The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-26
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Berricn's New Court House-Former'
savannah Man Sued for Divorce at
Misunderstanding Rod Breaks Near
CoIumbus-Jar of Butter RecOv-
cred From IA River Bottom After
qhree Weeks.
GEORGIA.
Columbus is raising money to be invested
In relief supplies for the Cubans
The contract for the new court house of
Derrien county was let last Monday TO w.
/ Hugger, Of Luverne, Ala. for $15.9lS
Frank w. Griffin is director of the Chau-
teudua chorus at Hawk:nsville, and not
chorus singer, as enormously printed day
or two ago.
Unln own parties burglarized the homes
OIL. L. Butner and S. E. Smith at Powder
sprwgs. Wednesday night, obtaining $40
from the former and $3.50 from the latter
Upon the application of w. B. Smith. C.
c. Jones has been appointed receiver for
the Bowden Furniture Company, of Allan
a. The company has filed mortgages
amounting to 800.
John Brown, alias King higgins, who is
alleged to have fired the shot which it now
arrears will end the life of Marcus Clark
at Atlanta has been arrested near Ma
rieta by 4. A. Bishop. sheriff of Cobb
county.
Mrs. E. C. Lanier, through her attorney,
4 A. Ethredge, has fled suit for divorce
against her husband, j. d. Lanier, an At
Ianta dentist. The couple married In June,
$780, but have not lived happily together.
Mrs Lanier charges unfaithfulness on the
part Of her husband.
A few days ago negro working at the
Dixie works at Macon lost one of his fin
gers as the result of carelessness in hand
llug lis machine. A few minutes after the
accident o. p. Wilhngham, the proprietor,
PASSED Icy and asked the man at the next
machine how il had happened. The man
rep.cd that his fellow-workman had gone
foonng around with his hand so,' and suit
Cd his actions to his words, with the re-
suit That he. too, lost the top of his finger.
Among the decisions handed down by the
Supreme Court Thursday was one affirm
ing the judgment of the Superior Court in
the DeKalb City Court case. This decision
establishes the legality of the City Court
OF that county. The point was raised by the
plaintiff that the local act establishing the
Of the state, which provides that no special
law snail he enacted in any case for which
prov sion has been made by an existing
general law The Supreme Court holds that
the act of the legislature providing for the
establishment of city courts is not gen
eral law.
About four weeks ago, while woman of
Dahlonega was carrying a jar of butter
prroSs tho Cbactatea river. in n boat tho
vessel capsized and both passenger and
butter went to the bottom of the stream.
The woman got safely out, but the butter
was lost. The other day, three weeks from
the time the accident occurred. man.
while fishing, felt something heavy 10 his
hook. He pulled the hook to the top of the
wafer and found that he had caught the
cloth which still tightly covered the jar of
butter. It was taken out and its contents
found to be just es fresh as the day it was
dropped inc the river.
A badly damaged engine, but fortunately
no lives lost, was the result of a peculiar
accident Thursday, on passenger train No
8, on the Central, running from Albany to
Birmingham on the through western route
few miles below Columbus, the driv-
ing rod of the engine broke from some
cause and the two ends revolving wildly
smashed everything they encountered. One
end of the rods came up under the seat of
the fireman in the cab, demolishing the
wood work, and on the other side the cab
was badly damaged Fireman VIII Wright
and Engineer j. f. Keu were thrown to
TIC floor but were not struck by the fly
ing rods, one of which even cut through
to the tender, which it badly gashed. The
engine, although badly damaged, was not
deTaied.