The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-30
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
A Negroes Head Crushed by a Lumber
Wagon at Smithv:ne- Singular Death
of Colt Near Gray Negro Fa-
tally Shot While Stealing Corn
Lightning's Work Near Macon,
GEORGIA
A military company is being organized at
Valdosta.
The clerks Of Washington are getting up
barbecue to be given at Alexander Z spring
next Thursday.
A plot to effect an escape from the Jail at
Macon was nipued in the bud Saturday
Several prisoners were involved.
There is a man in Terrell countrywide has
traded horses 200 times. aud nOw he has
horse worth at least s25 for his cuteness.
Many citizens of MarShallville have called
on the town auth rltieS for protection
against the baleful exhalations from the de-
caYing 'cuke'
Deputy Collector CAN'T Of Athens has re-
ceived applications for license for two fruit
distileries, one from Ebert and one from
Greene county.
JEFF McClesky, street car conductor of
Atnels, has had one of his ribs br oxen by
boys whom he was attempting TO whip for
jumping on his car.
A Macon butcher named Hamlin shot a
negro who was stealing from his corn patch
Friday night. 1t is reported that the negro
has died from the wound received.
There was fire on the old Dupree place
on Fish creek near Rockmart, Thursday.
1t burned the dwelling house occupied by
Charles Statham and one out house.
. q "a.
new railroad is Colorado. the second La
Conte, the third Jewett, the fourth Ok
moor, the fifth Dakota, the sixth Mineola.
A coiored man who drives a lumber
wagon for Capt. F. NJ. Heath, fell under the
wheels at Smithvi.le Friday and had his
head badly crushed. He was stu alive at
last accounts.
The district primaries in Lowndes county
meet next Saturday, Aug. T. to select del0-
gates to the senatorial and county conven-
ton to nominate candidate for the senate
and the house.
A young gentleman in Valdosta caught
two young squirrels the other day-and he
turned them loose. Tney turned out to be
skunks There was something worse than
the laugh on him.
Some one fired q pistol ball into DR..
Lang's residence, at Valdosta, last Thurs
day night about midnight The ball entered
the front side of the house few inches be-
low the window sill, but hit nobody.
H. S. Greaves of Grays had the msfor-
tune last Tuesday to lose a fine 2-vear-old
FLY which he priced very highly. He
had hitched her up for the first time, and
while driving along she reared up and fell
dead
Capt B. D. Lumsden, who has kept an
account of the lightning strokes that have
come under his observation, in less than
sixty miles of Macon, during the last two
months, says there have been killed by
lightning six persons and fonr mules; three
barns struck, two Of which were bu rned,
and three houses struck, and one burned.
Within the last ten days there has been
a great falling off in the cotton crop pros
pect in Calhoun county. Good judges say
that there will not be over half of an
average crop made. This falling off is due
to lack of rain. the presence Of rust and
caterpillar. OF the latter two scourges,
however, rust is doing the greatest dam.
age.
At Valdosta some one bent on mischief
of very serious kind, applied kerosene and
a torch to u wooden house on Patterson
street, occupied by Thomas Jones as a res
taurant, last Tuesday night. The lncendI-
AIRY attempted his work early in the night,
about IL o'clock, but Crancy Geiger hap
pened along before the flames got beyond
control.
A couple Of depraved young men who
live near Canton procured some sort of a
paper, which they represented to two young
ladies as being marriage licenses, and then
got lone of the boys" to pronounce the
ceremony which the girls thought made
them man and wife, and in this way the
scoundrels are reported as having accom-
plished their desire.
During heavy rain at Athens Friday
lightning struck the stable of Mrs Thur
moEd in Cobbham, killing one of her car
rage horses and badly injuring the other.
The stable was set on fire but il was soon
extinguished The lightning also struck
horse in front of Joe Jennings, and large
tree in front of DR.. Hunnicutt's residence in
Cobbham. The large oak tree in the front
yard of Maj Stanley was also splintered
TO pieces by one of the numerous flashes of
electricity.