The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Twelve Years Without spsaking-A
FAN From Scaffold - Baby Car
riages Must GO in Single File at
Macon Ben DuRgar Dead An Ex-
plosion Near Thomson.
GEORGIA.
Darien will soon be lighted with gas.
Col. ]. NJ. Smith is having 100, 600 mul-
berry trees set out on his Oglethorpe plan
tation.
The Piney Woods at Townsville will be
the first of the principal hotels 80 open. 1t
will open on Dec 4.
4 chapel for Scandinavian seamen is TO
be erected on Bay street, Brunswick, by
citizens and sailors.
There is a negro in Athens who wears an
old army cap that was struck by grape
shot during the war.
Ben Duggar, x-member of the legislature,
is reported to have died at his home near
Ellijay few days ago.
The Western Union Company will, at an
early date, commence the erection of line
from Fort Valley to Perry.
Two slick strangers sold in Atlanta last
week several hundred dollars, worth of
bushes, warranted to grow blue roses.
Nearly twice as much cotton has been
brought to Dublin so far than was received
during the same length of time last year.
Last year the city taxes of Dawson
amounted to 50 on the 81 900, but this year
the citizens are called upon to pay only S4
Miss Leila Crisp, eldest daughter Of Con-
gresham Crisp, was married Thursday
evening, in Americas, to d. F. Davenport
The city recorder of Macon has decided
that baby carriages must be moved in sim
gle file when two or three of them are to-
gether.
1t has been decided to increase the capital
stock of the Athens Publishing Company TO
$50 900, and put in one of the best equipped
offices in the south.
George F. Work of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the Macon street railway. is now,
with his friends, practically the owner Of
the Macon dummy line.
Taxable values at LaGrange amount to
little more than $1,300,000. Four and one
half tenths of l per cent. on this will bring
into the treasury nearly $4,000.
The government snagboat Toccoa arrived
In Darien Tuesday night and proceeded up
the Altamaha on Wednesday. She Will
remain on the rivers until next summer.
At Griffin cotton is not coming in as fast
as it did earlier in the season, but the gen
eral opinion is that large quantity is be-
ing held back by the farmers who do not
need the money.
Judge B. NJ. Gross OF Thomson lost by
fire last week his gin house and its contents,
on his Harris plantation. He estimates his
total loss at about 81, 300 with $3.50 in
Burance. The fire was evidently the work
Of an lncendiary.
On Tuesday afternoon last, while the
man employed by Charles o. Fulton of
Darien to butcher his hogs was getting the
water ready for scalding, George, the little
6-year-old son of Mr.. Fulton, fell into the
pot aud was badly scalded.
Last week a son of Bud Irby, who lives
near Ayers was trimming limbs off tree, |
that had partially fallen to the ground. |
When he cut off a limb on which the tree |
rested, the tree fell and in some way caught |
one of the little fellows feet and broke it. |
smashing several bones.
John Conley, mechanic about 80 years |
old, who was employed by A. c. Hunting |
ton in making repairs about the Methodist |
church at Cedartown, fell TWENTY-FIVE feet |
from a scaffolding last Monday, striking on |
his head. His scalp was badly bruised, and |
the skull was punctured by pointed rock. |
r. T. Poole, j. E. Houseal. and r. G. |
Herbert, three of Cedartown's most enter |
prising and patriotic citizens, have offered |
to donate a site of thirty acres and 81. 5OOin |
cash for a new furnace to be built Just south |
of town, and enough subscriptions have al |
ready been given to swell the amount to |
$1,000.
Bishop Keener will preside at the ap-
preaching session of the North Georgia CON |
ference. Among other matters to be dis |
posed of by the conference will be the
election OF delegates to the general con-
ference, which meets in st. Louis next May.
There will be sixteen delegates, eight cler-
zeal and eight lay.
While Ned Huff, negro carpenter of
cod in,
Notwithstanding on the rear of d. Brin-
sons market, nail which he was driving
broke in two and the head Of the nail
whizzed with terrible rapidity into his eve
ball. The suffering must have been intense,
yet 1t is said that he held his hand for the
Interior of the eye ball to drop into. He
was out on the streets Tuesday morning and
seemed to be getting along we'll
The boiler of James Norris saw mill. a
Few miles from Thomson, exploded with
terrific force Friday, utterly demolishing
everything near 1t. The engineer, Charles
Smalley, colored, was blown considerable
distance and instantly killed, and Jack
Stokes, colored, and Geo. Bunch, white,
were badly scalded. Bunch died in half an
hour. Jack Stokes is fatally injured.
Smalley was blown a distance of fifty
yards, and Bunch was blown nearly as far.
Dawson Nel0s: Davis & Dozier have Sc
SuiSu tno IGOReIS AUS, On pne DuruL DOCK,
and will erect two stores on them next
spring S0x120. They also purchased the
vacant lot back Of the stores fronting on the
street opposite the Farrar house Mrs
James has let the contract for her two stores,
and soon the entire line will grow up more
handsome and substantial than ever. The
work on Mr.. Locke's building and clearing
the rubbish from others is being vigorously
prosecuted.
William Smith Of Tugalo Valley was in
Toccoa w ednesday and received some money
from w. G. Edwards. On his way home
he was attacked by two men, one pointing
a pistol at his breast, the other gun at his
head, who demanded his money. They took
about S27. Other men were with MIR.
Smith, but they were unmolested, the rob
bers probably thinking they had no money.
They ordered the whole party to move on
and not look back at the peril Of their lives.
The quickly obeyed, leaving the robbers to
moke good their escape.
Dublin Gazette: At the turpentine dis
tillery of G. B. Parker q Co., in the lower
edge of this county. on Thursday last,
James Turner shot aud painfully wounded
r. Fl. Twigg. Turner. Twigg and two
other white men, all in the employ of c. b.
Parker have had trouble among themselves
for some time, and on the morning of the