The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-27
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.


A deal is now on foot which if it proves
successful, will take the GAINESVILLE
knitting mills to Atlanta.
A colored woman of Atlanta named Lii
lie williams has lost her mind through
the excessive use Of snuff, which she
chewed.
Dublin correspondence Morning News:
Dublin continues to grow. New dwellings
are being built on every hand l.. c. Bea-
cham is having a two-story building built
in West End. The Pritchett Grocery Com
pany is having the lumber put on the
ground for the construction of build
ing for their bookkeeper.
NJ. e. Land of 4bbeville has been APP
pointed temporary receiver of the bust
ness of II. l. Name & Co., who sold and
transferred their large stock of dry goods
and groceries to preferred creditors on
Jan. 20. Judge Littlejohn granted an in
junction and appointed the receiver in
response to a plea by unsausfied creditors.
At Carrollton Sunday afternoon the
prisoners confined in the county jail made
a desperate effort to escape, two of them
succeeding in getting about a mile from
the town before being recaptured. There
was no one about the Jail at the time
of the attempt and the prisoners had
several minutes the start They were
run down by dogs
The Security Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Atlanta is going out of busi-
ness. The reasons given for the retire
ment of the company are that more money
is necessary for the company to transact
a large business, and that the time re-
quired for a southern company to build
up a business equaling the established
old line companies is too long for the pro-
motors to wait.
The body of a white man was found
Monday near the railroad track at Mel
rose. The clothing was badly torn and
one shoe was found ten or twelve feet
from the body It is believed that he was
killed by the north-bound passenger train
Sunday night. The dead man was tur-
pentine hand and came to Georgia a short
time since in company with another white
man. His name has not been learned.
John Faux, with several other names
according to the charges preferred by
CHM & Co., of Atlanta on whose COM
plant he was arrested, is behind the bars
in Floyd county jail charged with cheat
ing and swindling. He reached Rome
about the first of the month and secured
a school and began teaching in the coun-
CHM & Co, it is claimed. and he was
arrested by order of Manager Robertson
of the firm.
Mrs. Sessions, wife of Judge W. M. ses-
sions, died at Marietta Friday morning.
The Southern Age wants the negroes of
Atlanta to organize a cotton factory
company, with $4,000 of stock. The
enterprise is intended to be an ocular
demonstration of the fact that negro la
Dor is competent to do the work in cot
ton mills. 1t has been contended that
negroes are not fit for this business, even
after training, and the negroes propose
to show that this is not true.
For twenty-five years George Huntsin-
gle of Lumpkin county has served in the
capacity of inspector for the Yahoola Hy-
draulic Company His duty has been TO
daily inspect the supply pipe from the
Yahoola river to the gold fields, a dis
tance of twenty-five miles. For twenty
FIVE years, in all sorts and conditions Of
weather, Huntsinger has walked the
length of this pipe one day and back
again the next. When he recently gave
up the job on account of failing health
he calculated that he had covered "a
distance of $3.50 miles on foot
Shortly after Sam Jones meeting al
Columbus last fall it was announced that
a prohibition election would be called in
Muscogee' county, and a petition, asking
that the election be ordered, was cir
culated and received several hundred sig
natures. 1t was the original intention to
hold the election at the first of this year,
but it now appears that it will not be
called in several months yet, hardly be-
fore next fall. This postponement is due
TO the uncertainty and confusion exist
ing regarding the meaning and provisions
of the present registration law
Lawreneeville News: On Jan. IA, 1880,
the firm of Brown Bros, at Gainesville,
in rectifying an error, sent W. l..
Vaughan, of Lawrenceville, a check for
$40 on the Merchants Bank of Atlanta
Mr.. Vaughan received the check and care
lessly laid il aside, when Il got mixed
with lot of old papers. Last Sunday
Mr. Vaughan was looking through these
old papers when he came across the
check, which had never been cashed. He
had, of course, neglected to send it in for
collection. The Merchants Bank of At
lanta suspended a few months ago, so
Mr. Vaughan will probably lose his mon
ey.