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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.Sens of the Two States Told in Paragraphs.Another Death Results from the Election Riot in Richmond County-AStrike Amicably Settled -Stole HisMother’s * Diamonds and PawnedThem. *GEORGIA -W. C. Green of Cobb county raised from two vines 442-pound pumpkins.Mrs. Lilia Grthben, wife of James Grib-ben of Thomasville, died Tuesday morn-inf.It is said that the yield of syrup in Terrell county this year will exceed 75.000 gallons.At Crawford Tuesday William Matthews } was caught in a gin. and bis arm was so badly injured that It had to b© amputated.The bill that will be introduced calling jfor the repeal of the dispensary law of Clarke county has been advertised and the liquor fight will now be on In earnest.Tho two new' residences of Collector J. F. Norris and Capt. T. W Kent of WrightsviUe are nearing completion, and Ir. McWhorter’s new’ residence on the hill has been completed.Nat Arnold’s gin and corn mil! in Oglethorpe county was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday, together with a great deal of corn and cotton. The loss was $4,000. There was no insurance.At Jackson, Monday, Judge D. B. Knowles, of the justice court, issued ninety warrants for illegal voters who voted at the October election. The defendants will be given a hearing Monday.Ex-State Senator Pope Gholston and Kirvch Strickland, two prominent citizens w ho fought at the election at Comer Tues- 1 day, both died Wednesday. Strickland j disemboweled Gholston ar.d Gholston then cut Off hoth of Strickland’s ears. The affair is a most horribie one.Col. George Forbes, who was quartermaster of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania regiment, Is the only federal soldter in Dawson that draws a pension from the government. He recived papers a few days ago entitling him to a pension of $12 a month. He will also receive $9$ back pensions. - •M. Inman Co.’s big cotton platform was burned at Taceoa Tuesday afternoon. Seventeen hundred bales of cotton were entirely consumed, loss, $50,000, fully covered by insurance. Th© residence of G. W. Swilling w as also burned. The cotton rompress and Southern railroad cotton platform were saved by hard work.There is a ring in the possession of a colored person at. Madison which is a relic of no small magnitude. It is a small gold ring seemingly much worn and made to fit a lady’s hand. The following inscription is engraved on the inside: “I. 9. to F. B., April. 20, 3770.” The ring was picked upon the streets of Madison and no trace of its owner can be found. It is certainly an heirloom of some, family. V ^News has reached Dahlon^ga of a brutal assault made on George W. Huntsinger, an old citizens of Lumpkin county, near the People's home, six miles north of Dahlone-ga. Andy Lee got drunk and struck Huntsinger a heavy blow on the head with a hatchet and also made an ugly wound on ■the head of John Hester, a blind lnma © of the People's paupers home, with a gun. Lee has been arrested and lodged in Lumpkin county Jail on two cases of assault with intent to murder.
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Savannah Morning News
Savannah, Georgia, US
Fri, Nov 09, 1894
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