The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-02

heaviest known in long time. The dis
plays OF electricity were unusually grand.
A negro by the name Of Solomon Turner
was giving his criminal experiences on
Broad street, Albany, Thursday. He says
that he has been In Jail twenty-five times,
and each time but one for fighting. He has
never served a sentence in the penitentiary
or chain-gang, and seems TO be perfectly
happy in the thought Of his Iong-continued
good luck.
At Powder Springs there has been for
some time a contention in the African
Methodist church about the removal Of the
church to another lot, one that would be in
the corporation. Friday the trustees sold
the lot on which the present edifice stands,
reserving the building, and Saturday
morning about 4 o'clock it was burned down
evidently the work OF an incendiary.
A singular incident happened to Messrs
Ben and George Bray, living near Lexing-
ton, on Saturday last. They had a colony
Of bees u swarm and we're hiving them,
and when about all had gone IN the gum
another colony made its appearance,
alighted on the gum and Immediately went
therein. At last accounts the two colonies
seemed to DO getting along am.cably
together.
At Flat creek. on the Hogansville road,
in the Eleventh district, last Friday, yoke
Of oxen refused TO take the bridge, but ran
into tho ford. The creek being swollen by
heavy rains, the oxen were carried some
distance dow the stream, and one Of them
drowned before the yoke could be unloosed.
The other and the wagon were gotten out
without much injury.
There IS on q lot in Lexington a sour
cherry tree that seems to have gotten out
OF its usua order Of doing things. At the
proper tune it bloomed and bore full
crop of fruit, and since its first blooming it
has continued to bloom aud bear, it now
having a pretty full crop Of green fruit on
its branches, though the first crop ripened
and was gathered some weeks since.
Near Griffin, Saturday, while the Central
railroad hands were blasting at the quarres
recently purchased by the road to get
stones for baliasting purposes, portion of
the blast was hurled great distance, strikiug
the unfinished Second Baptist church near
the cotton factories II broke in one side
doing considerable damage Fortunately,
no one was at work on the building at the
time or loss Of life might have been the
result.
There is young man working in the At
lanta Journal Office who once had a coffin
bought for him During the war, when
very young, he was Thought to be dying A
friend of the family passed his fathers
house on his way TO the nearest place where
caskets were made, and, by request, or
dered one for the child The lads mother,
however, refused to allow it to enter the
house-and the Suggestively shaped box re-
manned on the fence posts Tor hours The
boy declined to die, aud a week later
the coffin was buried without any corpse
in it.
The skeleton of q child, which had to all
appearances been dead about three months,
rsfa nd inf ka 10 oh vs.f1a frf,v,
Fairhurn by IA colored woman last Sunday.
Coroner Mobley summoned a jury and pro-
c. eded to investigate the matter. Suspicion
pointed to Fannie Woods (colored) as the
mother OF the child and she was accordingly
arrested. The investigation lasted until IA
late hour at night, many witnesses being
examined. The woman admitted that she
was the mother Of the child and plead guilty
to concealing its birth, ald she was com
mitted TO the county jail.
At the corner of Forsyth and Peachtree
streets at Atlanta a triangular stone struc-
ture. substantial and imposing, is being
erected by j. n. Smith. The building is in
itself worth noticing, but the inscriptions
upon it are particularly so. This Is the
house that Jack built, stands out in bold
relief near the top. Then at tho second
story comes the inscriptions ~. n. Smiths
Building Commenced 100 Years after the
Inauguration OF george washington as
First President Of the United States" The
last which is cut in the stone at the top of
the first story, is probably Indicative of the
sterling principles of the builder. 1t reads
Paul Says owe No Man. Let Posterity
take His Advice"
Friday night the colored people of George
town had an entertainment of some kind at
the Baptist church, and just after the close
of the exercises two negro women, Clara
Hynes and Maggie Smith, got into a war of
words concerning something that the
former said the latter had told, and which
the latter denied. Clara drew a long, keen
knife aud drove it to the handle in Maggie's
| breast, killing her almost instantly. A
posse of negroes went in search of the
woman who did the killing and found her
and her husband III cotton patch on the
edge Of town. Clara had two wounds on
her body, one in the breast and the other in
the left arm. Dr. s. A. Crumbley examined
| the wounds and said that she inflicted them.
1t is believed that she stabbed herself to
make the impression that she killed the
other woman in self-defeuss The coroner's
jury returned the following verdict: eve,
the jury, find that Maggie Smith came to
her death from knife cut in the hands of.
Clara Hynes, and from the evidence pro
| nOunCe il murderD