The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-24
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IMPAIR AGRAPHS.

Hours-Suits Filed to Recover Al
uabIe Real Estate Mt Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
Capt. George b Whiteside has been Of
fered the captaincy OF the Columbus
Guards.
Hon. r f. Morrow. one of the Oldest
and most prominent citizens Of clayton
county. died Saturday at his home in
Jonesboro. The deceased was Sc years old
In Forsyth county last week a man died
and two of his neighbors volunteered TO sit
up with the corpse. During the night both
were taken sick and died within twenty
four hours. All three were buried from the
same house.
Prof. 2. D. Pollock, president pro TEN.
of Mercer University, proposes an alumni
reunion at Mercer at the next commence
ment, June ?, 1897. Three hundred grad
yates of the institution have already
promised to be present.
A Saw mill boiler blew w a few days
ago near Oglethorpe and the engine which
rested on skds aud weighed 5000 pounds,
was hurled a distance of 100 yards, being
half buried in the side Of a hill. The saw
yer who was lying on the ground nearby
sewing a belt. had r. miraculous escape.
The whole engine flew over his head, miss
ing him about two feet.
Joe Tiller, of Oglethorpe, is a wonderful
slayer of hawks He had made special
practice of exterminating these birds of
prey and is an expert shot with the rife.
lie some time ago killed his 3OOth bird.
He recently killed three with whip starr.
He found them engaged in a lively combat
with their claws fastened in each other
and quickly dispatched them.
Mary. ]. Foster of Atlanta has brought
a suit against the Atlanta Consolidated
Street Railway Company for $4,000, alleg-
ing that she was injured permanently by
being thrown from a wagon, which was
struck by car on Jan H. 1897. II. p. Fos-
ter her husband, has also brought suit
for 5000, alleging that he has been dam
aged that much by loss OF the services of
his wife.
An interesting instance of the gold min
ing activity in Georgia is furnished in the
operations of the Birch Mining company,
which is reported to be making a hand
some profit in sluicng the deposits in the
Chestatee river, in Lumpkin county. They
have a 14-mile lease and are raising the
bed of the river to a depth of II feet by
means of a dredge boat. 1t is estimated
that about one mile a year can be worked
in this manner.
Washington Correspondence Morning
News Mr. Barrows, an architect VINO
has recently moved here from Chicago,
has drawn up plans for the hotel which
is to be built on the joint stock plan. He
is also drawing plans for an elegant res
idence to be built by Hon. f. Y. Hill, at
an early day.-John. II. Averin, commits
sioner of the Georgia railroad. has been
in Washington this week, for the purpose
of working up an exhibit of the counties,
along that road for the Nashville cen
tennial Many of the counties will make
a fine show of their resource, and Wilkes
can certainly equal any of them. n COM
mittee was appointed TO take the matter
in charge.-The revenue men, who made
the capture of a still and several moon
sinners, are here again and expect to
make another haul.
Three suits have been brought to recover
valuable property on South Lloyd street,
on East Fair and Lloyd and on Washing
ton and Trinity avenue, at Atlanta. The
first suit is brought against Mrs. Margaret
A. Cannon, who, 1t is alleged, has held the
property since the 2Sd of February, 1894
and has collected the yearly rent of $500
a year. The second is against the city of
Atlanta, which, it is alleged, has held
the property since Feb. %, 1894, at the year
ly rental of $500. 1t is alleged that the city
bought the property from Mrs. Cannon.
The third is against MIR. Green b. Adair,
and 1t is alleged that he has held il and
enjoyed the rents for three years. The
plaintiffs i'm the case are William r. Hol-
brook and Mrs. Lula M Holbrook, and
they claim title since 1862 to the first two
tracts and since 1861 to the third.
The Albany Herald says a jeweler of
that city sold a clock to country negro,
and he came in afterwards and claimed
that the thing was no good-that the
hands wouldn't work right. The jeweler
says: II told him to bring it in and l
would see what was the matter with it.
When he came again and brought the
clock he had the hands tied together with
a cotton string. The longest hand, he
said, would go clean round the dial In an
hour, while the other only moved an inch
or So He just couldn't make them run
together, he said, until he tied them and
then, he said, the thing wouldn't run at
ALL After so long a time / succeeded in
explaining to him that il was the business
of the long hand to go clear round the
dial once every hour while the hour
hand moved only from one hour mark to
another, but I'll be blamed if he amt the
blue ribbon fool of the country"
The ninth session of the Georgia Chau-
tauqua at Albany opens Sunday, March 21.
and the baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. r. r. Meredith, d. D.. of
Brooklyn. The Monday evening pro-
gramme is devoted to short talks and 10
concert conducted by DR.. ii. r.. Palmer,
and solo by Madame Cecilia Epping-
hauser Bailey. Tuesday will be military
day, twenty companies to be reviewed in
line by the governor and his staff The
governor will deliver an address in the
tent tabernacle at IL a. m. and a concert
by the chautauqua chorus and Rogers
band will be rendered at p. m. Col II.
M. Mcintosh, proprietor Of the Albany
Herald, is general superintendent of the
chautauqua Thursday, the 18th, and Fri
day viii be entertaining days, devoted 70
lectures by eminent orators, and to music
by the chorus and the band and solos by
distinguished singers.
stephen Hugely, a negro employed as a
driver by Collins & Turner, wholesale
grocers OF West Point. died suddenly Sat.
urday night about l1:45 o'clock. After fin.
ishing his days work he went home
where his wife prevailed upon him "a
drink a cup Of coffee. After drinking one
CuU. he knolt 10 nraV and ttrae g,,aa..f.