The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-05

ThomastOn Change Hands-A CIer-
Eyman's House burned at Macon
A woman Under Arrest for an At
tempt to Secure n Pension by
Fraud.
GEORGIA.
The Butler Herald has entered its TWEEN
ty-second year.
E. S. Lowndes. a colored attorney, has
opened a law Office in Macon
The Macon Carnival Association has
perfected a permanent organization.
Covington has $50 families by actual
count. This should give the town a pop
ulation of 800 inhabitants.
Rev. ]. L. White will preach a sermon
on athletics" Sunday night at the First
Baptist church at Macon. The death of
Van Cannon as a result of injuries in a
foot ball game will be taken up.
The new library at oxford is about COM
plete and nearly paid for. 1t is a hand
some building and will be magnificently
furnished. Already valuable donations in
books have been made and many volumes
have been received recently.
Lewis Redwine, the Atlanta boy who
has been serving term in the Columbus,
O., penitentiary for embezzlement, and
who has been recently released, did not ar
rive in Atlanta Tuesday as was expected.
He may not return at present.
The Rogers Factory and Nelson mill,
about three miles out of Thomaston, have
been bought by the Bib Manufacturing
Company. The properties will be improv-
ed and utilized for manufacturing and
milling purposes at an early date.
The eight-room dwelling of Rev. L. B.
Payne, on Pierce avenue, Vineville, was
completely destroyed by fire between IL and
u O'Clock Tuesday night. The house and its
contents were-a total loss and the inmates
of the house had a narrow escape from
being burned.
Representative Niles wants the name of
the insane asylum changed. In the House
of Representatives Wednesday he intro
duced a bill which reads; From and after
the first day of September, 1898, the name
of the Georgia lunatic asylum shall be
changed to the Georgia State Sanitarium
The final effort to save the life of Mrs
Mobiles, now confined in the Bibb county
Jail under the charge of numbering her
ago. comes up before the supreme court
of The United States on next Monday. The
question is whether she is entitled to q
trial for lunacy before the ordinary.
The leading baritone singer of an opera
company now at Atlanta offers to kiss any
lady of that city who is in good society
200 times in succession if she consents,
and if he fails TO forfeit to her $500. The
offer is the result of the alleged inability
OF a New Yorker to accomplish the feat
with Miss Anna Held as the recipient of
the kisses.
AT Griffin Tuesday Bridge Superintend-
ent W. N, Fellan of the Central railroad
fell from a derrick while arranging to
drive piles preparatory to repairing the
culvert bridge just below the freight de-
pot. AS he fell, a pole weighing about
800 pounds, fell across him, fracturing
ribs on the left side and otherwise bruis-
ing and cutting him.
II. NJ. Malone, who was recently appoint
ed to prepare a list of the tax defaulters
of Fulton county, has reported s., 31s, S6t
of real estate. $623, 600 of personal proper
ty and 2,723 polls in the city of Atlanta that
had not been given in TO the tax receiver.
This report covers only the letters A to Q
on the city digest and the complete re-
port for the whole county will add at
least 100000 more to these figures.
The big building TO be erected by the
MASSACHUSETTS, Building Company in Bal
timore, is to be built of Georgia marble,
which Is forging to the front all over the
country. Within the last few months a
new quarry has been opened just beyond
Marietta, which promises to develop into
one Of the most valuable veins in this
country. The marble taken out is of
greenish cast, and in It's grain and deli
cate coloring compares with the finest i'm
ported stone.
Americas es-Recorder: Among the
tempting % delicacies displayed in the
market yesterday was a two-horse wagon
load Of watermelons. Think of it, We ma
tives of the already frozen north. who are
now living on icicles and other fruits in
digenous to that cline, while away down
south in Dixie we are still feasting on
watermelons, almost in midwinter It is
true they were little fellows-about the
size of a quinine capsule-but watermel-
ons withal, and the sable owner sold them
at dime each as fast as he could measure
them out.
Martha ]. Goble of Gilmer county was
tried before Commissioner ]. F. Simmons
at Jasper udy or TWO ago, Tor ming
false pension claim and obtaining 800 or
$500 from the United States that she was
not entitled TO. She claimed in her appli-
cation for pension, some time last year,
that she was the legal widow of one A
l.. Goble of Gilmer county, a soldier in
the union army, and who was hanged at
Ellijay, Ga, several years after the war
for killing a man by the name of Brown
The records of Gilmer county show that
Goble, "the soldier" had obtained total
divorce from Martha several years before
he died, and had remarked. Martha Jane
is now in the custody of United States
Marshal T. w. Craigs i'm default of a
800 bond required by the commissioner.
FLORIDA.
A big pineapple company is being or
ganized at Orlando.
Fire at Mariana Wednesday DESTROYED
the barn Of Charles Wandeck
State Treasurer Whitfield reports a ball
ance in the state treasury of S1S9,O9s.
An Italian at Plant City Wednesday at
tackled a negro and chopped off his nose
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