The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-26
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Farmer of Banks County Report
ed to Have Found Pot Com
tanning $1,000 in GOId-AII the Ac-
counts with Exhibitors at the At
Ianta Exposition closed Except
one-A PnuIGinE County Negro
Shot in the Face by Whitecnps.
GEORGIA
John Norton. aged 10, and Miss West
aged Is, OF Concord. spalding county,
have eloped
Goss Wall had his arm caught in a gin
at winder Thursday, ana died in few
hours from the loss of blood.
l.. Nichols shot and mortally wound
ed his father at their home a few miles
from Springfield Thursday during a fam
lily quarrel Nichols was arrested and
placed in Jail al Springfield.
Cards are out announcing the engage
ment Of T. A. Robbie of Augusta, to Miss
Walton Hollinshead, of Milledgeville. The
marriage will take place on Sept. 30. The
prospective groom is son OF ex-senator
Robbie.
The ginnery of Jones & Redman, at
Stark, five miles from Jackson, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday. The loss is $500
with no insurance. VIII Whites residence
and contents at Stark were also burned
with a loss of 500 and no insurance.
George Fleming, the young man who
shot and killed Ely King. at Hawkins
vile, on Monday of last week, was ad-
judged insane by Ordinary McGrih last
Friday and ordered sent to the lunatic
asylum at Milledgeville, to which place
he was carried on Saturday.
Special Master w. D. Ellis filed his re-
port at Atlanta Thursday in
the case of Mary Kemp against
the Georgia Pacific railroad.
The woman was suing the road for dam
ages for killing her son. The special mas
ter's finding was in favor Of the road.
Ellis & Gray, as attorneys, have filed
with the superior court at Atlanta an APP
plication for a charter for the West Lum-
Der Company. The members of the COM
pany are j. ]. West, A. b. Steele, w. y.
Lowe, ]. w Pope and Annie E. West. The
home office of the company is Atlanta;
the capital stock is $36, 200 and the char
ter is asked for the term of twenty years.
The gin and saw mill of r. D. Van
Dyke, at the village of Flo, in Floyd
county. was burned Thursday night.
Eleven bales of cotton and a quantity of
lumber were destroyed. This makes the
fourth gin burned in that section within
the last ten days. The loss is about $1,000
and the property was insured for $780,
There is no clew to the origin of the FIRE
Lewis Carroll the nego who was struck
In the head with a club by Jess HUMPHREYS
of Austell. near Lithia Springs, last
Sunday will, in all probability, die from
the effects of the blow. HUMPHREYS has
been lodged in the Douglasville jail TO
await the outcome. Carroll was on horse
back when he became engaged in a quar-
rel with HUMPHREYS, who was on foot.
HUMPHREYS seized a club and struck the
negro a blow that almost Drained him.
AR. woolvin, who has charge of the
work for the government at the Seven
Sycamore shoals, in Pulaski county.
thinks that he will give the boats a good
channel and complete the job by Oct l.
The engineers estimated that it would
cost 5000 to get a good channel through
these shoals but Mr.. Woolvin will bring
the cost down to $500. This remarkable
saving is due to the extreme low stage of
water. Mr. Woolvin's men can work with
so much more rapidity and certainty with
the present conditions.
Paulding county negro appeared
at United States Commissioner Broyles'
court at Atlanta Thursday afternoon to
complain against five white men, whom
he declared had battered down his door
and knocked and beat him half into in
sensibility. Besides this, one Of them shot
him in the face with a revolver The ne
gro was in bad fix, but such case be-
longs to the state courts and the commits
sioner referred him to Gov. Atkinson
without taking down his name or any evil
dence in the case. The negro said he
knew the man who shot him He Will
push the prosecution in the state courts.
Brunswick Times-Advertiser: A force of
fifteen men began work early Thursday
morning tearing down, the old shed in the
rear of the old custom house building, on
Bay street. The property is owned by the
Southern railway. The demolition of the
shed is said to be for the purpose of clear
ing a site for a big grain elevator, which
the Southern is to build there. The South
ern's plan of Improvement for their water
front property here includes an elevator
and the subsequent shipment of grain
through this port 1t is believed that the
present work, coupled with the new wharf
now being built at the foot of Mansfield
street. indicates such purpose.
Alb Wright, an old farmer of Banks
NohHASs 10 ANpOit0O " ne llblltI ny Sl,UuA
than he was a few weeks since The story
is that he had the good fortune to rur
upon an old iron pot full of gold coin
amounting in value to the sum above
named. A mans name was on the pot
but the name has not been disclosed. II
is not known how the treasure came there
Years before the war an old man named
Sol Williamson was paid S15 900 for slaves
and died shortly thereafter When he was
dying he couldn't speak, bat pointed in
the direction of the spot where this treas
ure has just been found. There is likely
TO be some litigation over the title to the
money.
The grand lodge of Free and Accepted
Ancient York Masons (colored) for the
state of Georgia met in the hall Of Mount
Lebanon and composite lodges in the Odd
Fellows building at Atlanta Wednes-
day. Most worshipful grand master Rev
II. r. Allen, in the grand east, and Rev.
A. b. Allen, r. w. G., secretry, of Angus
ia, and the other grand officers, in their
several stations, were in charge There
were over 100 representatives present from
the various subordinate lodges from all
over the state in attendance. The most