The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-17


Galloway YVES pastor Of this church for
thirtv-two years, and his son. Brandy, has
been in charge for over twenty i've years,
Athens Banner " dtchDldn. The report
has gone forth that Athens is the slckllest
place in the state, and that fever caused by
impure atmosphere abouuds in every por-
ton Of the city. kilograms are received
by those visiting friends in the city to come
home. Every word Of these reports IS
false. The p yscans ay 50 and the peo-
pie say 50. The sexton of the cemetery has
been called on for a report. and he SAYS that
last year up TO July u there had been
forty seven inferred in the cemetery, and
this year only twenty-sevcn. This goes to
prove that these reports have been circu-
lated by irresponsible parties.
David Afford of Hartwell met with a
painful and peculiar accident on Tuesday
morning last lie was engaged in shOeing
a horse that was hitched TO a horseshoe
nailed 10 a tree The horse became restless
and jerked tho shoe from the tree. The
shoe came in contact with the back Of Mr..
Affords head. a nail of the SHOE he thinks,
penetra,in the skull fully an inch. Mr..
Afford tried TO pull the nail out but failed,
and it took a strong negro man two trials
TO extract it. Mr.. Afford was in town
Tuesday afternoon, and was suffering with
headache, but we hope nothing serious will
result from his strange mishap.
In Burke county, a day or two ago, An
thony Walker (coloredl was shot by white
man. named Lotion, who overlooked the
| plantation of L. b. Frost. The negro was
arrested and put in Jail as soon as DR.. Nc
Master could extract some fifty odd shot
from his back. Lotion says that the negro
| had not been working bis crop and he
refused to issue him rations. The negro
replied that he would have his ratiOns or
| al gOnahOlu at ba itI1a ii
ing his pistol Lotion left for his house
and got his gun. In the meanwhile the
negro ran off, but Lotion taking short cut
| got near enough to shoot him III the back
as he was running from him.
Frank Waters brought TO the office of the
| Butler Herdld last week several peculiar
pieces of glass, found by his son Leonard,
| in digging well near his residence thirty
! seven feet beneath the surface Of the earth
| The pieces of glass were nearly round, and
appeared to have been plated The center
OF the glass was hollow of very rough
surface, and every indication appeared that
| the sand had melted and turned into glass
| from internal heat Mr. Waters took out
about eighteen inches of the glass, and from
all indications there appeared to have been
a vein running through the earth. The
| earth did not appear unnaturaly warm
where the glass was discovered, but there
| certainly must have been an immense heat
IN the earth some time in the past to have
| melted the sand into glass
Messrs J. b. Lewis and Moorhead of
| Anderson, s. c., and Mr.. Hazleton of Homo
| LULU Hawaii, visited relatives and friends
in Hart, on Friday aud Saturday last Mr.
Hazeton is a son-in-law of Hon. Walter l..
! Gibson, deceased, late prime minister of
| Hawaiian kingdom. Mr.. Hazelton speaks
| fifteen different languages fluently, has
/ fipure1 DrOniuaptlv n afp re Of ctota oud
owns valuable property on the islands. He
| conducts two daily newspapers ono printed
| in the native language and the other in
| English. Mr.. HaZelton is a native of Lon
| don, Eng, but has resided in Hawaii for
many years and has become thoroughly
identified with the interests Of the country
One of his objects In visiting Hart county
was to gather data for a biographical
sketch Of Mr. Gibson, who once taught
school in Hartwell.
Calvin Jenkins, an old citizen of Dab
lonega and miner by profession, left his
! nome tuesday morning to go to bis work
and not returning at night, search was in
stituted for him. Wednesday morning his
body was found in an old obsolete gold
tunnel buried under nearly fifty tons of dirt
and rock. There have recently been a great
| number Of rich discoveries in the immediate
vicinity of this tunnel, and it is thought
| that tho hope OF striking something rich in
the way of gold caused Mr. Jenkins to I'M
peril his life in working in this tunnel 1t
| has been known for some time that the
tunnel was dangerous, and it is reported
that this fact had been pointed out to Mr..
| Jenkins before he entered it. Mr.. Jenkins
was about TO years of age, and leaves a
family consisting of widow and five chill
dren, who were dependent upon his labor
| for a support.
Capt. w. 3, Oxford of Terrell county is
the owner IF fine Jersey COW, aud her
| strong attachment for her calf SURPRISES
anything we have ever heard Of Her calf
was about six weeks old and died, and the
captain, of cours', had the calf skinned
| The COW refused to bA consoled, and also
refused to he MIXED. The captain, very
10th to lose the milk, mentioned the circum-
stance TO one of his ueighbors, who advised
him to place the hide of the calf where the
COW could smell and caresS it aud he would
then succ ed in milking the GOV. He did
as directed, aud the cow is satisfied. and the
captain gets his four gallons of milk every
day; Whenever she is brought out of her
stall for milking be places the calf hide
where the cow can HEX it. She stands very
quiet, licking and caressing the hide unit
the milking is done She will low for the
hide, and to AL appearance has as much
affection for the skin as she would have fol-
the calf If alive
The Blue Ridge marble company's works
are located in Nelson, sixteen miles north OF
Canton. In juno, 1886, this company pur-
chased 100 acres of land there in the woods,
aud has since put up quite number OF
splendid business and dwelling houses, a
magnificent plant numerous shops, ware
houses, etc, all lighted with electric lights
and, with the many other houses which
have been built by others. Nels on now be
gins TO present quite a city app 'arance. The
company employs from 100 TO 100 hands
and keeps the works running dav aud night.
Even with this force, COL Dewar. the
general manager, SAYS that ne is unable &c
keep up with The orders. II, Is NOW at worl,
upon $4,000 order for marble to be put
IN the office of the Caldwell house. now
building in Birmingham In view of this
fact and the constantly increasing business
he is DESTROYS of procuring twenty or thirty
more cutters aud as many more hands a.
viii be needed rs fast as the cutters come in.
Mrs. Q. II. Alexander killed a very large
snake III her h use at Buchanan recently.
The reptile had crawled up the wall, lust
over b"d, when she discovered IT, Mrs
Alexander soon took in the situation, and
prepared FOR battle. Its glaring red eyes
and torked tongue, and It's spotted huge
form anu vicious looks added horror an A
solenpity 70 the occasion The lady we Il
out and secured fence rail. with which she
began WORK upon the snake IL Don be.
came re -tle>S and started down the rail AT
almost liz thing speed. OF course the rail
and suaNc both dropped and fell