The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09

NEWS OF THE TWO SrATMs TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

AN FAhAthAF6 5s
A Rocking Chair That Churns-syrup
Preserved Best in Bottles-A Negro
Dangerously Injured by a Train
Disastrous Work of the Flames-A
Small Boys Plucky Fight With q
Hawk.
GEORGIA.
A cavalry company is to be organized at
cambridge.
One Oglethorpe farmer has $50 bales still
in the patch.
Real estate seems to have a strong up
ward tendency in every part of the state.
Fifty gallons a week is the whisky drink
ing capacity of one town in Oglethorpe, SO
tits said.
Rev. F. H. Gaines has accepted the pas
toral call to the Presbyterian church at
Decatur.
Over $50, 900 has been subscribed for the
new bank stock, and it is almost settled
fact that Quitman will have another bank.
The murder of W. j. Jones of Newton
county is still wrapped in mystery, and no
clsw as to who was the murderer has yet
been obtained.
In 1S41 casket was inferred in the Dub
lin cemetery in honor of William Henry
Harrison, who died a short time after he
was lnduSuraUeu 1reSlQent.
A young man named Cook was arrested
at cambridge, Wednesday. charged with
having forged a note on his father, living in
Miller county, and attempting to pass it on
a cambridge man.
"A. e. Mcdonald, a merchant of Coving-
ton, has failed. His liabilities are supposed
to be So 600 or $S,0 900, and his assets a, 900
or $1,000. mortgage for $4,000 was
levied on his stock of goods Friday.
The WhitseIt plantation, in the north
western part of Worth county, containing
,244 acres of land, was sold at public sale
at Isabella last Tuesday for $4,000 to
Toombs T. Morgan of Vienna, Dooly
county.
J. A. Reynolds, one of Tallapoosa's enter
prising young merchants, who runs a lum-
ber business in Northeast Georgia, has as
ISOLATED with him several gentlsmen, and
will at once proceed to establish q chair
mandatory at Tallapoosa.
The gin house of J. M. Dalton, who lives
two miles north of Dublin, has been de-
stroyed by fire, together with two bales Of
cotton and lot Of cotton seed. It is sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary. TIE
loss will amount to $500 or 81 200.
John H. Parnell, proprietor of the great
Parnell peach orchards, says: One variety
the R. E Lee-produced, in 1880, on seven
acres, $1,000 worth of peaches. On one
limb there grew sixty peaches, and it was
so heavy that it required two men to carry
it.
From one tree A. c.. Daniel of the
Cherokee Corner neighborhood, of Ogle-
thorpe county, has this season gathered
fourteen bushels of pecans. For these nuts
Mr.. Daniel finds a ready market, and the
profits from this one tree is as great as from
any one acre in cotton.
There is an agent in Monticello with
new patent churn, ia which the laborious
job which usually accompanies the churn
ing operation readily yields to the more
pleasant mode of sitting in a rookie, the
motion of which causes the "butter to |
come" in very few moments.
There is lime rock deposit below the |
earth's surface in some places in Southwest |
Georgia which is rich in marine shells and |
phosphate of lime. Decomposed bone can |
be discovered all through the mass. and |
there is great reason to believe that it is |
NEST excellent base for fertilizers.
The Quitman branch of the Iron Hall, |
having been in existence seven years, its |
members are entitled to draw 1000 each, |
less any amount they may have received |
for sick benefits. The money is few days |
overdue, but word has been received from |
headquarters that it will soon be forwarded. |
At 1890 O'Clock Friday morning, as the |
Wrightsvlle and Tennile passenger trai1 |
was rounding the curve at Peacock's cut, |
six miles from Tennille, the two box cars |
nearest the engine jumped the track The |
train had slowed up, expecting passengers,
consequently not great amount of damage |
was done.
w. A. Whitaker, of Troup county, has |
made 520 gallons Of ribbon cane syrup from |
one and quarter acres In addition to |
this he has bedded Is 600 stalks, which he |
will sell for seed The syrup is worth so |
cents gallon, or 1862 so, and the seed cane |
sells for about / u cents stalk. II all is |
sold, it will net him at least $50.
The matter Of forming a military com i
pany for Oglethorpe county is being consid- !
cred. Some of the best men of the county |
are favoring the move and talking it up, |
and something may come of it. The only |
drawback is the inability to procure the
states aid in furnishing arms, there already
being full quota of military companies in
the state.
At Griffin fire occurred Friday after
noon at O'Clock in the lint room of the
Griffin Guano Company's ginning depart
ment, and but for the prompt response to
the alarm by the colored hook and ladder
company. the immense building would
have been destroyed, and with it the large
negro church next to it. The loss will be
over $780,
Thursday night at about IL 80 o'clock.
at the shoals of Ogeechee, Warren county
n. Harper Coleman lost by fire his gin
house, two gins, new press, seven bales Of
packed cotton, 5000 pounds of seed cotton,
and about 2, 600 bushels of cotton seed be-
longing to different parties. 1t was with
difficulty that he saved his mill house. near
by. There was no insurance.
1t is reported at Uglethorpe that the Rev.
G. J. Williams, former pastor of the
Methodist church in that place, was acct
dentally shot at his home in Florida a few
days ago. He was out hunting birds, and
IN at empting to climb over fence a rail
broke and he fell, discharging his gun.
the load passing though his left wrist. His
physicians think he will lose the use of the
hand.
Not satisfied with a palatial club house.
now In course OF erection, Lexington's gun
club speaks Of purchasing 5000 or more
acres OF land somewhere in the county and
keep 1t as reserve, as the English term it.
Every precaution will be taken to keep un
invited hunters Off this land, and the game
thereon will be protected for the sport Of
the members Of the club and their guests.
The place has not been selected yet.
AT meeting Of the board of directors of
the Lexi0 gton Terminal railroad on Satur-
day night last Judge Samuel Lumpkin
rendered his resignation as a member Of
that board. Judge Lumpkin found that his
Official duties would not permit Of him Civ
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