The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Killed by Flash From the Sky-The
Tar Heel to Prove Total Loss.
GEORGIA.
Savannah Presbytery will meet at Darier
tomorrow.
Most Of the peach crop in Newton county
has been killed
Plasterers will begin work on the st. ST.
mons hotel this week.
The site of Saturdays fire at Americu,
will soon be covered by a new block.
A negro named Jenkins shot off one OF
his fingers in Burke county day or two
ago.
Benjamin Salter, the Oldest brother of
Sheriff Salter, of Lee county. died on last
Sunday.
At Brunswick ninety pupils are kept out
OF the public schools on account of lack OF
seating capacity.
The first car load of iron for the Coving-
on Wednesday night.
The first of the new line of steamers to
ply between Brunswick and Abbeville is
looked for within few weeks.
The trial of Charles Reed at Zebulon on
Saturday for the stealing of DR., Beckham's
horse and buggy resulted in a conviction.
Notwithstanding the season is rapidly
advancing, the club house at Jekyl Island
continues to have a large number of Wis
itors.
At Macon Monday Dog johnson, the long
sleeper, who was adjudged a lunatic, was
carried to Milledgeville to be placed in the
asylum.
Frank Webb, young farmer living few
miles from Americas, had leg broken yes
terday by pair of mules running away
with him.
The Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party of the Tenth Congressional
district of Georgia will meet at Augusta
tomorrow.
r. C. Nicely has purchased farm of sew
eral hundred acres on Beaverdam creek,
Burke county, and will substitute grasses
for cotton.
A. 7. Oliver, Chief of the Americas Fire
Department, has not resigned as has been
stated. He and the Mayor are at outs, but
the Chief denies that the Mayor has any
authority over him.
Mr.. Farnsworth has resigned his position
as ticket agent of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad, at Brunswick,
and Mr.. j, F. Norris of Birmingham, has
been appointed his successor
A young man named Elijah Buckhart,
who some time ago went to Hancock county
self in the leg with pocket knife from the
effects of which he died on Saturday.
At Madison the Covington and Macon
have made contract with the Georgia
road for the use of the Georgia's track
through the city for three months, and it is
believed by many that this will be perma-
nent arrangement
Col E. c. Machen, of Macon, has offered
premium of $500 to the county making
the best display of Georgia raised live stock
at the coming State Fair, and has also
agl eed to do all trackage of cars going into
and from the grounds free of charge.
man living near Knoxville has a boy
IL years old who killed twelve robins and
one sapsuck in sixteen shots only using nine
ounces of shot. The boy had never Shot a
gun more than five or six times before. and
this shooting was done with an old muzzle
loader.
Steve Epson, a young man of Athens.
started out to attend Dr. Pridgeon's sermon
Sunday, and mounted bicycle. After he
had proceeded half way to the grounds, he
fell from the machine, breaking one arm
and severely spraining the other. Last
spring he broke his leg by a fall from the
same wheel
There is said to be Justices court ground
in Jasper county where the Judge sits on a
nail key, when holding court, and when the
case is given to the jury, they are turned
into the horse lot to make up their verdict.
While the jury is ''out," the LAWYERS and
court sit on the fence and crack jokes until
the verdict is made.
AT Albany the mystery surrounding the
dead body seen drifting down the creek
during the freshet was unraveled Monday.
1t is thought to have been the corpse of Mr..
Majors, of Webster county, who, while
trying to repair his mill dam near the head
waters of the Kinchafoonee creek, was
swept away by the current.
The store and post office at Glenn, a viii
lage six miles east of Carrollton, was burned
by incendiaries early Sunday morning, with
the entire stock and postoffce fixtures.
amounting altogether to about $500. Ii was
the property of j. II. Jones, the Postmaster
A negro was arrested charged with the deed.
and he has made partial confession, inn
plicating white man.
AT Toccoa last week lightning struck the
Presbyterian church steeple, tearing off one
side and tearing the timber in its down
ward course until it reached the ground.
Although it made an unsightly wreck, sti n
1t is remarkable that it did not tear the
church up more than it did, as the church
was already considerably unsettled by the
storm of two weeks ago
The steamer Tar Heel, which sank in the
Altamaha river about ten days ago, will
prove total loss. The captain of the Swan
says that he passed the pilot house of the
Inflated steamer some miles from the wreck
and that the steamer is split in twain. and
he does not see how she can be raised. The
machinery may be saved, but that is about
all there is any possibility of saving.
Sam Laughton, colored man in Toccoa
took the hiccoughs week ago last Friday,
and up to last Friday was still having them.
He said he experienced no pain whatever in
any part of his body, but the continued
hiccoughing was very disagreeable to I'M
and kept him from sleeping any at night of
any consequence. He has had two phvsi-
clans treat him, but at last accounts had
experienced no relief.
Ford, Of Macon, the pedestrian, has re-
cived letter from the parties who backed
him in his recent successful match at Coney
Island, saying that the purse for the next
match to come off on the island has been
raised to $500, and Will take place some
time during the latter part of NAV. He
will go into training in a week or so. and
thinks he can beat Barber, the pedestrian
who came off second in the former match
A young negro living on s. II. wilson,
place, near Griffin, had three fingers blown
off one hand on Sunday. He was whstling
on an apparently empty cartridge which he
had found, when a companion asked to ex-
anime il. He did so, and upon finding
some white substance at the bottom pro-
posed the brilliant idea of sticking a lighted
f.1 in H.. 4 :