The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

and Savings Institution-Death Of
Gov. Gordon's Nephew.
GEORGIA
A new hotel is being talked of at Griffin.
Twenty-Five hands are to be put to work
upon Swift & Wilcoxs quarry near Elber-
ton.
Water works are TO be established at
Madison il sufficient inducements are
offered.
Senator Brown is better. He sat up six
or seven hours Friday. His trouble now is
only rheumatism IN the knees and arms.
A negro woman was probably fatally
wounded by a derailed freight tram in
Macon yesterday. She was in her house,
which was struck by train or freight cars
which run off the track.
at Sparta Thursday, the verdict of the
coroner's jury as to Irwin Skinner was to
the effect that he came to his death from a
gunshot wound at the hands Of John Dan
lei, and that the shooting was justihable.
At Snellman the authorities have at last
decided on the site for the new Methodist
church. The decision was made in favor
of the grounds belonging to Judge Phelps,
between his present residence and the one
being built on Pearl street
A man in Tennille dreamed the other
night that he was in fight, and he raised
up, grabbed pillow and sent it with all
his might at a lamp sitting on the center
table, which he supposed was his antagon-
ist. The lamp was smashed.
S. G. Cooper, treasurer of the Savannah.
Amerious and Montgomery road, has been
quite busy at Americas for the past two or
three days, signing the handsome new per
cent. thirty-year gold bonds. They are
printed from a steel engraving.
A week ago Saturday was a remarkably
cold day for this season of the year at
Lumpkin. II was rather novel and I'M
usual to see people walking around with
overcoats tightly buttoned up, and sitting
by big fires nights and mornings-and this
on the last day of May and first day of
June. Frost was seen about the creeks in
several places on Saturday morning.
Adrummer for whisky house in Gin
cinuati was at Fairburn Tuesday, trying 10
sell a kind Of medicat6d b:tters-a good
substitute for whisky-in Fairburn. He
was arrested by Marshal Foster, but told
Mayor Latham he had taken bat one order,
and would not fill that if allowed to 90. He
was permitted to depart in peace, with the
warning not to visit Fairburn on the same
mission again.
While south bound freight train engine
was taking on wood and water at Powers
vile, freight car was burst open and a
large quantity Of merchandise stolen. Sus-
picion resting on two negroes named
McNead and Armstrong, they were
arrested. Armstrong made a dash for
liberty and escaped under fire. A thousand
dollars worth OF goods were stolen, none Of
which were recovered. The negro was not
hit by the bullets.
At Tennille few days ago some eggs
were taken from under setting hen and
thrown away, as they were thought to be
unproductive. Charlie Lancaster, a little
boy in town, passed by the eggs, which
were exposed TO the SUMS rays, and discov-
cred several little chicks peeping out of the
shells. Charlie took them home and by
careful nursing they soon came out and
now bid fair to become fit subjects for a
big Methodist chicken pie.
The Willis house, a large two-story and
basement wooden building at Tallapoosa,
was consumed by the flames last week,
Just how or where the fire originated it is
impossible to tell. The inmates barely es-
capped cremation. Nothing save one trunk
and sewing machine was saved of the
household goods The building was owned
by j. II. Driver, A. l. Head and G. r.
Hutchens, and the furniture. ETC., by Mr..
Willis. The loss is about $4,000, with no
insurance.
At Americas on Friday morning last,
negro boy by the name of Tom Lowe en-
tered Justice divers tailor shop and stole
two pairs of pants therefrom, belonging to
Col Z. A. Hawkins. On Friday morning
he returned them, and stated that he had
taken them through mistake. On Thurs
day, however, Justice Oliver went before
the grand jury and obtained true bill
against Tom. When he returned tho pants
on Friday, the sheriff took him in charge
and placed him in jail.
A negro woman by the name of Lena
Walton, living on the Holt place, near
Leary, was drowned last Wednesday even
ing. she and her husband, William Wal
ton, had gone fishing to a large and deep
blue spring on the place, across which a
large tree had fallen. She was sitting on
when she fell off while attempting to
change her position, and before her hus-
band. who could not swim, could render
her any assistance she drowned.
Young VIII Gordon, son of Col. Eugene
c. Gordon and nephew of Gov. Gordon.
died at Decatur, Ala, Friday. Col Gordon
telegraphed to his brother, the governor.
that the funeral would take place at Col.
umbus, Ga, yesterday. The father of Gen.
Gordon is buried at that place. Gov. Cor
don left for a visit TO his ranch in TAYLOR
county at $50 o'clock Saturday morning,
and the telegram was forwarded to him.
Young Gordon was 81 years old. He had
been sick for year or more.
Olin j. Clark of Dade county has a curl
osity which he thinks is the next thing to
being miracle. Last fall he felled an old
cherry tree, cut it into cord wood and threw
the sticks in pile into his wood house. The
other day he happened to look at the sticks.
which had become seasoned, and was
astounded to note that several Of the sticks
were covered with perfect cherry blossoms.
Twigs had put out from the old legs, and
the flowers were on them. Such vitality in
wood is unprecedented. Mr.. Clark has left
the blossoms untouched.
A severe wind rain ard hail storm passed
to the west of Mayfield aud southeast of
Powelton on Wednesday of last week. 1t
did considerable damage to fences, trees
and crops on the farms of II. w. Heath. 10
Jones, Jim Whaley and others. A house
was blown down on the Duff Graves place.
1t was particularly severe on the farm of
II. w. Heath He had about seventy-five
acres of cotton and twenty-five of corn bad
ly stripped and beat into the ground His
fruit trees were BADLY broken and stripped
of foliage and fruit by the wind and hail.
Some of tue peaches show very rough treat
ment by unusually large hailstones
Some person, with purpose unknown, has
put in circulation the untrue report that
Rev. ID. j. Burt of Dawson county. assisted
by his wife, had killed the minister's
daughter. The Jacksonville Advertiser
uses pretty plain language in rasping the
originator OF the report, and SAYS: "Rey.