Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,,uwsOFTHETWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

NO
fort Valley Burglar Gets Caught
in a Chimney.
GEORGIA.
Andrew Jefferson, colored man OF
Taftnall county, had corn tassels on May
10.
linn Hill, of Warren county has been
truck bv lightning three times, drowned
syiee. and shot twice. and still lives.
Last Friday morning a negro cabin was
b,rned ND on the Lester place in Sumter
county. Everybody in it was consumed.
Tho new BetheI.Baptist church, recent
10 completed and located about tive miles
northwest OF Dawson, was dedicated sun
dsv Rev. DIR. Ryais, OF Mercer University,
nreaching the dedication sermon.
Milledgeville was visited Tuesday after
noon by the heaviest rain storm OF the
eeasou. z. j. Cline's store was hooded
nv water from the roof. The damage is
e;timated to be between 81, 500 and $4,000.
II was reported at Americas Tuesday
+bat Mr.. Hitchcock and Bill Hobbs had
had fight IN Hitcheock's yard, in Sumter
county. last Saturday. Hobbs was pretty
bsdIv used up, and two doctors were with
him all day Sunday.
Young McCiendan, who shot himself at
Macon Sunday. seems to be getting along
1serv we'll. and there is little doubt as to
his ultimate recovery. 10 his uncle,
wbo has always had his confidence, he
refused to talk on the subject Of the shoot
ing.
The mills of the Liberty County Land
and Lumber Company, at J0scelyn, have
shut down. The Messrs. PaDOt have
given M the mills, and j. X. Clarke, rep
Tesenting the company, is in possession.
inn, a fnrnriap and
it's suspei -pn has thrown many out of
employn
While IA Rome a few days ago lobe
Jackson. the willy mountaineer and al
legged dynamlter, had his picture struck.
One of his friends had written to Fox, of
the Police Gazette, few days before that
and asked how much he would give for a
likeness of Tobe. The answer was $50,
and last Saturday the photograph was
sent.
Ex-Ordinary James c. Luke, of Able
vile, happened to a serious accident Mon
day. He was riding through the woods
driving up sheep, Looping his horse.
The horse stepped in a gopher hole and
fell and threw him over his head, break
ing three of his ribs. AS Mr.. Luke is an
old man it Will take some time for him to
recover.
A little negro boy who attends to the
street car mules at Athens became reli-
gious and Joined the church Sunday, He
said that he never Intended to tell lie
again Superintendent Dorsey concluded
he would put him to the test, and asked
MIN 10 tell who it was that stole lot of
street car tickets. The little negro owned
up that he had got them and said his con-
science had been troubling him about it.
There was a hungry country negro at
store at Athens Tuesday who bought two
boxes of sardines and ate them up in a
short time. Mr.. Williamson asked him if
he had enough, and the negro said he
could eat three more boxes if any one
would pay for them. Mr.. Williamson
opened them and the negro finished the
three boxes, drank the oil and went off
happy.
The trial of Alderman J. @. Word came
m before the City Council at Griffin Tues
day. After a lengthy trial and hearing
OF all the evidence, the Council, by an
almost unanimous vote, passed the fol-
lowing resolution: sit is the sense of
this Council that Alderman Word had
acted lndiscreetly on the night OF April
o. and thereby deserves the censure of
the Council"
At a negro meeting in Oconee Sunday,
the preacher and some of his flock got to
arguing ON the prohibition question, and
the parsOn got so mad that he went into
the church and mad three of his deacOns
turned out on account of their being in
favor OF whisky. This enraged the dea-
cons so much that they got up following
and went in the church and turned the
preacher out and locked the door.
WaycrOss is now enjoying the greatest
religious revival in its history. The
Methodist church Is filed three times
day with an anxious crowd of worship
ers. More than fifty have applied for
membership, and no signs yet of abate-
ment. Many who have joined the church
are what Is known as the hardest cases of
the tnNn. 1t was estimated that more
than 500 neOple were turned away from
the church on Sunday, unable to obtain
seats. The pastor, Rev. E. M. Whiting,
is assisted in this glorious work by Rev.
7. II. Crumples, of Balm bridge.
teAt Fort Valley Monday night an at
mpt was made to burglarize Il. o.
Miller L. CO.'S store. A grown man hired
small negro boy to descend the chimney
from the top Of the house and open the
back door, promising him 80 cents and
half he carried away ter his services. The
boy went down the chimney successfully
until he reached the flue near the fireplace.
He found the space too small for him to
get out and it was impossible for him to
get back. SCOT commenced falliDgOn him
and he came very near sutfOcating, but as
soon as be could scream he did so. 1t was
some time before be could make any one
hear him, and when assistance did reach
him he begged piteously to get him out as
quick as possible, for be was nearly dead.
he was put IN the lookup and will be
tried.
On May II an inquest was held by
coroner Nell on tine body of VIM. Il.
fucker, within two miles of the grave
yard at Reidsville, where an inquest was
neld but five days before on the body of
niteman; and, strange TO say, the alter
cauon IN which Tucker became engaged,
and which led to his death, was but a
snort distance from the graveyard, and
occurred on the day of the Whlteman in
quest. Tucker and his wife were engaged
IN family brOil. Mrs. fuckers mother,
an Old woman OF perhaps 90 years, be-
came party tothe quarrel, and having
KNIFE with the blade about 81 inches
iOng, something like spring-back
ark, stabbed Tucker under the
Liglt short rib, penetrating the dia-
phragm, and grazing the liver. Tucker
fingered from Thursday until the follow
iirng Monday about p. m, when he died.
Inls makes tine fourth homicide COM
ihltted III that neighborhoOd during the
iast y months. At the close of the pre-
urinary trial Of Mrs. Mary y. Dawson,
On May IA, for the killing of her son-in-
Jaw, the Justice decided that it was a
ease OF voluntary manslaughter, and
"Aed the amount OF the bond at $1,000.