Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF TaEEWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

MACOn.-A w oman ~ AC2An 49,
Has Never Seen LoOmOtiVe-A HAND
Blown ON by Dynmite in Lincoln
County.
GEORGIA.
Judge J. Thomas, of Wsynesboro, dled
q day or TWO ago.
AT Albany Monday a negro woman
dropped dead at her house.
r. L. smith, a negro school teacher,
wanted at Milledgevilie has been arrested
at Macon.
4 crusade against he houses of ILL
fame at Macon is expected. The inmates
have become intolerahy bold.
A row among Themselves is apt to land
in iail family Of cattle thieves who in
4 fest the lower part of Bibb county.
Mrs. Daniel Young of Macon, stepped
nm a snake in her yan Monday morning.
khe was so badly frightened that her life
MAS endangered.
Holm Taylor, a workman at the CBhtral
(tv Iron Works, at Macon, while work
Sg at lathe had his left hand caught in
Ne machine and hereby lost finger.
A negro man named Roberts, a hand on
he Bell place, in the oaky woods near
albany. accidentally shot himself Sunday
While hunting. II is supposed to be
atal wound.
Edgar L. Spires, a white miner at the
sale gold mine, Of Lincoln county, had his
hand torn to pieces by the explosion of
dynamite while preparing to blast in a
Well Monday.
The corn crib ard contents on the plan
alton of Dr.. David Wynn, in ChattahOo-
nee county, was destroyed by FIRE Sun
Ag night. DR.. WYnn estimates his loss
about $500.
lat Adairsville, a young American Of
DIV tive summers. has already begun the
ME OF tobacco by smoking a clay pipe
flied with the strongest weed, which is
gI'en him at home.
4 night or two ago a negro entered
the room occupied by the two
daughters of Judge W. A. CasOn, near
be ctuld do any harm.
Anadjourned session of MuscOgee Supe-
r0r court was held Monday, and charters
were granted the Georgia Midland Con-
structiOn Company and the Second Pres
byterian church of Columbus, colored.
Court adiOurnedtO the November term.
Jimmie Hogan son Of Mrs. Belle HO-
gan, accidentally shot himself through
tne chin. at Columbus Sunday, while
handling parl0 rifle. The ball struck
the roof OF his mouth and rolled down
his throat. Thewound is not thought to
be serious.
The pastor OF the African Methodist
church at Dixie near Sparta, announced
10 his mock Sunay morning that all those
men and women among them who were
living together Unmarried, must come up
that ught ana b married or turned out OF
church
Friday two negro men on Capt. A. G..
30 .~T. "A
into fyht and ised their knives to some
effect. They wee Sank Bell and William
Whitehulst. Both were badly cut, and
WhitehuTst was expected to die Sunday
evening.
During Me recent heavy freshet the
river arose 70 such height as to break
The lower potion of the levee around L.
Z. Plants wBltw farm in the swamp,
near Macon. TIE water subsidized before
any great harm was done. The willows
could not have ben injured by the water.
Master Louis Msrkel, of Macon, though
scarcely years on, is a prodigy. Ac-
;ompanied by his sister, Miss Lizzie,
herself AN accomplished musician, he
sings the popular songs of the day. He
las good voice, and his cute take-offs
on the dude are wonderful for a boy of
mis- years.
a. Ass 4 0NhCAs III NtCAhT dbiOA u1Su III
the superior Court CJsrk's Office at At
lanta Monday, charges that he was ejec-
ted from one of the cempany's passenger
trains at East Point without any just
cause. He estimates his damages at
$1,000, and asks the court to award him
that sum
There is reason to believe that Macon is
infested with a band Of negro counter
letters. For sometime past skillfully
executed counterfeit silver dollars have
been in circulation, and nobody has been
aoie to trace them TO their !ginal source.
Whether the cOjn is manufactured in
Macon or IS purchased in the North is not
known.
Norman Shelyerton, young white man
OF Aaeon, found negro lying asleep in
the street at night. A small dog was with
tle hegro. SaelverSOn tried to wake the
sleeping man up, at the same time order
ing nun to leave. The dog resented the
"a sefiefeace with his master, and flew at
eeefNert0n and biz piece cut OF the calf
o. his LETT lex.
ieOhHn's correspondence NEWS: A
Cih"en OF thgs county was at HeTne yes-
teida, evening. He left HeTne after sun
set or home. He had been 10 Herne to
ke' ms maIl and TO get some corn ground.
ne Sot home, fed his horse, and started to
~ HVuSo. he asot somewhere about the
~ gdte going to the house when some one
suot hlm, killing him instantly. His
lame was Edgar Wornin.
At Americus, Cicero Ellis, the colOred
aanp-llghter, was filing up one OF the
nreet lamps with gasoline. A negro man
WIN rural habits was standing a few feet
way smoking cigar and looking at the
."mp-n mig. Suddenly he was astonished
see the air around him flash up into a
ualne ana set his clothing on fire. Cicero
eet'elpied TO put out the flame. but the
iElshteued darkey went down the street
H4e race horse, when he stumbled, fell,
i"uel over. thereby extinguishing his
turning clothing.
monday morning the Macon post Office
.luuo inst It's stock of postal cards had
~ ~ uo"n 10 four. There was demand
%l uay at the general delivery window for
,s@i cards in fifty and one hundred lots,
oIe 40 one wanted "A small number. AS n
ks, luence the clerk was At loss TO
Tt3n now 10 dispose of the four cards.
~! were the last Of the old issue and
P,, oues We're expected Monday night.
Gu .'u no one called, tho new issue cards
$40 monday night, and now the four
''''s VIII remain as souvenirs.
,Nrs. Moody. an old lady living within
i're miles Of ROckmart, Padding county,
~ az" Al The advanced age Of 10 years.
, Ha5 never seen q tram. She has been
s,' ''ea twice. the first time Ia MIR. Rose,
D Few years ago decided that she
''Nt u Visit some rnilroad statiOn In