The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-28

Man who Lived Ihlrty-IWo \ ears
Without Riding on a Train.
GEORGIA.
Carpenters are in demand in Fort Valley
The potato crop is said to be very fine il
Jasper county.
The round trip rate from Chicago to
Townsville this winter is $40.
The present school population of Newman
aggregates 9l0-439 white, and 40 colored,
The glass factory at Tallapoosa, which
was recently burned, is to be rebuilt OF
brick.
A fire company has been organized at
Tallapoosa. This is an outcome Of the
recent fire.
J. c. Scarborough announces himself a
candidate for reelection to the Office of
sheriff of Laurens county.
In 1854 one two-horse dray did the bust
ness for Fort Valley; now there are six
drays run for the benefit Of the public.
Last Tuesday night a thief entered the
drug store of DIR. j. B. Pendergrass at JEFF
ferson, and stole about $500 from his safe.
The Lexington Terminal railroad has
bought the old Baptist church at Crawford
and will move it to Lexington for a depot
d. L. Mayo of Mitchell had the misfor-
tune to lose his pocketbOok, containing $500
day.
Rev. T. H. Gibson, who has served the
Lexington circuit for the st two years,
goes to the asylum at Milledgeville as chap
lain.
A Camilla preacher was seen to board
the train few days ago with a cat in a
wallet and bundle of goat hides for bag
gage.
The brick work of the cotton factory
building at Newman will be completed in
about ten days, and it will then be ready
for the roof.
Col. John B. German will be at the Tai
bottom depot on Oct. 80 and 81 to receive
exhibits for the state fair. He will take two
carloads of exhibits to Macon.
On Saturday morning last J. M. William
son and Mark Hansford, two young men
who live near hometown, picked $50
pounds of cotton in four hours.
The authorities of Newman have surveyed
the lower end of Washington street, with a
view to widening, strengthening and other
wise improving that thoroughfare.
A new factory for the the manufacture
of tubs, buckets, barrels ETC., with $4,000
capital is among the probabilities at Bruins
wick. A sash, door and blind mandatory
is also on the taps.
Hon. Rufus Z. Lester, the democratic
nominee for congress from this district,
will address the people of Glynn county at
the court house in Brunswick, on Saturday,
Nov. 3, at IL o'clock at noon.
Near Watkinsville, Wednesday, D. B.
jackson, a county commissioner of Oconee,
was feeding his gin, and in some way his
hand was caught and badly mangled. II is
feared that the arm will have to be ampa-
tated.
Ed Iittleton of Americas says that the
proposed new line to Savannah is playing
havoc with his cane patch. Every survey
that is made runs right through the center
of it, and his loss, he thinks, will be ire
parable.
Albert Reese, a well-known colored man
of the community was arrested last Wednes-
day night for breaking open G. L. Smiths
distillery warehouse at Newman, and as he
was caught in the act it is apt to go pretty
hard with him.
Last week it was stated that it was ru-
mored on the streets at Watkinsville that
the court house would not be accepted, but
the rumor proved to be false and the county
commissioners met the contractor and archi-
tect ON Monday last and accepted the
building.
Kin Simmons, who pc sesses a hallucina
ton that a kinsman in England has left him
$4,000 900, was in Buena Vista a day OF
in the hands of Miller 81 Miller, and that
the junior member of that firm will soon &c
to England to bring back the treasure.
Two convicts, Dave Reeves of Dodge
county. and Paul Russell, from Darien, es-
capped from the camps at Gresston. Tn,
guard, who was on horseback, chased on,
of them to Gum swamp, but at that place
the horse fell, throwing the guard into tn,
creek. He then gave up the chase and re
turned to the camp.
A Mr.. Knight of Berrien county was Ii
Brunswick Thursday, and the day befor
was the first time he ever rode on the cars
He is a man 80 years old, has a nice it'll
farm, and with two horses makes sixty
bales of cotton per annum, raises lbs bushel
of corn, peas and pumpkins sufficient for hi
wants, lives at home and is happy.
On Saturday last Charles Baumgartne
of Brunswick lost fine horse, worth at leas
$3.50, and the superstition was that the hors
died of cholera. But Notwithstanding tn
horse has now been dead nearly a week, tn
buzzards refuse to satiate their appetite
from his carcass. 1t is thought by som
that the horse was poisoned, though b,
whom no one knows
Glynn county receives from the state edu
cational fund this year $500 more than sh
has ever received before. When the stat
officials pro rate the fund, the increases
valuation of property, the increased popu
lation and the number of pupils in tn
county are all considered, and Glynn's gooC
showing in this respect has gained her tn,
increased appropriation.
An OK belonging to Col. G. c. Duncan. O
Houston county, while grazing in fell
near Big Indian creek, was little sur
prised when an alligator caught hold Of ii
tail. Then ensued a rough and tumbl
scuffie, which ended only when the OK
tail was bitten off by the alligator. Tn
reptile returned to the water and the o.
scampered off over the plantation believing
at every jump.
A. J. Richards, formerly Of Carrolltor
but more recently of Hope, Ark, has bee
killed in that town by being stabbed Their
was a misunderstanding between Mr. Rich
ards and the man who killed him which re
suited in difficulty, in which Richard
shot the other man twice through the BODY
but after he was shot he cut Richards, Kill
ing him. The other man also died from tn
wounds received.
Talbotton Ne1C Era: r. G. Fryer CAV
TO j. b. German potato that looks so niue
like young duck that you can almost hea
it quack. The bill, head, neck and body ar
30 shaped as TO make the resemblance mos
remarkable. DIR. Philpot has given To MI
German sections of bush in which th
limbs are iointed as are the bones Of an arr
or leg. Mr.. Gorman's fair exhibit will cor
tain some curiosities that cannot be dupl
Gated.
At McDonough, ON Wednesday night,
thief raised the window Of Judge Boynton
i. al Al.