The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS

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GEORGIA.
Floyd county will vote on the prohibition
question again on Aug. 6.
Rev. Robert Adams Of Macon has &C
cepted the call from the Presbyterians of
Americas.
Dunk Hill, of Wilkes county, this year
harvested eighty-six bushels Of wheat from
four bushels planted.
Maxey Dobbs of Marietta has passed the
preliminary examination for entrance to
the United States naval academy at An
napolis.
A young man of Green county recently
sent his girl luscious melon, accompanied
by note making the startling request,
Enclosed, please find watermelon"
The work on the governments new road
to the national cemetery at Marietta has
been so poorly done that this weeks rains
have washed away a portion of the road
way.
Rev. Robert Anderson (colored) of San
dersville, who says he is 20 years and 5
months old, and has been married forty
nine years, has just had born to him his first
child.
A strange stealing case was reported at
Atlanta Wednesday The Atlanta Wagon
Company missed a road wagon out Of the
warehouse. An investigation was made,
and it was discovered that a small negro
boy had walked into the warehouse when
no one was about, and, stepping between
the shafts of a road wagon walked off
down the street, pulling the vehicle after
him. Persons living near the warehouse
saw the occurrence, but thought the boy
was an employe of the wagon company
A citizen Of Marietta has parrot. 1t is
a good talker and very intelligent. 1t was
left alone in room not long ago, when in
its ramblngs about the room it got hold Of
box of matches, which fell to the floor on
the carpet and ignited. The parrot was
greatly distressed at the blaze and seemed
to comprehend the danger, and it screamed
out: run here quick, quick, quick" The
timely call was responded to by the good
lady of the house, who at a glance took in
the situation and extinguished the incipient
fire.
At this time there is good deal of ex-
citement and sensation in Athens over the
indictment, by the grand jury. of several
parties for perjury in giving their evidence
in some gambling cases. 1t Is claimed that
they swore directly opposite to what they
knew TO be the truth, in order to shield
their friends, and hence the indictments.
Two of the parties are men of family and
Others boys Just of age. Several of the in
dicted parties have left the city. 1t is
reported that more than one witness
will be non comeatible when the cases are
called.
An accident occurred at the mill of
Messrs Gardner a Arnold, near Elberton.
on Friday evening last, in which two boys,
one white and the other colored, were
badly hurt A son of John L. White and
a negro boy, about 10 or - years of age
were at the MILL when the negro boy got
too near some shafting in which his clothes
were caught and he was spun around like
top. Mr.. Whites sou seeing his condition
undertook to release him, and in irving to
do so, was caught himself and had his arm
broken, while the negroes leg was broken in
two places
A bill is about to be presented to the
legislature, by Hon. w. Y. Atkinson of
Coweta, to establish an industrial college
for girls in Georgia, after the plan of the
one in Columbus, Miss, which has demon
strated itself success. IL will embrace
three epartments-lterary normal and
industrial-the latter to include phonogra-
ply, stenography, biography, printing,
drawing, wood carving, designing patterns,
etc, this department being left open to in
troduce other branches of work and art as
all tending to the practical education of
girls, opening new avenues whereby they
can sustain themselves and others who
might be dependent upon them, wherever
inclination or necessity requires.
Macon Telegraph: Had Sidney Golf en-
1oyed good reputation, the negro who shot
and killed him last Sunday night in the
negro gambling dive in Tybee would have
undoubtedly been held on charge of MUIR
der. AS the matter now stands, Asa Will
Jams, the negro in Jail, who admits the
shooting, and who, several negroes say.
committed the deed, is held on a charge Of
voluntary manslaughter, the full
punishment for which offense is twenty years
In the penitentiary. The other OCCUPANT of
the room at the time was sworn at the
coroner's inquest Tuesday, and said there
was but one shot, and that from the revolt
yer OF Asa Williams. He said that he was
standing but few feet from the dead man
when the shooting occurred. As the bullet
struck him, the negro jumped straight into
the air and ran toward Williams with an
open knife Williams attempted to escape,
but was caught by Golf at the door. Then
there was struggle, during which Goff
stabbed Williams in the neck
There is a lady in Gainesville who has
carried an oak ball, commonly called an
ink ball, about the size of a small marble
In one OF her nostrils for the past twenty
years. When about years old she found
one, and, child-like, pushed it so far IN her
nose that she could not get it out, For fear
or some other cause she said nothing of If
to her mother, and as it gave her little or
no pain, it was soon forgotten. Strange to
say, it remained there until short time
ago, when it commenced to give her trouble.
DIR. R. Frank Smith was consulted
and he thought at first that she
was suffering from cartarrh, but
on closer examination discovered
that the nostril was completely stopped up
by some foreign substance, and advised an
operation. He inserted an instrument and
forced the substance back until it passed
into the throat, when she spit it out. 1t had
become very hard and showed no signs OF
decay. The catarrhal symptoms have
disappeared, and she breathes through tina
nostrl now as well as ever.
The Blue Ridge Post continues its sketch
of Hon. Ben Duggar: Zone day Hon
Andrew johnson and Samuel johnson of
Fannin were visiting the House, and Mr..
Duggar introduced a resolution rendering
them seats on the floor. To his mortiAca.
ton, when he went to introduce them he
found his friends squatted down ON the
floor. Upon his reprimanding them. thev
said they thought they had seated them
selves properly. During this session he
once took dinner at the Kimball house'with
big railroad man. He was not used TO
the style of changing dishes. A coIored
waiter reached for one of Duggar's dishes
but he was too quick for the dusky descend
ant OF Ham, and gave him kick that sent
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