The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-30
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGR Apis.


An Unfortunate Floyd County Girl
the subject of Petition for Par
dOn-An atlanta Negroes Dehes
the Law-GeneraI News Notes Prom,
All Parts of Georgia and Florida.
GEORGIA.
Townsville viii probably have a new
and Independent telephone exchange.
Enigton Hughes and James Faison. two
negroes Of Spring Haven, were in love
The Alhambra Normal University OF
Griffin will close this week. after a most
successful session.
Ten thousand visitors attended the car
nival show in Valdosta. II is said 70 have
exceeded anything Of the kind ever held
IN the state.
State School Commissioner Hon. @. r.
Glenn will deliver an address on educa-
ton at the court house In Talbotton on
Saturday, Aug. s
Fitzgerald IS soon TO have four frame
school buildings They will be built Of
the best material and will be as fine as
any frame school buildings in the state.
Mr.. P. J.. McGovern. the assistant COM
missioner Of the Southern States Freight
Association. has resigned. and will go to
Washington TO take a position with the
Southern railway.
Col E. c. Machen. the great railroad
builder and general all-round hustler has
been heard from. He Is making a for
tune up in Virginia out Of an invention
for initiating bicycle tires.
The commission recently appointed by
Gov. Atkinson to arrange for a Georgia
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year, wifi soon be called together by the
chairman, Col. r. T. Nesbitt.
Capt J. H. Rucker has decided to oper-
ate his large cotton compress in Athens
this fall. For the past two or three
years he has leased that property, but
will this year take It in charge himself
again.
Two men were arrested at Triton re-
Gently on suspicion OF being safeblowers.
They were not safeblowers, but a search
disclosed a large number Of well-executed
counterfeit silver dollars. The men are
locked up.
E. 3. Clark of Troup county had to kill
Saturday afternoon valuable three-quar-
ter Jersey COW, which was badly affected
with hydrOphobia. The COW was so dan
gerous Mr.. Clark had to climb a tree in
order to shoot her
Belle Findley. respectable young woman
of Atlanta, attempted to commit suicide
in a Decatur grave yard by taking large
dose Of morphine. She had been looking
for work and had found none.
A bolt of lightning struck the dome Of
the tower of the Kincaid mill at Griffin,
tearing up the roof and setting fire to
IL. during the thunderstorm Tuesday
afternoon. Prompt work and free use
of water on the part Of the operatives
soon put stop TO the flames.
Hattie Giles, a negro woman Of Atlanta.
may not be much of lawyer. but she ef-
fectually enjoined the justice court in a
foreclosure case. Her motion was TO the
effect that the constable vacate the prem
ises and she made IL with an American
bull dog containing five excellent and
well rounded arguments. There was an
immediate quashing of everything that lay
between the constable and the street.
Matte White is an unfortunate young
woman of Rome who was sent TO the
chain-gang for twelve months for crime
against morality. Her partner in guilt,
being wealthy, paid himself out, and the
poor girl has been herded seven months
with negroes and convicts. She has prom
1sed 10 behave as woman should if re-
leased, and the grand jury and citizens
generally have petitioned the governor to
pardon her.
First Lieut. Frederick L. Palmer, Twen-
ty-first Infantry, U. S. A., has been de-
tailed by the war department as instructor
in military science at Gordon Institute,
at GAINESVILLE, for the next three years.
He is now stationed at Prattsburg, n
Y, and will report for duty at Gordon
Institute at once. Lieut. Palmer is a ma
tive of the state, having gone to West
Foint Military Academy from Rome, Ga.
His tour of duty al Gordon Institute
therefore, will no doubt be pleasant to
him and profitable to the school.