The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-17
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Near HawkinsviIle by sup
posed Lunatic-A short Cotton
Crop in Washington County-A
Painter of Pensacola Invents "A
Teredo-PrOof Paint.
GEORGIA.
The Monitor says Morgan is going to
have an artesian we'll at an early day.
The state and county tax in Dougherty
county this year viii amount to l per
cent.
Work has begun on the new telephone
line between Rome. Cave Spring and Ce-
dartown.
A company are figuring on establishing a
wagon and coffin factory in Dublin at an
early date
The crops from Elberton to Daniels
VILE will yield about two-thirds Of an
average crop.
The cotton crop is short, but from all
accounts the farmers Of Rockdale are IN
splendid financial condition.
f. vickers, a Coffee county farmer,
has 100 pounds OF lard. 80 sides OF ba-
con, and 100 bushels of corn to sell. That
kind OF farming pays.
A new postoflce named Chaplin has
been established ten miles east of Pei
ham, in Mitchell county. with Mrs. Irene
Stevens as postmistress.
DeKalb county's granite industry was
introduced to numbers of people on Labor
day. who. perhaps, would have been
years finding it out in all its fullness.
Elberton is having a big sensation. It
is asserted that a grave in the cemetery
has been robbed, and interested friends
have secured a detective to run down
the guilty ones.
The grand jury Of Washington county
has recommended that Gov. Atkinson OF.
fer a reward of $500 for the arrest, with
proof TO convict, the assassin Of Or.
r. c. Wilson at his home near Chalker
last April.
Altmayer & Flatau, the wholesale liquor
merchants of Macon. whose goods were
levied on Saturday night, under mort
gage fl. IA. in favor of the Exchange
Bank, will probably make an adjustment
with their creditors.
The cottage belonging to Col. Milton A.
burned at Decatur Tuesday. only a few
articles were saved from the furnishings.
The loss will reach $500 to 5000, partly
covered by insurance.
Capt w d. Grant Of Atlanta has re
Gently decided over S10O,OOO worth Of his
property to his son ard daughter, John
w. Grant and Mrs. Sarah Fannie Grant
Jackson. The transfer was made in con-
sidoration of $l5 and love and affection.
The gin house, containing twenty bales
of cotton, belonging to Mrs. NJ. L. Gross,
and a few of her customers, was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday morning at Dav-
isboro. There was no insurance. The fire
is thought to have been OF incendiary ORR
gin.
In answer to petition filed by Messrs.
Tompkins & Aston, attorneys for stock
holders in the Georgia Building, Loan
and Savings Association of Atlanta, Judge
Lumpkin will determine on the 18th wheth-
er or not It is necessary TO appoint a re-
ceiver for the affairs of the association.
There are plans for cutting the Buffalo
swamp through to Brunswick by canal
When this is done some OF the most val
uahle cotton lands in the state viii come
that part of the country will be carried on
on a more extensive scale than II was
even during the days Of slavery
The cotton crop in Washington county
Is shorter than It has been for twenty
years. and it is thought that the total
supply OF cotton seed will be used up
by the latter part Of December, which
gives the mills only about four months
steady running. This falls one month be-
hind last season, which was short.
A motion for new trial for George
Elder, colored, sentenced TO be hanged
at Watkinsville on the 18th instant for
the killing of Bob James, another negro,
was argued before Judge n. L. Hutchlns
Monday without success. The execution.
however. will be stayed for a time at
least as Judge b. c. Thrasher. attorney
for the condemned man, has carried the
case to the supreme court.
Lum Warren. the negro brute who as
saulted Mrs Bass near Cuthbert, Monday
has not yet been caught. Several hundred
armed men are still in pursuit. Indigna-
tion is at it's highest pitch and no efforts
will be spared in capturing him. Mrs
Bass is still in a critical condition. The
physicians do not believe that she car
recover. She was horribly mutilated ii
the desperate fight with the negro, hel
head being crushed and her eye punched
out.
At Atlanta Monday Judge Lumpkir
heard the petition Of the Belle-ArmisteaC
Company OF Indiana. The petition asked
for an injunction TO prevent the Metropoli
tan Trust Company of New York from
selling certain stock belonging 10 tn,
Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and In
vestment Company. of which Julius l.
Brown Is the receiver. After hearing the
arguments in the case the Judge overruleC
the petition for injunction on the GROUND
that the New York company had not beer
personally served and such being the case
the court here had no Jurisdiction, as any
order passed by 1t could not be enforced
Late Monday afternoon about five miles
from Hawklnsville Ely King was shot
and killed by George Fleming. King was
talking to a negro man who was picking
cotton for Fleming and had been walking
up and down the rows with the negro
He had just turned al the end of the row
and had gone ten or twenty steps wher
he left the negro man and started back
towards the end OF the row. A gun was
fired at this juncture and the negro turn.