The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23

of q Chicken-Two Famous Parrots
of Atlanta.
GEORGIA
William Stevens of Sparta was buried at
sunrise Friday.
Tifton's handsome new church viii be
dedicated next Sunday.
The Northeast Georgia Stock and Poultry
Show will open at Athens Nov. y.
The Quitman Baptist church has called
Rev. ". F. KOne Of Farmyille, Va, TO
succeed Mr.. Elsom.
There are thirteen children from Darien
at school in Milledgsville, at a cost Of
about s., 900 per annum.
At Brunswick. Saturday, white man
man wanted to pawn his false teeth for
money 70 buy whisky with.
Bob Morris. the murderer of Ben Willis
in Banks county last Tuesday night, has 50
far eluded the officers, and it is said by
his friends that he is making his way west
Turpentine men in Darien are buving up all
the pine lands that they can get their hands
on 1t is said that these lands are increls-
ing in value at the rate Of % per cent. per
0nnum.
Mr.. Voss, manager of the street railway,
tells the Athens Banner that he Is now ne
gotiating with the company that will put
down an electric plant in Athens & rent
power from them to propel his street cars.
and by early next year tie street railroad
will be operated by electricity.
Alta general meeting Of the prohibitionists
of Atlanta Thursday night, it was resolved
by a majority Of two not to call for an
election this fall, but wait until spring. The
last time the prohibihonists decided not to
make campaign it was to keep from in
terfering with the Piedmont exposition.
A negro boy, son Of Andrew jackson
(colored), of Brooks county, met death in a
peculiar way last Monday. Manson. the
little boy, was playing in barn in which
was large pile of cotton. He dug hole
In the cotton, then climbed up on a joist
and Jumped or fell headforemost into the
hole. When found an hour or 30 after
ward he was dead, having broken his neck.
Dublin Gazette: Harriet Bats, the negro
woman who was reported as being danger
oUsly i'll from having been given poison by
her husband, died Friday. Her case is
strange one. Her physicians say that there
were no indications Of poison, but the woman
and her children both say that she was
given a dose of trough on rats" which
caused her death.
Wallace Stevens, a young white boy of
Brunswick, had narrow escape from be-
ing shot and probably killed Friday. The
little fellows older brother is the proprietor
of pistol which Wallace likes very much,
indeed; so he took the pistol from a drawer
and began to examine it. In some way tie
trigger was pressed and the pistol went off,
the bail going through the brim of the
boys hat and into the ceiling overhead.
In Mr. Daniels store on the Pryor street
side Of the Kimball house, Alta TIA, is fine
talking parrot named airy" Every
morning when Mr.. Daniels appears the bird
oh A srr- "a ~, ,i-Fo
wants coffee" He keeps repeating this
until he gets what he asks for. At dinner
be says, "Airy wants dinner and at sup
per time it is, Airy wants supper" Later
on "Airy wants to go to bed, and is put in
some dark place where he goes to sleep i'm
mediately.
For the past few days a riot has been i'm
minent in Concord, on the Georgia Mid
land. The negroes got their backs up for
some cause connected with the late outrage
near East Point, on the Central road. How
ever, the whites got their guns and lead
just as quick, with the result that the
would-be rioters cooled down. At times
things were threatening, but latest reports
are to the effect that the ant lorities do not
apprehend any further trouble.
Probably the most valuable parrot in
Atlanta is one owned by w. w. Dunlap. a
conductor on the West Point railroad 1t
is worth S400. Mr.. Dunlap has been offered
that price for his bird, but refused to take
it. The parrot is fine African gray and
is an excellent talksr. sThen YOU 20 about
him he first regards yea critically, cocks
his head TO one side. winks one eye at you
slyly and says: ''Im a $500 bird.n Mr..
Dunlap paid SO for his parrot, and taught
it to talk.
At Atlanta, Friday, Messrs Curtis, Wal
lace, Wardlaw and Woodward, q committee
from the Knights OF Labor, went before
the general Judiciary committee of the
senate and urged the committee to report
favorably on the child's labor bill and the
arbitration bill. The committee presented
some facts worthy Of consideration. Among
other things they presented statistics show
ing that more than 1000 white children
under IA years of age arc engaged in the
factories and shops in Georgia.
The store of Pane a. Lavender, in Brown
vile, was burglariZed Thursday night.
When the fellows gorged themselves with
whisky and provided themselves with a
supply they pulled the faucets out of the
seven barrels of liquor in the store and thus
left them. Five Of the barrels were full
and the remaining two were nearly so.
Friday morning all seven were completely
empty, and when the clerk entered the
whole floor was covered with whisky. At
ter executing this piece of va dalism the
burglars broke open the drawer and peck
eted the cash.
A few nights ago negro living in Ogle-
thorpe county named Sanders attempted an
outrage upon the person Of a little sister of
his wife, but the screams of the child pre-
vented the brute from accomplishing his
ends. A posse 10 whip and drive him out of
the county was organized, but he fed be-
fore they reached his house. He will be
arrested if found. He is one of the neauest
negroes in Georgia. and has been the leader
in all the disturbances between the whites
and blacks in his county. He headed the
attempted instruction q few wears ago.
which was nipped in the bud by the proI3pt
action Of the whites.
Columbus special to Macon TeleQrdDh:
1t is rumored to-day that a boat war is
brewing, and that before many days the
pool will be burst up and rates cut to a
handsome margin below profit. AT present
the Naiad, sad to be owned bv Capt.
Whiteside, is in the pool, and the Pactolus,
said to be owned by the same gentlemen, is
tied up. Now it is said that both these
boats belong to the Central railroad, and
that Capt. Whiteside is the roads agent.
Inc boats are in his name to avoid lawsuits
for drownings, blowings-up, etc, which oc-
CURED during the past few years. 1t is
further said that the Pactolus will be loosed
from her moorings next week, and that
herself and the Naiad will be run indie
pendent. Then the war cloud will burst
and rates will go down to half
Some years ago a lady gave Clarence
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