The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-10
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.


Groves Cotton Mill Paying Big Div
idendS-A Negro Train Hand Badly
Iniured-The Father of n Dead
Convict Determined 10 Recover
His body From an Atlanta Medical
College.
GEORGIA
Mgr. Satolli. personal representative of
the pope in America, VIII spend day in
Atlanta this week.
Bruins wick's shipping record for Janu-
airy shows total volume Of business for
the month of Sl,110.19s
The mandamus of the bond commission
versus city of Macon has been set for
trial on the 18th inst.
The books of School Commissioner
Bridges of Floyd county are reported by
an expert badly muddled.
The Americas Epworth League is pre-
pairing TO entertain the state league.
which meets there in April.
The Central railroad and Plant system
have put in water meters at Macon, be-
lieving it will save money.
Editor wimingham Of the Cartersville
be in operation in Cartersville.
1t is stated in Gainesville that a stock
company will soon be formed to harness
the Etowah river and supply the town
with electricity.
Ben Austin, aged so. and Rosa Elrod,
aged s.. were married in Dahlonega this
week. This is Ben's fifth wife, and Rosa's
seventh husband.
Robert L. Blalock was found dead in his
room in the new hotel at Carrollton, Fri
day morning. He had returned home from
Hot Springs to die.
A man named f. ]. Wright cut a tree
down across hollow log at Ashburn last
week and caught five fat 'possums out
of the broken log.
Hamilton Journals: VIII Irwin, on last
Saturday morning, near A. c. Harris
home, killed seven wild turkeys at one
shot The weight of the lot was eighty
four pounds.
Hemp Quigg of the firm Of Tnley &
Quigg, warehousemen of Conyers, met
with serious accident Friday by being
thrown from dray, the wheels passing
over his body.
The regular spring term of Pulaski SUI
perior court will convene to-day. Judge
Gober of the Blue Ridge circuit will pre-
side the first week in order to try cases
in which Judge Smith is disqualified.
1t is said that Immediately adjoining
the Fitzgerald colony a colony for ne
groes in which no white people are al
lowed, is being established for the benefit
of negroes who are denied admission into
Fitzgerald.
The second session of the State Nor
NAL School at Rock College. at Athens,
opens on the 18th inst. President Brad
well expects fully siXty-five new teachers,
and more than that number of those who
attended the school last year.
Feb. Is has been fixed upon as the date
OF the banquet to Judge speer. rendered
by the chamber of commerce and Young
Mems Business League of Macon. The
date is the eleventh anniversary of the
judges appointment to the bench.
Washington correspondence Morning
News: A steam laundry is the latest en-
terprise on foot for Neutrality-suspicious.
are out for the marriage of Frederic Gill
bert and Miss Caroline Dockman. Mr..
Gilbert is county solicitor of Wilkes
county.
Rountree & Co., the Oldest mercantile
firm in Quitman. has been dissolved.
A ]. Rountree, the senior member, re-
tires. Mr.. Rountree has been a success
full merchant for long time, and has
accumulated enough of this worlds goods
TO take care of him in his old age. S. S.
Rountree will continue the business.
The Athens Gashght Company, which
was placed in the hands of a receiver a
short while since. is to be recognized.
1t recently sold the arc light plant to the
city of Athens, and the incandescent plant
to r. L. Bloomfield. All that remains
now Is the gas system, and 1t is pro-
posed to reorganize that portion and put
it on a paying basis.
Atlanta spends nearly 5000 year in
rents, and Councilman Day wants to
s saP o ths By Of building tbnge money city
paid to the chamber of commerce for
homes for city officers, and for a council
chamber; $500 Of the money is given to
the military with the understanding that
II is to be used for paying armory rent.
Wilson Knight, a negro train hand on
the Augusta Southern road. met with a
bad accident Friday night He was going
the Chemical Works attempted to jump
from one car to another. His coat caught
on a standard and he was thrown under
the wheels and had both legs broken and
badly crushed. Amputation will probably
be avoided.
The name of the Floyd county convic,
killed by the explosion near Gainesville
a few days ago was Ed. Hatcher. A,
last accounts the body was picking in
one Of the watts in an Atlanta college. Ii
seems that his father went up to Car
tersville after the body, and found thai
il had been disposed of to a medical col
lege in the Gate City. He has gone ia
Atlanta and says he will get the BODY
II he has to take it back in pieces.
Athens has seldom witnessed as sad a
funeral as that of Friday, when the two
little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. ]. T.
Parker were laid away in Oconee GENE
terry One was years old and died OF
Group Tuesday night. The other was
years old and died of the same maIady
Wednesday morning. The two little
casketS were lowered by loving friends
into one grave, and Rev E. D. Stone
conducted over them beautiful and touch.
ing exercises.
Harmony Grove Echo: The Harmony