The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-10
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPH.

Grecn-That ThOmasVille NolcanH
Is still in State of Eruption.
Money in Pine Apples in Florida.
The Dangers of Kerosene.
GEORGIA.
There is a town in Georgia that has only
had one welding in five years. That town
is Fort Gaines.
Rev. B. A. Geiger of Titusvile, Fla. has
accepted a call 10 the pastorate of the Per
ry Baptist church.
Louisville has invested S1OO 900 in improve
ments and $4,000 in a new railroad within
the last sixty days.
party of surveyors are now at work
laying out the route for railroad from
Loganville 10 Lawrencevile. y
Dawson News: Now watch Dawson hum.
With freight rates as low as her rivals,
she will ask none OF them odds.
The Georgia Southern aud Florida rail-
road authorities propose to encourage the
culture of tobacco along tho line of their
road.
Hancock county had her election Tues
day on The whisky question. under the
local option law and goes dry by between
275 and 300 majority.
A new postofice has been established
down at Little River in Wilkes county,
and has been named Illinois. in honor of
the colony located at that place.
Habersham court will be in session this
. week. A strange murder case stands for
trial. 1t is that of ST Ciair Glover. who
is charged with the murder of his grand
mother.
Ut is rumored that a stock company is
to be organized to purchase the Athens
tannery and shoe manufacturing establish
ment and 10 make OF them a first-class
shoe factory.
Athens Banner: Georgia's gold-felds
may not be as rich as those of the Klon-
dixie, but the climate and everything con-
sidered, it will pay the gold-miners of
Georgia to stay among the old red hills
Twenty-Five bales of cotton burned at
the Georgia and Alabama railway cotton
platform at Rchland on Tuesday. 1t is
supposed that a spark from an engine set
1t on fire, as an engine had just passed.
Judge J. H. Lumpllin is the next official
which an unmarried woman becomes an
old maid. Judge Hulsey's decision that
woman at A is not aged has been appeal
ed from and the papers ia the case have.
gone up TO the superior court.
Townsville Times Enterprise: We
would not presume to advise our farming
friends about " hen to sell their cotton, but
close observation, covering a number of
VI eh haf tFfa al
as they can get their cotton to market,
come out best as a general rule.
The new home of the Thomasville Elec-
trio light works is just about ready for
occupancy. The foundations for the ma
chnery are being laid Workmen are en-
gagged in taking the machinery down and
it viii he moved into the new house and
Put in position as soon as possible.
Washington Chronicles: Washington is
getting up a reputation like that OF the
world-renowed Gretna Green-we are hay
Ing runaway marriages here now every
day, and Sunday, too. There was one
here Saturday, another Sunday and the
reports for Monday have not come in.
The proposition to have the city of Ath-
ems and the county of Clarke unite in the
work OF erecting a handsome city hall and
court house on the city lot on College
avenue, and the conversion of the present
court house into a high grade grammar
school is meeting with favor among the
citizens.
I. L. Kennedy, colored, who ran a re-
publican paper at Elberton, Ga, is to be
tried a second time at Danielsville this
week on the charge of assault with intent
10 murder, Kennedy wrote some objection
able articles in his paper during the cam
paign last fall and they brought on diff
Guilty between him and several white men,
during which he is charged with having
attempted to kill one of them.
The contract for the North Side Cath
Ole church at Atlanta has been let to
Messrs. Chapman & Son for $4,000. and
they have already begun work on the
foundations al the site on Ivy street The
church will be a handsome edifice in Ro-
manesque motif with exterior brick and
terra Gotta. 1t will have TWO towers each
140 feet high, and is feet square at the
oase. The main and side aisles Will be
about 6Ox9O feet, and the interior win be
OF plaster, with sanctuary of marble.
Americas Times Recorder: With the
opening of the cotton season and renewed
activity in the shipment Of lumber ana ma
val stores, the Georgia and Alabama's
AiSlSHt pusihesS Is rapidly increasing, as
evidenced by the heavy trains leaving here
daily. 1t is said that these frequently 90
INTO Savannah with from fifty TO sixty
loaded cars each, while a day or two since
a train Of seventy-four loaded cars. nearly
a half mile in length and drawn by one of
the roads heaviest locomotives, pulled
into the port city. II was the longest train
perhaps, arriving there this season on any
road.
brownsville Times Enterprise That
burning hole down in Sandy Bottom, which
has been magnihed by the press all over
the country into a belching volcano but
which in reality is nothing more than a
lot OF burning trash which had been COW
cred up years ago, continues to burn,
quite large number of people have visit
cd the place recently, their attention hay
ing been attracted to it by The highly col
ored reports in the papers. The fire has
been burning about three months, and is
evidently good for three months longer. as
water seems to have no effect upon il. The
hole has been flooded with water time and
again, but the smoke continues to pour
forth just the same.
FLORIDA.
phosphate screenings are being used in