The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-23

John Born, OF Lawrenceville. purt hased
Texas pony not long ago and carried II
! home. 1t seemed 20 be quite gentle and
kind, and never offered to hurt any one un-
I'll one day last week Mr. Born went out to
feed 1T as usual. As he went in the stable
door ana proceeded to the trough, the horse
turned around very suddenly and gave the
old gentleman a considerable jar, which
threw him up against the trough, and it is
thought there is at least ono rib broken, If
not more.
Tuesday seemed an unlucky day with the
Brunswick md Western railroad. As the
west-touHd night passenger train came up
at Hill>dale, one aud u half miles east Of
Ty-Ty, in running over the switch at that
place one set OF trucks of one car jumped
the track and ran on the ties for about
quarter of mile. A short time afteTward
the freight going east came along and four
| cars went of at the same place, tearing up
the track for a short distance. Fortunately,
no one was hurt on either train.
McGinty q Hmnicutt. contractors of
Athens, have been awarded the contract
for building the new extension TO the
Georgia factory Work is to commence
Immediately and the building will be ready
for the machinery by Oct. /. The building
will he three stories high and $50 feet long.
The capacity of the mill will be increased
from >, 100 to 10000 spindles and will then
he second to no cotton mill in the South.
The Georgia factory was built in 1928, hence
it is one OF the oldest factories in the South.
An attempt was made Monday afternoon
to wreck the passenger train ON the eastern
extension of the Americas, Preston and
Lumpkin railroad. Just before the train
reached Huntington the engineer saw some
thing lying across the track a short distance
ahead, and blew on brakes at once. When
the train stopped the hands found lot OF
old rails across the track. They were
thrown aside and the train made the rest of
the trip in safety This is not the first at
tempt to wreck train on this road in that
locality.
At Cedartown Pace & Herbert have Sc
cured of DIR. Thompson, on the border of
the incorporate limits, beautiful hill that
Overlooks even the church steeples of Cedar
town. upon which to place a large reservoir
of sufficient capacity to water the town, put
out all fires and supply any and all engines
for manufacturing purposes. A large
spring of the best water is near the base of
the hill that sends forth large creek, from
which they propose to supply the reservoir.
CedartoWn will need no fire engines, but
only pipe aud hose, in order to deluge the
whole town.
Sunday, at a church en- Warwonan creek,
Rabun county, where services were being
held, William Hopkins killed Mr.. Thomas.
Both boys were very young. The difficulty
occurred about young lady. When servi-
Ces were over Thomas walked out at the
door, where Hopkins was in readiness and
struck him mortal blow i'll the head with
a rock. Thomas ran about half mile and
fell IN the road. He died Wednesday.
Hopkins is now under guard in the county
Jail. His brother has been arrested as an
accomplish. Both will likely be tried at the
present term of court
The attorneys of the two roads termi-
mating at Brunswick held conference
Tuesday with the officials of the city touch
ing the joint use of Bay, "Y" and "An
streets. A. o. Bacon represented the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, and w.
f. Kay the Brunswick and Western. They
will jointly prepare an ordinance granting
equal powers to each. A union passenger
depot will be built. The next grand step
will be to so change the tracks as to avoid
the three mile crossing north of the city,
and discontinue the track around by the old
depot through Cochran avenue.
Talbotton NelO Era: 'Medler, Neto Era
correspondent, says: L. T. Cosby, a saw
mill man, went to Columbus last week with
the President of the Pleasant Grove Farm
ers' Alliance Mr.. Cosby says he watched
this President while trading with a mer-
chant and noticed that be winked at the
merchant and cooked up his left foot. Mr..
Cosby saws he Cosby afterward went
through the same performance before the
merchant and it worked like a charm. He
bought more goods on credit than he could
pay freight on. Mr.. Cosby says the ALI
ance is big thing, and he knows, as he has
tried it,
Sunday afternoon Miss Hattie Gignilliat
and Miss Huggard, of Cobb county, were
going to Marietta in buggy drawn by a
mule, to attend Sunday school. The mule
became stubbon and refused to pass a pile
of rocks in the road near Mrs. Browns
place on Cherokee road. Miss Huggard
got out of the buggy to lead the mule, but
the mule became frightened and started to
run. Miss Gignilliat attempted to jump
out of the buggy, when her foot caught in
one of the wheels, throwing her TO the
ground and breaking her left leg. DIR.
Seize was sent for and set the fractured
limb, and she is doing well.
Milledgeville Chronicle: The little boys
about town of the age of ~ and IA years
have gone into the show business and are
rehearsing the Rival Darkies." They will
give their FIRST presentation of this play
next Friday night in Mr.. l.. II. Thomas
barn. After the play a magic lantern ex-
hibition will be given and Master Harry
Wilson, the world renowned contortioniSt,
will astOnish the natives with his wonderful
feats. The play was booked for last night,
but owing to the death of the former occu-
pant of the barn and respect for her MEM
ory, the play was postponed until next Fri
day night. Price of admission DC.