The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-19

Government Leproey in Ebert
County.
GEORGIA.
DR.. Miner of Waynesboro, while hunting
one night last week, captured eleven o'pos-
sums.
A petition is being circulated asking that
Postmaster Bowdoin Of Griffin be reap
pointed.
An additional $4,000 will have to be
raised before work will be commenced ON
the Americas street railroad.
1t has been suggested that the citizens of
Americus organize home insurance COM
pany ard arrange their own tariff.
A New York wholesale dealer has writ
ten to the Qnitman canning factory for
prices on carload lots Of canned pears.
Spalding county is still trying to raise
100000, TO be offered as an iuducement for
locating the experimental farm within its
lines.
C. v. Walker, who has but rec5ntly To-
Gated in Americas, has taken the hotel
scheme in hand and is now pushing it for
all it is worth.
The dredge boat is now at work remov-
ing the Instructions from the run of Muck
elee creek, near Americas, preparing for
the city sewage.
The Southern Cotton Oil Company have
decided to build a large oil mill and guano
factory at Griffin this summer. They want
a large lot OF land in the suburbs Of the
city.
On one acre of land c. w. Duncan, who
lives about four miles north Of Quitman,
made last year twenty4six barrels of syrup,
which averaged thirty-one gallons to the
barrel.
The Boston Gun Club is now in most
fiourishing condition A complete new
outfit, consisting of pigeons, traps, and
other necessary articles, have been ordered
and are now on the way.
A convention of all the colored societies
of Burke county is called to meet in
Waynesboro on Saturday, April 6, with the
Waynesboro Mutual Aid Society, for the
purpose of consolidating them and estab-
fishing branch societies.
Daniel A. Horn of Boston has pair of
brass andirons which can be traced back to
the possession of the celebrated Cotton
Mather, the man who. by learned
treatise, established the existence of witch
craft in the old colonial days.
Little Eta, daughter of j. J. Wilson of
the Fifteenth district of Sumter county,
suffered serious accidedt one day last
week. While playing at school she acct
dentally fell, breaking her arm. The bones
protruded through the flesh and skin.
Two painters, passing themselves OFF as
brothers, by the name of Poole, were ar
rested at Americas, Friday, for tryiug to
swindle widow of that city out of a week s
board. They left their grip and paint
brushes In the hands of gentleman who
paid them out.
At the meeting of the board of directors
for the Wrightsville and Tennille, held at
Tennille on Friday last it was decided to
ra-aqta bliSh fha falaOraUh Offioa at fha n
lin depot for the period of one month, and
in the meantime efforts will be made to also
re-establish the town Office.
One of Elberton's wealthiest citizens will
give $40 600 for the lot where the recent fire
occurred, including the land ON which the
livery stable at its rear stands. This gentle
man, if ne succeeds in buying the property,
will erect thereon handsome brick hotel,
with stores on the first floor.
There is an organ belonging to family
in Waynesboro whose keys are touched by
unseen fingers. A few evenings ago, the
gentleman of the house says, delightful
strains of music were heard issuing from
this organ, and his curiosity prompted him
to investigate, but the music ceased as soon
as he entered the room.
Eddie Chappell's sickness is due to a
singular accident. In running after a.robin
at Sparta he stepped on some object which
gave his foot a sudden twist This caused
the bone in his leg to split, from the conse-
quences Of which be has suffered very
much. 1t wGs some time before the cause
of his troubles was found out.
The bear which was seen near Thomas
vile, in the Magnolia grove, a few days
ago, has been bagged. Joe aud William
Chastain succeeded in dispatching him at
Groom's Ferry, Friday night. He made a
desperate fight, wounding a mule and three
men before he was killed. He was in poor
condition, weighing only 100 pounds.
J. Odom, while firing the woods near
Reidsville recently, found a rattesnake
over feet long near gopher hole. He
sent his boys to bring his gun while be kept
the snake away from the hole. In the
meantime another RATHER Of about the
same size appeared and entered the hole.
He SHOT the first, and procured assistance
and dug out AID killed the second.
A hunting party from Waynesboro, COM
posed Of L. X. Farmer, r. G. Nelly. j. L.
Fulcher and Walter Kinman, bagged eighty
doves on Thomas Gates place, near Drone,
Friday. A horse belonging to Sheriff
Hurst was driven by Messrs Fulcher and
Knman. While returning home the horse
suddenly staggered and fell dead, evidently
having been attacked with heart disease
Mrs. Betsy Black, mother Of Jesse W.
Forson, of Webbsboro, and who has lately
died, completed only few days before her
death a monument that for years will
demonstrate to her descendants her skill,
taste and perseverance. 1t is in the form
of quilt, and by actual count its indi-
yidual pieces number 5,46l. 1t took her
half a year TO complete her arduous task.
About thirty Of the servants who have
been employed in the various hotels
throughout Florida were passengers who
passed through Brunswick, Friday, to re-
turn home via the Mallory line steamship
State of Texas This would seem to indi-
cate that the season in Florida is nearly
over, and the tourists are not quite so
numerous in that state as they have been
heretofore at this time Of the year.
In the recorders court of Atlanta a day
or two ago Mrs. l.. A. Nichols plead guilty
TO beating her husband and was fined $40 75
She claimed that her husband was tough
case and for five years had been addicted to
whifky and wife beating. She had borns ID
all patiently until the night her lord came
home helplessly drunk, aud she took that
occasion TO get even with him. She used a
stick aud says she got satisfaction for the
five years Of brutal treatment.
A rope walker, while performing some
very difficult feats upon the rope at the
circus, at Griffin, Friday, came near being
killed The rope was not successfully fastened
to the stake at one end, and while he was in
the midst Of his performance 1t came loose
and precipitated him head foremost through
the tent. Fortunately for him the canvass.
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