The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-30
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Closing of the BarrOOms at Fort
Gaines-A RumOr That "LOrd
Beresford" and His Wife WIN BE
Reunited-A Man shot Dead by His
Brother-in-Law Near Hephzibah.
Sale of the New Bonds of the City
of Columbus.
GEORGIA.
The Presbyterians of Jackson Will soon
erect a new church
Mrs. w. H. Pitman, who was severely
burned at her residence at Atlanta last
Thursday night, died Sunday.
Barrooms will close in Fort Gaines with
the year, and the city will buy what whis-
ky the bars have on hand. The dispensary
opens Jan. l, 1897.
The Third National Bank of Columbus
bid par for the entire issue of $4,000 of
AZ per cent. SO-year bonds Of the city
of Columbus, and its bid was accepted.
In the city election at Cordele the A. p.
AS elected their fun municipal ticket as
follows: l. J. Bivins, mayor; r. L.
Locket A. j. Conner and w. II. Abrams,
aldermen.
BIakely Observer A Spanish paper re-
fers to the people of this country as lard
and-bacon gentlemen" II is plain that
the Spanish consider US slick ducks"
from the foregoing.
Hon. ]. w. Armstrong of Washington
says he feels assured that the Tennessee
and Georgia and Atlantic railroad, which
proposes to build line through Wilkes
county, intends to go right ahead with the
nd hat &c financial
backing to accomplish the undertaking.
Walker County Messenger: Bill Reid.
the brother of C. w. Reid, went to Texas
five or six years ago with Cal Blackwell.
He has surrendered to the charm of a
lovely widow who has four or five chill
dren and $50 acres of rich black wax land.
He has moved TO Greenville, Tex, and
has rented the farm out
On James w. Collins farm. about six
miles south of Hephzibah, Arthur White
head last Friday morning shot and in
stantly killed his brother-in-law, Morgan
Thomas. The parties were drinking and
quarreled over trivial matter. Whitehead
shot three pistol balls into Thomas side
and breast. defied arrest and fled.
1t is reported that Sidney Lascelles,
alias Lord Beresford," pardoned by Gov.
Atkinson last week, may win back his
wife. She was a rich New York girl
named Maud Lilienthal. She never fall
tered in her love for him until 1t was re-
ported that he was found in a disreputa-
BILE house at Macon. Then she secured
divorce. Her mother has recently died,
leaving her an income of $4,000 year.
The Blakely Observer says that Early
county has a colored doctor who cures all
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connection made of herbs and roots. 1t
seems, however, that his is not a very lu-
cratiVe practice, and that hard luck has
marked him. Not being horse doctor,
when his horse sickened the other day,
he let 1t die. The doctor was short in
cash and his neighbors were short in
kindly feeling toward the great medicine
man. The decomposing carcass had to be
removed out of smelling distance" of the
house, and the doctor studied only for a
minute before his scheme was perfected
and the work of removal In progress. He
cut the horse into small pieces and car
ried 1t off like the cat ate the grindstone
by degrees. The doctor may be in hard
luck just now. but with such a fertile
brain, such a will and that spirit of i'm
dependence he will come out on top yet.
valdosta correspondence Macon Tele-
graph: The liveliest demonstration VAL
costa mas mad during the entire Christ
mas occurred Saturday night in an i'm
promptu contest between three brass
bands. The negro Odd Fellows had a
band marching up Hill avenue, following
banner on which was inscribed, "Ho,
for the grand oyster supper at Odd Eel
lows hall" Coming up Patterson street
was another band employed by gang of
fakirs to draw the crowds to their place
of business, while still another band came
up Hill avenue from another direction,
wooing the crowds to a circus which had
pitched it's tents on the city hall square
The three bands met at the junction OF
Patterson street and Hill avenue and each
thought the other was trying to get the
better of 1t. They formed in a circle
each playing separate tunes, and for
three-quarters of an hour the racket
raised was calculated to wake the dead
Hundreds of people blocked the streets
to see the fun and vehicles and pedes-
trians were blocked for a hundred yards
or more. Mischief makers encouraged the
contest and each band kept playing its
tune over again until all the players wer,
exhausted.