The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

At Macon English Sparrows Nam a
Canary in It's Cage-A Negro killed
by d Train Near Crawford a Burke
County Man Charged with subgti.
tuting a New Name in a Marriage
License.
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1t is rumored that Tombstone is soon &
lave new hotel.
johnson, a blind man, living near Rae
Don mills, Chatiooga county, has cat i
tears old. 1t is as sprightly as kitten.
A man named Daniel cut his throat twc
niles out of Blakely at the section hoyse,
his week. He was alive when last hfard
rom.
The "Blue Barr Of l.. L. Leiber, onI Cot
ION Avenue, Americas, was burned Thurs
Law night. The Office of the Recor9'r hBd
lnarrow escape
An Athens boy sent his sweet yeart, in
Lumpkin county, a pair of opera Yasse- fer
Christmas present. The yong lady
ather used the glasses to waSb out s'l i
With.
lou Jessie Afford, l2year-od daughter
VI James Afford who works fot the Geo gia
Pacific railroad, at Atlanta, hd her right
eg crushed off Thursday byh freight car
AD6 Cllllu Is Ill "A CIlllNtit Cbltf ttNs4'
Rev. E. J. Coates, who for the past
everal years has baeu tn pastor of the
Baptist church of Hawkiysvile, las been
= 'orced to resign his pasto te on account OF
lis ill-health, and will mo o with his family
70 Macon.
Thursday an inquest rs held on the body
M John Floyd, who vAs hurt Of Barfields,
h Jones county, last Tuesday, by being
pulled down and JERK around by the beard
BY man named Greh Gresham. 1t IS sup
posed that he died il5m the IAJur1eS.
John L. Summer5ir, an Old and respected
titizen of Dawson county lied very sud
Eenly at his holndon Wednesday. He was
In experienced ga scientific mineralogist
and well inforbd man. He once repre-
tented his count in the Georgia Senate.
Near Greensbro Wash Wallace, a negro,
bn his way hove Monday night, under the
influence of ghisky, attempted to cross a
og while tn river was up. Wash could
bot resist ts gravity under such circum-
stances. andhothing hut his hat and bundle
aas been fond.
At Toonbsboro the store of w. r. Hilton
& Co tCvther with their&tOCk of goods
. was total destroyed 10y fire Friday morn
ing. Ii as discovered about O'clock, but
TOO late do an ming. 1t is thought to be
nj incelfiary origin. The house and stock
were pftisliy insured.
Iinolnton NctcS: As usual the mountain
ricinik leads in sensation. just now there
is coldderable excitement in that neighbor-
woodworking the elopement of Jim Turn
bgeh married man, with a young girl
thoG 10 years old Sunday night The
eits relatives are considerably wrought ub,
an Turnage Will fare but middling, if
tdght.
A train on the Georgia road struck
egro, Paul Buttice, at the crossing, half
lille below Crawford on Thursday, killing
aim instantly. The first the engineer saw
Of him he jumped on the track and tried to
beat the engine to the crossing. The engine
twas close to him and could not be stopped.
The engineer blew his whistle but the negro
paid no attention to it.
, Austin Edmunds, who was arrested at
Macon a few days ago for having, last Sat
urday night, struck his uncle, Richard Gary,
on the head with force sufficient to render
him insensible from that time until yeSter-
day, was tried before Recorder Baxter Fri
day for fighting and disorderly conduct.
The evidence before the court sustained
Austin in dealing the blow and his case was
dismissed. 1t is said that Gary will die, but
whether from the blow or from other causes
Is yet to be known.
The sins of the English sparrow are legion,
hut their treatment OF Mrs George Smiths
little canary, at Macon. Friday, was new
departure in wickedneSs The housemaid
hung the cage in the window where thesun
ehone, and IN an hour or two She returned
ana found it surrounded by flock of spar
rows, who had peclled one eye out and broke
one wing close to the body In some man
ner they had got hold of the little captive
through the bars of its cage and they we're
still fighting it when discovered
At Vienna the last of the prisoners in the
Dooly county Jail took French leave of that
institution Thursday night, leaving behind
polite and apologize note, explaining that
the weather was too cold, and the accom-
modatlons not satisfactory, hence he was
forced TO seeG more hospitable quarters
Three others had escaped a short time pre-
viously. This Jail was but recently finished
and turned over to the commissioners, at a
cost to the tax payers of this county of
s over 5000. 1t IS of brick, and finished af-
ter the most approved style"
The Ordinary of the county Of Hancock
having decided the contest over the recent
local option election against the Prohibition
lists, and that party having petitioned the
Hon. Samuel Lumpkin, Judge of the
Supreme Court of the Northern Circuit. to
appoint three justices of the Peace of the
county to recount the ballot, that petition
has been granted and the appointment made
The three whom the Judge appointed are
John Turner, Samuel Chapman and Jeff
Copeland, who are to begin the count on
Jan. 16.
A horrible accident occurred at the Big
Ledge rock quarry, one mile above I,ithonin
on Wednesday afternoon last Mack Vim
cent and a negro by the name of Bob Clark
were blown up while handling dynamite.
Mr.. Vincent was horribly mangled his
{ clothes being entirely blown off Of him, and
he died in few minutes after assistance
arrived be leaves a wife and child. Both
~ the Negroes eyes were blown out. He is
suffering terribly but may recover There
were no other persons at the works at I'm,
time of the explosion.
At a convention at Albany Thursday of
the various colored Missionary Ranfisr
churches in that section an association to
be known as the Minister'S and Deacon,'
Institute was organized. The object of the
institute is the moral improvement of thei,
ministry. A meeting win be held every
month and the conduct of the ministers
and deacons discussed. II any of fine
brethren have strayed the necessary cor
: rection will be administered and efforts
made to reform them without undue NH.
betty. The officers of the body are: Rev
r. r. Watson, President Rev. w. W.
Warren, Vice President William II. DENIM
sey, Secretary; Rev. d. A. Mosely, Treas
urer.
This year Col Smith, of Oglethorpe. made
900 bales of cotton, which brought hin,
upward Of 100000. Besides this he has sold
about : rs 000 worth of f.Dtton caoJ al 81