Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-02

year 20 W "a J! VI. " ere II not I'D L DIuf
county Is now improving the RoR HON"
properly its rate might be reduced, hut
until tbat ia done the per cent. will
amount IN the same. Bib county's quota
:or the building of the state capitol
amounts to over S., 900. As soon aG that
ls removed the taxes Will either lac re-
dueed that much or tho Bibb county
treasury Will be enriched that much. The
county tax this yc0r is 81 cents per 500.
Dalton Citizen: The nuttin2 season is
mere, and gay parties HE to the woods
every pleasant afternoon in quest %
chestnuts, chtnquepins, hickory nuts and
nazels. AS the crop OF nuts Is large thjs
season, 1t ls no unusual thing for toese
parties TO return after a few hours with
baskets amply ladened. BY the way. the
habIt OF cutting the limbs from the chest
nut trees in order 10 secure the FRUIT
should be stopped. Where mauT OF the
l'mbS are Topped Oh the tree dies and,
even though it survives the mutilail1n,
the succeeding crop Of nuts will be greatly
diminished. Unless this useless deStruc-
ti0a censos the chestnut tree viii soon be-
come extinct from the Georgia forests.
Every effort should tend to preserve the
tree, not to destroy it,
a bloody cutting affray occurred at the
CnYington and Macon commissary
Thursday. The commis$ary is located
about one and halt miles from
Roberts Staten. Thursday a negro
aud a white man who were at work
on the road had some words early in the
day. The negro used some insulting
words 10 the white man, and the latter
left HIM and walked away. At dinner
time. when the hands had knocked of,
the white man walked up to the negro,
and after some words he plunged a long
knife into The negro's side, wrenched it
cut through the flesh and stabbed him in
the back or the neck, nearly cutting his
head If, IL. then shutup his knife, put
it in his pocket and walked off down the
road. IL is thought the negro will die.
Neither party's names could be ascer-
taiBeG.
At 1909 Twiggs street, Augusta, a shoot
in2 scrape occurred Thursday, in which
Ed Darby was shot in the neck on the left
side By his brOther-in-law. Willie Ford,
"hO is now in jail. Ford was occurring
to his wife about running to church
nightly and beng escorted home by her
single female acquaintance. His wife
was ni.hiy Indignant about her husbands
talk, and tnld Ed Darby, her brother. Ed
went MP to the house on the night that
the tracas occurred, and, with knife in
hand, demanded satisfaction. Ford
thought it was uncalled for and refused to
comply with his request ana M that time
Darby jumped towards Ford with his
knI!e IN an attitude TO strike, but the
to~ was knocked off by Ford's wife
Jumping between the two. After the wo-
man had gone short distance Darby
made another attempt to strike, and
as he did so, Ford pulled his pistol, a
tbirty-two caiiDre tive-shOOter, from his
POCKET and tired. The ball entered Darby's
neck and came out back of his head.
AT Sparta Thursday afternoon, during
the space Of two hours, between | and
O'Clock, while the sun was shining its
brightest, what appeared to be meteOric
shower was seen. Bright things, spark
like, appeared darling about through the
atmosphere, seeming to come principally
from about the sun, and visible only III
that part Of the heavens in which the SUI
was shining. Ii was visible to the peo-
pie at least throughout the area OF sew
erai square miles. The ploWman stopped
his piUW; the cotton picker raised up from
bis shopping positton; the house.
wife lett her domestic tasks;
the scholar came out from his
literary retreat, and for awhile the ma
chinery of business ceased to weave.
Every one came out to look at this Won
deriul phenomenon. smoked glasses, field
glasses and the naked eye were all In
rpqulsitiOn. Many persons were very
much excited. 1t was, however, finally
determined that the bright particles seen
were only pollen, thistledOwn and the
like borne about on the light air, though
very little II any breeze was stirring.
One of the most singular accidents
known among railroad men occurred
Thursday afternoon between FORSYTH and
Smarr's station, on the Macon aud West
ern railroad. When the freight train due
in Macon at 5:25 passed Forsyth one OF
the rear wheels OF a fiat car loaded with
coal mounted the rail while running over
the frog. This was seen at Forsyth, but
there was no way of informing the engi-
neer, who, having heavy train, did not
notice anything unusual. The train hand
on the rear OF the train knew that the
wheel was of, but, the bell line being
broken, mad no means of letting the fact
he known 10 the engineer. Finally, after
the ira had gone distance OF six
miles, track overseer saw the mis-
placed wheel and succeeded in max
ing the engineer understand by his
signalling that there WAS something
wrOng. When the train stopped IL was
found that the tangC Of the wheel had
bean humping along on the crosstles and
had cut OFT the heads OF the spikes for Il
distance of three miles, causing tue track
TO spread. A man was then sent up the
TOdu W warn Tue Train Nuc Ill
Macon at O'Clock. The section hands
and all available hands were put to work
driving down new spikes. The passenger
train, by running slowly over the track,
managed to get over, aud arrived in Ma
con at 9:30-two and half hours late.
The freight train arrived a short time be-
fore, The wheel having been put in It's
proper place.
FLORIDA,