Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-20

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cal Operation at Cumming.
GEORGIA.
The corner stone of Oglethorpe's new
court house will be laid early in May.
John s. Davidson, of Augusta, has been
asked to ofieiate.
There has been one claim case in litiga-
iionin Burke Superior Court Ii years,
dating back 10 May, 1873, ana IL stlI en-
cumbers the docket.
Telfair Superior Court convene to-day.
There is not much new business for the
consideration Of the court, but there are
many long standing cases.
A. Scheuerman aud family of Griffin
are en- route to Europe, when i'll Germany
MIR. Scbeue~man will visit his father
whom he has not seen in many years.
Bones. supposed to be those of a human
being, AVE been found covered with
rocks at the quarry near Macon. The
mystery enveloping them mas not been
~unraVelled yet.
Jerry TarVer, the negro who was put
IN the iail at Waynesboro, delivered him.
self from bonds the third time Sat
urdav morning, and is again at large to
prey upon the pubLc.
On Thursday night Mrs. Marsh Perkins,
residing neal the junction, in Burke
county, accidentally overturned a kero-
sene lamp, aud the oil taking fire put the
house in great jeopardy tor a few mo-
ments. One of Mrs. Perkins children
was badly burned.
Near Lawrenceville, during the last
tain storm, the lightning struck a small
pine tree in a graveyard above that town
and circled around it until it reached the
ground, where it scoOped out a hole clear
down to a coffin and scattered the bones
around on top of the ground.
A day or two ago Judge Mitchell, of
Athens, bought a paper Of stryehnine to
kill some vagrant cats that had been sere-
nading him at night, and put 1t away on
a shelf until ready to use it. The poison
was found by an inqulsitiYe little negro,
who was just in the act of swallowing it
when discovered and saved.
Kew. j. G.. Wright, of Cochran, died
Thursday. Mr.. Wright has been preach
ing in Neville for some time, and about
five weeks ago, on his way down to this
place, the train IN the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad was
wrecked near Chauncey ana he sustained
internal injuries, from which he never
recovered, and died Thursday about l
O'clock.
Waynesboro True Citizen: 1t is COM
monty believed that a 'tjeW-clawed" dog
cannot be killed by the bite of the most
poisonous snake. The "jew claw" is a
claw, or su%perf1uOus toe, which grows on
the leg of a dog some distance above the
foot, but we can't find the word in any
dictionary we have vet been able to lay
our hands upon, and doubt thai it is a
good English word.
Long Greek Baptist church, in Warren
county, is 10 have a centennial celebra-
ton on the second Sunday inc the Satur-
day before in July. Memorial services
will be held and historical incidents in its
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people of Long Greek will welcome all
who wish to attend this meeting, and a
special invitation is extended to the
former pastors of the church.
At Griffin Saturday a difficulty occurred
In Moulder's bar between William Berry
and Bud Ballard, in which the latter was
struck over the head with a billiard cue
and very badly hurt. A city warrant
was taken for Berry. which caused his
arrest, and he gave bond tor hrs appear
ance before the recorder. A State war
RAM for assault and attempt to murder
was then taken for him and he was
pound over to appear at the next term of
the Superior Court. Billiards. wounds,
while not fatal, are serious.
At Cumming, Saturday, DR.. John Hook
enhull, in the presence of Drs. Riden,
Strickland, LipscOmb, Davenport, Cloud,
Riden, and John H. Hoekenhull, perform
ed what is known as the lateral OPERA
ton of lithOtomy' on Lemuel Monroe, of
Forsyth county. The operation, though
a dangerous and difficult one. was per-
formed successfully, and two large CAL
evil, or stones, were extracted from the
bladder. One of the stones measured l
inch in it's shortest diameter and II
inches in its longest diameter; the. other a
fraction over L inch in Its shortest diane
ter and IL inches in it's longest diameter.
The patient is doing remarkably well.
A negro girl, 10 or 16 years old, on G.. T.
Belts place, IN Burke county, had her
clothing :ake fire one day last week.
Her mother caught her to put out the fire,
but the girl broke away and ran into the
yard. where lay a stout IA dog, about
grown. The dog sprang at the girl, whose
clothing was then in a blaze, and tore
away a part OF her clothing. The girl
broke loose, but the dog again sprang
upon her, tearing of her clothing, and
continued his efforts until all her clothing
was torn away, and if the girllives, which
IS doubtful, she owes her life to the sa-
gacity Of that dog, which had his mouth
and forefeet badly burned in his exertions
to ave her.
At Neville John Moore shot and killed
John Howard with a double barreled shot
gun Thursday night last, a few moments
after Howard had married. 1t seems th at
Howard and Moore were rivals for the
heart and hand of the same damsel. How
ard proved to be the victor and they were
married Thursday night as stated above.
Moore had previously warned the parties
If they married that they would never live
together as nan and wife. A few min
utes after the marriage Howard went to
the spring for a bucket of water. At the
same m Moore vas seen running
around the fence with a gun, and in a few
minutes the loud report of a gun was
heard, and Howard fell MORALLY wound
ed and died in two or three hours. Moore
made his escape. All were negroes.
A gentleman in Greensboro witnessed,
during the cold snap a few weeks ago, a
remarkable exhibition of affection of a cat
for her offspring. He says: "a mother
cat brought to the dwelling from an out
building a young kitten which was cold
and almost in a dying condition. She
placed her charge near the fire as tender
ly as a mother would handle her infant,
and would turn il about with the seeming
desire TO warm IL back to life. The kitten
hnally died-the mother cats Efforts TO
bring IL back to life failing-and it wasre-
moved and buried out Of her sight. She
at once brought in a second one, and after
treating IL as the first, succeeded in reviy-
ing 1t n saving its life. During her
efforts she would look up into the face OF
the lady Of the house, and by a whine
would seem to implOre assistance in pre-
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