The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-04
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PARAGRAPHED.

Child with Ten Living Grand
parents-Mrs. LonEstreet Returns
to AtInnta-Dr. weldon of Tampa
Goes to New OrIenns-Ncy West
Fkns n butchers StriISe-A Budget
OF interesting Items From the
Palmetto state.
GEORGIA.
Hogs in and around Sycamore are dying
with cholera.
Sycamore mas a colored woman who Is
an expert barrel maker.
Mr.. George W. PARROT will build $10,-
900 school house in Atlanta.
The horse and mule dealers of the state
are receiving large consignments of stock
this fall
The Masons Of Americas are discussing
plans for the erection of a handsome Ma
sonic temple.
The Macon News wants the motormen
enclosed in a glass front to protect them
from the cold.
Postohices have been ordered establish
ed at Deland, Macon county, and Laco,
Mitchell county.
The new Methodist church at Fitzpatrick
was dedicated on Friday. DR.. Monk
preached the ser.-9n.
Gold is being discovered in several 10
calities around Bowden, and options taken
upon some of the lands.
The Southern Pine Company has opened
its new mill at Nichols. The plant is
much finer than the one that was burned,
and has a cutting capacity of 1900 to
100000 feet of lumber daily.
Rome Tribune: We do not fear any job
berry in this convict question. Only lobby
list with the wealth of Croesus could buy
up all the members of the legislature and
all the newspapers in the state.
On Friday death removed one Of Au-
gusta's Oldest citizens-Mr. J. L. Burch,
who has been commissioner of the poor for
well nigh 80 years. He was SO years old,
and had been sick with pneumonia since
Monday.
Americus Times Recorder: The upper
compress is kept running day and night
10 handle the cotton bales piled in the
yards. Under the glare of 100 electric
lights the scene at night is very busy
and interesting one.
A correspondent to the Summerville
News from Chattoogaville says: Mr.. ana
Mrs. Dorsey of near Rome, Ga, has
little child that can claim the honor of
having ten grandparents now living. The
child's parents expect to get them 10
gether in the near future and have their
picture taken in a group
Henry Mcdaniel, 70 years of age, was
convicted in the superior court at Coving-
ton of voluntary manslaughter, and was
sentenced by Judge Fite to eight years
in the penitentiary. Mcdaniel killed
neighbor, Riley Stewart in a dispute over
a fence that Stewart was building on the
dividing line between them. The killing
occurred in the spring of 1895.
The North Georgia Agricultural College,
at Dahlonega, opened this year with the
largest attendance in the history of the
institution. over eighty new students ma
circulated, and the old students are re-
turning daily. Indications point TO 200 this
fall. President J. S. Stewart has put new
life into every department of the organ
izaton, and all are pleased with the inn
provement
GAINESVILLE Enterprise: Mr.. T. B. Du-
mas of our city is expecting an appoint
ment daily from Mr.. Mckinley, as post
master of Culloden. He has the indorse-
ment of all the machinery from Buck
down and feels assured that his applca-
tion will go through all right. At first
Culloden was disposed to kick at a pop
ulist, but the Hogansvlle affair has
changed their mind somewhat.
Atlanta Journal: Rudy with health and
in splendid spirits. Bishop Cleland Kin
loch Nelson, of the diocese of Georgia.
was found at his desk at the cathedral this
morning, busted with the accumulated
correspondence of three months. He ar
rived safely from a visit to England,
France and the Channel islands yesterday
morning, after a rough voyage across the
Atlantic, but enjoying the most robust
health and vigor after his long absence.
Mrs. James Longstreet, formerly Miss
Ellen Dortch, returned to Atlanta on Sat
urday to assume her duties as assistant
state librarian. It is understood by her
friends that she is still in the race for Ii
brarian for the next term. For the past
two weeks she has been the while with
her husband, Gen. James Longstreet,
spending her honeymoon at the lovely re-
sorts of Porter Springs and Nacoochee
Valley. She has host of warm friends in
Gainesville.
The First battalion of the Fifth Infan-
try stationed at Fort Mcpherson returned
on Friday from Waco. The two hundred
men having marched all the way, max
ing about fifteen miles a day The roads
were very dusty and the soldiers were
very tired when they arrived after five
days marching. On Wednesday morning
the soldiers will leave for Chicamauga, a
longer distance than they have ever
marched before. The entire regiment will
go, and commissary wagons will be taken
along.
Montezuma Record: Mr.. T. M Gurr, ST.,
a prominent citizen of Dolly county, COM
mitted suicide this morning by shooting
himself in the stomach with a pistol at his
home near Byromville. From what we can
learn, there was no cause for the rash act
except dispondency caused by financial en-
barrassment. Mr.. Gurr was about forty
five years old, and leaves a wife and sew
eral children. He carried some insurance,
but the Record has not been able TO learn
what amount. Mr. Gurr was We'll known to
many Of our citizens, and has always been
considered a first class farmer, perfectly
conscientious and upright in all his deal
ings. The sad tragedy has cast a shadow
Of gloom over his entire community
FLORIDA.