The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

CAHOLlNA POI IN IA re-
Miss Wizards Corning Visit to Atlanta
How Gen. Alexander Nearly En-
tered the Service OF the Khedive-
The Animals Belonging to the De-
funct Circus to be Sold at Atlanta
This Week.
GEORGIA.
Mcintosh superior court meets on May
9th.
The rice planters of Darien have had
poor beginning.
The Episcopalians of Darien are still
without a rector.
T. ]. Mason Of Lacsourg is said to he
about to make an assignment.
Mcintosh county will pay off her little
Indebtedness on the first of April.
There is a movement on foot to have
first-cass Baptist churoa in Cordele.
Darien will be unusually healthy this
summer, as there will be no rice planted in
the city.
Capt. BarnweI, of Darien, raised on the
island a turnip which weighed nineteen
pounds 1t was huge.
Mrs Lizzie Hamilton, whose throat was
cut at Atlanta, continues to improve. Sac
will be able to be out in a few days.
Last Sunday Parson n B. Williamson,
pastor of the colored Baptist church of
Quitman, baptized twenty-four new mem
bers.
A negro who was known ar Cordee by
the name Of Albert was arrested last
Wednesday night charged with forging
note on Mr.. Phillips Of Barlow, whereby
he secured Sl30.
At Darien the latter part of the week
timber came down pretty freely. Friday
there we're about sixty RATS in, and more
coming The prices are UP and are likely
to remain up, as timber is in demand just
now. The rivers at present are in good
rafting condition.
DR.. A. H. Sneed died last Sunday at his
home in FORSYTH. He was a prominent
Mason and Knight Templar, was at one
time postmaster at Forsyth, and for a long
time agent of the Southern Express Com
pany. He was throughout the war
an officer of the Quitman Rifles of For
syth.
The orders that came into the railway
mail service at Atlanta Saturday were
signed by J. Lowrie Bell, the new superin-
tendent of the railway mail service for the
United States This is the first batch of
orders coming to Atlanta signed by the new
superintendent, who has taken the place of
w. L. Bancroft
Miss Frances e. Willard win reach
Atlanta on Saturday April T. She will re-
main on the Sunday following and will
deliver one address, probably at the opera
house or at Trinity church. She will be
accompanied by Miss Anna Gordon. Miss
Wizards coming will be quite an event
with the temperance people.
At Rome, about $3.50 o'clock Friday
morning, Officers Guice and Sharp made a
good haul in capturing Tom McArver an
escaped convict. There was a reward of
$50 offered for his apprehension, and the
two policemen have the cash In their sin
side pockets, don't you know in De-
cember. 1887, Tom McArver was sentenced
at the Floyd county superior court to serve
four years in the penitentiary for the crime
Of horse stealing.
There is in Morgan county a curiosity,
known as the balanced rock. It is about
nine miles from Madison and in full view
of the Covington and Memphis railroad
After crossing the Appalachee river, the
railroad makes q sweeping curve at the base
of large bill, and from the car windows
of the train on the left, the curiosity can be
plainly seen. On the side of the hill a large
rock crops out from the surface, and on it
there is a huge boulder somewhat of the
shape Of an inverted cone. The boulder is
In perfect state of equIpoise and the base
upon which it rests is 50 small in proportion
to the size of the boulder, that 1t is said that
man can shake it.
Saturday afternoon some one fired the
woods just beyond the Air Line railroad
near Ponce de Leon Springs. The trees are
very close together and the ground be-
meath them is covered with thick gra and
uaderbrush. A light wind was blowing
and soon the fire had stretched across the
country for fully three miles 1t continued
TO burn all night, and was still advancing
Saturday morning. A large amount Of
fencing was destroyed, and in many cases
the farmers had to fight the fire to keep it
from destroying their property. William
Pair, who lives beyond the railroad on the
Anglers spring road, had to fight the fire
away from his fences.
AT Atlanta Saturday morning two wo-
men, with babies in their arms, sat in the
office at police headquarters. They had
drunken husbands locked up behind the
bars. All last night they watched and
waited for the sound Of approaching foot
steps, and daylight still found them watch
ing and waiting. They knew where to find
their husbands-the same thing had &C.
CURED often before. In the police court
this morning these faithful wives pleaded
before the judge for their husbands and
the tears upon their cheeks and the babies
in their arms softened the judges heart,
and be let the drunken husbands off with
light fines-ines which the wives paid with
money made by lampiight with needle and
thread.
The animals and other property of the
@AAAA - oAAEi9 hLOW COIlBduY Will DO SOiu
at public outcry at Atlanta next Thursday.
An order has been issued by the superior
court granting the receiver Frank Lester,
the right to hold the sale. The snakes have
already been sold, but there remain four
camels, two African lionesses, two Mexican
lionesses, two monkeys, two wild cats, one
hyena, one jaguar, one gazelle, two black
deer, one Mexican hog, one black bear aud
eleven head of horses. Besides these ami
mails are the railroad cars, canvas and
other paraphernalia of the circus, all of
which will be sold also. The city NAV buy
the menagerie complete and put it at Grant
park. The animals are good specimens aud
in fine condition.
On Friday last while Barlow Dean Of
Daiien was riding through the woods near
South Newport the cry of a calf, which
seemed to be in distress, attracted his atten-
ton. He rode as fast as the condition of
the Doggy woods would allow in the drec-
ton, and. blowing for his dogs, put them
out, thinking to start fox. He discovered
the calf badly bitten and torn, he did not
know by what. The dogs ran four hours
before he could get a SHOT, and then he SHOT
at the shaking bushes. The wounded beast
took stand and the dogs came up, but
with his right shoulder broken the beast
nearly succeeded in killing one Of tho best
fox hounds The beast proved to be wild