The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-04

county.
In Gainesville new manufacturing enter
prises are exempted from city taxation for
five years
Tallapoosa has well possessing to a very
large extent the mineral properties of iron
and sulphur.
Snow in North Georgia and sunshine and
flowers in the Southern tier is what travel
ers found last week
A new railroad and college makes Monti-
cello feel as if she had been touched by the
gold-lined hand of prosperity.
J. w. Mann and family have left Perry
for Milledgeville, where be will become
proprietor of the Oconee House.
A negro girl named Lucy, who has been
nursing for G. A. Hall, of Greensboro, was
severely burned Wednesday. She may re-
cover.
William w. Fleming, Sr, proprietor of
the Blakely NetcS. died a day or two ago
His son succeeds him in conducting the
PAPER.
The mining business around Gainesville
is being carried on to a considerable extent
But it is nothing to what it will be when
furnaces are built
Hailes Pottery, located six miles west of
Gainesville, bids fair to grow into a paying
business at once, as soon as he gets his firing
furnace completed.
1t is Campbell county's time to select a
State Senator for the Senatorial dis riot in
which it is locaeed, and the name of Hon
Levi Ballard is prominently mentioned.
r. S. Cook, of New York city for himself
and associates, effected lease last Monday
of the Satterfield ore banks near Carriers
vile, and will at an early day begin ope-
rating them.
There will be about $50 acres devoted to
the cultivation of watermelons near Perry
this year. In 1888 there were 5l5 acres
planted in watermeloGs within that imme-
diate vicinity.
There was a difficulty in the coach on the
Gainesville, jefferson and Southern a few
days ago, in which jug, a stove-pipe and
few citizens took part. No damage is re-
ported except to the jug.
j. +. Rushin, of Buenavista, has silver
sugar ladle which he says is $50 years old.
He received it as an heirloom from his grand
fathers estate, and says il has been in the
family for several generations.
A special train passed through Atlanta
Friday night on its way from Philadelphia
to New Orleans. having on board the Vol
unteer Fire Association of that city. The
association was accompanied by its appa-
ratus.
The Athens Banner Waterman staff has
been increased by the addition of canary
bird which entertains the callers while the
editor works. Editor Dana's cat would not
be allowed in the office under any circum-
stances.
AT Augusta Friday Spencer Jones. a
negro employed i'll telling trees at the ex-
position grounds, was caught under a fall
ing tree and dangerously injured. His
skull was fractured, and he is in a preca-
rious condition.
At Brunswick the license account for
1888 is looming up handsomely. The re-
ceipts for February are 81, 052-just So, $50
more than tn" c responding month of last
year. The entire receipts from this source
for 1887 were $l1,090
Capt. J. G. Davis, of Perry, has a claim
case now pending before Congress for SIP
$50. The claim is for cotton seized by
United States officers in 1865, on the Hog
Crawl plantation in the southwestern por-
ton of Houston county.
A horrible tale of debauchery and crime
comes from Button in which white
woman and a negro were concerned. The
negro, Aaron Dlckey, was terribly whipped
by the indignant people of the community
and afterward died from the effects of the
whipping.
AT Dawson an old negro, Jim Spence,
while driving home a six-mule team on
Saturday last, was thrown from his mule
and had one of his legs run over by the
leg was so badly crushed as to necessitate
amputation.
A negro house on the plantation of NJ. w.
Champion, near Smyrna, caught fire day
or two ago and, with its contents, was en-
tirely destroyed. In the house at the time
of the fire were two small children. They
were also burned, all efforts to save them
being futile.
A negro boy was accidentally killed while
knocking down cotton stalks on Col. j. S.
Reds plantation, near Madison, a few days
ago. The boy knocking down stalks in the
next row let the stick he was welding slip
out of his hand, and, striking his compan-
ion, killed him.
There is now standing on the place of
Capt. j. ID Wilson, at Pineville a one room
log house around which cluster some his
torical "reminiscences. It is the house that
was occupied by Mr. Temple, the first re-
preventative of Marion county after its
formation in 1897.
At Byron last Saturday evening S. C.
Norris was thrown from his engine by re-
ceiving a severe blow on his head from
scaffold that was located near the railroad
track. 1t was thought at fist that the
wound would prove fatal, but after a care
full examination he was pronounced Sc
Iiously but not fatally injured
The Blue Ridge mountains though thirty
miles distant, are plainly visible at Gaines
vile, and now that they are covered with
snow, present an appearance grand beyond
description. Blood mountain, the highest
peak of this range in Georgia, towers above
all the others, and looks like an immense
marble statue erected 10y the hand of nature
Joseph Dicken, Of Watkinsville, was in
Athens on Saturday and drank some very
sour cider, after which he took small
drink of the ardent, such as is made now
adays, and the mercury in the whisky COM
ing in contact with the sour cider formed a
corrosive in his stomach, which is deadly
poison. After several hours of hard work
the doctor got him relieved, and at last ac-
counts he was doing well.
On Tuesday evening Deputy Collector and
Deputy Marshal b. j. Thompson captured
a still in Butts county belonging to Bud
Harris and Ben Gray. The latter was ar
rested and taken from Hampton Depot TO
Macon and tried before Judge Erwin, and
IN default Of bond was committed TO Bib
county Jail Harris made good his escape.
Several shots were fired at him, none of
which is known to have taken effect. The
only. thing Harris left was his hat and
breakfast. A
Young Ambie Nussbaums death from
contraction of the muscles at Dariei Sun.
day was peculiarly sad and rather remarka-
Die. Notwithstanding the excriifia tfnor emf.