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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. The News of the Two States Told...in Paragraphs.
Albany Men Do a Good Day's Work for the Brunswick Sufferers-Great Camp Meeting Near Alpharetta- Minister Blount Declines to Talk About Hawaii.
GEORGIA. Griffin News and Sun: Miss Emma Stillwell left on Saturday afternoon for Arkadelphia, Ark., where she has accepted a most flattering offer to instruct a class in vocal and instrumental music at a large female college located there.
Albany Herald: Messrs. J. T. Hester and Marcus Cine did a hard day's work on Saturday in soliciting contributions for the poor people of the unfortunate city of Brunswick. They worked all day, and collected nearly three hundred dollars worth of provisions and over sixty dollars in cash.
Macon News: Hon. Pope Barrow, whose friends insist on his taking a seat in one of Georgia's Senatorial chairs up in Washington, was in the city yesterday. Col. Barrow says that down in Savannah, where he lives, all they know about the business and financial panic is what they have read in the newspapers.
Alpharetta Free Press: Camp meeting at Holbrook last Sunday was a complete success, if a big crowd has anything to do with such an occasion. We presume there were 1.000 people on the grounds, and but from the fact that there were several other similar gatherings through the country, the crowd at Holbrook would have been just too immense to have been pleasant.
Macon News: There was a sad and sudden death at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sprinz on Arch street on Monday at 8 o'clock. It was the death of Mr. E. Sprinz, Jr., a young business man weli known in Georgia business circles and with many warm personal friends in Macon. Mr. Sprinz had been in business with his brother-in-law, Mr. J. Davis, at Midville sor some time, and although his health has not been good for several weeks, his death was sudden and unexpected. Mr. Sprinz was 34 years old and unmarried.
Augusta News: The storm was the center of attraction Sunday night and the subject of small talk to-day. The girls were all "in it." and they were scared almost to death, even while indoors. They could not sleep, and they thought its voice anything but a lullaby. And so it was, for those of us out in the night were swept around like straws, and a lucky toy balloon would have been as good ballast as the stoutest buggy after 10 o'clock. All hands had to fly to shelter, and lucky were the bachelors on the Hili who had friends in the Gridiron Circle. Savannah girls, they say, don't mind stormy weather, and if there is not a cyclone on tapis they can raise an imitation almost instanter, if not sooner. Two Savannah girls on our Hill were out driving in the tempest last evening, and are said to call last night's hurricane only an ordinary Tybee "blow-out." It's all in getting accustomed to these little zephyrs, however, and Augusta girls were almost frightened out of their summer engagements.
Macon News: Col. Blount, in view of the circumstances surrounding his relations to the government, feels that propriety and official duty compel him to decline the invitation of his fellow citizens to address them on matters pertaining to the Hawaiian islands on Wednesday night. Since Col. Blount's return he has been urged from every source to deliver a public address by his friends who want to hear him tell of his visit and work in the Hawaiian islands and who want to honor him and show their appreciation of his able and distinguished public service. But Col. Blount, although it gives him pleasure to meet his home people under all circumstances and talk to them, has felt that he should decline to participate in such a public meeting at this time and sends the News the following card setting forth his position: "In regard to the proposed meeting on Wednesday evening next, permit me to say that my connection with the present relations between the United States and the Hawalian islands precludes me from speaking upon Hawaiian affairs. I fully appreciate and thank you for the spirit which prompted you in suggesting the meeting. Very truly, James H. Blount."
FLORIDA.
The storm of Sunday did considerable damage to buildings in Jacksonville.
Capt. Bill Kendrick, who lives on West Monroe street, in La Villa, was unfortunate enough to have the kitchen to his house blown away, and was in somewhat of a quandary this morning about getting his breakfast. In La Villa St. Joseph's C. M. E. church was blown down and almost totally wrecked. B. F. Dilion, superintendent of the Western Union, sent out four special trains Monday morning to put up the wires blown down by the storm. Every line running into the city was more or less damaged.
Reports from the country in the vicinity of Jacksonville indicate no great damage to houses, but the giants of the forest fought a losing fight and are scattered all over, prostrate and broken. Fixing up the fences will give the farmers steady work for some days to come. and the storm of Aug. 27 will long be remembered in the annals of Jacksonville and surrounding country. The Clyde steamer Seminole arrived at her docks in Jacksonville at 11 o'clock Monday morning, after a trip of 124 hours from New York, and it may be safely said that never a party of steamship passengers were gladder to set foot on terra firma than those who debarked from the Seminole this morning. They had safely weathered two storms, either of which was sufficient to blanch the cheek of the bravest or make the stoutost heart quail. She was in the storm off the Jersey coast last Wednesday and in the storm of Sunday.
The "world's fair exhibit car" from Orange county arrived at Jacksonville Monday, says the Telegram, via the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad and is now side-tracked in the yard of that road near the passenger depot. The car is one of the passenger coaches of the Tavares and Gulf railroad, which Capt. W. B. Tucker, general manager of that road, placed at the disposal of the committee appointed to make the exhibit. On entering the car. one is struck with the tropical appearance. Tropical trees and tropical fruits are everywhere conspicuous, and no one need ask where it is from. Banana trees, with the fruit on them in several stages, are an attractive feature, while every other tropical product is well represented. Stuffed birds ani-animals make an interesting exhibit. All the products of Orange county, including cane, rice, oats, rye, cotton, cassava, arrow-root, cinnamon, camphor, pineapples, oranges, bananas, etc., are shown to advantage. Curiosities peculiar to Florida and to Orange county form no small part of the exhibit. The history of the car dates back aoout a year, when the matter of sending an exhibit to the world's fair was first agitated. A committee.con-sisting of Judge J. D. Beggs, Col. George Foote. T. J. Appleyard. Hon. H. S. Chubb, Andrew Aulin, Dudley W. Adams and J. E. Ingraham, was appointed to arrange for an exhibit at the world's fair for Orange county. For this purpose, a voluntary tax was paid by the citizens of the county, and about $800 were raised in this way. Hon. H. A. Abercromby was appointed to get up the exhibit, which he at once started to do, and the splendid collection now displayed in the car is the result of his work. Many contributions in the way of money and articles were made by the citizens of the county, and the donations would have been much larger had not the First National Bank of Orlando failed just at that time. It was feared that this would cause the work to be abandoned, but Mr. Abercromby persevered and got the car filled with exhibits. The intention is to take the car to Chicago and make a county exhibit in the Florida state building.
THE WOUNDED AT SURRENCY. Dr. Ogden Not Expected to Recover
