The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO sTATEs TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Hot Political Right In thattohoo-
chee-I.ong Distance Telephone for
Newnan-MeyOr Bell of WRynes-
borO Has a Struggle with Bur
EIar-Rev. J. +. Gibson Re-enterS
journalism at Rome-James phil
lips Recovering From His Wounds.
Mrs. MarshnITs Return Home After
Mysterious Disappearance From
AtIanta-FIOridn Happenings.
GEORGIA
The Democrats Of Pauldng met in con-
vention Thursday, and nominated Col w
e. Spinks for the legislature and ticket
for county officers.
James Phillips, who was cut in an At
lanta court by William Balm, is rapidly
recovering. Balm will be given a hearing
as soon as Phillips can appear in court.
The Populist party Of Habersham coun-
ty met at Demorest Thursday, and put
up the following county ticket: For clerk
of The Superior court, Tom Goode; ior
sheriff. owen Hardy; for treasurer, VIII
liam Walker: for tax collector I. B. Hal
sey; for tax receiver, Marcus Ivy; for sur
veyor, J. w. White.
A party of Athens citizens are now APP
u
der which they propose in the coming
years to magnifcendy develop all the
property in and around Tallulah Falls
This company consists of Messrs. David
c. Barrow, Jr., w. i. Childs, r. L. Moss
Jr., ]. D. Moss w. L. Moss and Emmett
j. Bondurant, all citizens of Athens, and
owners of four of the beautiful falls at
Tallulah
Eugene Winslow. Virgins or Higgins,
newspapers not agreeing as to his name,
who was the Townsville mascotte at
Santiago, is only four feet two inches in
hight However, he is called upon to
bear the burdens of a full-hedged hero
and is being accorded great glory in write
ups throughout the country. If there is
anything in a name and this heros cor
rect cognomen should be Higgins, he may
set perform a speciality which win be more
acceptable 20 young ladies than Hobsons
osculatory dellcacy.
Sheriff Broo1shire VIII Rice and others
of Dahlonega comprising posse, started
after midnight Tuesday for the home of
Arveta Sullens, four miles east of Dab
lonega, who is charged with assault with
intent to kill Frank w. Crisson over
month ago. When the posse got to the
house they discovered Sullens had a bed
of quilts, with an umbrella up, on a hill
800 yards off. Sulens got up and ran
off, the posse after him, but he got to
Chestatee river and crossed it before the
officers could overtal1e him. This is tho
second time he has escaped from his pur-
suers.
Before long the people of Newman and
others living along this line will be in a
position to talk directly with their friends
s in Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis and
New York. II. W. Buxton, Jr., of New
York has been there for several weeks
experimenting the reconstruction of the
telephone line from Atlanta to Montgom-
cry. The long distance people are con-
structing a line from Nashville TO Mont
gomery, and when this line is reconstruct
ed and completed to Montgomery it win
make connection with the long distance
line and furnish means of direct communl-
cation with the West and East and the
points mentioned above.
There is probability Of Atlanta aban-
doning her efforts to get a meeting with
railroad magnates for the consldera ton
of the new depot question. Efforts here
tofore to get the railroad men to meet
have been complete failures, and pros
poets are now favorable for ever getting
the question settled by that means The
committee an charge of the matter, 1t Is
said, will work upon entirely new tao
tics in the future Mayor Golfers policy
Is to now bring the matter before the
Railroad Commission and ask that the
railroads be required to provide Atlanta
with adequate depot facilities, Atlanta is
still hopeful of getting a new depot.
Chattahoochee county is to have another
hot political fight this year. Chattahoo-
chez is the county just to the south of
Muscogee, and has been a Populist strong
hold. The negroes in the county outnum-
Der the whites, and this, too, largely ac-
counted for the strength of the Populisi
party there in the past. Two years ago the
Democrats wrested the county away from
the combined enemy. The great race was
between DR.. f. M. Gordy, Democrat
against w. H. Bagley Populist, for ordi-
nary. DR.. Gordy won. The Democrats
propose 10 retain their supremacy in the
county; and this will lead to another
strong fight this fall Mr.. W. II. Bagley,
the eX-sheriff, is the Populist leader in
the county. He is the Populist nominee
for the legislature this time, while Mr..
Thomas NJ. Adams is the Democratic con-
testant for the office.
A Rome dispatch to the Atlanta Journal
says: Rome is to have another news
paper and Rev. ]. T. Gibson who was
suspended from the pastorate of Walker
Street Methodist Church, Atlanta, pend
ing an investigation at the next session
of the North Georgia conference, because
of alleged misconduct, is to be the editor.
The new paper will appear weekly and
bear the name of the Piedmont Farmer.
1t will be family weekly newspaper le-
voted largely to the interest of the farm
ing classes. 1t will be Democratic DO
ltcally. Mr.. Gibson enters this field after
due consideration. He first took up evan
gelical work after his suspension, but as
number of his friends thought 1t would
work against him in the investigation
OF his case at the conference, Methodist
discipline forbiddng a minister under sus-
pension from engaging in any ministerial
work, they persuaded him to desist. He
then decided to enter his old profession.
the newspaper business. Before entering
the ministery Mr.. Gibson edited papers in
Roekmart Gainesville and Cedartown.
Mrs William E. Marshall, who disap-
peared from her home in Atlanta a few
days ago and caused her husband much
anxiety regarding her, has returned 20 find