The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-21


Island-Floods Along the oconee,
GEORGIA.
Peach trees are in bloom at Albany.
Mrs. j. l.. Walker of Pulaski county has
piano which has been IN use over twenty
five years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel NJ. Inman of At
lanta celebrated the tweuty-titth annlvers-
airy of their wedding Tuesday.
An enterprising young business man from
Tennille, suggests that an effort he made
bv Sandersville and Tennille TO have fair
this fall.
The summer residence Of w. A. Fraser at
HinesyilIe was destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The cause Of the fire is unknown,
as the house was not occupied. The loss
falls heavy on Mr.. Fraser. who had fitted
up comfortable home there.
NilIedgeville Chronicle: We have never,
in all the DAYS we have passed with these
gentlemen, seen Adolph Joseph or Pc or j.
Cline resting in a chair during business
hours Now, this is remarkable, when it Is
remembered that these gentlemen have been
here twenty to thirty years and are leaders
Of the business in their line.
Last fall Tom and Welk Loveioy, sons Of
p II. Lovejoy of Hawkinsville rented
small sDace in the store Of T. G. Clegg ~
Co, and embarked in the fruit and co fec
tionery business. TIE boys paid their ex-
peuses to the state fair, supplied themselves
with clothing and cleared $50 besides and
all this was done within three months
The delivery wagon tax lately imposed by
the city council Of Columbus is developing
unexpected results. Monday the Browne
Vile, Ala, authorities taxed twelve deliv-
cry wagons from Columbus. Mayor U. H.
Smith was seen by an EnquiyeTSun re-
porter in reference to the matter. He said
the Columbus delivery wagons are taxed
simply for Ietallation.
The recent continuous rains have caused
a heavy food In the Oconee and its tribu-
tary creeks in Baldwin county. The river
at M.lledgeville is nearly up to the floor Of
the new county bridge and still rising, but
the bridge is safe thus far. Fishing creek,
between Milledgeville and the asylum, is
with four feet of the floor of the bridge,
and in the low grounds the water is nearly
half a mile wide.
At Americas Tuesday C. J. Hawkins,
superintendent of the water works, had
very narrow escape. He had climbed to
the top of the l35-foot water tower for
RoIne purpose, and was descending a ladder
on the inside, when one Of the rounds broke
be- cath his weight. Instantly he was
buried with frightful velocity down the 100
foot shaft but fortunately struck upon a
small platform before going very far. He
sustained several painful bruises, but was
otherwise unhurt. 1t was a narrow escape
from what might have been a terrible
death.
A negro woman named Kitty House died
at Decatur Sunday at the age Of l07 years.
The manner in which she held her own is
something remarkable. She had never
worn glasses, her eye-sght being as good at
the time Of her death as when a Guild. She
had no childish ways which is usually the
case among OLD people. She worked on her
quilts and knitting up to a week before she
died. She remembered distinctly many
events which happened duri the revolu-
tionary war. aud always took special de-
light in relating them. She outlived all her
children, one OF whom died at the age OF so.
Mllledgeville Chronicle: Capt. Howard
Tinsley gave the writer last week copy of
the Southern Presbyterian, published at
Charleston, 8. c., Feb. q, 1853 1t contains
many long ago incidents, among them the
marriage, by Rev. William Film, of Francis
F. Stubs Of Louisiana to Miss Georgia,
daughter of DIR. Tue ier of Laurens county,
Georgia. The coincidence is that it is ad-
dressed to A. NJ. Nisbit, our father. The
paper has been in possession of Mrs. Carnes
up to her decease, and was turned over to
us to treasure as a souvenir.
A travelling troupe calling themselves the
Minnie Lee Mlnstrels, mixed concern, the
men blscked and the females in short
dresses, showed at MIledgeville two nights
last week. The business manager and his
wife skipped with all the money and left
the rest without money enough to pay their
hotel bills and get away. The next mig t
the manager OF the opera house let them
have it free to enable them to get away,
when the rest skipped and left two l6. year
old girls here pennIless. The citizens made
up enough to lot them get home on, and
they left for their homes, wherever they
are.
James II. Peyton. who lives at Wylie
Testers, in Clarke county, tells Of re-
markable runaway which befell him last
Saturday morning. He had his wagon
filed with beef, and expected to arrive in
Athens early in the morning. Just before
he was ready TO make the trip, his horse be-
came frightened at the Tapping of sheet
which covered the meat, and ran away
He succeeded admirably. He struck out
for Winterville, and arriving at that town,
and not liking the place, continued bis
Journey TO New Hope, where he concluded
TO await the arrival of his master He
made five-mile run, did no injury to the
wagon and spilled none of the beef.
A remarkable linguistic feat occurred in
the city court Of Atlanta recently. 1t was
the Atlanta and West End Street railway
for damages. There was a witness put upon
the stand who spoke only French. There
was only one interpreter who spoke French
and he spoke only French and Italian
There was only one interpreter who spoke
Italian and English. So the testimony of
the witness delivered in French was trans
lated into Italian by the first interpreter.
then from Italian into English by the sec
ond interpreter, aud thus through three
tongues reached the judge. Judge Van
Epps now sleeps with a lexicon under his
pillow.
The report Of the grand jury Of Spalding
county includes tie following: I'm CON
sidering the public interest we feel we
would be unmindful of our charge il we
failed to call attention to the recent viola.
tons Of the constitution of this state by our
leading railway corporations. The constl-
tuition OF Georgia exp essly forbids one
corporation to make with another any con-
have the effect or be intended to have
the effect to defeat or lessen COM
petition or encourage monopoly, and de-
contracts and agreements are void. That
such contracts and agreements have been
made in this state is we'll known to all our
people, and it is also we'll known that these
open violations Of our constitution have Il
only gone without punishment Of any
nature, but have not been molested in any
manner by the authorities Of the state
We deem it, therefore, our
privilege and duty to call upon our
Representatives in the legislature TO
enact euch LEGISLATION az will rsonira tha