The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-30
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

A Dog On the CCWcetcner OF an
Eurtne-A Sketch OF the Late Judge
warren-The Lumber Business at
Darien - Auzusta's New Masonic
Temple Dedicated.
GEORGIA
Bishop Beckwith viii preach ia Darien
next Sunday.
Ths,fair Of the Clarke Rifles of Athens
opens Feb. j.
An election for tax collector win be held
at Darien Jan. 10.
The Q litman Greys are now uniformed
ard ready for their arms.
The Mcintosh Dragons will build an
armory at Darien, with hall above.
Isaac Poiile's son fell out Of a tree at
Darien on "Wednesday and broke his leg.
The Mcintosh county jail now has thir-
teen prisoners within its walls, waiting for
court.
Theodore Grouwald's new two-story
brick building at Darien is nearly com
pleted.
Athenians were aroused Friday by false
report that influenza had made its appear
ance Ia that town.
A few precocious peach trees are il full
bloom in Atlanta, and some OF the more
sensitive shrubs are full OF buds.
The Atlanta Journal talks of $1,000
population for that city 10 $780, Nothing
like aiming high and leaving plenty Of
room to drop little.
Mrs. Henrietta Nosher, the venerable
mother of E G. Mosher, the superintendent
of the Angus a Street Railroad Company,
died at II 20 o'clock Friday nigh. Of heart
disease.
Judge w. T. Newman is spoken Of as the
successor of the late Henry W. Grady 10 the
Atlanta board Of education Mr.. Grady
was elected member Of the board few
days before his death.
About 100 RATS Of timber came down 10
Darien during last week, and things have
been looking little brighter. The prices
continue to be high. Timber will commence
to come down ia earnest after the llidays.
s. NJ. Inman & Co. of Atlanta had an in
curry Friday, and are now n gotiating the
sale of lot of cotton to go by way Of Van
couver, B. c., the terminus Of the Canada
Pacific railroad, and from thence TO Japan,
Asia.
Miss Charlotte Thompson. daughter of
John Thompson of Atlanta, had her eve
nearly blown out by the explosion of a cam
mon cracker. DR.. Ma ahaa was called in
and found the eye very badly burned, but
the vision MT LOST.
William Slaughter was found in one Of
the public streets of Calhoun Friday morn
ing with a broken jaw and serious wound
in the back of his head. He is unable t.
give any account Of who gave him his
wounds, or where he received the injuries.
William SHELTON. the negro who was cut
at Columbus on Christmas day By a young
white man named Holland Kemp, died FRI
day. Kemp, who was uader boId for as
sault with intent to murd II, was arrested
aud lodged in jail to answer the charge of
murder.
Friday two Of Captain Ang. Perkersons
boys, ID Try and Willie Perkerson, aged re-
spectively IL and IA years, went hunting
near Atlanta. In shooting at a rabbit
Willie accidentally shot his brother in the
right thigh, inhIcting painful. though not
a serious, wound.
Christmas day T. j. James, a street car
driver on the Rome rect railroad line, shot
negro, Anderson Brown through che nose,
on Up or Broad street. The trouble grew
out of Anderson cursing James in dispute
about some hquer. The wound inflicted
was but slight one.
The artesian well in West Rome has been
bored to the depth of $50 feet, and strong
gas has been s. ruck. When the drill Is
raised from the well the gas rushes forth so
strong that it is almost imp ssible to stay
near. Is is thought that before the depth
Of 200 feet is reached a strong flow of natu-
raj gas will be struck.
At Darien, on Christmas eve, while
Nancy Devi4e (colored) was on her way to
ehmcn, in company with her uncle and
brother, some unknown person concealed in
the bushes along the rad shot her in the
head and arm. DR.. Clark amputated the
arm on Wednesday, but the woman's death
has since been reported.
One of the latest inventions or discoveries
is that of Walter G. Forbes Of Atlanta for
the cheap and rapid elimination of ramie
fiber from the ribbon Of the plant. The
process is entirely new and different from
any heretofore in use. either in this or any
other country. 1t Is simply a process of
dissolving the ribbon under pressure by the
use of chemicals.
Madison county had a Christmas killing
Wednesday night at a negro frolic. Two
negroes named Patman and Matthews went
to the house OF negro living just beyond
Fowler's distillery. While there Patman
began to play with pistol, examing it in a
careless manner. The pistol was fired, and
Matthews received the load In his breast,
and died of his wound Friday.
For the third time in the past three
quarters of a century, the Masonic temple
in Augusta was formally dedicated Friday
night. Each time a banquet was enjoyed,
and the occasion was made one of rejoicing.
The first temple, which was torn down
within the recollection of most citizens of
Augusta to make way for a large and more
modern building, was built away back in
the 20s, and had stood for fifty years when
the new one supplanted it. This new one
was burned three years ago, and on the
same site the third was erected, which wa:
dedicated Friday night.
L w. Brown Of Covington lost nine fine
mules Thursday night. The cause of their
death is not known, but 1t Is thought by
some they were poisoned. Mr.. Brown
bought the mules in Tennessee, and they
arrived Thursday night about 10 o'clock on
the Georgia railroad. There were twenty.
five or thirty in the lot, and about half OF
them were sick. Prof. John F. Bonnell O.
Oxford is making an analysis of the stom
ach and its contents of one of the mules, in
order to determine whether death was
caused BY poisoning. Mr.. Browns loss is
about $1,000
When the Atlanta and West Point train
pulled into the Union depot at Atlanta Fri
day large white and blue speckled hound
was discovered perched up la front of the
locomotive. He was sitting upon his
launches Immediately under the headlight
and looked ike the figure head of a ship.
He could not be coaxed from his perch and
had to be forcibly pulled from the engine.
Nobody knew how or when the dog got
there. He had a lame leg and bleeding
ear, and the supposition Is that he was
struck bV the engi and f,,rnpad or 1vas