The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS,

GEORGIA.
Over s, 900 has been subscribed toward
building a new church at Crawford.
Col w. w. Cato announces himself as a
candidate for the office of tax collector of
Troup county.
Green Lewis of Cairo has sold his pear
crop of between 800 and 1000 bushels for
80 cents per bushel.
Richard A Newsom of Greene county is
dead. He was for a number of years priCr
to his i'll health county officer OF Greene
county.
A cucumber 20 inches long and weighing
two and half pounds is among the curt
osites of the vegetable world grown at
Montezpgsa.
The corps of civil engineers, including
two sons of Col. Virgil A. Powers, who are
surveying the line of the Eatonton and
Madison railroad, have reached Madison.
The Athens Graphic prints very good
picture of Hancock and labels it Cleveland.
1t is difficult to tell who the prominent
Georgian is who is palmed off as Thurman.
There will be called meeting of the
Houston county farmers alliance at Perry
on Saturday next to select delegates to the
state alliance convention to be held in At
lanta June 81.
A petritied starfish was picked up near
Limestone creek in Houston county a day
or two ago. As the starfish is a salt water
shell fish the finder is unable TO account for
this specimen being found in Houston.
A station has been established at ]. o.
Watson's on the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad. 1t is named Oston, and
a school house and other building will be
erected there as soon as crops are laid by.
A postoffice will also be applied for.
Rev. Joseph Jones and bride passed
fnrnnUh EpIHau 10Th N
Cartersville, the home Of the groom. Mr..
Jones was married at Spartanburg on
Thursday, to Miss Bessie Farrow. Mr.
Jones is brother of Sam Jones, the re-
vivalist.
The democrats of Fayette county assem-
bled in mass meeting Friday for the pur-
pose of electing new democratic execu-
tive committee, and also to elect delegates
TO the gubernatorial convention. Resolu-
tions were adopted advocating the re-elec-
tion of Congressman Stewart.
Charles Everett of Covington has a mon
strosity in a blooded Plymouth Rock
chicken 1t has one well developed wing
on one side, while on the other it is per
fectly smooth, with no indication as to
where the wing should have been. The
little chick is about month old, and has
quite thrifty appearance.
On Monday morning last, between mid
uJRub anu Ody, at Inc Cdtlp Vi NUlleS DIOS.,
near Greenwood, some negroes were gam
bling when two of them quarreled and
came to blows, one of them shooting the
other in the hip The negro that did the
shooting left immediately and has not been
caught. The wounded man is not hurt Sc
riously and will soon be up again.
Jordan Morris, living near the line of
Milton and Cobb counties, was in G. C..
Kiser's store, in Marietta, last week, and
.. L, l. IL l.. I.
never taken a chew of tobacco nor smoked
a cigar OF pipe, never was drunk, never
swore an oath, never was married, has been
member of the Methodist church forty
years, and came to that section in 1885.
Politics are exceedingly quiet in Lowndes
county No candidate has appeared for
representative, but there are two or
three aspirants for the senate
from that the sixth senatorial
district. Under the rotation system, this is
Berrien county's time to name the senator.
William Roberts and Col. Henry Peoples
are pronounced candidates. The race for
the solicitor generalship of the southern
judicial district will not excite so much in
terest as the contest in some other circuits
of the state. The Hon. Daniel w. Rountree,
the present incumbent, will have little, If
any, opposition.
Mrs. Flo Love, a widow, runs a one-mule
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county. She is SO years of age, and has
with her three unmarried daughters, Misses
Rebecca, Lucinda and Kittie. They rent
the land, hire no help, and do all their own
work. Last year they made 8 bales of
cotton, 200 bushels of corn, 200 bushels of
peas, 500 bushels of oats, killed 800 pounds
of pork, have herd of ID cattle and milk 3
cows. Mother and daughters belong to
Liberty Hill Methodist church. All are
happy and entirely out of debt Mrs. Love
has reared nine children, all married except
three. and Is now raising one grandchild
and little orphan girl of no relation.
Henry Queen went from jug Tavern to
the war, and for sixteen years after his
parents never heard from him and supposed
him dead. At last he came to see them
He had become a leading engineer on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, where he
was doing well, having married and made
his home at Bowling Green, KY. Since
making his first visit he had contributed
literally toward the support Of his aged
parents. Some time last winter his mother
died, and he had prepared and shipped to
jug Tavern q neat tombstone to mark her
grave. 1t arrived few days ago to be
placed in position before her funeral, which
was to be preached next SUNDAY at which
he was expected, but by the explosion of
the boiler of his engine, only few days
ago, he was instantly killed.
About fifteen years ago Col. Willingham
of Albany was putting up a mill at the
Blue spring. The carpenter having the
work in charge generally footed it from
Albany every morning, eating his break
fast at home and taking his dinner bucket
along. This mechanic was fond of
buttermilk and generally took about half
gallon in big green bottle, which he
corked tightly and hung by string in the
cold waters Of the spring until dinner time.
One day he hung his bottle as usual, but
when he went for it at noon 1t was missing,
and the string broken The poor fellow
thought as a matter of course that some son
of Ham had got it, A few DAYS afterward
Tom Clark was fishing down the creek and
came upon an immense rock fish bursted
''clean" open, and pieces Of the buttermilk
bottle lying all about. Toms theory is
that the rock swallowed the bottle, the but
termilk effervesced and the fish was q
goner.
Friday afternoon James Wallace, q young
white man aged ~, living on the farm Of
]. 4. Dent, eight miles west of Newman
was taken to town by his father anC
brother, securely tied, and confined in Jail
he having exhibited signs of madness
Whilst blowing on the farm, and with
out any cause whatever, he attacked
his brother with a large rock, knocking
him senseless, and he lay unconscious fol
an hour. Going to the house he attack &c
his father, infiicting severe wounds on hi
head with rock and then terribly heai