The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12


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GEORGIA
Greene county viii have "A confederate
Survivors association.
The new Methodist church at Triton will
be dedicated Sunday, Aug. "a
1t now thought that there viii be a very
large timber business done in Darien during
the coming season.
Quite a curiosity in the way Of rabbit
may be seen on tine lawn at Liberty Hall
1t has white hair, OF wool, two and a half
inches long
Alfred Durham, a negro OF Brunswick,
who had been working in telegraph offices,
was poisoned by the chemicals and died a
day or two ago.
, Judge and Mrs T. J. McElmurrey Of
| Waynesboro, accompanied by their two
daughters. are enjoying visit to Atlanta
and Salt Springs.
{ The Baptist church of Quitman at meet
ping Thursday night rogretfully accepted
! Rev. Mr.. Elsom's res gnation which he
handed in last week. The resignation will
take effect Oct. /.
John Davis of Brunswick has i'll his pos
session a relic Of the late Indian war in the
shape of an arrow head, imbedde1 in block
of wood Clipped from a tree in the southern
portion of Florida.
Capt d. II. Sanders of Greensboro was
standing near stack Of hay when it sud
denly fell, burying INN beneath it. His leg
was broken, and but for timely assistancs
he would have smothered t. death.
Stephen Craft was killed at the brick
yard at Rome Friday by Charlie Anders IN,
who keeled him over with a baseball bat
and disappeared in a thcket. Officers we're
unable to get the slightest trace Of Ander-
son.
Thursday negro woman with a peck Of
peaches walked from her home in the coun-
try to Macon, distance Of ten miles, and
then disposed of her peaches for > cents.
She at first asked 10 cents for them, but was
persuaded to take 8 cents
Mrs. William Markham died at Atlanta,
FRIDAY, after a long life Of usefulness She
was the wife of William Markham, the
former proprietor of the Markham house,
and has been identified with the charitable
work Of Atlanta for many years
Crawfordville Democrat: While deepening
the well in the court house yard not long ago
there were some most excellent samples Of
iron ore taken therefrom. It is queer to
think of, but fact, that even our court
house is setting over an iron mine.
Col. George f. Heard of Athens. after
riding over the crop of his brother, L. b.
v.
turned to the house, and as he entered the
door he fell on his face insensible 1t is
supposed to have been case Of Sunstroke
A Laurens county jury, impaneed at
the last term OF court, returned verdict
which will make them famous. A negro
was indicted for stealing horse from a
rack in the town of Dublin several weeks
ago, and the jury returned verdict for
trespasS.
Henry Moore, negro. was run over and
killed by the cannon ball' train Friday
morning near Shellman. He had been out
to frollc that night, and. leaving very
late, was doubtless overcome by sleep on
the way home and sat down on the track
with the above fatal result
The encampment of the Ninth Georgia
battalion was to have been held in Athens
last week, bat Lieut.. Col. Jones counter
manded the order. TIE companies of the
battalion wrote declaring they were unable
to stand the expenses of the eucampment.
and for this reason they were excused
Friday John W. Almond, Sr. who lives
about three miles from Congress, had the
misfortune to have his hand cut Off He
was planning lumber and attempted t. brush
of the snavings with his hand and got it,
too near the machine. He came very near
bleeding to death before a surgeon could
reach him.
A dead negro was found at the bottom of
well on the place of Samuel Ennis. eight
miles from Milledgeville, Monday. The
negro Is supposed to be a young fellow
named West who has been working on the
place. The shoes aud hat belonging to the
negro were found near the well, which
gives rise to the suspicion that he committed
sue
A strange insect has made its appearance
hg al L. in - IL.
the Oconee Enterprise 1t is very small and
literally covers the under side of the cotton
leaf and saps the life from every stalk.
leaving the whole field ifeless. This insec5
is creating great CONSERVATION among the
farmers, as 1t threatens to DESTROY the entire
cotton crop In that district.
AT Adams Park, Monday, Dave HODGE a
very worthy colored man. who had been
working for the Phillips Melon Company at
Adams Park, and was preparing to return.
attempted to board the wav freight Mt Rul
lard's by climbing up on a box car and miss
ed his footing on the first step. His foot went
down to the rail, and was literally mashed
TO pieces. AInputatlon was unavoidable.
During one of the thunder storms of last
week lightning struck in one of Zach
knights cotton fields near Quitman and
killed the tops of the stalks for a space of
about forty feet The leaves were of a
reddish color and as dry as powder. easily
crumbling in the hand The hghtniuy
wound up by knocking hole i'll the ground
in the center of the circle which it had de-
vastated.
Sunday afternoon, during TIE thunder
storm, bolt OF lightning struck the resi-
dence of Mrs. h. ii. Chapman in Prinnup
City. Mrs Chapman was knocked down
and is stall suffering from tine Injuries. 1t
made large hole IN the roof Of the house
and fire would have resulted had it not
been raining severely at the time. Mrs
Chapman experienced quite a dizziness of
the head, and could scarcely see ANYTHING
for several hours
A few days ago the celebrated trottino
stallion, Little Giant, owned by r. E. Brnnc6
OF Oconee county, got kicked by another
horse and his leg was broken Friday M.
Brunch had to kill him to put him ont of
his misery. He was a thoroughbred Han
bletonian, and has trotted a half mile in
loo, and then paced the half mile IN tine
same time. Mr.. Brunch has refused LARGE
sums Of money for Little Giant several
times.
Workmen on the Columbus Southern
rosd, while digging i'll cuts yesterday.
turned up an immense lot Of soil resembling
rock phosphate. The soil contains skeletons
OF very curiously formed animals totally
unknown i'll these parts at the present day
Oyster beds have been discovered. aud
sharks teeth and the teeth Of various other
animals have been found in abundance
The most curious discovery of all was two
live green bullfrogs, taken from an excava-
tion in solid rock.