Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-21
j. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.

bought by the mill men and win be used for
milling purposes. it not being fit TO shin We
would again earnestly advise the timber cut
ters to De more careful In the selection and
manu- nahuiscture oI Their timber. II is to their in
terest 10 DO II, Tor good article of timber
always brings good price, while the poor
stun brings poor prices"
The Augusta Chronicle chronicles a terrible
accident which occurred in that city on Friday.
IL says: Yesterday morning as a train of fat
cars backed quickly round the Knoxville Rail-
road curve at th5 head of Greene street. four
gentlemen stood at the end OF the first car
Watchng the road and famed by a springlike
oEeeze- One minute later three Of them
jumped up breathless and bruised from a mass
OF wood piled above them, while beneath the
ralls lay bleeding Inass-a dying man The
FuInor that Mr. John II. killian, road master OF
the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad, had
been killed sped rapidly through the city. and
Ia less than half an hour after wood car had
mounted the cross ties and careened over
curve. number of people had witnessed the
last gasp of a man who had never shirked
DUTY or lodged danger II was cold, rough
hand that they folded upon his breast as he lay
out on the graSs-but iJ had been an honest
one; and that breast-it was mangled now
but 1t had been manly one. So we found
him. He died as ne had lived-between the
rails; he lived as lie had died-at his post On
the track where he had fallen from the car
were blotches of blood. while the trucks which
had passed over him had been stopped about
one hundred and fifty feet. allowing nearly
On the subject Of Hay for Hogs" the
Columbus Times saws: I'VE do not know of
any suggestion to the best way to fatten
hogs exactly appropriate in this section OF
the country, for there Is but very few people
who raise them nowadays. But, thinking
that perhaps some old school farmer might
still be living hereabout5 we pu dish the fol
loving from an exchange: Very few are
aware I the fact that hay is exceedingly
beneficial to hogs but it is true. nevertheless.
Hogs need rough food as well as horses. rattle
or the human race. To prepare it, yol should
have q cutting-boX, or hay cutter, and the
greener the hay the better Cut the hay fine,
and mix with bran, shorts or middIings, and
feed rs other food. Hogs soon learn to like it,
and il soaked in swill or other slop food, it is
highly relished by them. In winter use for
hogs the same hay you fesd to your horses,
and you will find that, while it saves bran,
shorts or other food, it puts on flesh as rapidly
as anything that can be given them. :"
The Cartersville Free Press thus tells how a
negro man was killed while attempting to cross
q railroad bridge: "On last Saturday morn
Ing, as the Cincinnati Southern train neared
the Pettt's creek bridge, about one mile above
town. the engineer saw negro man trying TO
cross the bridge The train was running at
the rate Of fifty miles an hour, but he imm0-
Giately blew the whistle and applied the air
brakes, but it was no use. The unfortunate
man had passed over about two-thirds OF the
bridge. and seeing that he could not get en-
tirely across, leaned himself over so as not to
strike the pilot, but the upper part of the en-
no doubt killing him instantly. and knocking
him into the creek below. Persons were fishing
for the body all day without success, but on
Sunday morning about II O'Clock found the
body about seventy-five yards below the bridge
and it was Immediately brought TO town and
placed in the court house. hr. Null, our COro-
ner. summoned a jury at once and a verdict
was rendered in accordance with the above
statement The name OF the unfortunate man
was Morgan Smith, who lived on a Dir. Prices
place, seven miles from Griffin, near Sunny
side. He had been on visit to relatives in
Rome, and stopped over at Rogers on his re-
turn home. He left Rogers intending to get
on the down passenger at this place. He was
about sixty-five years old, weighed about loo
pounds, and was about five feet six inches
high. On his person was found pint bottle
about one third full Of whisky, pocketbock
containing s. 05, knife, memorandum book
containing tax receipt for last year, and
letter. We understand he leaves wife and
six children No blame can be attached to the
engineer, as the train was two hundred yards
from the bridge when he blew the whistle and
puG on the brakes"