The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-30
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

by "a Friend While Hunting.
GEORGIA.
A cordage factory is TO be built near
Augusta.
The Macon banks have changed the clos
ing hour from TO o'clock
venable Bros Of Atlanta have purchased
a new granite quarry in Clarke county.
Mrs. William b Johnston. one Of Ma
cons wealthiest and most highly esteem
ed ladies, is critically ILL.,
Timber Of all kinds continues to come
down TO Darien. and IL is being shipped
off about as fast as it comes
Mrs. sam Jones has been presented with
a handsome umbrella by the police depart
ment Of atlanta. The handle is tortoise
shell with gold mOuntings.
- Since the first Of the present month
little over 100000 feet Of timber has
been shipped from the port of Darien to
foreign and coastwise ports.
1t is highly probable that the Fitzgerald
postofice win soon be made a second
class office. About 5000 in money orders
were sent from there last month.
The game season will close on April I.
There are a large number Of Macon sports
in the dove field every day. The dove sup
ply this year has been unusually large.
An old-fashioned union Sunday school
celebration, embracing all, or nearly all,
of the Sunday schools in Macon, will be
held in May the exact date having not
been decided on.
Mrs. Mary Camp, mother Of J. L. Camp,
IS lowering between life and death at her
home near Rome. She has suffered three
strokes of paralysis one after another, and
her life hangs by thread.
rrotr LII 90, k,,r;1 - o,to-
actively upon his new duties as attorney
of the Georgia Southern and Florida rail-
road He Will arrive in Macon to-day on
a preliminary visit Judge Hall will make
his headquarters at Macon, the terminus
of the Georgia Southern.
There will be a huge mass meeting or
the citizens of Atlanta at the Grand
Opera House next Wednesday night. un-
der the auspices of the local chapter OF
the Daughters Of the Confederacy, for the
purpose of creating a more widespread in
terest in securing the proposed battle alb
hey for Atlanta.
A farmer of Colquitt county exhibited
in Moultrie recently a pig that was a
curiosity. From the middle Of its body
back 1t was two well developed pigs.
while the head part was only one, except
it had two tongues, two sets or teeth
and two feet that came out just behind
the left shoulder, and looked like the feet
of puppy.
A movement is on foot by public-spirit-
ed citizens of Macon to raise $4,000 for
the purpose of erecting an auditorium in
which to hold the state democratic con-
vention on June %. 1t is proposed to
make the auditorium a permanent struc-
ture and 81 900 has already been subscrib-
ed for the purpose. The auditorium will
be centrally located
Real estate men at Rome are very much
interested in the reported discovery Of
Mr.. Farley, civil engineer in charge of
the survey Of the rifle range near Bee
men, who discovered a fine vein of gold in
a ravine there a few days ago. The ra-
vine is traversed by a stream of water
which gushes from bold spring at the
head of the gulch, and in the bed of that
stream the gold was found and Mr. Far
ley considers IL as likely to prove a reg
ular bonanza.
Seville correspondence Morning News
A shooting ARRAY occurred about a mile
from this place on March o. Four negroes
who worked al David Paxton's turpentipe
still had been to a log rolling. They car
ried a jug of whisky with them and be-
gan drinking freely. They finally began
90 years old. named iTTasyior Woodard doI a
peaceable old man, and Lige Smith finally
shot Woodland through the body. He lived
until this morning, and died, leaving a
family. The men are all at the still
Warren Criswen, who confessed to aid
way train at Stone Creek. has been trans
terred from Bib Jail to the jail at HaW-
kinsville. This was done to remove Girls
well from any possible contact or commun-
1cauon with the Shaws, who will remain
IN Bibb jail. It was apprehended that if
Criswen and the Shaws staid in the same
jail the Shaws might prevail on Criswell
IN some manner TO deny his confession
and not reafiirm it at the superior court
trial in Twiggs county next month.
Guyton correspondence Morning News:
The bingham News, published here, will
be edited by r. w. Sheppard, after April
1-Mr. Bruce Powers, who has been at
tending medical lectures in Augusta has
returned TO Guyton, and has accepted a
position for the summer, at the Csuyton
Pharmacy.-The work on ]. 7. Wells resi-
dence is progressing rapidly. He viii have
all of the modern improvements and COM
forts in his new home. He is also having
an artesian well bored.-The democratic
executive committee OF Efngham has
been called to meet at Springfield on
Wednesday, April l, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Dublin correspondence Morning News:
Hayward Coley. an old negro, was driv-
ing to the city one day last week when his
horse, an animal of ante-bellum days, hap
pened TO a serious accident. While cross.
ing narrow bridge in the lower part OF
the city. the earth on the edge of the
bridge gave way, causing the animal tc
1all heavily to the ground, breaking his
neck, he dying in a few minutes. Coley
viii institute legal proceedings against the
Clty.-Inefe is a movement on foot look.
ing toward the erection of an ice factory
All the stock has been subscribed and the
arrangements are being perfected, and the
plant placed in time for the coming season
James H. Ford of Ty Ty, Worth coun.
ty, tells of an attempt that was made
by some unknown party on THURSDAY
night, to take his life. About O'Clock Mr.
Ford was sitting in his dwelling, read
ing with the windows closed He stepped
into an adjoining room for some pur
pose, and during his absence some person
from outside fired the contents of CUR
through one of the closed windows ant
had Mr. Ford at the time been sitting il
the place he had just vacated, he woulC
undoubtedly have been shot and probably
killed The cowardly perpeTator of tn,
deed evidently knew where his INTENDED
victim was in the habit of sitting at night
and his aim was governed by the ray,
OF the lamp which stood on the table.
FLORIDA.
Many Cuban refugees are stopping a
Forst Meade.
The Baptist revival at Orlando still zoe,
with much encOuragemanf