The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-12
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEnRGIA.

that section viii be about 5000 bales short.
Lieut. j. H. Brown, who was recently
elected a second lieutenant in the Thorn
asville Guards, has received his commits
son from Gov. Gambler and taken the
oath Of office.
Andrew Parks. charged with the muir
der Of Lem Disk. about the middle OF
August. was found guilty and sentenced
by Judge Seaborn Reese to be hanged
on Friday, Oct. next, at Danielsville.
ThomasviIIe Times Enterprise: savan-
nah is as proud Of her first automobile
as a boy is of his first pair of boots. l.
is not unlikely that some of our winter
visitors viii bring one of these horse
less carriages to brownsville this winter
Weekly Madisonian: Mr.. L. ]. Walton
of Enterprise, has been utilizing the fine
poplar timber in his section by saving 1t
and shipping It 10 Atlanta by the car
load He has shipped several cars from
Buckhead realizing from $50 to $500 on
the car.
". A. Pannell, one of Atlanta's famous
characters, has agreed to exile himself
from Atlanta upon the Recorders impos-
ing upon him a light fine for a recent
breach of the peace. He was fined $.75
or to return.
Charlton County Herald: Mrs. Calvin
Peoples of Camden county. who recent
ly embraced the Mormon religion. passed
through here Sunday with her family en-
route to Salt Lake City. Utah. whittier
her son had gone some time since with
view of becoming an elder in the Mormon
church.
The short cotton crop in Dodge county
and low prices il is said will leave the
farmers in worse condition than they have
been in for some years. Not only is cot
ton short but cane. peas, potatoes. hay
and in fact everything in the way Of
grain product in many sections of the
county are more than half short Gar
dens have been an absolute failure.
Ben Hill white boy about 10 or II
years of age, was bound over to the su-
perior Court by Squire j. A. Wilson at
Cedartown Saturday, under a charge of
kidnapping Ethel Malloy Ethel Nalloy is
the daughter of W. r. Malloy, the over
seer at the cotton factory. Young Hin
had married the girl, and he is really I'M
der arrest now on a charge of kidnapping
his wife. There were decided parental OBJ
jections on the girls side to the match.
Telfair Enterprise: Rev. Seymour
key, was in town Wednesday. Rev.
Briggs Is over so years of age and has
been preaching the Baptist doctrine for
tfty-four years. The Old man is as active
to-day as some men of half his age, and
he writes, reads and converses quite
fuently, He is also well known through
this section as an astronomical calculator
and in 1880 edited and published an al
manac "for the states of South Carolina
and Georgia" He proposes to issue an
other almanac in 1901.
Moultrie Observer: The Union Lumber
Company is putting down its big saw
mill al the Darling place out east of
town. The mill will be one Of the largest
10 this section of the state, and will have
capacity of between Is 900 and COO
feet per day. They have already in o.
Grafton a small MILL with which they are
saving out material to frame the large
one. The same company will locate an
other mill to the south of Moultre IT
will have a still larger capacity. They
have bought thousands OF timber in the
lower part of the county, which will take
them years to cut up.
II is said the people of Terrell county. or
certain portion of them. could not stand
the quality of the liquor sold at the
dispensary at Dawson so the first Wild
cat still ever heard of in Terrell county
was Instituted by a good old farmer of
the county. He made some genuine good
''eavn iker," and he nearly broke up the
trade of the dispensary. He must have
had help, for the revenue officers from
Columbus keep going down to Terrell
county and taking moonshiners to that
city. All who come from there are charg-
ed with being connected with the Eaton
still, for that is the only Illicit still ever
found in that county. Deputy Marshal
Williams took 10 Columbus Saturday
James s. Walls who was charged with
working at that still. Mr.. Walls was Civ
on a hearing by Commissioner Williams
and placed under bond of 800 which
he readily gave, and was released.
Henry County Weekly: Mr. w. L. KIM
bell one of Henry countys oldest and
most esteemed citizens. has pitcher and
SIX cups and saucers. which are doubtless
the oldest family relics anywhere in this
country as we'll as the purest of China
ware. Mr.. Kimbell was married in 1886
when they We're given TO his wife by her
mother. who was a Mrs. Robinson and
was 50 years old at her death. Mrs. Rob-
inson had traced the relics back to her
great grandmother, aud further than that
nothing Is known of them. Running
through these generations, however they
must be two or three hundred years old
possibly more. no telling. Mrs Kimbel
bequeathed them TO her daughter Mrs
eagle, who kept them twelve years, when
they went to her daughter, Mrs Jord
Johnson; and now they are returned tc
Mr. kimbell who seeks to get them again
in the Robinson family. The pitcher is
bronzed while the cup and saucers are
decorated with finely executed Chinese OF
japanese figures They have never beer
used, but keep strictly as relics, and are In
perfect state of preservation. 1t is use
less TO add that these are indeed interest
ing curiosties and IL anybody can beat
the remarkable record The Weekly would
like TO hear from them.
FLORIDA.
During thunderstorm a few days ago
Rogers & Gardner of Brownsville had Z