The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-11

the festive brute ran from the house looking
more like one of the feathered tribe than
fat porker.
The annual session of the Christian church
of Georgia convened in Atlanta Wednes-
day. The delegation is a large one. The
convention is composed of the leading min
isters Of the church, and will be in session
several days The opening exercises were
impressive and interesting. Addresses were
made by several delegates, while the intro
ductory services, BY Rev. r. B. Omer OF
Sylvanla, were very interesting. There
were representatives from all parts Of the
state, as we'll as from other states. Wednes-
day night Rev. J. j. Spencer Of Richmond,
Va, delivered a splendid sermon at the
church.
At Taylor, Wednesday, the infant child
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Berry Arnold came 10 an
uEtimelY death. The mother had stationed
her babe upon blanket in the COOK room,
and was engaged in preparing dinner Tor
the family, when she lifted a kettle OF boil
ing water off the stove, taxing hold Of the
handle without cloth covering. She had
scarcely removed the kettle from the stove
before the scorching pain became too great
for her TO bear, and forced her to let the
kettle fall TO the floor the contents covering
the child, which had crawled, unnoticed, up
TO where its mother was standing at the
stove. The little one lived but a shor. while
James II. GAY was killed at MouItrie on
Monday Gay was under the influence OF
liquor to some extent and, according to the
information Of the Townsville Times, was
making demonstrations against James
Eady who warned him to keep off, and
backed some distance to keep out of Gays
reach, but having backed to NJ. M. Blan-
toms store, as Gay advanced on him in a
threatening attitude, Eady drove a knife
into him uear the collar-bone. Gay turned
and pulled, or endeavored to pull off his
coat, but fell and expired in few minutes.
Sheriff Nelson was standing near by, and
Eady gave himself up and informed the
sheriff he considered himself under arrest
Detective Shackleford arrived at Atlanta
Wednesday from Birmingham with Wade
Hampton Cox, young white man whom
he arrested in Birmingham Monday. Cox
is accused of running a young lady, whose
brother-in-law, A. P Smith, came up from
Bryan cpuntySunday to employ Shackleford
on the case. The story is that young Cox
was clerking at Johnson's Island s. c., at
the time he wronged the girl Her family
insisted that he should make good his prom
ise Of marriage, but instead of doing so he
ran OFF, Arriving i'll Birmingham he wrote
young lady in Brunswick to secure his
trunk and have it shipped to him. She
complied with his request, and it was by
That means that Cox was captured De-
tective Shackleford and his prisoner left for
Bryan county Wednesday evening.
"F. S. T." in Washington Chronicle: An
old book in my possession gives the follow
ing information concerning Georgia ID 1880:
With its present northern and southern
boundaries, il extended from the Savannah
river to the Mississippi. and contained
twenty counties. Wilkes county ex-
tended from near Augusta to the line
of Franklin, and from the Savannah
TO the line of Greene. According to
the census of 1890 the population was
$1,000. Washington had a court house
aid jail, thirty-four dwellings and an
academy whose funds amounted to $500
and had between sixty and seventy
students. Wilkes exported about 5000
hogsheads of tobacco and no cotton,
as the cotton gin was not invented. The
historian says that within mile and half
of Washington is medicinal spring which
rises from a hollow tree four or five feet in
length The inside of the tree is covered
with a coat of matter an inch thick, and
the leaves around the spring are
incrusted with a substance as white
as snow. It IS said to be a sovereign remedy
for the scurvy, scrofulous disorders, con-
sumptions, gouts, and every other disease
arising from humors in the blood. per-
son who had severe rheumatism in his arm,
having in the space Of ten minutes drank
two quarts of the water, experienced mo-
mentary chill and was thrown into a per-
spiration, which, in few hours, left him
entirely free from pain and in perfect
health