The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Nilker-Anouher Attempt to Wreck
q Train at Marshallville.
GEORGIA.
Oui+man will have her weather signals in
few days.
Brooks county.
the alarm. the building would undoubtedly
have been destroyed.
Ed Young and several others in Brooks
county have melons up.
The plans for the new cotton mill at
Griffin have been drawn.
The bear that frightened Quitmanites
turns out TO be two pantherS.
The season for shipping LeConte pear trees
in Thomas county is about over.
The nursery men say that the pear crop
In Thomas county IS not injured.
The stock of the First National Bank of
Brunswick is said TO be worth 100
Albert Winchell, one of Putnam countys
Oldest and best citizens, died a few days
ago.
Quitman's new paper, the Herald is
good one The Free Press is also on the
boom.
j. T. Dennis has banded in his resignation
as President of the Putnam County Fair
Association.
ne regular UtIfIl VI AoWeld county
Superior Court convenes to-day and will
hold two weeks.
G. w. Nelson & Bro. s store at Eatonton
had a narrow escape from being destroyed
by fire day or two ago.
A Troup county farmer says colored
tenant on his place has been with him 50
long that he has worn out three houses
Rev. r. II. Jackson, President of the
Farmers State Alliance, will address the
citizens of Coweta at Newman on Saturday,
March "A.
Thursday, the stock law went INTO effect
in Lee county. Only solitary hog was to
be seen or the streets of Smithville and the
dogs got him; and he was soon locked up.
The old Gull residence at Washington was
burned Thursday night 1t was the poper-
ty of the Georgia railroad and was unin-
sured. 1t was occupied by Messrs. Crouch.
young nan walked into one of the
stores in Gibson and inquired of a new clerk
If he had any ambrosia for sale. The clerk,
after diligent search, informed him that
the commodity was out.
Col. f. c. Wade offers to donate five
acres of land in the beautiful pine forest, at
Quitman, fronting on Court street and be-
tween the termination of Court street and
his residence, for hotel.
At a meeting of the directors of the New
nan National Bank day or two ago the
resignation of Capt. r. w. Andrews,
cashier, was accepted, and John S. Holm
sEeod promoted to that position.
bIrning chimney set fire to the roof
of j. l. Alexander's residence at Newman
a day or two ago, and but for the prompt
and heroic efforts of his son, Robert, aided
by few neighbors who were attracted by
AT Washington Thursday, r. T. Smiths
little girl was playing in the barn when she
fell out and broke her arm badly. The bone
was broken just above the wrist and the
arm was bent double. In addition she
probably fractured her jaw bone. She is
doing well.
One of the besi COWS in Georgia is owned
by John Clark, of Crawford county. The
animal will not weigh much, if any, more
than 300 pounds, and her milk udder is a
perfect sight. She gave more than four gal
Ions of milk at one milking before she had
her first calf
The cold snap of Monday and Tuesday
was severely felt by the truck growers in
Brooks county. Melons which were np
were killed down in short order, and seed
which were in the ground are thought to be
frozen. Vegetables of different kinds suf-
fered more or less, some being killed out
right.
Little Mollie, daughter of Ben Powell.
came near meeting with a serious mishap at
the academy at Bro wood last Wednesday
She was standing too near the fire on the
hearth when her clothing ignited and she
was soon enveloped in flames, but Rev. Ell
more's presence OF mind saved her from any
great injury.
John Peek, of Americas, who has had
some business out in Stewart, says that the
Americas Preston and Lumpkin Short line
railroad lis so crooked between Louvale
and Lumpkin that they have to put signal
flag on the rear platform of the train to
keep she engineer of the train from running
into IL as ne crawls around hill"
Kirby Bently, a young man about %
years old, living in the lower end of Thomas
county, disappeared from his home last
Monday. FsfdJ7 ais dea2 body was found
IN a skirt of woods not more than quarter
of mile from the house. There was a bull
let-hoie in his forehead, and he still held the
pistol in death grasp. He had been af-
fected mentally for some time.
A Northern gentleman writes a letter in
which he expresses surprise at the wholesale
slaughter of robins in the South. He says
that at the North no one ever thinks of
harmiDg them, that many of them make
their nests in the vines on the piaznis. and
are 50 tame that you can touch them with
your hand without alarming them. They
are an Insectiverous bird and destroy mill
Ions OF hurttul worms annually.
Tuesday night as Clarence Niles was pre-
pairing TO leave the depot at MarshallviIle,
he walked up and down the track, as is his
custom, 70 see that everything was correct
when he found lying across the track a
large plank, or siii which would most Ger
tainly have wrecked the 1920 freight had
IL not been discovered. No clue to the per-
petrators has been heard of. This is the
third attempt at train wrecking there.
1t is reported at Athens that the contrac-
tors ON tbe Macon and Covington road are
giving 81 Is per day, and will pay OFT the
18th OF every month, or they pay 81 per
day and settle with their hands every night
The negroes it il said, take the cash every
time "A gentleman who is posted on the
subject, says 10 as losing business to move
dirt at the prices given on the Macon and
Coyiugton, and pay the hands more than a
dollar per day.
Thursday, as DIR. G. A. Brooks and his
wife were riding in buggy on the turnpike
crossing at Muckalee bTIdg, IN Sumter
county, "A boy fired a gun in tbe swamp and
the borse whi.led ON she Marrow dump
aid began TO back; DR.. Brooks ilpped ont
TO hold him, but as he becsnle mere resolve
Mrs. Brook attempted 20 jump out and fell
TO the ground beneath the wheels The
horse became more frightened aud pranced
around considerably, but q negro man went
to Mrs Brooks assistance, and she was ex-
tricated with only few bruises.
The gtoclSholders of thp Columbus BARREL