The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26

Joined the Farmers Alliance - A
Blakeley Lady Gets on the Pension
RoIls-A Negro Child Burned to Death
Near Button - A Church Blown
Down at Senoia.
GEORGIA.
Bronwood has no lawyer.
J. j. Gilbreath, of Lafayette, has applied
for patent on his churn motor.
The colored people of Mcintosh county
have organized an agricultural society.
Several Western gentlemen were in
Darien few days ago looking for a mill
site.
Dawson's fire department has perfected
arrangements to have a fireman's tourna-
meut In May.
A little child of w R. Coats, near Bron-
wood, was painfully burned on the feet and
legs few days ago.
John w. Tucker, of Quitman, had the
misfortune to lose Sl3O from his pocket last
Thursday morning.
During wind storm last Saturday the
negro Methodist church at Senoia was
blown to the ground.
1t is reported that there is a young lady
living near Brentwood who can repeat the
whole Bible from memory.
At the Quarterly Conference at Mount
Carmel all of the churches of the circuit
We're represented except Trion.
An Atlanta man wants a divorce because
his wife Snores, whistles, smokes and swears.
She evidently made mistake in being
woman.
Weary of waiting on the male members
the Baptist ladies of Franklin have again
taken in hand the matter of completing the
church.
A little negro child was burned to death
on w. Is. pathways place near Button
Friday night, while the mother was absent
from home.
7. c. Lane has discovered a very rich
specimen of manganese on his property
near Pinevile He also has splendid silver
indications.
A young man of Leary claims to have
recently undergone the ordeal of having
two young ladies give him the mtten on
the same day.
The quadrennial mail weighing which
began month ago, was completed Satur-
day. 1t will require about a month to
tabulate the returns
The old fashioned loom has rot gone en-
tirely out of date in Hart county. Mrs L.
w. McCurey, sized, spooled and warped
eighty yards of cloth in three days last
week.
Charlie and Noel Martin, sons of A. S.
Marin-aged respectively and II years
are moulding in the Fort Valley foundry
They have done some neat and satisfactory
work.
A couple whose romantic marriage at
Polhilfs Pharmacy caused a ripple of in
terest at Fort Valley two weeks ago. have
become dissatisfied with the new status, and
each gone off from the other.
The county surveyor of Banks county
traced a line that had been made III years
ago, and cut into tree and found that il
was one of the courses. A line had been
run by other surveys, but they had missed
the true line considerably.
Mrs. Nancy Allen, of Blakely, the widow
OF Joseph Allen, veteran of the Mexican
war, who lost his life in the conflict, re-
ceived a check last week for sos. 33, the
amount of pension due her, and will here
after receive S24 every quarter.
At Conyers on last Saturday night some
party or parties stole over $40 from A. b.
Osborn. He had the money hid in the bed
on which he was sleeping but did not
awake. The thief entered by raising viii
dow. Several tracks were seen in the yard
A day or two ago William Collins. color.
ed, of Bronwood while in Kinchafoonee
swamp squirrel hunting met with quite a
painful accident By some means his gun
was accidently discharged and the whole
load went into his right hand tearing it up
frightfully.
Since the merchants of Harmony Grove
have discovered that they can not prose-
cute man for false packing cotton unless
bringing the witness from Germany. they
have decided to boycott any gin that false
packs bale. and will not buy any cotton
ginned or packed at the gin.
There are some Sixty stills on the Alta
maha, Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers, and
averaging 1000 barrels of spirits and rosin,
which will be 240, 900 barrels. The cotton
will amount to $4,000 bales, besides other
smaller freights and on freightS TO 90 up
the river. there is paid $4,000.
Bob Jones (colored) living on DIR. o. II.
Paulls plantation, near Learv, came to his
death very suddenly last Friday. With
several other negroes he was aiding in
building chimney, and they, in the prose
cution of their work, were Joking and
laughing, when suddenly Jones, without a
moments warning, fell dead at the feet of
his companions.
There are some very absent-minded indi-
viduals in this world. One Of them took his
wife to preaching at the Baptist church at
Hartwell last Sunday night. After service
he struck out for home alone and had gone
hundred yards or more before he re-
membered that he had brought his wife to
church. He hurried back after her, but
his apologies were coldly received.
There was a collision on the Southwestern
railroad at the trestle over Kinchafoonee
near Brentwood a few days ago. An owl
being blinded by the headlight of the can
non ball, collided with it, breaking the
glass and remained clinging to it until the
train reached Brentwood, when his owlshlp
was captured, tied to the injured head
light and then carried on to Montgomery.
Mrs, Bailey, wife of Capt. Arthur Bailey,
of the Ridge, Darien, had quite narrow
escape recently while riding on the cause
way at Carnaghan road, few miles from
town. While on the bridge the horse backed
with Mrs. Bailey and two children off of
the causeway, the horse falling on the
buggy, smashing it up, Mrs. Bailey and the
children having fallen out They escaped
without being seriously injured.
DR.. w. E. Slaughter claims to be the first
man that joined the Alliance in HARRISON
county. The editor of the Waco MESSENGER
claims TO be the first printer that Joined in
the State, and has reasons to believe it,
When application for membership
was made, the State organizer, j
Is. Wilkes, did not know whether
printers were eligible or not, and had to
write to headquarters to find out The news
came back that they were if otherwise eligi-
BILE.
Near Madison few days ago while Sec