The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-08

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labors, and will retire.
Late on Tuesday evening, Clifford Young
a negro man, was put in the Guyt0n Jail, OIL
cala6o Sc, for safe keeping When The
marshal went TO carry him some breakfast
10, and behold his bird had vamoosed the
ranch, and the door was off its massive
hinges and leaning against the wall out
side. Some one had passed him wrench
with which he unscrewed the bolts that
fastened the hinges, lifted the door outside
and sto,e away.
Recently George Tucker of Irwin county
went TO the woods to feed his hogs, and
took his shotgun along. After feeding his
hogs, he attempted to mount young mule,
and in some manner his gun, which was
loaded with buckshot, was discharged, the
contents entering his thigh causing death
OH Aug. 81 from lockjaw Mr.. Tucker was
q son Of Rev Richard Tucker, formerly OF
Irwin county, but now residing in Polk
county, Florida
One of the trestles near Watkinsville, on
the Coyington and Macon railroad, was
washed away, and a short distance be tOnd
the water ru he'd through an embankment,
q d for quite distance only the iron and
crosstieS we're left hanging over large
chasm. The trestle WAS only q temporary
one, however, and can easily be replaced.
1t will require 80 ne work TO repair the fill,
| q iu III Will prODdDly ueiHg lne COHlplelloil
OF this road several days.
Capt. ". c. Davis of Perry has a Gordon
Eaglish setter dog that developed strange
appel te last Sunday morning This dog
was seen to take into his mouth, chew up
and swallow several pieces of glass. 1t was
noticed that he decidedly preferred pieces
of bottles, and that pieces of window pane
did not suit his tlste This dog is the same
that last wine carried Sindling splinters TO
! the door OF MS masters room and scratc led
! for admltta c. on cold MORNINGS
Workmen are bnsily engaged in repair
ing the track OF the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad where it was washed
nut Tuesday evening at Little Cotton
! Indian a d a few miles above. 1t is thought
that bv this evening The track will be in
| condition TO- running the through trains.
| Travel for the north or south IS not i'm
paded nor delayed BY this accident, as
arrangements were promptly made with
the Central railroad, and all passengers are
| transferre on arrival
The recent rains have greatly damaged
the cotton crop in Harris county. Some
! farmers say their cotton is cut off 25 per
cent, and OF 'ers say n great deal more.
| Walac3 Astlew, large planter, exhibited
seve al large, well fruited stalks of cotton
with nearly every boil on the stalk rotten,
d he says that he has sixty acres that
PROMISED an abund mt yield few days ago,
| that the whole sixty acres he will not get a
bale OF cotton on. The rot has not nurt
some Oh the larheS, Whlle o'herS nave peeh
conside ABLY damaged.
Two OF CatEden'I good citizens passed
away on Wednesday OF last week. John
Coin, an enterprisiug gentleman, doing a
| good tlmbe' bu inc s. aud apparently max
ing fair Roadway. accidentally fell from a
raft Of logs while towing them down the
canal. He struck the bacN of his head in
the Ia'i' ana suuh. ne was soon taken our
put was 9ea1. III Is supposed tne loK kllle'i
MN; hriuay AT @ ciock MT, hussIe"llue, OF
tne Irih Oh MuSS'ewnlte: pnh"ooy 20,
lell ueao WINE ~aIhihg III ms sUore at MAI
gram ne had hearV disease.
For about twelve months Green Phillips,
II years of age, who lives near Locust
Grove, Butts county. has had q cancer on
the back OF one of his bands. 1t has been
growing rapidly, and had not only de-
| stroyed the use OF his hand, but was eating
| his fingers of and causing him much suffer
ing, and on last Thursday DR.. organs of
Jackson was called IN, ana, after an exami-
natlon' IL was oeci 10 that amputalon was
necessary, am the hand was aulputated De
tween the wrist and me elbow. AT last
accounts MI fhi'hps was dong well
On Saturday night last Isaac Coe (colored)
|
| Moss coored) at or near McArthur's tur-
pentine works, in Long Pond district, il
| Montgomery county. Coe died from the
wound on Sunday afternoon. Coroner Nor
rison held an inquest over the remains on
Monday. The verdict of the jury was will
| full murder. Mos; had business elsewhere
! that was pressing, and has gone to soc
about it. Moss shot Coe from behind in the
dark, perhaps thinking it was another negro
with whom he had just had difficulty
about game of cards.
Last Monday night, Slack, a negro who
| has been working for Cook 81 Pound. in
| Cochran, knocked anol her negro on the
head with bar of iron, fracturing his
skull He was arrested and placed in the
| guard house by Marshal OVERLY. and on
| Tuesday evening made his ESCAPE. Upor
examination il was found that II was nc
| fault of the marshal that he escaped. The
| puard house was found to re 40 rottea tbat
| il would not hold ANYTHING. and all one had
to do was simply to push ont. The towr
authorities took immediate stems to have s
new and safe guard house built.
A sho-+ t;rna ago M,s Nosas Myars NJ
Athens was the r,cinient Of ha1dsom,
present from a friend in MexicO. Too ri [
was eight rieres of Mexican statuary made
entirely OF wax. Ech piece is about II
| inches high, representing some familiar
scene on the prairie, such as sudden attach
upon an equestrian by an Indian, a chaS,
after wild bull. Texas mustang in tht
act of leaping, and scene at the market