The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-18
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PAEtAtsR Apis.


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Tampa Bay.
GEORGIA.
The Augusta Chronicle has considerably
Increased its size.
Hon. All. Harrington of the Swainsboro
Pine Forest has been licensed to preach.
The postofice at Nabb. in Coffee county
has been discontinued for want OF patron
age
The institute at Tennile suspended this
week on account of apprehensions Of
diphtheria in the town.
Rome will not quarantine against fever
infected towns and several refugees from
New orleans and Mobile are there now.
The first round bale Of cotton that was
ever pressed in Georgia, was pressed on
Thursday in the quiet but energetic little
town of DeSoto, some fourteen miles east
of Americas
Tattnan Journal: The Macon Telegraph
wants TO know what would happen if SEQ
CODVlctS were turned loose upon the pEO
pie of Georgia? The price of gunpovder
and hemp would 80 higher than wheat.
Barnesvine badly needs more houses for
rent There has not been a time in the
last few years when the demand was not
greater than the supply. Although houses
have been going up every month, the de-
mand is still unmet.
Thoma sville Times-E Enterprise: Kicker
son, whoever he is, is a genius. He has
found way to make tramps work. And
they are going TO prosecute him for it.
Some ore should get his plan before he
dies. There's millions in it.
The Leader says that Fitzgerald stands
ready to spend $4,000 for building a court
house provided she is given the county
site An election will be held on Oct. d to
decide whether the county site shall be re-
moved from IrwinYille to Fitzgerald or
not,
The position of instructor of normal and
pathological histology and bacteriology in
the Atlanta Medical college has been re-
signed by DR.. Charles Minor Blackford,
Jr., and he has accepted the professorship
of pathology in the medical department
of the University of Georgia.
grants were sent to the gang. as the re-
suit of the vagrancy crusade in Macon,
and the outlook is that Bibb county viii
have small army of erstwhile idle ne
groes employed on her roads before the
crusade has been in progress a week. The
police have been given strict orders to
arrest all loafers and they are carrying
out their instructions to the letter
DR.. A. E. Andrews of Madison commit
ted suicide Wednesday night by shooting
himself through the head. The bullet en-
tered behind the ear. He was about sixty
years of age. Dependency caused by
financial reverses is said to have caused
the rash act. DR.. Andrews was formerly
a man of wealth. He was a captain of
the confederate army and a graduate VI.
D. He never practiced his profession,
though for years he kept drug store Ia
Madison.
Sandersville Herald: Thursday last
viii long be remembered in the educa-
tional annals of Sandersville. The laying
of the corner stone in the new school edi-
flee marks an epoch at least in educational
work in our city. Step by step have the
school buildings of the last century, given
place to larger and more commodious ones
and now they have eliminated in an ele-
CANT and massive brick structure whose
beauty and admirable appointments viii
long be remembered with pride.
A man giving his name as ]. A. Petty
and claiming to be a refugee Cuban. who
had been captured by Weyer's soldiers
and had made a most miraculous and
thrilling escape, struck Decatur several
weeks ago and vctimized
the town by presenting him
self as the agent of a Chicago
wholesale drug house. His plan was to
appoint an agent and collect $40 as a guar
antee of good faith. He is making his way
northward and will likely be heard of
again soon.
Douglas Leader: It has been rumored
for several weeks that Mr.. G. A. Eth
ridge has been murdered, whether there is
any truth in the rumor or not we are I'M
able to say. The rumor is that he left
the house of a gentlemen who lives in
this county, where he had spent the
night, with the intention of visiting gen.
tleman who lived but a short distance.
After Ethridge had left only few min
utes, two men rode up with guns and in
quired for him. And being informed of
the course Ethridge had taken, pursued.
and afterwards several gun shots were
heard.
A dispatch from LaGrange to the At
lanta Journal concerning the shooting of
Postmaster Loftin, the negro, at Hogans-
VILE, says: Politics led to the attack. Lof-
tin was appointed about three months ago
to the position Of postmaster over the
protest of nearly every white citizen of
the town. Holding office under such cir
cumstances the negro official has display
ed sullen disposition, il Is alleged, to-
ward the whites and made himself gen.
orally Objectionable to the better element
of people who are forced in the order of
business to come in contact with him
daily II is further alleged that complaint
was made to the proper authorities, but
no attention was bstd TO it, or had not
been at the time Of the shooting, as Loft
tin had not changed his conduct towards
the citizens.
FLORIDA
The Iiillsboro County Tobacco Growers
Association is pushing the tobacco exposi-
ton.