The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
GEORGIA.


Jack Griffith, colored shot and killed
Richard Hall. colored, about five miles
from Bogart Thursday.
Judge w. NJ. Henry has denied the APP
plication for a receiver for the Rome
Electric Light Company.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Darsey Code of Washington, Ga, and
Dempsey Colley of New Orleans.
Uriah H. Williams, well known mer-
chant of Macon. dropped dead Friday at
noon. The cause was heart disease.
L. w. McMullen of Monticello was bad
ly gored by bull Thursday. His wounds
are serious, but may not prove fatal
A big rise in the price of Irish potatoes
is looked for by North Georgia farmers.
The selling price is now $3.50 for 100
pounds.
The wife of Prof. b. F. Moore, who
formerly lived in Atlanta, died at Athens
Thursday night. and her body was shipped
to Atlanta for interment
The firm of A B. Handley & Co. at La
Grange has been dissolved by mutual con-
sent, A. b. Handley retiring from the bus
mess. The old firm is succeeded by the
LAGRANGE Hardware Company.
For the last three weeks the water in
the pond at Dennard, Houston county,
has been so low that the cotton mill
could not be operated. Such a condition
has never before existed for so long
time. veI
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$3.50 for the capture of Walter Bingham,
who killed Robert Thompson, in Meri-
wether county, on June 1. Immediately
after the killing. Bingham escaped and
nothing was ever seen of him.
At Elberton Thursday the jury in the
case of Simmons vs.. Georgia, Carolina
and Northern railroad, after being out all
night, brought in a verdict for $1,000 in
favor Of plaintiff. The case will be APP
pealed by the road TO the supreme court.
j. E. Blalock, one of Jonesboro's most
prominent citizens, is dangerously i'll. He
| has been sick for several months. Mr..
Blalock represented Clayton county in the
Legislature a few years ago. He is a
brother of A. c. Blalock the democratic
nominee for state senator.
Walton has three champion cotton pick
ers-Tommie, Waddie and Lovick Malcolm
of Blasingame district. the two first young
men and the latter, a hoy of u years. In
one day last week they picked l. 432 pounds
of cotton, or a good-sized bale. The young
men picked 5i2 pounds each and the young
boy 4OS pounds.
While A. w. Mcpherson was engaged
at the rip saw, at Massey's gin works, at
do Of Ia lNor
which had just been sawed, broke and,
being caught up by the saw, was hurled
back with tremendous force and struck
Mr.. Mcpherson a fearful blow in the alb
domen, inflicting serious injuries, from
| which it is thought he will die.
Samples of Glynn county sea island cot
ton have been graded by experts, and ra-
ted at q and % cents a pound. In the
| face of an unprecedented drouth that has
| cut the cotton crop of the United States to
| a 40 per cent. reduction, and as intense in
| it's serious consequences in Glynn as else
| where there is a prospect that planters
will get at least a bale TO three ACRES.
Near Covington, Thursday, while riding
horseback, Miss Catherine Butler, daugh-
ter of George D, Butler, who lives at Mid
way. met with an accident. A dog ran
| out into the street and bit her horse on
! the heel. The horse kicked at the dog
| and in so doing threw the young lady over
its head breaking both arms just above
the elbow.
At Adairsville, Thursday, John Moseley
and his wife became involved in a diff
Guilty and Moseley struck at her head with
a hickory stock She threw up her hand
| and caught the blow. 1t was a hard one
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caused them to protrude through the skin
! and flesh. Moseley has left and has his
Winchester, saying he will use 1t if an at
! tempt is made to arrest him.
Thomas A. Davis, the erstwhile banker
of West Point, who has been in Troup
| county jail for the past month or six
weeks was liberated Thursday. j. c.
Mayheld OF Atlanta and ]. H. Cleveland
| signed two bonds for him for $3.50 and the
! other for $3.50. The $3.50 bond was for the
warrant sworn out by T. c. Mayson of the
! Frank Il. Block Company, charging the
| defendant with larceny after trust dele
| gated The other warrant was a charge
! from the Gate City Coffin Company.
DeKalb county is to have new court
house. Such is the determination OF the
board OF county commissioners, and at a
| meeting held a few days since that body
! decided TO levy special tax to raise the
money necessary to erect the new house
| Of justice. Some time ago vote on a pro-
| posed bond issue was taken and the
movement to issue bonds was defeated
The commissioners, finding that they
could not secure the money in this way
| determined upon an increase OF the tax
rate. The rate for the year was fixed at
l.S5. which will give the county the money
necessary to erect the new court house,
about $500
The effects of the protracted drought in
Sumter county are most distressing. Old
residents say It has not been as dry in
| fifty years. Cotton has finished making
and the unmatured bolls are rapidly open
| ing. The crop is nearly gathered through
| out that section, three-fourths OF II being
already marketed Vegetable gardens
| have completely dried up. while vegetation
Of every kind looks withered. Cane fields
! are drying up and while the cane is not
| yet matured, several farmers will soon
begin grinding, in order to save what re-