The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND sOITH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.


Straight 10 It's Home at washing
ton, ID. C. ON Being Released.
Business Men Burned Out ut Vi
daIia-Birthday of Gen. Cobb.
GEORGIA
Charles Z Hixon has been appointed
postmaster al Neese. ia Madison county
GAINESVILLE has pay roll from her man
ufacturing plants of more than 500 per
day.
About 5000 annual interest on scrip
will have 10 DE paid by the tax payers
OF Emanuel county
Albany's new opera house viii soon be
assured. as the contract viii be given
in a day or Two.
During the week there was shipped
from the port Of Darien 3.2o5.us feet Of
timber and lumber.
Miss NJ Rutherford Of Athens has writ
ten play which viii be presented at the
opera house there on the evening of the
first day of May.
Milan & Patterson, a well known Nv
cry firm of Atlanta, have announced to
the public that they viii no longer open
their stables on sundays.
oscar Lowe. a cotton buyer who moved
to Buena Vista from Americas about six
months ago, was adjudged insane Friday,
and was carried 10 the asylum at Mil
iedgevine.
A 7-story office building of pressed brick,
stone and granite win be erected at once
by George S. Lowndes on North Pryor
street, just below the First Methodist
church, a Atlanta.
Gordon Institute, al GAINESVILLE, has just
received from the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington, d. c., a select collection
OF
once placed in the laboratory.
The residence of Mrs. J. I. Woodward,
situated in the upper part Of Taylor coun-
ty. was burned Thursday night 1t was
the finest house IN the county. There was
$3.50 insurance on the house and 500 on
the furniture.
John smith. the leader of the so-called
"Fly-away'' negroes, has returned to At
lanta and has not been molested by the
police or his dupes. When he disappeared
he was supposed by his followers 10 have
gone 10 heaven.
Congressman Bartlett wants larger APP
preparation for Ocmulgee river, and will
push his fight for it IN the Senate. lie
got $4,000 but wants it doubled. He and
Senator Bacon viii together try 10 get the
increase in the Senate.
The new board of trustees of the Mer-
Ger University elected Thursday by the
Baptist state convention, at Cedartown,
win meet at the June commencement and
elect a president and faculty for the uni
Nerslty for the ensuing uhree years.
Friday being the birthday of Gen. T. r.
r. Cobb. there were no exercises at Lucy
Cobb Institute at Athens, and instead of
the usual Rotations the teachers and
pupils visited the grave of Gen. Cobb, and
placed thereon beautiful floral tributes.
Rome Tribune: while others of its con-
temporaries are busted with political
f1.l. "a Ito,
bic Savannah News IS constantly calling
attention to the south and its prospects
1t is a good work and one that others
would do we'll TO initiate
1t is learned that Prof. Derry has noti-
fed the chairman of the board of truss
tees of Wesleyan Female college at Ma
con that he does not wish 10 be a candid
ate for reelection TO the chair of ancient
and modern languages, which he has niled
for the last seventeen years.
The Clarke Rifles Of Athens are in a
quandary whether or not to disband. The
city has Withdrawn the yearly appropria-
ton of $500. purse is being made up
10 keep the organization in existence and
the company will decide Thursday as to
whether it will quit or not
The first definite talk about moving the
Irwin county court house to Fitzgerald,
the colony town, took shape at the Irwin
willie court last week. The colony people
will have the swing, regardless of the
wishes of the old settlers. but it is stated
that the movement meets with general
favor all over the county.
A young lady living on upper Green street
at Augusta, had a costly experience re
Gently Some one made her a present of a
nice pocketbook. Removing two or three
silver dollars from her old purse, she
threw it into the fire Just as it crumbled
into ashes she recalled the fact that she
had left a five dollar bin in it. The gift
proved to be costly one.
Mrs. Jennie Kimball, who died few
weeks ago, once had a rare experience in
Augusta. She was the mother of the IA
nous burlesque artistic Corinne. After a
performance in Augusta and while going
aboard a train at the depot she recalled
the fact that she had left a satchel con-
tanning nearly thousand dollars and her
diamonds at the Arlington. She sprang into
a carriage and galloped back. The satchel
was found just as she left it, intact.
The Fifth regiment of Atlanta will
march to the encampment at griffin, it is
announced. The encampment will open
in June The regimental officers have de-
cided to march down over the country
roads and go into the tents. 1t is a dis
lance of forty-three miles, and can be
easily covered in a day and half The
road to the encampment is direct and is
very good. 1t lies alongside the Contra
railroad track the entire distance
After being kept imprisoned for more
than year a blue homing pigeon, belong
ing to ]. NJ. Wallace of Atlanta, which
was sold TO him by S. Wallace of Wash
ington, made its escape from the Atlanta
mans pigeon house on the first of April
and five days afterwards huttered intt
the coop of its former master, Mr.. Wallac,
at Washington. The bird after escaping
from the Atlanta mans pigeon house, turn
ed straightway in the direction of its for
mer home and covered the seven hundred
miles in five days. j. NJ. Wallace did no
know what had become of the bird unit
he received a letter from his friend a
Nas al u i'm Of aret~fzra
there.
Homer Carter, the young man who &C
cidentally shot himself at the residenc,
of his uncle, J. H. Moore, at Buena Vista
on March 81, is dead. For a few days hi
friends seemed to have some hope of hi
living, but about a week ago his brail
became affected. He thought his DOCTOR
were his enemies. From that time h,
gradually sank, and for the last fou
or five days was unconscious. Last Wed
nesday night the bullet, shot from q IS
caliber pistol, was taken out about a foo
from where il entered, penetrating tn
vnfrr g.