The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Spiders Bite Brings a Man to Deaths
Door - Singular Experience About
Reading-Relics OF the Aborlginees,
GEORGIA.
The malleable iron works at Emerson are
In full blast now.
The ravages of tine caterpillar in Dough
erty county is becoming serious.
An egg shaped like horn is a curiosity
now attracting attention at Gainesville.
Cartersville's water works are completed,
except the tower reservoir, which Will soon
be done.
A large number of buildings are in course
of construction at Gainesville. Close to
100000 will be invested, divided between
about 100 buildings.
C. H. & E. J. Peacock, and E. A. Smith
have purchased a two-tbirds interest in the
property of Mrs. E. r. Carr, at Eastman. The
transaction involved $4,000.
James Townly, son of J. j. Townly of
IeRrencevillev fell out Of tree in W. l..
Naughan's yard last Saturday morning and
broke his right arm.
The first time the people will vote for
commissioner of agriculture will be at the
next gu ernatorial election. Hon. Martin
V. Calvin, of Richmond county, is men
toned as a candidate.
Gen. Butler and his company are pre-
pariug for some of the most extensive
mining ever seen in Barlow county on the
Satterfield property-one of the richest
mining properties in the south.
The two heaviest bales of middling cotton
brought to Perry within the last ten years
were sold to Maj, Brunson last week, he
paying over $3.50 for the two bales. The
first weighed 733 pounds and the other 75S
pounds.
Hamilton Maffett, who now resides north
of Lawrencevile has been almost at
deaths door since camp meeting, caused
from a spider bite inflicted on the left
shoulder year or two ago. Mr.. Maffett is
now in bis I'D year, and the family are
fearful that should ne recover he will lose
his eyesight
A productive bed of tale has been dis.
covered by the trench hands who are ex-
cavating for the sewers near the residence
lots of George D. Wheatley and o. A. Cole
man on Lee street, A l'ericus A syndicate
of Cordele has offered a handsome price for
the property, but the owners will not sell
Athens Banner: Il. s. Lester. who
owns farm on the Oconee river, the other
day brought to Athens and left at the Ban
7ler office a very interesting collection of
Indian relics that were washed I'D on his
land in the bottoms. They consisted of
EaVLle
AK and similar utensils and weapons used
by the aboriginees.
r. H. and B. K Couper. who re-
Gently bought and opened a mine of red
hematite ore near TaylOrsville, Barlow
county, are shipping now about two car
loads day. The ore has been found Of
uniformly good quality, and they have
secured large order from Dayton, Tenn.
and also one for several hundred tons from
the Cherokee Iron Company, at Cedartown
The police of Atlanta are on the lookou.
for man who has been circulating coun-
terfeit 50 bills in that city recently. The
bills are crisp, new ones, and it takes n
close inspection to discover that they are
not genuine. The man who is passing them
Is mlddle-aged person vita a beard He
buys cigar, glass of soda water, or some
thing for cents, and receives 81 95 in good
money. In one case he fooled bank clerk.
Ellijay Courier: There is lady in this
place who has singular experience about
reading. When she was about 20 years old
she was converted aud joined the church
She did not know how TO read. inst barely
knew her LEI terS, and she was very anxious
to read the bible She got her sister to hep
her read three chapters in the bible. and
then she took it up herself and can read the
bible as f1uen.lY as any one, and pronounce
all the proper names correctly. The strange
part OF IL Is unaI sac cannot read anything
else but the bible. She cannot get any
sense out of newspaper or any other book.
Last Sunday w. f. Maddox boarded a
passenger train at Emerson, and soon after
either fell, jumped, or, as he says. was
pushed OFT the platform, and came near
losing his life. A cash was cut to the skull
on the back OF his mead, aud his face badly
bruised. His coat and pants were literally
torn of, and his body bruised. How he
escaped death is a mystery. His head struck
III three inches of the rail- between the tieS
and the supposition is that the steps and
journal boxes of the sleeper caught his
clothing He says stout negro pushed
him off. When found he was unconscious
and remained so for some time, but at this
writing ffle day morning. he is getting
along very well.
c. L. Hearn and Mrs NJ. E. Andrews
with three children, all of Heard county
arrived at Atlanta w Wednesday. Mrs. An.
drews left an aged husband, minister. in
Heard county, and Hearn lett a wife and
family. The police We're notified and Hearn
was arrested. A fictitious bond was fixed
up yesterday and Hearn was frightened into
returning to his family. 1t is not known
where Mrs. Andrews and her children will
go. Mr.. Hearn stated to a Journal reporter
that the reason why Mrs. Andrews left her
husband was because she was SO Young and
A1O vas ~ SAu 1u1O SAlS was AFRAID he would
die and leave large family of children de-
pendent on her for support. He was as
kind and good to her as possible, but was
too old to suit her.
There's an old hat in Justice Landrum's
Office, at Atlanta, TO which there is attached
an interesting story. John T. Douglass
wanted to & to Salt Springs, but he had no
good hat, so he borrowed one from Nick T
Ransom, brand new hat that Mr.. Ransom
a TrGf TAt-
went home wearing tue old hat, but his
wife made so much fuss about it that he
carried the old hat to Judge Landrum aud
swore out pQssessory warrant for the new
ha', but as yet Mr.. Douglass has NOT
returned to the city. The hat in Judge
Landrum's Office Is a curiosity. 1t was
once g derby, but now it is pile of rags
ard bears about as much resemblance to a
hat a drunken sot in the gutter bears 70
a college dude.
FLORIDA.
The new organ for the Methodist church
at Titusville has arrived.
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