The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-23

lars. Dolly Hardwick. Frank Woodward
and Park Woodwar d are the names Of thret
youths, ranging in age from 10 TO IS years
who entered the shoe store OF Eve s. Cox
IN that city, Tuesday night, and carried of
shoes, strings, brushes, backing and button
hooks The store was entered through g
window in the shoe shop in the rear OF tbs
store proper. After taking as many goods
as they wished they left, and the theft
would probably have never been known had
not the boys told another the day after that
they had played hockey the night before
The Albany woodeaware and variety
works has been organized with a paid VI
capital to start with Of $4,000, which viii
be increased as needed. They will manu-
facture tubs, buckets and well buckets. Mr.
| j. b. Holmes has been appointed manager
/ be is thoroughly conversant with the in
| dustry. The other officers are d. II. Pope
| president. Nelson Tiff, vice president; NJ
| Weslosky, secretary and treasurer. The
works VIII he located just beyond the city
| limits, upon the Southwestern railroad
| Work upon it will be commenced as soon as
they can have the side track arranged to
their location.
Some thirty-fve or forty carloads of mel
ons have been sent of from Camilla so far
this season Very few returns of sales have
been made Some few sales have been re-
ported, from 800 to s135. There bas been
some complaint Of unripe melonsI that is,
among the first shipments. The growers
| have been in too great a hurry, thereby
| crOwding the season. Heretofore the ship
ments were quite early enough, and really
! too early for the northern markets, and
this season the shipments were several days
IN advance of any year before this. The
short of last year.
|
| Saturday by II. S. Tolbert a limb taken
| from a red haw bush growing in his yard
which had fruit on it very much resem-
| bling the pear The fruit was some larger
| than the haw, and was shaped and looked
| ike the pear, except il had a rough exte-
rior Part Of the fruit on the tree be saws,
is the ordinary haw, while a goodly portion
| seems to be a mixture Of the haw and pear
| The only way Mr. Tolbert can account for
| the seeming mixture of the two fruits is
! that the pear and haw trees grow very
| close together and the branches of each are
| mingled with the other. He is anxiousy
waiting Ior the fruit to ripen to see what It
really is.
The Western and Atlantic railroad has
returned statement Of its receipts and ex-
| pendltures TO the comptroller-general for
| the year ending May !, 1855, as follows:
! Gross receipts.-From freights of all kinds,
| 1886 4l6 So; from tickets OF all kinds, S2S9,
| $40 s.; from rents Of lands and buildings,
! 4,20S "a; from leases of all kinds, 81, 500:
/ from the postofflce department for carry
| ing United States mails, O,O75 10; from
| the Southern express company for carrying
express, Sl3, 3l5 81; from all other sources,
| <60I %. Total receipts, 81, 30j, $50 "a Ex-
! pendltures. Of all officers and en-
| ployes, S47l ,g33 SO; wood, cross-ties and
tlmbers, S24,3l 40; legal claims, sl2, 355 80;
taxes, Sll,3 OF: on account of track iron,
| 1904 80; cars and engines, 500, l05, depots
| and bridges, sll,ll3 80; for stationery and
| printing, $lS,073 81: for loss and damage,
freight and stock, $40, 1872 so; for coal Tor
engines, S90,57S Oh; for oil, tallow and
waste, S23. 647 n; for water stations, So
COS l6; for rental paid state OF Georgia,
$500, 900; for all other expenditures, Sl0l, :
373 IA Total ordinary expenses, 81 no.
GIG 10; which, deducted from the receipts.
leaves sl95, OLA o., TO be taxed at Il of per
cent. The tax on the net income will be
1915 %.
| Cherokee Adrdnce: A few weeks ago it
was stated that one Jim Smith had induced
a Miss Martha Holcombe to leave her home
IN COBB county and go with him to parts
unknown, and that warrant had been
| sworn out for Smith, charging him with
| kidnapping. On Saturday evening last,
while passing through town, Sheriff
Kitchen apprehended them and put Smith
IN jail The young girl had become so COM
| pletely infatuated with Smith that it was
with difficulty that she could be kept out of
the cell. Smith claims he did not know
that warrant had been sworn out against
him, and that he and Miss Holcombe were
married in Tennessee few days ago. Some
| four years ago Smith aud a young woman
| in Alabama were MARI d, but soon after
separated. Smith says she ran off to Texas
with another man and there died about two
years ago. Under this statement, which is
corroborated to some extent by other per-
sons and circumstances, the brothers of the
young lady consented to his release, pro-
vided he and their sister did not live to-
gether until the truth Of his last marriage
aud the whereabouts Of his first wife can be
definitely settled. Accordingly he was re-
leased, and the twain each went their way
a sadder but wiser couple than when they
ran off together few weeks ago.
Atlanta Constitution. Yesterday morn
ing, on the Western and Atlantic railroad
near Tunnel Hill, an Atlanta darkey named
Morton Jones was killed. The death oc-
CURED in the tunnel. 1t seems that three
darkeys, Jones being among them, started
through the tunnel a few minutes before
the southbound train was due They had
gone about halfway through when the train
came laundering into the tunnel All three
ran for their lives, and one succeeded in
getting out of the tannel few feet in adj
vance Of the train. The other two were
caught within a foot of each other, and
within a mort distance of the mouth of the
tunnel They screamed as the train struck
them. AS soon as the train could be stopped
help was sent back, and by the light of the
lantern the two men were found on opposite
sides of the track. Both men were uncon-
scious Jones had both legs broken and
there was hole in the foreheai
just over the left eye. He was
badly injured internally. The other
man bad an arm broken and was covered
with bruises. He is thought to be fatally
injured. They were both carried back to
the station, short distance from the tun-
mel. 1t was seen at once that Jones was
dying, so no amputation was performed
At 1890 his wife, in Atlanta, received a
dispatch stating that her husband was in
jured. She was given pass and left at
once for Tunnel Hill Her husband was
dead before she could reach him, aud she
came back with the corpse on the next train
to Atlanta. She had no money, and as she
is stranger in Atlanta she was in great
distress, being unable TO have her husbands
body taken from the depot. AT the station
house she was given money TO have the
body taken home. 1t Is probable that Jones
will be buried at the expense of the county,
as the wife says she has no money.
FLORIDA.