The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-29
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATE TOLD IN
PARAGRAPHS.

Herrien COunty's New Court House.
Money From the Peach Crops Max
ing Business Good at MacOn-pOIit-
icaI Notes From over the state.
GEORGIA.
John Ward has started work on his new
tyyo-story brick hotel at Arlington.
The Macon Knitting Company is turn
ing out $1,000 pairs of stockings on a gov
eminent order.
Mayor Price and City Clerk Bridges
Smith of Macon viii attend the meeting
OF the Municipal League in Detroit next
week.
Paymaster Manly 3. Curry of the Uni
ted states volunteers arrived in Macon
Wednesday and began paying off the i'm
mune regiment at Camp Price
The following fourth class postmasters
have been appointed for Georgia: Eckert,
Walker county. J. c. Simmons Skipper
ton. Bib county JAW Skipper Jr
The Republicans of Richmond county
have been vaguely talking about running
ticket for the state legislature. Rich
mond's Democrats have not yet nominal
ted.
Francis n. Hoag, a capitalist from Phil
udelphia, is at Macon 10 confer with Mr..
Henry Horne and others in regard to es-
tabushing a large hardwood factory IN
Macon.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of Georgia
will. meet in annual communication in Ma
con on Oct % at 10 o'clock. Grand Secne-
tary Wolihin is now engaged sending out
notices 20 this effect.
Mrs. R. e. Park of Macon, the vice pres
ident of the Army and Navy League of
this state, has made an appeal 10 the PEG
pie in behalf of the sick soldiers now at
Mcpherson barracks and hospital
Col. D. q. Dyer, president of the Elec-
trio Railway System Of Augusta, is going
TO Santiago with party of capitalists to
learn what opportunities that section or
fers for the investment of American cap
ital
Mary Green a negro woman, was killed
by lightning at her home near the colored
blind academy at Macon Tuesday night.
The woman was in the house when struck.
The house and furniture was considerably
damaged.
Parties in Macon say that Ben Brown of
Troup county will probably be appointed
an inspector of fertilizers by Hon. o. -.
stevens WilGl AHdN bGtiAASAAAeAAA NN0NAA'~N
commissioner of agriculture MI. brown
is a successful planter.
Tom Jett, a white boy who was waif,
was killed by a switch engine on side
track near the Pryor street entrance of
the union depot at Atlanta Wednesday.
The boys legs were crushed so badly that
he died a short time after he was injured.
Macon is beginning to feel the effects of
An dir 10
ton as the result of the big peach crop,
and business is getting better every day.
The outlook is that the fab business in
Macon will be better that 1t has been tor
many years.
Early Sunday morning dead negro was
found in one of the old wells near the Cor
dele ice factory. The jury found a vetdict
of accidental death. The negroes name was
Jordan Rivers He had only been in Cor
dele about ten days and no one knows
where he came from.
Many Georgians are making an earnest
appeal to the newly nominated commits
sioner of agriculture Hon. o. b. Stevens,
10 reappoint Dr. George f. Payne state
chemist, a position which has been filed
by DR.. Payne for nearly eight years. As
Yet DR.. Payne has no opposition for the
place and he may have none.
Bids for the subsistence supplies of the
army in this territory were opened by
Col. bravo at Atlanta Thursday, and he
and his clerks mad a busy day in over
looking them. With the bids came sam
pies Of the articles the merchants win fur
nish and these will have TO be thoroughly
tested before the contracts are awarded
Albert Mead, an aged white man, who
works on the place of Rev. j. ]. Lanier,
about eight miles from Augusta, on the
Washington road, was shot by Rev. La
nier, who made the unfortunate mistake
of taking him for burglar, Wednesday
night. His wound is not dangerous, but
his age may cause his wound TO heal
slowly.
Charles Whaey, a negro soldier, who
tried to stab six citizens and two police
officers with his bayonet at Atlanta on
Monday afternoon, showed himself to be
one of the heroes of Santiago, who car
ried honorable wounds on his body. This
appealed so strongly to the patriotism of
the Recorder at the trial Thursday that
the soldier was permitted to go free.
Cobb county always has some political
fight going on. just now the contest which
is absorbing the attention of the Demo-
Gratis of Cobb is a four-cornered race for
sheriff Sheriff A. A Bishop, the present
self He has held the Office two years.
He, is opposed by 4. J. Davenport, one OF
his deputies and formerly sheriff himself,
Drew Dunn and John GLADDEN..
Ex-Gov. Northen, chairman of the Geor-
gia Omaha Commission, in a letter from
Omaha to a Macon citizen, says: Il have
secured a small space in the agricultural
building, in which l will have installed a
very attractive exhibit made by the Ger
man farmers from Marietta who put in
display more than 100 different products
from a twenty farm. Our as
sistant superintendent will be put in charge
OF this space, with a full line of literature
for distribution, ana further charged with
sending people down to the state build
ing
During the last week there were nearly
1000 chickens expressed from the office
at G, nesville. This is the dullest season
of th. wear ID took about 275 c0Ops +,