The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02
GEORGIA..


Augusta is preparing for a grand inter
state bicycle meet between Aug. Is and 20.
The trial at Gainesville Of Henry Pat
terson. prominent young farmer Of Hall
county, for the murder Of his wife, is at
tracing tremendous crowds.
The managers of the Hawkinsville races
have secured from the Southern railway
a special train and low rates from Ma
con and Eastman for Wednesday, Aug .,
the day of the races.
The quill pushers." Georgia Weekly
Press Association, are all back home writ
ing up their trip to the Mammoth cave.
Kentucky, and commencing the hospI-
tality of Elberton.
There is a movement on foot to erect
a new building at the South Georgia Con,
ference Orphan Home in Vineville exclu-
sively for boys The present building Is
used both by the girls and boys.
Seth Martin. formerly sheriff of
Lowndes county. dropped dead Thursday
at Lake Park. He was enga ged in work
ing on coffin in the rear of the store
of F. NJ. White & Son when he received
stroke of apoplexy.
Jeff D. MCGEE. editor of the populists'
paper published at Roberta, has been in
dorsed by the Crawford county populists
as the proper man to nominate for con-
gress by the convention of the Third dis
trict, to be held at Cordele Aug. s.
Lagrange Reporter: West Point and
Beuna Vista will join hearts and hands on
the 9Th, when Prof. Norman c. Miller, the
popular superintendent of our public
schools, and Miss Woolin, one Of Buena
Vista's most attractive young ladies', will
be united in marriage.
Mr.. W. r. Culpepper, who lives near
Chastain. some twelve miles north of
Thomasville. has two acres of Concord
grapes off of which he has gathered and
sold l620 baskets this year. He sold most
of the grapes in town and has realized
$l75 on them. This beats cotton.
The physicians held an autopsy on the
remains Of John Black, tax collector of
Floyd county, who died Thursday, and
found that the Vermiform appendix had
grown together in two places after his first
attack, and between them was a hard sub
stance that caused rupture of the organ.
The handsome new building of the South
ern Female College at LAGRANGE, is near
ing completion and will be in readiness
for the opening of the fall term. The en-
tire brick work has been finished: thirty
or forty rooms are already completed and
| the work on the rest of the building is be-
! ing pushed forward as fast as possible.
The Manchester Cotton Manufacturing
| Company of Macon NOW operating 5000
| spindles) has decided to double its mills
! capacity The machinery to be added will
| include 5000 spindes, twenty-seven fiat
/ top cards, slubbers speeders drawing
/ frames, spoilers, twisters, cone Winders.
! etc. J. d. Hough is general manager Of
! this company.
Charlton correspondence of Waycross
Journal: A petition with 22O names at
tached to it has been filed with the or
| binary to call the election to settle the
! court house question, and within the next
| sixty days the people of this county will
! have the privilege of saying by their bal
lots whether they wish the court house
to be moved to Folkston or not.
Hon. John Temple Graves will open the
democratic campaign in Georgia. Mr..
Graves will make his first speech at Car,
| tersVille on Tuesday morning The GOOD
/ citizens of Barlow county are makine
! elaborate preparations for the event, AMI
! it is generally understood that every Vot sr
in the county will make desperate efforts
to be in Gainesville on that occasion.
Cedartown Standard: Mr. Henry R. Hunt
received a message last week stating that
he had been elected assistant principal
| of the jackson public schools Prof Hunt
! graduated from the state university at
| Athens this year with high honors. He is
| an exceptionally bright young man. well
friends congratulate him on receiving.
Carroll Times: Wednesday afternoon.
about four miles north of Bowden. Reub
Turner shot and fatally wounded a young
| man name Lee. 1t seems that Lee had been
/ paying marked attention to Turner's sis
ter and had succeeded in accomplishing
! her ruin. He was forced to ma rrv her
but Immediately abandoned her. and the
| outcome was shooting ARRAY Sheriff
| Cannon was sent for Thursday morning
! and went down to arrest Turner but as
| we go to press he had not returned and
| the full particulars cannot be learned.
The Albany Daily Herald: A southern
man who moved to North Dakota few
years ago, started back to this state re-
| Gently and left the following farewell
| written on the side of his Dakota resi-
| dence: -Four miles from a neigbor; six
teen miles from a postofice; twenty-five
| miles from railroad; fourteen miles from
| church; one hundred and eighty miles
from timber half a mile from water; a
| quarter of a mile from Sheol God bless
our home. Gone to Georgia, which is
| Gods country, there to stay the remainder
| of my days
S. W. Stiles of Atlanta filed suit for
5000 damages against Hugh L. and Jessie
Mckee on Thursday. The claim for dam
ages is based upon a peculiar state OF
| allegations. Last November Mrs STILES
was sitting in buggy which was stand
| ing near the Equitable building, on Pryor
! street. In passing her vehicle it is al
| legged. the carriage of the McKees ran
| into her buggy and threw her out. caus-
| ing permanent injuries of a serious char
| acter, causing her to become untitled to
| perform her customary household duties
| Negligence on the part of the driver of
| the carriage is alleged, and the fact thar
! ne was not discharged for it is set IN
as confinement of his carelessness. Mr..
and Mrs. Mckee are well-known society
| people.
FLORIDA.
The Jacksonville wheelmen have deci-
| ded to hold a midsummer bicycle meet. at
Panama park on Thursday, Aug. q
Waldo has decided to levy the two min