The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-30

Wat Works and Electric Light
Pr, ,ects-A Boy Whipped to Death
f. Spalding County,
GEORGIA.
The prohibition law goes into effect in
Floyd county tomorrow night at IL o'clock.
South Rome is to have a municipal cleo
ton on Saturday, April Z. A new Mayor
and five Councilmen are to be elected.
w. H. Alderman, who accidentally shot
himself at Brunswick week before last, was
discharged Wednesday from medical care.
Social Circle is making preparations to
entertain large delegation at the Holiness
convention to begin April % and continue
until Sunday night following.
Miss Matte Marshall, of Oconee county,
is a lady of powerful strength, and it is said
can stand in a bushel measure and shoulder
two bushels of wheat without any trouble.
Andrew Burks, one of the small negroes
who knocked out the eye of a mule in AL
bany Saturday afternoon, was captured by
Officer James "Wednesday, and given fifty
lashes and turned loose.
Col R G. Mitchell, whose name has been
mentioned in connection with the next Con
gressional race in his district, publishes a
card in the Townsville Enterprise saying
that he is in no sense a candidate, and that
ne uoeS nOU expect 10 De.
A negro woman named Annie Hall living
near Rover, Spalding county, beat a young
stepson on Saturday so badly that he died
Tuesday morning. The Coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict that the death was caused
by the beating and exposure, and the
woman was taken to Griffin and put in
Jail.
Thursday fifty-five men voluntarily met
on the premises of n. K. Thompson, near
Monroe, whose property was badly dam
aged by the storm, and rendered valiant
service in clearing away the dead timber
that had fallen on cultivated lands aud re-
building barns and other necessary work,
caused by the storm.
Prof. White, of Athens, has made an ana
lysis of the water of Madison Springs
and it is shown to be equal to the best
Virginia mineral waters. This property is
owned by a company of Athenians, and was
a famous resort in ante bellum days, but
since the war has only been visited by pri-
vate families owning cottages there.
If the rain lasts much longer the damage
will be even greater than it is now estimated.
The farmers had about finished breaking up
their lands, which the freshet necessitates
being plowed over, and will greatly retard
the early crop. They will also have to pur
chase other fertilizers, as much of that
which was put in before the rains has been
washed into the swamp.
At Atlanta white paupers are buried by
negro undertakers. The matter is to be
brought before the City Council. Council
man L. B. Nelson, chairman of the Relief
Committee, said that the negro undertakers
were given the preference because they did
the work much cheaper than the white
undertakers. The negroes charge only 81 SO
for each body inferred, while the white I'M
0aJ~ta karc wouldn't tOtiob the rarnainS of q
pauper for less than $40.
The City Council of Albany has been dill
gent in investigating the probable cost of a
system of water works and an electric light
plant for the city, and their efforts have
been rewarded in the reduction of the posi-
bic cost to figure not regarded exhorbit-
ant. The two systems can be erected for
$40, 900 and possibly for $35, 600 The sys-
tenn of water works contemplated will meet
the requirements of the city for years to
come, and will afford as perfect protection
from fire as is possible.
At Albany Wednesday, Enoch S. Brown
proposed to the City Council that if the city
would furnish an eligible lot and put an
artesian well on it, he would erect a hotel
to cost not less than 800, 900, provided the
city would, in addition to furnishing the
site and artesian well, exempt the property
from taxation for a term of ten years.
Council decided that it had no authority to
appropriate money or levy a tax for such
a purpose, but resolved to make all effort
to meet Mr.. Browns proposition in another
way.
Augusta Ne,os: Gan the money you ever
handled couldn't buy that little piece of
paper" With that he handed me a mani
fold soiled scrap on which | could at first
see nothing. AT length l deciphered in
rude, disjointed letters the two words:
Dear Papa" He had discovered it in the
playhouse of his lit lie daughter who died
only few days ago Some time when, in the
midst of her play, her little heart had turned
toward him she had scrawled these two
words-and then, having borne testimony
OF her love, throw the paper away.
Prof Blasingame, of Monroe, has intro
duced new feature in his school On Mon
day morning he places ten or fifteen cues
tions on the board, which remain until
Friday evening, when they are answered by
the pupils in general exercise. They en-
brace questions on history, physiology,
grammar, geography ,'arithmctic, etc. A few
of the questions on the board the previous
week were: "Why does black slate penc |
make a white markF "Why is child's
face plump while an old mans is wrinkledY p
From whom did the United States pur-
chase Alaskal Whenl What priceY' "Since
all the rivers run into the sea, why does it
not overfiowl" what per cent. of the
year 1888 is the month of MayG'
Last Friday afternoon, near Camps sta
ton, Walton county, Frances Simmons. a
young negro girl, met a horrible death.
Her clothing caught while she was firing
some brush heaps, and in two hours she was
q corpse. The scene of the accident was
the river bank, about a quarter of a mile
from the house of Joe Simmons, the girls
father. Frances was there alone at work.
and her father heard her distressful cries
for help, the first he knew of any harm
having befallen her. When her clothing
became ignited, the girl made a wild dash
for the house, and when nearly there crazed
from fright and pain, she turned again
toward the river bank, and before she
reached it fell, and when found was
wretchedly burned and almost in the agony
of death.
The Griffin correspondent of the NEWS
wrote on March % as follows: THE severe
cold wave that visited Middle Georgia last
week ian account of which appeared in the
NEWS was followed by freshet. The rain
began Sunday, and has been falling steadily
and continually. The rainfall has been i'm
mense, and only the oldest inhabitants re-
member harder rain TO have fallen The
sidewalks have great gullies washed across
them, while the amount of damage done the
streets cannot as yet be estimated The
truck gardens in the suburbs are WASHED
badly, and the seed that was Just comm
up has been literally beaten down and COY
cred with mud and sand. ] he streams are
rising rapidly, and great damage is cx-