The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-18

Tragic OStlQ III GRAY ) OVtAUAOh'
GEORGIA.
The raius are giving trouble TO the bridge
contractors on the Oconee railroad bridge.
The late l.. Darlington, Of Miliedgevlile,
held paid up life insurance policy OF $4,000.
Herschel V. johnson, the Emory College
student who shot himself with suicidal in
tent, a few DAYS ago, viii probably recover.
Mr.. W. r. Ruuklcy, of Cumberland Is
land, is arranging for another season. He
isnow considering the pruprety of extend
ing his horse car line to the wharf
With the cotton on band in the county,
and what has been shipped to date, it is
thought the total crop of Baldwin county
the present season will be about 10, 900 bales.
A few of the ladies of Sandersvile have
organized a Shakespearian Climb, and will
hold weekly meetings, at which the mem
bers alternate in reading selections from the
great author
At Macon Monday night Urah Fincher,
the night Waterman at the cotton yard of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, was fired at by some one unknown,
but was not wounded
Or. Andrew J. Irwin, Of Sandersville,
has been dangerously i'll since Saturday
night with congestion of the brain, though
Monday evening his condition was thought
to be more favorable.
Before the Baldwin Superior Court ad-
Journed Monday. the grand jury elected O.
NJ Cone member OF the Board of Educa-
tion of Baldwin county, in the place of l..
Darlington, deceased.
At Americas Sunday night the dwelling
of F. A. Hill, together with contents, was
destroyed by fire, caused from defective
hue. The loss was complete, Mr.. Hill's in
sIrance policies having expired at noon
Sunday.
The 4-vear-old son of Tom Gordon col
ored), living in in Branhamvlle, tried the
explosive quality of dynamite by placing
n cartridge in the fire last Tuesday. Result:
three fingers badly damaged and a house
hold terrOrized.
Stillwell & Keith, of Griffin, have been
closed by the Sheriff. They, dealt in cloth
ing and dry goods. The liabilities foot up
nearly $4,000 while the assets, consisting
mainly in bad debts, will more than cover
their Indebtedness.
AT Senoia Butler Lindsey, the IS year-old
son of +. 7. Lindsey, made last year with
one horse five heavy bales of cotton, six
two-horse wagon loads of cane, twenty
bushels of peas and forty bushels Of corn.
He had very little help.
City water works aye talked OF at Car
rollton, and a committee of Councilmen and
citizens has been appointed 10y the Mayor to
investigate and report upon the matter at
an early day. 1t is thought that an album
dance of excellent water can be obtained at
a small cost.
w. J. Ramsey, a commercial traveller
living at Brooklyn, N. Y, died at Griffin
Monday, of heart disease, soon after ahght-
ing from a train. Papers found in the dead
mans satchel showed that he represented
Louis Cox & Co, carriage manufacturers,
Philadelphia, with salerooms IN New York.
A singular phenomenon is a mineral
light which has recently made its appear
ance near Mineral Bluff, in Fannin county
The light is hqusscent and bright, and
moves up and down the mountain. The
older inhabitants Of the settlement say it
indicates the presence of a valuable mine of
some kind
At McDonough, Monday, Lamar, Rankin
q Lamar filed a creditors bill against O. l..
Welch a merchant who lives seven
miles east of there. Mr. Welch did an i'm
mense credit business. His failure has been
looked for for some time. This is the
second failure that has occurred in that
neighborhood recently
As the narrow gauge train from Augusta
was passing through a pine thicket near
Stapleton Friday night a dove, aroused
from its roOst by the noise of the train and
blinded by the headlight, flew against the
whistle with such force as to be killed in
stantly, and fell on the tender. 1t made a
tender morsel for Capt. Raney.
AZ auutllS St o. VI IltlIll&lO1, AS
sistant Clerk of Court, had wen removed
from his shoulder a few days ago by DR.
Won Donhaff, of that place. The wen had
been giving the Judge great deal of trou-
bic lately, as it was greatly increasing in
size. The operation was very successful,
and the Judge hopes to be out again very
soon.
Owing to the fact that the regular term of
HARRISON Superior Court is held this week,
and that most of the lawyers at Carrollton
bar have to attend that court. the ad iourned
term heretofore ordered for Carroll county
has been postponed to next Monday. Judge
Harris health continues to improve, and it
is believed he will be able to hold all his
courts this year.
Three new petitions for articles of incor-
poration are on file in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court at Gainesville; one
from the Georgia Graphite Company, the
second from the Gainesville Land Com
pany, and the third from the Gainesville
Furnace Company. The place of business
of the two latter is the town of Carriers
vile; of the first, Barlow county.
Hon. j. A Shewmake was on last
Wednesday at the store of w. McCathern,
at Waynesboro, making arrangements for
giving credit to his tenants during the
present year While in the act of making
his signature his hand dropped helpless at
his side Mr.. Bell, who was with him.
too oppressive for him, removed him at
once to the open air. But as the change
showed no improvement, he had him re-
moved to the residence of his daughter.
Mrs. Burton. His physician pronounced
his case a serious attack of paralysis
A largely attended meeting of the grocery
and commission merchants of Augusta was
held Monday. The meeting was held for
the purpose of finding the sense of the bust
ness men regarding the affidavit that the
City Council requires all merchants to make
when taking out their licenses for the en-
suing year. The measure proposes to tax
merchants returns on the basis of last wears
business, which was one Of the best for ten
years, and requires that afiidavits of the
volume of such be made TO enable Council
to SO adjust the ensuing years licenses A
committee was appointed to go before
Council at the next meeting of that body.
and, uninstructed, confer with the CITY
fathers and see if the matter cannot be sat
isfactorily adjusted.
Summerville Gazetteer Last Friday morn
ing Miles Hammond showed us q part of the
blade OF n pocket-knife which was taken
from the trunk of a tree near him. The
blade was about two inches long and three
quarters Of an inch wide, blackened, inst
like knife that has been used for peenc
apples. Between the point of the knife and