The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-29
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

- on Foot to start n Company
a. Atlanta to Aid in Starting Man
.,octuring Industries i'm That City.
sensational Attack on Woman's
character in Damage Suit-A
name citizen in Possession of an
interesting Relic.
GEORGIA.
The society people of Atlanta are pre-
rering to have horse show.
eavora, German citizens of Monroe coun-
~ are manufacturing corn cob pipes on
a large scale.
DeKalb county veterans will erect
handsome monument to the Confederate
dead at Decatur.
Forty-seven thousand, five hundred and
eighty-one is the population of Augusta,
according to the new Directory.
on or about Feb. / an old maids con-
vention will be held in Rome. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to charitable OBJ
jects.
The grand jury of Wilcox county has
found true bill against w. r. Bullock,
clerk of the court. indicted for forgery.
His bond was fixed by Judge Aldrich at
5000.
J. II. Lawrence of Molena has filed suit
against the Southern Railway. Mr.. Law
renee was postmaster al Molena, and was
struck by train while delivering mail at
the depot, which caused partial paralysis.
The suit is for 1899.
"A shooting occurred seven miles west
Of Roberta, Thursday. Tom Grant, col
ored. shot and probably fatally wounded
William Tyson, colored. The shooting
was the result of a dispute about boun-
Diary line between the places of Grant and
Tyson.
The board of education of Clinch county
was in session Wednesday and adopted
school books for the next five years.
very pronounced disapproval of the kind
of books adopted and the plan of buying
books with the public school funds is said
10 be developing among the citizens of the
county.
The Bagey damage suit. which has
been on trial at Atlanta all the week be-
fore Judge John D. Berry, developed a
decidedly sensational turn Thursday in
an attack made by the Consolida ted
Street Railway Company. the defendant,
on the character of Miss Della Bagley, the
plaintiff. The allegation has Deem made
that the injury from which Miss Bagley
Is suffering existed before the fall in Oc-
tober and was in no way due to it.
Mrs. Ann ]. Tatum of Trenton has fled
suit against the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern Railway Company for $4,000.
Mrs. Tatum is the widow of M. A. B.
Tatum of the revenue service. Mr.. Tatum
was a passenger on the train on his way
to Athens from Elberton. The train stop
ped over the trestle on the Oconee river,
and Mr.. Tatum, thinking this was the
station, sought to alight and was killed.
His death occurred in the night. The suit
sets up these facts, and further says that
the officers of the company negligently an
nounced the station just as the train stop
ped, thus inviting passengers to alight.
The night was dark aud Mr. Tatum lad
no chance to know where he was.
Rome Tribune; w. J. Langston, ven
cradle and intelligent farmer living in the
Fatwood district, brought an interesting
relic to the Tribune office yesterday. 1t
was a rams horn in perfect state of pres
ervation. The animal whose proud orna-
ment it once was was slaughtered to fur
nlsh food for Lord CORVALLIS in South
Carolina in 1774 or ITS. The relic is au-
thentic, and has never been in the pos
session of but two men. Mr.. Langston
secured the horn from Henry Haynes, an
aged negro. Henry's father was a scrv-
ant of Lord CORVALLIS and killed and
dressed the ram, one of the horns from
whose head he saved. The other horn is
said to be in the possession of a man liv-
ing near Covington.
At the request of Capt. j. w. English,
w. d. Ellis is drawing a charter for a
company whose object it is to encourage
the establishment of manufacturing en-
terprlses at Atlanta. This is to be done
through a corporation which win take
stock in such new enterprises as COM
mend themselves to. the judgment of the
promotion company's management. In
Ylls way a given sum of money will be
made to induce the investment of several
times as much. Ii is proposed to start
with a capital stock of 100000, divided into
thares of 800 each payable in monthly
lnstallments, business to begin when 10
per cent shall have been paid into the
treasury. The charter is to provide for
an increase of the capital stock up to ST.
VVUOO. The idea is to interest a large
humber of citizens of Atlanta in the pro-
motion company and i'm this way secure
strong local backing for enterprises in
which it may take stock, giving them
moral as well as material support. The
company will investigate the case of ev-
cry company or party of men who wish
local backing for a new enterprise, and if
eNs judgment commends the Investment it
'ill take such a portion of the stock t.s
seems advisable