The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-13
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

ouA His sentence AuHAtuu o. LYME
10 secure a New Trial.. II. Hertz
for Postmaster of MaeOn-A New
Gold Vein Near Canton.
GEORGIA.
Capt j. J. Seay has decided to make
the race for mayor Of Rome.
None Of the Augusta banks win BID
for any Of the new United States bonds.
The town council OF Alpharetta has
passed an ordinance prohiDlung the rid
ing OF bicycles on the sidewalks on sun
day.
Burglars have made several successful
raids on the stores at Marietta in the past
Few weeks. but no arrests have been
made.
The Brunswick Call has captured the le-
gal advertising for Glynn county, includ-
ing the sherins sales and the Ordinary's
notices.
The Exchange Bank at Macon is re-
ported ready 10 take $4,000 to 100000 OF
the government new bonds, but at what
price is not stated.
The citizens of Cuthbert held a pub
lie meeting Wednesday to raise money
10 build a cotton factory. The project
seems TO have met with success.
Lothian correspondent Morning News:
The proposed telephone line will work
great convenience here. The poles are
being placed in position and the inStru-
ments VIII arrive soon.
The residence Of Mrs. Lawrence Houser
at Perry was burned at o'clock Satur-
day morning. The insurance is $500 IN
the Georgia Home. The furniture was
insured for $500. The losses are mostly
covered.
The citizens of Ebert have appointed
a committee to solicit subscriptions from
Gilbert, Wilkes and Oglethorpe counties
TO build a bridge across Broad river, so
as to facilitate communication between
these counties.
In the event that Supt. Lawton B. Ev-
ans is elected to the presidency of the
chronological school at Atlanta, the
friends of Editor +. 3. Hook of Augusta
viii urge him as the successor 20 Mr.:
Evans as superintendent Of schools Of
Richmond county.
The first stnl ever found in operation
in Cane Greek district. Lumpkin county.
recently destroyed by Marshal HARRISON,
is said to have belonged to the blind man
who was an inmate Of the pauper's home
q year ago, and recommended TO be dis
charged by the grand jury.
]. p. Prescott of Lake Park. has just
obtained a pension for Mrs. Martha f.
Green, widow of the late Lewis Green
in the Seminole war of 1896, under Capt.
Aaron b. Jernigan. Her first draw was
$SlSs7, with IS per month the balance of
her life.
It is automatically stated that Senator
Bacon and Congressman Bartlett have
compromised on j. II. Hertz for postmas-
ter Of Macon when the resignation Of Mr..
Price, the present incumbent, is made. 1t
is believed that Mr.. Price will resign
about March l. His resignation will be
made in the event of his election to the
mayoralty.
Maud Lascelles, the wife of Sidney Las
ceIles, better known as Lord Beresford,
has appeared in a New York court and
with her own lips asked for divorce. Las
ceilcs or Lord BeresfOrd, as he called
himself, is serving a four years sentence
in the Georgia penitentiary for forgery.
Ills career in Georgia is familiar to all
newspape readers.
Dublin correspondent Morning News: An
attempted Jail delivery was frustrated
last week. by the timely discovery of
Sheriff Joiner who nipped the plot in the
bud. By some means a common table
knife was passed into the cells of one OF
the prisoners, and the weapon converted
with a rude saw. Out of this blade they
managed to cut the bolts of two large
to escape.
u. L. Taylor of Pike county has invent
ed a machine for cutting corn stalks into
very short lengths The machine is pro-
vided with steel blades that turn on
cylinder very rapidly. 1t cuts two rows
of stalks at one time and is drawn by
a horse 1t seems to be a perfect machine,
and leaves the stalks in such shape
as not TO be in the way of cultivating
crops and at the same time distributes
the litter over the ground.
A one-legged white man, 60 years or
more Of age, was found dead in the rail-
road yard at Donalsonville Saturday. In
a testament found in a grip near his
body was written John W. Martin, Com
pany G, F'orty-fifth Georgia, and in an
other place John Crumpler, Unadilla, Ca
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
came to his death by being run over by
a train on the A. NJ. Railroad Company s
sidetrack.
Clay & Blair and H. F. Leake, attor-
neys for Joe Eaton, who was convicted at
Marietta of voluntary manslaughter for
the killing of Malachi Pitts, and sentence
ed to serve ten years in tho penitentiary
have Withdrawn the motion for a new
trial. and he has been sent off to serve
out his time in the Dade coal mines. Eaton
is now 81 years old, and is suffering with
rheumatism. His friends think it is very
doubtful whether or not he will live to
serve out his sentence.
Mrs. Ralph NJ. Cheshire came near being
seriously burned at Athens Friday. She
was standing before the fire in her room
talking with her husband, a well-known
young newspaper man, and her
little daughter suddenly screamed
out Mr. Cheshire saw that
his wife was almost enveloped
in flames, and sprang quickly to her re-
lief 1t didn't take him long to eXtinguish
the flames, but in doing so he burned his
hands badly. Mrs. Cheshire luckily es-
capped without receiving any injuries.
A very rich discovery of gold has been
made nine miles south of Canton on what
is known as the Field and McLaine prop
erty, ore being found at a depth of thirty
five feet that assays 81, $50 per ton, the
vein being two feet wide and widening
perceptibly as it goes down, This in one
of the richest finds, according to depth
ever found in that part of the country
This property was bought by Maj. j. c.
Wall Hon. J. H. Roach of Canton and
Hon ]. E. Brown of Scottsboro. Ala, who
propose to organize a company and work
these mines.
John Williamson, young man about
IS years of age, who lives few miles
east of Cordele, started hunting Wednes-
day morning and placed his gun with
the butt end on q log. The gun Slipped