The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-29
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

tN-FIoridu in the Lead in IN"
Phosphate Business In This Conn
try Last Tear-An UnusuaI Case Tn
der Treatment at Dawson.
GEORGIA.
Asbury Hun is a candidate for. mayor
OF Augusta.
b. f. Ryles. aged -, a prominent Ma
son aud a native Cochrauite, died there
Tuesday night.
William Hamilton, assistant general
frienght agent of the Western and At
lantc railroad, LED at Atlanta Wednes-
day.
A handsome passenger station may soon
adorn the plot Of ground now occupied by
the freight depot of the Western and At
lantic railway at Atlanta.
John J. Blount, the oldest son of Mrs.
j. A. Ingram, proprietress of the Ingram
hotel at Cochran, has been taken TO the
insane asylum in Milledgevi,le.
Application has been made at Atlanta
for a charter for the Bass Dry Goods
Company The stockholders are J. l..
Bass of Floyd county and Il. T. Joel, L.
b. Joel and Joseph Menko of Fulton
county.
Or. e. c. Lasseter of Dawson, has an
unusual case under treatment. At every
pu.sation of the heart blood comes from
the mouth of the patient and swelis the
veins in every part Of the body as If try
ing to force itself through the skin.
"A large block of buildings will be erect
ed on the Markham house site at Atlanta
by the present owners of the property.
The buildings which will compose this
block will face Wall street, will be five
stories high and win be used as wholesale
houses for groceries and other articles.
Judge Lumpkin handed down a decision
at Atlanta Wednesday, in the case Of the
heirs of the Horn estate against j. w.
English, administrator holding that Capt
English is liable for balance due on Ger
tain stock of the Atlanta Bridge and Axle
Company. The amount involved is about
S13500.
1t is rumored about the State University
that DR.. b. +. Riley, professor of English
in the university, is thinking of resgning
that chair and accepting the presidency
of the Alabama college. This position
he refused some time ago but rumor now
has it that he has reconsidered the mat
ter and may accept.
The infant child of c. W. Shelton of
White Creek district, White county, was
burned TO death Tuesday. Mrs SHELTON
had gone out of the house for short
time and the left the child playing. When
she returned the child's clothing was blaz-
ing 1t was burned, badly and swallowed
the flames. The child lived but a few
hours.
Spring Place Jimplecute: This county
has got along middling well without a
railroad for the last four or five thous-
and years and it appears as if IL will
have to do the same way a few months
longer. That's all right. Our people
don't ask anybody any odds, and if them
fellers up north don't want TO build us
a road they needn't do it.
Alex Carabe has brought a suit against
". H. Bullock, at Atlanta, for 1000, al
leging that he has been damaged to that
extent. He charges that he was arrested
at the instance OF the defendant on
charge of assault with intent to murder,
and that he had to remain In jail until
he was tried before a magistrate. When
he was tried he says he was discharged.
He charges that the prosecution was ma
llciods.
At Atlanta Wednesday J. T. White and
William Burckel. the private secretary
of President Raoul OF the Mexican Ma
tional railway, slipped on the ley pave
ments and each broke an arm. M. II.
Bruno, "a German music teacher, is at
the Grady hospital with a broken thigh,
as the result of a fall, and Frank Eu-
banks of the Atlanta fire department,
and Col. A. r. Buck are also suffering
from injuries occasioned by falls.
At Eastman Tuesday night, Night
Waterman Poer discovered that fire had
been started in the general merchandise
store of j. d. Page by some one from the
outside. The would-be incendiary first
used hghtwood splinters and reaching
through a "cat hoe" in the back door
threw several lighted splinters into a so
gallon tank of kerosene. These seemed to
have gone out as they fell into the oil.
This falling the incendiary 1t apears pro-
ceeded TO build a fire on the floor of Pages
store. The store is located in the center
of the main block
Abbeville Chronicle; The information
that the work of improving the navigation
of the Ocmulgee river Is now in progress
is news of no mean Importance to the
business men of AbbeVille as well as to
the farmers and mill men of this section.
From Abbevil4e, and even from Hawkins
vile to the sea, the river is navigabe
for small steamers nearly every month
ia the year; put the business on this part
of the river alone is not sufficient 10 sus-
tain a line of boats. Give us a channel
free from obstruction from Macon to the
ocean, however. and quite a fleet of
steamers will find plenty to do.
The Penopolis Lumber Company, which
is the South Georgia name of the Atlanta
Lumber Company, has under construction
a logging railroad twenty-five miles long,
from Penopolis into the pine forests. Sew
eral hundred miles Of railroad tracks have
been built by saw mill companies, and
100 miles of track are owned by compa-
MES in Atlanta. Jacob Colcord, who was
interested in the Penopolis Lumber Com
pany, has sold his interest there to the
Atlanta Lumber Company and bought the
Atlanta plant OF the latter concern. The
retail business heretofore done from At
lanta by the Atlanta Lumber Company
will be conducted by the Colcord Lumber
Company.
The Gainesville News says that "the
old order OF shipping cattle from the broad
praries of the west TO the eastern states
seems in a measure reversed. About
$50 head were shipped from Cartersvile
Saturday 70 Kansas City. and will in all
Al.