The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-15


The Charges Against the Superin-
tendent of the Rof Home at Macon
Members Of the Legislature Assist
In RjectinR Negroes from a White
Peoples Coach.
GEORGIA.
In Merriwether county so far this year
the deaths number III negroes and Sc
whites.
Julian Perry has been offered $1,000 for
the site of the Cordele springs, at Cordeie,
but won't sell at that price.
John Baiock of Hoschton is the owner of
apheuomenal pig. 1t is three weeks old and
was born without a tail-wIthout even a
sign or suggestion OF tail.
The postoffice ct Afford in the Cove.
Merriwether county, has been discontinued
at the request of the postmaster. The mail
for that place will 20 70 Woodbury..
Prof. A. Jacoby of Hawknsville died
Friday. after a pratracted illness Of fever,
aged &c years. He resided IN Savannah
some years and was well-known through
out the state as a proficient teacher OF IN
strumental music.
The alliance men # Macon and surround
ing counties discussed TIE guano factory
and oil mil at length at a meeting Tues
day, and appointed committee TO formu-
late a plan 10 organize a company. Sew
eral thousand dollars have already been
subscribed.
Atlanta Journal. You need not think
that Judge Marshall Clarke does not get of
his dignity sometimes, for he does. met
young lady at Cumberland who told me
how be had been made to root the peg
in game Of mumbly peg last summer.
Just fancy the digniied judge on his knees,
with his mouth il the grit, trying to bring
up the peg
H. T. Hammack of Crawfordville, says
one half pound OF fat meat cut up into a
gallon Of corn meal dough and fed to
fifteen hens viii give the owner more eggs
than ever seen from the same number of
hens. He says it will never fail and he is
surprised al the people complaining at
the scarcity Of hen fruit when fat meat
in small quantities viii mako hens lay
rapidly.
While Mr.. Hutchinson was looking
through the Jail at Valdosto with a view to
the construction of gallows for Frank
Blount, York Lampkins asked with a
fsceuous air if tie visitor would not be
making one for him beforo long, and Mr.
Hutchinson replied that possibly he would.
York then said il they would furnish him
with a piece of rope he would save the
county the trouble and expense
DuuuhY AFTERNOON Two negro boys got III
boat and went out into Lewis mill pond,
ct Montezuma, for the purpose of taking a
wasp nesr M arlv as large as a mans hat
which was fastened to a tree When dis
turbed the wasps became furious, and COM
menced singing so terribly that the smaller
one jumped out of the boat to avoid
them and was drowned. Instead of trying
TO save is companion, the larger boy
padded for tie sh re in search Of help
woman, were elected from the first-class
car on the entral railroad, Friday after
noon, by several members of the Georgia
legislature, assisted by several knights of
the grip. The pair boarded the train at
Atlanta and were given ample opportunity
and chance to get INTO the right coach, and
were not put out until some distance down
the road. The woman showed a willingness
to 60, but the man offered some resistance,
but was persuaded to vacate orderly.
Thursday Revenue Collector Ware raided
the premises OF the government still of
Walton county, which recently suspended
work. He found plenty of evidence that
the still had just been in operation. a raid
was then made on the house of A r. Smith
near by, and they found a barrel Of fresh
whisky in the smoke house. 1t is alleged
that F. l.. Phillips and James Rome made
the Illicit whisky. Two large coppers and
everything else connected with the dis
tlllery, together. with the barrel of fresh
whisky, We're seized. All three of the men
were arrested.
Americas Recorder: The queer actions
of turkey gobbler are reported from the
Fifteenth district Of this county Mrs
HeArn, mother of Chesley Whitley, and
sister of p. G. Clegg Of this city, is the
owner Of a lot of turkeys. Several weeks
ago turkey hen commenced sitting on six
eggs, and an old gobbler did the same thing
on five eggs, the two nests being about two
feet apart. They both set the allotted time,
when the hen came off with six little
turkeys and the gobbler with Ave. The
gObbler is scratching and taking care of his
little ones in first class STYLE and has not
lost any of them, while the hen has lost one.
This is a motherly old gobbler, to say the
least.
Brunswick Times: The cotton factory to
be run under the name of the Kennon Man
utacturing Company is assuming huge pro
portions and by Oct. next the people Of
Brunswick viii be greeted 10y the hum of
the spindle and the loom. Two handsome
two-story dwellings and four cottages have
been built, while five new cottages are in
process Of construction. The company sig
Nifty their intention of furnishing large and
commodious dwellings for their employees
and the number of houses built and being
bu44t hHpNS Jlidb ti6N mean what LneY say.
Capt. Kennon informed the reporter that
5000 splndies were being placed in position
and that the company would employ fifty
operatives to begin with There wiz! he
sufficient machinery and power, however.
TO run 10000 spindles, and this will give
employment to great many more laborers.
Mrs. Sidney Holland has a parrot which
is probably the brig htest bird in Atlanta.
Her name Is Merry, and she is green of
plumage. Merry is scarcely more than a
year old, and she can sing: Hop light.
ladies, your cakes all dough. Never mind
the weather, so the wind don't blow and
other little cOuplets of verse Not long
since Merry was on her perch in the front
yard when a gentleman passed along the
street. SHOOT the hatm a shrill voice
shrieked. The man raised his hand in
stinctively TO his beaver and looked
askant at the house. No one was
visible, not even small bow.
''Shoot the cOllariH again came the plp-
ing notes from the direction of the house
The head fell backwards as though the man
expected his neckwear to be torn from his
throat, and he duickened his pace. "Sell
yourself for half dollarm the bird sang.
and flying down the street at full tilt the
man disappeared, while Merry laughed
hoarsely at him. This is only one of many
smart things that Merry does. She cannot
bear Mr.. Holland because he leases her. and
when she gets very angry she will go to her
mistress and perchiug herself upon Mrs.
Hollands hand, chatter about her griev-