The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Mana Remarkable Divorce Case.
GEORGIA.
The steamer Ida has just made trip
from Hawkinsvila to Macon by river. She
is the first steamer at MacOn's wharf il
twenty five years.
At Abbeville young Fitzgerald, who was
severely stabbed last week, IS gradually
growing worse, and little nope Is enter
tanned Of his recovery.
A wagon load f catfish was disposed of
at Amerlcus at about - cents per pound
Saturday, in about two hours. The fisher
men had at least 800 pounds.
Learv il to have a first-class drug store
DIR. j. b. George has bought the drug stock
of every merchant in town, they agreeing to
discontinue selling drugs entirely, and under
this agreement he will enlarge and remodel
his drug store and put in a complete stock
Of drugs
The oil mill business in Griffin is going to
be a big thing. Tue Griffin fertilizer fac
tory broke dirt yesterday for their fine mill,
and the farmers Cooperative Manufactur-
ing Company will soon begin work on theirs,
as they raised large amount Of stock for
that purpose Saturday.
The other day Hon. H. W J. Ham of
Gainesville, during a visit to Rome, had oc-
casion to call on Sam Veal at the latter's
l6NGlI4 hbOlt. w Liz bIt bNO Melt III tOll-
versation Mai r. A Bacon, superlnten-
dent Of the Rome and Decatur road, walked
in. "Now," said a gentleman, who was
standing near, 1--WE have here Veal, Ham
and Bacon. If we only had a loaf or two
of bread we could start a first-class restau-
rant
At Augusta, Saturday night, charge
was made by j. c. Kane, charging his own
daughter, aged about %, with improper in
tImacy with young married man. He
claimed to have unInIstakable evidence of
their guilt, and himself caused their arrest
and preferred charges against them. The
young woman says that the old man is
drinking and is not gnzant of his own
actions in the matter. The police, however,
regarded his statements as Of sufficient re-
liability to lock the young man up to await
an investigation in court.
AT Americas at ! 80 o'clock Thursday
morning j. w. Mics daughter woke him
up and told him that she had been dream
ing that the kitchen was on fire. Seeing a
light in the room Mr. Mize ran out and
found that seven or eight panels Of fencing
had burned up, and the fire was making
good Roadway toward tho house 1t was a
lucky dream, tor ten minutes later the
house and kitchen would both hive been On
fire. The servant girl had pla ced the ash
box near the fence. The box contained
Goals of fire, which ignited the fence.
y A remarkable divorce case will be heard
at the coming term Of the Crawford county
circuit court, which convenes at Knoxville,
Ga. Allen Bean, SO years of age, and who
has been married fifty three years, is the
defendant, and the wife, who is over n
years old, is the plaintiff. The suit is the
result of a family quarrel between children,
who differ as to the division of property
and have melted the old lady to believe her
husband, who is extremely feeble is untrue
TO his marriage vows. The case will be
stoutly contested, as the old man is well off.
J. D. Glover of Americas is the happy
possessor of a jug that had been in the Du-
pree family for over 100 years. 1t belonged
TO his wifes great-grandfather, and the
amount Of good old liquor that has invigo-
rated the old family would be a good for
tune in these times de has also S. gold
piece, which was the first piece Of gold
money the Duprees ever had. He didn't
remember the date il was made, but SAYS it
is very thin; nearly as large as a $50 piece,
and on one side has large figure s." He
thinks it was made some time in the last
century.
In Houston county some farm hands of
W. e. Warren, while blowing last Monday,
went into swamp near by to get some
water. One of the hands spied an object
HuBIOecQ W Ot u DD& OF COIllU. lneY De
came frightened, but finally rallied and
went in and examined the mystery. They
found 1T TO be box of shoes, supposed to
have held six dozen pairs of shoes, but had
only nine pairs in it when found. 1t is
thought the box was stolen from the rail
road company. Ii was marked J. Z. De-
Vaughn, Montezuma, Ga, and seems to
have been in the swamp for some time.
G. w. Rhodes, who moved to Fort Gaines
from Dawson few months ago, and who
has been engaged in the mercantile business
since his arrival there, suddenly became
totally blind last week. His eyesight has
been failing gradually for several months
though he has not experienced any great in
convenience from 1t until within the last
week or ten days. Last Friday be realized
for the first time that he would soon be in
total darkness, and, ere another week had
dawned upon him, his worst fears were real |
lied. He left last Wednesday for Atlanta
to place himself under the treatment of Dr.
Calhoun.
Charlie Chapman, of the colored persua- |
sion, who Is working on the Savannah. |
Americas and Montgomery railroad at |
Seville, is a kind OF a Digger Indian" |
follower in his appetite. He has a
love for earthworms, and will devour
all that he can get II is said that he |
VIII give his weeks rations, wherever
they are issued, for good bait of the dainty |
worms. When he was IA boy and went fish |
ing with other boys, if he got half a chance |
he would eat the worms and let them have |
the hsh.' he has queer taste, and he would |
be a cheap man to do garden work, if he
would take the worms as pay.
In Sumter county Mrs. Majors little bow.
about years old, has a very large cat that |
he plays horse with. They found Yesterday |
near the house snake over three feet long. |
The cat tried TO kill the snake, but the little |
boy took 1t away from the cat and carried |
IT IN his arms e. his mother, telling her he |
had found doll. His mother was 80 excited |
she could do nothing but scream, which |
scared the child and caused it to droD the |
snake and go to his mother. The snake |
was killed, and found TO be what is called a
coachwhip The little fellow did not want
TO give uD his doll, but his mother promised !
him another and he was satisfied.
AT Augusta Friday night, three strangers
arrived IN the city claiming to come from |
virginia. One was a nice looking young |
girl OF ID, giving her name as Minnie Lee |
Allen, and the other two we're her mother |
and brother. They were without means
and spent the night at the police headquar-
ters. Saturday the boy reported that his |
sister had nysterlously disappeared and |
they feared she had been led OF by some |
designing person. Sergt. Powers. Of the |
police, made tour OF Investigation with |
the boy, aud the young girl was found in a |
well known bagnio ia the upper part Of the |
city. She was brought away and restored TO |
her mother. who is blind.
Milton ne,noaraf. nua