The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-30

| citizens asking the mayor and council to
rescind the objectionable ordinance, and
/ they did so Tuesday. So that town is once
| more In communication with the world
Mace Newman. an old gentleman Is years
| old, living in Wilkes county, was sitting in
I his shop last week reading when a fox ran
| in and laid down beside the chair in which
MIR. Newman was sitting. Mr.. Newman
/ picked up a square and dealt the animal a
| blow. The fox jumped out of the window
/ and made for the woods with Mr.. Newman
/ in hot pursuit, and after a short race was
caught and killed. Georgia may well be
called the Empire state, when men live to
be I5 years OF age and are able at that age
TO run fox down and catch it without
! assistance. Now let US hear from another
county.
Jacob Hirsch, of Macon, has Just shipped
1000 hides, which is doubtless the largest
shipment ever made at one time from that
city, and. perhaps. the largest in Georgia by
any one person. The hides weigh from
forty 10 100 pounds each and will average
about 81 each, so there is represented more
than 100, 900 pounds weight, and about "a,
| coo The num- er of cattle killed by the
Macon butchers per annum reaches, says
| the NetoS, from 1900 10 10000, and the
amount is yearly increasing as the popula-
ton grows. This quantity Of hides repre-
sents from s25, 600 to s35, 900 yearly. The
VUN nlue JTdQe IS quite an lUeIn.
Washington Chronicle This has been
an off year with the wheat crop in this sec
ton. One Of our best farmers told us of
his experience as follows He planted 81
bushels of the best seed wheat he could find,
worth "a; it took two hands and mules
~ days to prepare the ground; cost of pre-
pairing land, 81; he MANFRED with Is bushels
ot cotton seed, 81 Is; cost Of gathering and
carrying TO the thresh, about "a. The
wheat PANIED out exactly three bushels,
and out of this he paid q half bushel toll,
leaving pa bushels. Total expense about
81, profit about ~ bushels Of wheat.
Still some people will continue TO say that
farming does not pay.
Gainesville Cournnt- american Some
Alabama parties are negotiating with the
Gainesville iron furnace company, for the
purpose Of taking stock in the enterpxse,
and also, in addition to erecting the NlDn
furnace, to build ferro manganese furnace
aud a steel plant. The stockholders held a
meeting last Friday afternoon, and came to
terms as to what they would be willing to
do in the matter. 1t is probable a delega-
ton OF the Alabamians will visit the city
In day or two. The trustees of the fur
mace, in the meantime, are going ahead
with their work and having everything
ready for the commencement of the work
as soon as the company is chartered.
Dodge county Journals; The Rev. Peter
o. Gibson, colored pedagogue Of Eastman,
got himself into trouble because of his over
fondness for a colored brothers wife Upon
the discovery Of his illicit intimacy, Peter
became sufficiently irate as to make threat
ening demonstrations with his little hip
pepper, for which unwarranted conduct he
was arrested, tried, and forced to contrib
ute TO the town treasury in the sum Of 81 30.
Pedagogue Peter is gaining for himself
quite an unenviable notorety, and from
the tone of letter in our hands for public
alton, signed by indignant colored citizens,
these whereabouts is likely to become too
warm to contain the said Peter a great
while longer.
A sensational episode occurred in Val
dosta saloon Wednesday night Nose
Voolfolk, a negro, and fine specimen of
physical manhood, suddenly fell dead. He
was hale and hearty moment before, when
death claimed him in an instant. The
coroner's jury rendered verdict Of death
from unknown causes but it was more than
likely that whisky was the trouble 1t is
| said that he had drank at least six drinks
of whisky successfully at another barroom,
and that he was in the habit of planking
down a quarter and swallowing three
drinks at time. Capt. Mosely, for whom
the negro worked, on the other hand, says
he was very temperate, Leither smoking,
drinking nor chewing.
Information has been received at Macon
from Clinton that the negro John Griffin,
who was shot Monday night while resisting
arrest, had died from his wounds 1t will
be remembered that Griffin had stolen three
cows from a Jones county farmer, and that
when the officers went to arrest him he re-
sisted. John was shot in the back, the ball
ranging upward. He had thrown one of
the young men who went to the house to
arrest him, out of the house, and il was
while he was down that the young man
fired the shot which finally proved fatal 1t
is the belief that nothing will be done with
Lester, who did the shooting, as he was act
ing in self-defense and the negro was re-
sIstlng arrest at the time he was shot.
The following is the programme for the
grand one-day shotgun tournament at the
new grounds of the Augusta gun club, near
the Augusta exposition grounds, July T.
Shooting will commence at $50 o'clock, and
continue all day. First match-Individua
sweepstakes; 5 singles; entrance 81. Sec
ond match-IndiVidual sweepstakes; z
singles; entrance 81; s. added by the club
Third mstch-Twin sweepstakes; 10 singles,
2 pair doubles; entrance IS: 81 added by
the club. Fourth match-Individual; 5
pair doubles; entrance SO. Fifth match
Twins; singles, 5 pair doubles; entrance
So; SIS added by the CLUB. Sixth match
Consolation sweepstakes: barring winners
Of first and second moneys; entrance 81.
Atlanta Journal: The sad death Of
Mrs. Harriet Weatherly was chronicled in
yesterdays Journal. She was respectable
white woman, and came here with her
husband about three weeks ago. They
both became i'll with typhoid fever. The
husband was taken away and the woman
died IL devolved upon the city to bury
the dead woman, and the enormous sum of
81. so was furnished for the expenses Of the
funerul-$l for the coffin and $3.50 for
transportation. No white undertaken
could afford to take charge Of the remains
for that price, and negro undertaken was
engaged 10 bury the woman. A white
woman, who had committed no crime
on earth except to die in poverty, was
placed in a rough box by a negro, and
jostled over the stones in furniture
wagon.
The Macon Euening Netos says that
Laurence Myers, who was imprisoned at
Macon ON failure to pay fine Of 1868, in
GLIDING cost, imposed for carrying con-
cealed weapons and engaging in an ARRAY
with Mr.. John Meeks, has paid the fine. He
was not, however, Immediately released.
He was under an Indictment by the grand
jury for gambling, and he was required ~
give bond in the sum of $500 for his APP
pearance at the superior court to answer
the charge. He gave bond, and was released