The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-27

! t'ulC ~ uistiiAye4 VI IN cash and stated
that he did odd jobs about town for live
lihood. He also stated that his wife aided in
making support. Witnesses testified
| mat VIII might be seen at nearly any
hour IN the day on a street corner smoking
a pipe during the winter months just past,
anu that they had not seen HIM do any
work. Henry Martin Ccolored) signed the
bond, and he was liberated. Witt went at
once IN search Of work. The news Of this
trial has cleared the streets Of loafers.
Faces TINT have been familiar about the
public wei for months must now be in
| quired after when they are wanted.
Sylvania Telephone. A. 3. cambridge,
the surveyor on the part Of the state Of
Georgia, assisted by our county surveyor,
Z. Frawey, and j. T. Wade, ex-county
surveyor, aul in part by the county sur
veyor Of Richmond county, Mr.. Reynolds,
| finished the survey Of the county line be
tweol Burke and Scriven counties last week
They found no difficulty in finding the
original line from one side Of the county to
the other, ard when they struck Mileu
they found much more OF it in Scriven
than many 10 there seemed to be inclined
70 cOncele heretofore. Now that there can
be no further doubt about the matter, we
trust that our fellow citizens of Milleu will
become reconclied TO remain IN Scriven, for
We all like them too well 10 lose them, and
are glad that we can still claim them.
good joke is told on certain official of
Greene county, who was once uson time
farmer When commercial fertilizers
were first put on the market, agents went
TO the farmers direct aud sold them One
day an egent tackled the young farmer
above mentioned aud induced him to buy
few sacks OF fertilizer. These were ship
ped to the nearest railroad station, and one
Saturday the young farmer drove over for
them. They were piled in the wagon and
the farmer started home A short way out
from town he pitched every one Of the sacks
into a gully, and reaching home wrote the
agent IS follows: You'll find your old
guauo in gully near the depot. | wouldn't
receive it, for when it got here the durn
stuff was spIlei SO bad n man couldn't get
in half n mile Of it." The agent let him OH
from payment
Some ten days ago Thomas z. Smith, a
farmer in Union district Spalding county,
left for Atlanta, and since tleu nothing
definite was heard from him or his doinss
until Friday morning. His wife came in 10
make inquiry, aud her search mas devel-
oped the same Old story Of supposed daser-
tIon and defalcation. Smith has always
been looked upon as progressive
farmer and recent transactions provo
him an exceedingly lively one He went
into the city last week and sold thirly-fye
bales Of cotton, and with the proceeds and
about $500 received from other salos,
making M all about 81, 600 left for Atlanta
His wife states that she received a letter
from him pustmarked Villa Rica. r. =
New iliams a. Sou supplied him during the
summer, and have a claim against him for
81, 100, III are secured by a mortgage on
10 acres OF improved land. Smith has loft
G number Of smaller debts behind him 1t
IS ito opinion Of many that his wife viii be
sent for and thGt she will be kept posted as
10 his whereabouts
Speaker Clay Of the Georgia House is
very popular throughout his district, except
in ono small preciHct, in what is known as
Pea Ridge, where The people me very poor,
and, being Isolated, do not keen up with the
outside world. To them ths Georgia legis-
lature is the greatest lhw-giving and most
powerful body Of men on eafth. In this sec
ton Speaker Clay, whe be ran for the leg
islaturc the first time, received only eight
votes. He thought he could at least double
his votes there in his last race, and went
over to the X dye to make a speech. While
be was talking away to the constituents of
Pea Ridge about what he had done in the
legislature, a rough farmer came close to
the stand and shouted: Say, mister, doa't
yer know II yerud er done yer doOty on
the last legislaty Us farmers wouldn't or had
this yer baggin' trust ter fight ergir n The
audiencs cheered the questioner az if be ha
put socd1llager to the speaker; and al
though Mr.. Clay tried to explain that the
Georgia legislature had nothing TO do with
trusts formed in St. Louis aud New York,
his hearers were satisfied that be had not
done his dOoty in the last legislaty." He
did NJ get many votes from Pea Ridge.
Americas Republican: A gentleman of
the bachelor persuasion, says that no was
robbed OF his sleep the other night when il
was cold, dark, dTizzly, and the wind vas
blowing with a razor-like edge that seemed
TO cut 70 the bone. He retired about q
o'clock, ard had nearly got to sleep when
he heard child crying. He listened some
time and at last his sympathy was aroused
He got up, and without dressing, built big
fire, took light, and hurried out INTO the
yard and looked for the poor, wailtng iu-
FAINT He didn't hear a single whimper from
the little one while out, but a few
minutes after returning, and while
he was toasting his shins
before going back to bed, the Same plain
tive, child-like, heart touching chorus,
broke on his sensitive head He again went
out, but was as before futile in his search
He returned, took a stiff drink, resumed
his place before the fire. when he again
heard the sound. lie said he went out to
look for that body eight times before he
found his house cat had got on a high placs
by jumping down from the house top, aud
had no way TO descend 10 the ground be
now, aud tanks this an omen that he'll
make tender-hearted father.
FLORIDA