found.
William Kirby cut bee tree near the
Altamaha river. 1t contained twelve feet
of sealed honey and three feet Of wax.
During the season Mr.. Kirby cut $50 bee
trees along the river and cleared a snug
sum of money from the sale OF the money
The new dormitory of the Industrial col
lege has been finished and accepted by
the board Of trustees. President Chappel
has very appropriately named the new
building Atkinson Hail. In honor of Gov
Atkinson The old dormitory, which is
an annex Of the old executive mansion
will be called the Mansion
Christian Index: Pastor r. D. Hawkins
and his dear brethren at Maysville, Ca,
built for themselves a great tabernacle
out of posts. plauks and cotton bagglng,
with a seating capacity Of about twelve
hundred A number of preachers and the
general public were invited. We spent
two days and nights last week at the
meeting.
Rome Tribune: The old reliable Rome
railroad has been fitted out with new pas
senger coaches Of the Pullman pattern and
the line has become even more popular
than il was before. The Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and ST. Louis Railroad Company Is
at last giving Rome that recognition which
our enterprising city deserves. Now Tor
the new depot.
The legislative committee Of the board
of county commissioners Of Fulton is pre-
pairing to 90 before the legislature when
it meets for the purpose Of asking for the
repeal of the road law. The committee
viii also seek to have a law enacted au-
thorizing Fulton county to work all her
felony convicts on the roads Of the county
instead Of having them sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
Washington Chronicle: c. z. Smith has
been employed to solicit subscriptions TO
tho bonds for the new railroad, and he
will begin riding along the Washington
route through the country on Tuesday
About $4,000 have already been subscribed
for this route and we feel satisfied Wash
ington will get the road; but what ought
10 be done now is TO make assurance
doubly sure.
Weary OF battling with an unsuitable
appetite for strong drink, Mr.. ]. ~
overly Of Muscogee ended his life with
laudanum at his home in Wynnton yes
terday afternoon. For some time Mr.
OVERLY has been a slave to alcohol, de-
spite the efforts of himself and his fam
fly to rescue him from its strong hold. At
last seeing that he was unable to give 1t
up, in fit OF madness and desperation,
he procured a bottle OF laudanum, and in
the presence Of his wife drank fully two
ounces.