The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16

msstep and fell alongside Of the track, and
one of the engine wheels grazad his leg, in
( fl citing a cut 10 the bone and about six
! inches in length.
/ The colored people of Lexington are hav-
/ ing as turbulent q time over their school in
/ Lexington rs are the white, IN other por-
/ tio.s Of the county The last move was by
the faction having the most control in the
church in locking up the house against the
! school Ihe other faction Immediately Sc
| curcd another house and the school goes on,
| but there will be blood in the moon before
| the matter is settled.
The LeConte pear industry in Brooks
county bids fair to return reasonable profits
this year. Shipments are now going for
ward rapidly, and SO far the returns have
been satisfactory. There seems to he a
growing confidence III the pear as a money
crop, and the indications are that the acre
age Will steadily increase D. B. Thrasher
had shipped, up to Wednesday, over eighty
crates OF pears from ten trees, and the end
is not yet.
Tom DoOley of Athens has keen eve to
business, but sometimes errs in Judgment
He makes a business of collecting all the
waste paper, rags, etc, and sending them
out 10 the paper mills. He carries 500
pounds a a load, and gets one half cent per
pound, or 50 30 a load. He pays 50 a load
for a team, 50 he is Just 30 cents short on
each load. He is, however, 50 determined
to do something that he cannot see his error,
and persists in putting himself at great
trouble to lose 80 cents per load
Sheriff Glass Of Henry county had the
good luck to catch Ewel Connel. an escaped
convict. few days ago Conuei had been
depredating on the people, stealing chickens,
apples, etc. When found he was secreted
III an clubhouse. He arose with a bush AK
in hg, nr,1 A,En I 10, IN
was a sudden click. click, click Of their shot
guns, and the body of the desperate was
covered with their grim muzzles They
soon secured and lodged him in Jail The
sheriff received $50 for making the capt
ture, $25 Of which was given to Mr.. Cathey,
who discovered the criminal.
A straw man was recently put on the
track of the Washington branch to test the
eye-sight of the engineer, to be used in the
event the family Of Burke. who was killed
on The road some months ago, should sue
for damages. The engineer saw the man,
thinking he was a real one, and did all he
could TO stop his engine, but il passed. over
the object and the engineer thought he had
killed man. He was greatly relieved
when he found it was only a man of straw.
1t is thought by the railroad that this very
clearly demonstrates that no engineer could
possibly have stopped his engine in time to
NOOP AiC4IA u'IlllllS ONtI lSulh6,
A large crowd from Monte2uma attended
the barbecue at Warwick, in Worth
county, Thursday. All went well until the
return trip. The steamer Montezuma,
which had been chartered for the trip, had
almost reached the Americus, Preston and
Lumpktn railroad bridge coming back
Thursday evening, and a good number
of the party were making them
selves at home at the supper tables,
All at once a fearful explosion oc-
CURED, and the boat near the engines was
a complete mass OF steam, smoke and fire
A cry arose that the engine had exploded
and people began to take to the water as
fast as II they were all ready for bath
1t was soon ascertained, however that
nothing hid happened but the blowing out
of the safety cock Of the engine, and the
frightened swimmers were gathered on the
boat again.
The comptroller general has received the
tax dlgests for 1888 from Rockdale and
fickens counties. Rockdale returns $50
white and 332 negro polls. The value of
land is given in at S532, sos, of which S552,
liz belongs to whites and Sl0,G96 to ne
groes. Value of city property is placed at
SIT, 42J of which Sl74, SSS belongs to whites
and 2,545 to negroes. The aggregate value
OF the whole property of the county is
placed at 81 ,207, $40, of which 81, 1S0, POI be
lOIlBo 10 Whites ana ~ ,OlS TO negroes. This
is an increase IN valuation of $75, 100 over
1887. Plckens county returns /, III white
and 80 negro polls. The value of land is
placed at S319.470 Of which S37S, no is ac-
credited to whites and 800 to negroes. City
property is returned at $50 $50, all of which
belongs to whites The aggregate value of
the whole property of the county is placed
at 1872, PA, of which $l,Gl5 is accredited to
negroes. The digest shows an increase of
800, 400 over 1887.
w. j. Little, prosperous planter living
near Eatonton, went to Macon Friday, and
knowing barber in a Fourth street barber
shop, went i'll to talk to him awhile The
proprietor OF the shop invited him TO take
seat III one of the barber chairs under the
fan, where it was cool, and rest himself.
This Mr.. Little did, and after awhile arose
and went out, Later Mr.. Little desired to
take shave, and he entered another bar
Der shop on Fourth street, other than the
one where he had sat down and cooled off
at the proprietor's invitation. When his
shave was over no came out, and was
accosted on the sidewalk by the proprietor
of the first shop for not having patronized
him. as he had previously allowed him to
rest and cool in his chair, and he demanded
of Mr.. Little % cents pay for having sat in
the chair, Mr. Little paid the money and
spoke TO Officer Baughn about the transac
ton, saying that he cared nothing about
the % cents, but hated to see such tricks
perpetrated.