The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-27
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


rying Away Br;dges-A Minister'S
Fall from Grace Drives His Wife to
the Verge Of Suicide.
GEORGIA
A new schoolhouse i, being built at Mote
yuma.
A Onitman firm shipped $40 dozen eggs
to Jacksonville Tuesday.
The time has arrived when tirst-class
hotel is a necessity for Quitman.
The Quitman Herald has become the
official organ Of Brooks county.
Treasurer Hardeman, says, that Athens
city bonds could be fioated for per cent.
W. c. Hay, ST., died in Cuthbert Sun
day night, Feb. 10, of softeniug of the
brain.
Gov. Mcdaniel and his son are doing a
fine law practice ut their home i'll Walton
county
About 100000 feet Of timber will be
measured at the boom, at Darien, during
this month.
Twenty-eight persons Joined the order of
Good Templars in Washington county dur
ing the past two weeks.
FsPresident Atwood has called a special
meeting of the Mcintosh Agricultural So
ciety for Saturday, March 10.
The first quarterly conference of the Mt
be held at Mt. Vernon March II and is,
A few farmers who were in Athens Fri
day, stated that the streams around Athens
We're rising, and carrying off small bridges.
Capt. John II. Reece, of Floyd county,
has been prominently spoken OF in connec-
ton with the Democratic nomination for
Congressman from this district.
Four hundred acres of melons will be
planted adjacent to the l7Smile turnout in
v4.,4 ham
125 acres were planted in chat section.
A prominent prohibitionist said the other
day that he thought there was no question
of the fact that there would be a prohibi-
ton campaign in Wilkes county this year.
W II. Parkins, of Atlanta, will move his
family TO Calhoun county next 1all for per
manent residence, and will put plans on
foot to build "a handsome school building at
Whitney.
Capt P E. Boyd, Of Calhoun county, is
one of the most extensive farmers in
Georgia He runs between ninety and 100
plows and will use about 700 tons of fer
filters this year
The wives of the two editors of the Quit
man Herald were schoohmates in the Bap-
tist College at Cuthbert hey had a reg
ular jubilee a few days since when they
met and discovered their relationship.
The rice-planters on the Alamaha will be
0edfQ from AT Jne next Macon oJdIe fdf.
President w. j. Northen, of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, will visit Da-
rien and other sea-cOaSt cities before long
Mrs Susan Higganbotham of the Mount
Zion community, Wilkes county, will be
ninety-three years old the 4th of next
March. She, at this extreme old age, until
recently has been able to attend to her
household duties.
George Lowe crossed over the Worley
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jay, last Monday, and little while after
he crossed the bridge fell in, making a
wreck of the entire property. He would
have been killed if he had been on it.
John A. Logan, who shot Mrs Elliot at
the cross roads in Wilkes county, surren-
dered himself to the officers Judge Bar
nett released him on $500 bond. His
bondsmen were Messrs. Vince Booker,
Thomas Albea, B. D. Butler, NJ. A. Pharr,
Jr., and DR.. Lyndon.
A ruInor to the effect that Hon. w. T.
Macarthur had made over all his property
to his brother, which surprised citizens
of Montgomery county week or two ago,
turns out to be an unfounded and malicious
SANDER, put in circulation for the purpose
of scandalizing and injuring him.
Mrs. Nette Keasler attempted suicide at
Toccoa Wednesday by taking morphine
She was saved by doctors. Her husband
was once a clergyman, but liquor brought
him to very disgraceful condition. While
his wife's life hung in the balance he took
an oath that he would never drink again
and the couple are full of hope for the
future.
Deputy Sheriff Holder caught thief in
Cuthbert a few nights ago, negro who i,
supposed to be one of the gang or an accom-
place, that broke into the depot at LumpkiI
last fall, and stole a lot of express packages
box of jewelry, pistol, an overcoat. etc
and rifed two or three trunks of ladie:
clothing.
Larry Abraham, one of the witnesses il
behalf of Henry Turner, at Cuthbert, is de
cidedly praying man, if his statement il
court last Tuesday may be believed. II,
says that he gets up two or three time
every night for the purpose of "havin
prayer" His wife seemed to be entirely ig
norant of the prayer performance except
at bed time.
Last weeks rains caused food in Stew
art county. The Columbus mail carrier
could get no further than the small creel
just beyond the Hannahatchee creek, the
bridge at that place having been WASHED
away. He reports the water at the Hanna
hatchee at one foot below the bridge on the
Green Hill road, and waist deep on tn,
turnpike approaching the bridge
Mr. and Mrs William Witherington,
husband and wife near Naylor, in Lowndes
county, died last Sunday. Their son, Johr
Witherington, n years old, died on Thurs
day last, and Mrs. Santerfeit, their daugh.
ter, is not expected to live, and two of the
younger children are lying quite i'll. They
were all sick with the fever of the same
type, and it was doubtless from some local
cause.
J. R. Van Buren,, of Griswoldville, ha,
the contract to furnish all the cross-ties fol-
the Covington and Macon road, the entire
line from Macon to Athens All the cross
ties needed to complete the road TO Madison
will be cut on the lands of Mr. Van Buren,
and he has 100 able-bodied hands daily Al
work, who cut as rapidly as the construc
ton force can lay the ties, and they are
being laid at the rate of one mile per day
which takes about 2.67S ties These ties are
cut from the best of yellow pine.
At Valdosta about IL o'clock on Thursday
night during hard rain some of Mr. Terry
family gave an alarm, asserting that there
was another earthquake. Mr. Terry ros,
and got lantern to examine thu premises
and he found that the gate had been lef
open, and an cid COW had entered the yarc
and crawled ue der the house for shelter
How she got under he could not tell, bu
she could just stand up the long way be
tween the sleepers, and was jarring the
house with her back and horns. He coulC
not oct her out and he had TO get a spade