The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
"A Hampton Ladys Pet Canary Killed
by a Mocking Bird Two English
Sparrows Successful IN Alright With
aRat at mericus Mrs. Hulda Moore
Still Defles the Sheriff
GEORGIA.
Harmon Reynolds, aged % years, died in
bougherty county Friday.
A company to manufacture furniture is
being organized at ThomasvlIle.
Highway robbers are making themselves
obnoxious among the negroes Of IauGpoosa.
Guanoand mules are plentiful in Naldosta
now and they are going to the farms III
hurry.
Col. s. W. Mangham, of Griffin, died
Thursday He was leading hardware
merchant.
The State convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association VIII be held at Macon
April to inclusive.
The steamer Aid will be added TO the feet
on Flint river, Beginning with Jan. 10. She
goes from the Chattahoochee.
The Piney Woods Hotel at Townsville
has nearly hundred guests. This early fill
ing indicates a season Of prosperity.
The Ebenezer Presbyterian church at
Rome, of which Rev. c. McCurdy is pastor,
Is about completed at cost Of $500.
A. J. Burnett, who was indicted for the
murder of John C. Hancock and who is out
under bail, was married Thursday to Miss
Kelsey, near Knoxville.
1t is said that a six foot vein of coal has
been discovered on Lookout mountain on
the Widow Hickmaus place, two miles
southwest of Cedar Grove
L Of NalJoeto Si1IaI Rftaa,N
pigs several days ago which Melted $3.50
pounds of pork. The lightest one weighed
2O3 pounds and the heaviest 40.
Rumor is ahoat of an effort being made
to organize a stock company to run the
Griffin Sun. The paper has an excellent
patronage, aud under good mana cement
will prove a profitable investment.
Valdosta Times: Let's build narrow
gauge road from Valdosta up into Coffee
county All those people want to come to
Valdosta, but it is most too far for more
than one or two trips year for farmer.
Joe Cox, the negro who shot Jim Goldwire
last week, was before the County Court at
Valdosta Thursday and bound over to the
Superior Court under a 500 bond. He
failed TO give bond and was remanded to
Jail
At Athens John Birds little girl was
taken sick a few nights ago and suddenly
became perfectly blind and deaf Every
thing possible was done for the little suf-
ferer. and now she is getting so she can see
and hear.
At Hampton Mrs. w A Norths canary
came to a strange and sudden death the
other day. It was singing merrily in it's
cage when vicious hooking bird pounced
down upon it, and snapped the tiny head
completely off through the bars.
As the carriage in which President Alex
ander drove up to the depot after his ride
over Americas, ii was noticed there were
three railroad pres dents on the platform,
Presidents Alexander, Hawkins and Hlr-
rold, and several bank presidents.
The creditors Of Z. j. Flemister, one of
the largest dry goods merchants of Griffin.
met Tuesday and adjourned to meet in At
lanta Friday next, at which time it is un-
derStoOd Mr.. Flemister will be prepared to
make an offer for settlement.
A colored woman, the wife Of Willis Ellis.
of Albany, gave birth the other day TO twin
boys. They are said to have weighed the
enormous amount of thirtv-seven pounds,
one turning the scales at twenty pounds the
other at seventeen, the heaviest babes ever
known. Mother and children are dong we'll.
A negro tramp broke into Hon. w. H.
Felton's store, at Winchester, while his
clerk was at supper and forced an entrance
to the safe and stole about Sll5i in cash. BY
Judicious management he was captured next
day in Montezuma and is now in jail at
Oglethorpe. Most of the stolen money was
recovered.
One OF the largest pine trees in North
Georgia has fallen before the woodlands ak
1t stood on Rev. J. j. S. Callaway's place,
near Lafayette, Six stocks were furnished
by it. Across the stump it measured four
feet seven and a quarter inches, while at
the small end Of the last stock it was three
feet in diameter.
J. T. Crowder, of Lafayette, has been
suffering from an absceSS OF the liver His
physicians made an opening in his side, and
by inserting a tube had on two occasions
drawn off a hall gallon of accumulated pls.
a few days ago nature enlarged the open
ing made by TIE doctors, Since then he
has rallied great deal and bids fair to re
cover.
The Barlow Puverizing Company pro
poses to establish plant at Cartersville to
manufacture the ores found in that vicinity.
1t will have a capacity of from fifty tosixtv
tons per day. There will be employed in
the business, exclusive of the mining. from
75 to 100 hands, and the pay roll will
amount to between s., 900 and 1900 per
month.
G. Hauser, a cigar manufacturer of
Athens, says that the single item of an
empty cigar box is no small item of expense
to him. They cost from Toe to l5c each,
and the government does not allow them
used a second time. These boxes are made
in New York, the best being from Cuba
cedar, that preserves the aroma of the to-
bacco, while an inferior article is an imta-
ton made from poplar.
At Madison Tuesday some 1000 acres OF
land were sold. the most of it belonging tC
the estate OF Mrs. L. A. 4. Brown, aud sold
at administrators sale IL was purchased
by farmers who have lands adjoining. ex
cept Mr. Logan, of Atlanta. who got one oI
the places, at prices averaging 81 per acre
This is the largest sale of land that has beer
made there in some time, sand as most of the
land was unimproved and the terms were
cash the prices obtained were considered
good
There were six men in Valdosta last Wed
neSday from the line between Coffee anc
Appling counties, on the Ocmulgee river
who went there to buy their supplies They
bought 500 worth of goods from one firm
and had them shipped over two lines OF
railroads to the nearest railroad station
from whence they will be hauled &c theil
homes. There was also party of thirteen
men in Valdosta on Thursday last from
Coffee county. some of them beyond Doug
las trading They left 500 in cash in Val
dosta.
t.ev. Dr. William Adams, pastor of thu
Presbyterian church at Augusta, has no
yet resigned, but has secured two weeks