The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-26
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Drunk nj West POint-A rhiiadel'
phia Lady Gives n Church at Cuth
bert S5.5OO-A Convict Makes {
Remarkable Escape From this
Dade Coal aiBes--A Georgia Lady
sends Hon. W. !. Bryan IA Souvenir
GEORGIA.
The Baptists Of 2lberton will in a short
while begin the erection Of a handsome
brick church.
The proposed new cotton mill for Elber-
ton is growing in favor. An effort will be
made to get outside help and build 500,
O00 mill
Or. j. T Leftwlch. an eminent Presby-
terrain divine, is reported 10 be dying at
the home of his son, Mr.. 7. J. Leftwich
at Atlanta.
S. S. Brewer has purchased all necessary
machinery for an ice factory at Elberton'
and will have it in fun operation by the
opening of the ice season.
The contract for Henry countys new
court house was let Wednesday to F. P.
Heifner of Atlanta, for $1S,7934s. The
building is to be completed by Sept !.
At a meeting Of the city council of Rome
Monday evening Maj w. f. Aver, w. w.
Shropshire and E. l.. Bosworth were elect
ed city assessors for the coming year.
Prof. Yeates. state geologist, has return
ed to Atlanta from visit to the different
marble companies Of the state, where he
has been selecting exhibits for the Nash
vile exposition.
At Atlanta Tuesday night burglars en-
tered Curtis drug store, Kenny's tea store,
the grocery of H. S. Blacknall and Eu-
banks grocery store on Whitehall street,
stealing nearly 5000 worth of goods, nearly
500 Of which was in cash.
The Rosalie memorial chapel of the
First Presbyterian church at Rome is al
most completed 1t is a handsome annex
TO the church and is dedicated to the mem
ory of Miss Rosaie Clark who was an
earnest worker in the denomination.
The DeKalb county grand jury makes
some important suggestions in its present
ments to the court. They recommend that
the city court of Decatur be abolished, and
that the Georgia railroad be forced to dis
continue running freight trains on Sum
day.
A north bound freight train was wreck
ed at Woodstock Wednesday. The engine
took the main track while the second car
took the side track. This caused the cars
to pile up on each other. throwing many
OFF on each side and tearing up both tracks.
No one was hurt.
The survivors of Company d, Twenty
ninth Georgia, viii meet at Rome on the
2Sth inst, to perfect arrangements for
their summer encampment. These Veter-
ans will have a regular three days en-
campment near Rome this summer. A big
barbecue win be one of the features of the
reunion and several of the most prominent
veterans in the state Will be invited among
them being Gen. Clement A Evans.
Miss Helena Blander, Of Philadelphia, the
guest of Mrs. ]. A. Alison, of Cuthbert,
has given to the Baptist church at that
place $1,000 towards building a new church.
The work will be begun soon, as a nice
sum has already been subscribed by the
members. She also gives to the same
church a fifteen hundred dollar organ,
as memorial to her brother, who a one
time was a member of that church at
Cuthbert, where he was teacher in An
drew female college.
Miss Myra Purse, of Gainesville, began
work on center piece at the beginning
of the late campaign intended for Mr.
Bryan. In the cloth was worked a like
ness of the candidates three children. 1t
was recently mailed to Mr.. Bryan in Ne
braska, and Miss Purse is in receipt Of
the following autograph letter of thanks:
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 6, 1897. Miss Myra
Purse. Gainesville, Ca. Dear Miss Purse
am in receipt of your center piece worked
by you and hasten TO thank you for the
gift and for the kindly feeling which
prompted it. We shall take pleasure in
adding it to our collection of souvenirs of
the campaign. Yours truly, w. ]. Bry-
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". b. Mcpherson, a contractor, had
number of negroes piling lumber in front
of his store at West Point Wednesday.
Corsley was drunk and used insulting lam
guage to Mcpherson, who warned him to
set away. Corsley pulled a revolver and
threatened to kill Mcpherson. Some by
ISLANDERS got Corsley away and took his
revolver from him. In few minutes he
came back and pulled a long-bladed knife
from his pocket at the same time advanc-
ing upon Mcpherson who picked up a
piece of scantiing and struck him twice
upon the head, infcting a bad bruise and
nearly seVering the right ear. Corsley is
in very serious condition, suffering from
shock. Mcpherson was not arrested.
Two damage suit cases were transferred
from Douglas county superior court to the
United States circuit court at Atlanta
Wednesday. One was the suit of w. w.
Strickland for $4,000. In his petition
Strickland alleges that on May g. 1896.
while driving through the streets of Salt
Springs his horses were frightened by the
blowing of a whistle on a train Of the
Southern Railway Company. The horses
ran away, threw the plaintiff from his bug
gy and seriously injured him. The other
suit is also against the Southern, and was
brought by r.. e. Bowen, for the same
amount Of damages. He alleges that one
day in August last when en- route TO Doug
lasville from Atlanta the company's agent
made mistake and gave him ticket to
Austel. On account OF this mistake he
was greatly Inundated by the conductor.
Robert Armstrong, a negro convict at
the Dade mines, escaped several days ago
under remarkable circumstances. The de-
tails OF his escape We're reported 10 Prince
pal Keeper Turner Of the penitentiary de-
partment Wednesday. Armstrong was
sent up from Richmond county for fifteen
years for burglary. AT the time OF his es-
cape he was working IN q deep shaft over
one hundred feet hnlo4v tho e,,ve.,a A 4