The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-16
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.


ued at S44,640
A new weekly paper is to be started at
Danielsville Madison county. 1t is TO be
owned and edited by Col Richard II.
Kinnebrew, a lawyer of that place
During the last year the S1lberton Loan
and Savings Bank has earned Il per cent.
and declared a dividend of per cent. The
capital stock is $4,000 and surplus $4,000.
A. McClain, one of Jasper's prominent
merchants, has sold his entire stock Of
merchandise, town property, etc, to w.
c. McClain and a w. Davis, both Of
Jasper
Alfred Colquitt and Henry Hill both
colored, became involved in a fight in
Walton county on Tuesday, and Hill was
shot and killed by Colquitt The muir
derer is now in Jail.
At Summerville Friday ]. L. Shope was
convicted of forging a cotton check on
the Trion Manufacturing Company, for
$l27, and was sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary He has appealed his
case.
While Hampton Miner was working at
his fathers sawmill, about eight miles
from Gainesville Thursday, he lost his
was cut in the breast and stomach and IS
not expected to live.
An orange grown in LAGRANGE surpasses
The Florida product as to size. 1t was
grown by Sanford Dunson, who planted
the seed and grew the tree at his fathers
home. The orange was fully ripe, and
measured fourteen inches in circumfer-
ence.
The handsome new Baptist Church,
which has just been completed at Con-
yers. will be dedicated with appropriate
services. Rev. G. A. Nunnally, president
of the Southern Female College at La
Grange. will preach the dedication SER
mon.
Friday evening as Miss Tubberville was
en- route home and while passing near
the Turpin place on Second street, at Ma
con, rough-looking white man jumped
out of an alley and seized her by the
arm. She screamed and he was fright
ened Off
The election for Mayor and four Alder
men of Gainesville came off Thursday.
with the following result: w. A. Pickett
beat A. d. Gilbert for mayor by a small
majority, and j. f. Stephens 7. II. Viii
liams, w. l. Alley and j. E. Fields were
elected for aldermen.
AT Eastman Thursday the sheriff closed
the store of B. s. Paris under a mort
gage in favor of the Citizens Banking
Company of Eastman. Mr. Paris was one
of .Eastman's Oldest merchants The low
price of cotton and bad collections are
the causes of his failure.
W. L. Lanham, young grocer of Rome,
failed to open the doors of his store Fri
day. He executed mortgages to the Smp-
son Grocery Company and r. j. Raglan in
the sum of $500 The mortgages took
charge of the store The assets of the
establishment are sufficient to meet the
liabilities.
1t is stated that big cotton mill is to
be built near Rockmart in Polk county.
The promoters are a company of New
York manufacturers who have been in
Georgia for several weeks seeking a loca-
ton for a large cotton factory where
cloth would be woven and a bleachery
established.
The case of Tom Gilreath for killing Ed
Goddard came up at Summerville Friday
The killing occurred two years ago on
Lookout Mountain. They had some
trouble and afterwards Gilreath went TO
Goddard's house, calling him out to fight,
both agreeing to fight fairly. Before
starting each agreed to lay down an
weapons, knives, etc. When near the
place agreed upon to fight, Gilreath sud
denly drew his knife and cut Goddard ia
tally.
The latest solution for the marrying of
old pensioners to young women comes
from Mrs. Myrick of the Americas Times
Recorder, who asks How would it do
inaugurate the old Hindoo suttee custom
and burn the young widows of old Union
ar with hot. u.
ceased husbands instead of pensioning
them? That would be a poser for pen
sion-hunting girls and put a stop to their
marrying aged veterans"
Daren Timber-Gazette: Sawn timber
continues to come in from the mills along
the main rivers but nothing is coming
in from the Ohoopee and other small
creeks, owing to the lack of water. IL is
seldom that raft of scab or hewn tim
Der is offered on the market as very
little if any is coming down now. 1t will
take very heavy rain to enable the
creeks to get up sufficiently high to allow
timber to come into the main rivers. Rain
is needed all along the line.
In the City Court at Columbus Friday
A. A. Edwards, a farmer living east of
the city. was convicted of assault and
battery and was fined $780, The evidence
disclosed that he had beaten Frank Ben
son, his little 10-year-old brother-in-law.
who was visiting him, in brutal man
ner. After bucklng the boy to a post
he tied rope around him and tied one
end TO grapevine overhead, so thai
the boys feet barely touched the ground.
He then proceeded to whip him with a
strap, bruising him and bloodying his back
TO the extent that the blood caused the
jacket to adhere to the flesh. Edwards.
defense was that he was punishinss the
boy, along with his own son, for stealing.
and that he did not mean to be too severe.
The tragic death of Conductor H. w.
Law recalls another fatal railroad acct
dent which occurred in Campbell county
In the month of October. 1895, in which
Engineer Alex Atkins was killed The
same i'll fated train No. Is, on which Capt.
Law last Sunday met his death, left At
lanta an hour or two late in charge of
Conductor Law, with Engineer Atkins at
the throttle, misunderstanding of or
ders caused No 80 and the suburban train
20 crash together in a head end collision,
resulting In the death of Engineer At
kins Suit was brought by the widow of
the engineer against the road and at the