The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-27

Putnam.
Blakely is to have an artesian well.
BainbrIdge is going to buy new fire en-
CINE.
Field corn IS tasseling on many farms in
Tattnall county.
Mr. Brown, of Thomasville, has a beauti
full red mocking bird,
fairly good crop Of LeConte pears arc
promised in Madison county.
An Illicit distiilery was discovered in a
cyclone pit in Forsyth county day or two
ago.
A rich vein of kaolin has been discovered
on j. T. NJ. Harris place, in Oglethorpe
county.
The recent rains have caused the Ohoopee
90 rise, and timber will soon be on tho way
TO market.
L. Z. Slade, of Newton county, will take
Charge OF the Hotel Putnam, at Eatonton,
on June ).
The brand for murder used in Oglethorpe
county in ante-bellum days is still in pOssss-
sion OF Lexington gentleman
The Waycross Reporter is in favor of
Hon. John c. Nj hos, Of Pierce, for Con-
gresham from the First district.
John Shell colored). Of Apericus, fell BE-
HtdLn u moving tIdiD at fOtilll nNllle, InufS-
day, and was probably fatally injured.
At meeting of the Spalding Alliance
last Saturday, they decided to have ware
house of their own erected at Montezuma.
Robert Davis, who is SPOKEN of in con-
nection with the coming gubernatorial
nomination in Florida, was born at Balm
bridge.
r. A. Harris, of Washington, who WAS
injured in the stomach by the kick of a
gun few days ago, died Friday from in
Illumination caused by the injury.
James G. Bonner, of Putnam county, has
a crytalized quartz fully an inch long aud
one-quarter of an inch in diameter, which
he found in fish that he caught from the
Oconee river.
The recent cool, wet weather has pretty
well finished up the small amount of fruit
that was left on the trees in Oglethorpe
county after the late frosts. 1t Is rotting
and falling off badly.
j. w Strickland, OF Backshear, has
rose bush growing in his yard that, until
just before it blooms, has every appearance
OF red or white rose, and when it blooms
out is perfectly green.
The grape crop in Oglethorpo county will
be failure this year as a very small f1y has
attacked the vines and will destroy the
young fruit. 1t has been several years
since a good crop was made.
William Pitcher, one of Sumter's live at
home farmers, is threshing his wheat and
expects to make about 80 bushels from
twenty acres. He would have made more.
but the rust struck it and cut or the Weld.
The peach crop in some parts of Sumter
county will DO failure, so the farmers say.
A farmer who has large orchard and
always has a fine crop, said Friday that he
would hardly have peck on his place this
year.
Tom Draughon, who lives in the western
part of Macon county, and who likes to
hunt fox. cats and coOns, better than any
man in that part of Georgia, says he has not
been on a train since he left home to no to
the war
MIR. Heath has abandoned the granite
quarry he recently opened and began to
develop near Crawford He gives as his
reason that the cost Of hauling the rock to
the railroad was so great that IL precluded
any profit on the stone.
The population of Cartersville now num-
bers 2,725. This is an increase of about
200 people since tho last census was taken.
The census of 1870 showed population Of
2,232 people, but in 1880 il had dropped to
20S7, falling off of 1875 people.
s. c. Prudden, postmaster has discovered
what is supposed to he a genuine IMMORAL
spring on his land, jtst on the suburbs of
Eatonton. It has taste similar to that of
Oconee springs, which is a fine spring. 1t
tastes strong Of sulphur and iron.
Messrs. McGee and Pearce Brazell were
fishing last week near the mouth of Brazell's
creek, and were surprised by five offers
walking up TO them. Mr.. Brazell killed
one with a stick, and MIR. McGee shot one.
but it got away, and the Others saved their
skins.
In February last a dog passed through
Mrs. Ann Young's lot, near Antioch, and
bit a calf a COW and horse. Monday last
the calf died with symptoms of hydropho-
bia, and at last accounts the COW was raving
with like symptoms, while tho horse is re-
ported strangely sick.
Old Aunt Fannie Arnold, colored, proba-
bly, the oldest person in Forsyth county
died at the paupers' homo In that county
Thursday night Her exact age is not
known, but 1t is thought by those who have
the best opportunity for knowing that she
was at least 1l5 years old.
Last week, at Turin, Long Wynn and
Felix Render, two negro boys playing in a
game Of base ball, had difficulty, and
Render inflicted a severe blow on the he'd
of Wynn, from the effects of which he died
a day or two ago. Render made his escape,
but the officers are after him.
ne supreme COURT OF Georgia having
sustained the decision of the lower court in
the case of john II. Reid VS.. the Mayor and
City Council Of Eatonton, In which the
former prayed an for an injunction to pro-
hibit the issuing of bonds for the purpose of
building school houses In the town, the
bonds will be issued at once and put on sale,
and the contract let for the building of the
house.
Monroe Pinkerton and George Edwards,
both colored, living on tue place of b.
White, in the eastern portion of Putnam
county, got into quarrel the other morn
ing about hat. They proceeded to their
work, chopping cotton, aud some time dur
ing the day, when an opportunity presented
itself, Monroe felled George to the ground
with his hoe. Upon examination it was
ascertained that Georges skull was frac-
tured.
DIR. D. NJ. White, OF watlinsville, re-
ports a strange case. 1t is that of Joe Nc
Roe, who Is now al his house for treatment.
II seems TO be a neuralgia affection of the
eye, but the strange part Of IL is the peculiar
effect swallowing has upoa IL. Mr.. MclRee
says his eye may be perfectly easy, and let
him attempt TO swallow even little water
and the pain is almost unbearable. For
this cause he has eaten but very little for
two weeks past, aud every effort to secure
relief has been in vain.
Worth County Local: Dennis Powell,
living down on the Warrior, plowed thirty
acres Of corn and chopped out forty five
acras of cottOn In five days last weak In