The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-18

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GEORGIA
DR.. J. NJ. Madden is a candidate for mayor
of Brunswick.
Gus ONsal of Greene county has lost ten
horses and a COW by death this year
Prospectors for farm locations in Worth
are visiting different sections of the county.
There is negro in Lexington who al
most goes into spasms at the sight OF a
snake.
Fox races are OF almost every morning
occurrence in the fiatwoods section OF Ogle-
thorpe county.
Patrolman n. F. Smith Of Atlanta owns
the land upon which Pat Calhoun and Capt.
j. D. Williamson faced each other on the
field Of honor.
The telegraph line from Chokee to DeSoto
was completed and put in operation Friday.
1t is owned and operated by A. II. SIM
mons, who owns and operates The city Of
Chokee and surrounding country.
A negro woman, whose name is Frazier,
and who lives near Crawfordville, on c.
BerEstrom's plantation, gave birth last
week to triplets, two Of which had teeth at
the time of their birth. Two of the litter
have died, and the third still lives
1t is thought by many fruitmen that the
over-bearir z peach trees in Greene county
will finally die without ever bearing another
crop that amounts TO anything. They
think they will nsver recover from their
immense crop this year.
The call of the veterans of Greene county
TO meet at Enon on Friday, Aug. %, for
the purpose of organizing a veterans asso-
citation, has met with unanimous approval
and there will g a great gathering Of the
old soldtars AT EuOu on that daV
A negro baby apparently six weeks old
was found dead on the railroad near Capt.
p. M. Stevens place near Lexington, last
Saturday. It had evidently not been dead
more than ten or twelve hours. Of course
no one knew how came it there nor whose
child il was.
Miss Eunice Wicker of Montezuma is
visiting her uncle, H. G. Hyatt, at Fort
Valley. She is about IL years old. and can
repeat instantly the letters of any word
backward. If she is unable to spell the
word she does this as soon as the word Is
spelled for her.
Nearly every one in Brunswick is familiar
with "Sport,n II. II. Towards much priced
pointer. sport" is getting too old to hunt
now and Mr.. Howard proposes to have a
test of the elixar Of life made on him to see
If he can't be rejuvenated and made service
able in the field next fall.
At one time a citizen of Walton was in
Atlanta Needing "biledn shirt, he went
to a store and paid 81 for the same. IT. was
warm weather. Going into the back part
of the store he put the shirt on and went out
on the reefs. In very short time he had
no shirt, but the pieces were all there.
Glue instead of thread had been used.
Charles Witt, the 1S-year-old youth of
Atlanta who wants TO be woman, and
.h1,, H. v.vvr l.
terday, was arraigned in the police court at
Atlanta Friday and fined S25 Is for appear
ing on tie public streets in female attire.
Young Watts father has arrived from Ok
ford, Ala, and will take his son home with
him.
During the rain storm at Macedonia last
Sunday, and the rush to find shelter at the
church, a lady, Mrs. Hester, dropped her
baby and some one stepped upon it, leaving
the imprint of the shoe heel in its tsmple
Blood gushed out of its ears, mouth aad
nose, and, report says, it died on Monday.
Some young lady, while sitting in a buggy
near the church, tainted and fell out. She
was soon revived and is now all right
again.
The corps of Engineer M. Prickett's geo.
logical survey have been around Athens for
several days, and are on their way to the
Blue Ridge belt of Georgia and South Caro-
lima, to make a survey for the government.
They came from Scotsville, and will 90
from Athens to Lawrenceville, and thence
to some point in South Carolina 1t is
their purpose TO make a thorough survey
with geological tests all along the foot of
the Blue Ridge through Georgia and Caro-
lima.
Vason NJ. Barrett of Atlanta has patented
new stove. A factory for its 1nanufact-
ure is to be built at once The Barrett
stove reversss the principle by which the
old-fashioned stove did its work. The fire
Is placed at the back and near where the
stove-pipe is located. The draught and heat
has to pass entirely around the stove before
it reaches the flue. The SCOT is consumed
by the fire, and there is no clogging In
appearance the stove resembles one of the
ordinary kind with the pipe fitted on the
wrong end. All the stove dealers in the
city have seen the Barrett stove, and they
all pronounce it the best they have ever
seen.
A colored woman, the wife of Lymus
Jones, living on lower Fourth avenue.
Columbus, dropped dead Thursday. She
was sitting working at a sewing machine,
when suddenly she was seen by some neigh
bors to reel and fall to the floor. They i'm
mediately went to her assistance, but be-
fore medical aid could reach her she was
uoud- DIG udu DeeA dlillR IOT some time,
and last week child died, and since that
time she has exhibited symptoms of great
grief, and it is claimed by her friends that
she died OF broken heart. Last week her
husband also disappeared FOR some unac-
countable cause, and this seems to have
been the finishing stroke
A. F. Churchill of Brunswick has friend
studying surgery in one of the medical
colleges Of New Orleans, and the other day
he received letter from that friend in
which the writer said he was then engaged
on Chinaman's leg. When Mr.. Churchill
came to answer that letter he wrote his
friend that when he got through with the
leg be might send it to him, little thinking
that he would be taken at his word. FRIDAY
he received the leg by express The part
sent was the lower portion, from the knee
down. All the muscles are there inst a,
they were Ia life, but the skin has all been
removed, save that on the foot, which was
left to hold the toes in position.
An experiment was made in Rome Thurs.
day afternoon with the Elixir of Life as
discovered by DR.. Brown Seuuard, the emf,
nent French medical authority. The re.
suits seem to be partially beneficial, but
not entirely satisfactory. Chief of Police
E. J. Magruder and Dr. Patrick were the
patients. A Tribune reporter saw Col.
Magruder and DR.. Patrick three hours after
the injection and questioned them as 10
their feeling aud condition There was
nothing unusual in their exterior appear.
ance. They each barred their arms and
showed the spots where the injections had
been made. Two Jumps were to be seen
like the place where a spider had bite
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