The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-25
GEORGIA.

Hours and Keep Sober.
GEORGIA.
The strawberry yield in and around Al
bany demonstrates the perfect adaptable
ity OF that section to their growth.
A negro had patent car coupler of bis
own inye ton for sale at Americas w edneS-
dav. His price for it was $500, but after
little persuasion he was willing to take SO
for it.
Three Young men of Americas stepped up
to a beer saloon recently and drank
twenty eight schooners OF beer each
With three hours time, and were hardly
affected
j. r. Lee of Lithonia has 65.dollar bill
dated 1779 1t is an old relic and rs been
in the possession Of his wife's family for
several generations. He refused an offer
of $3.50 short time ago for the bill.
The alumni of Emory College are be-
stirring themselves to organiza Emory
clubs in every city in Georgia, and to en-
dow their alma mater, so that the college
can give free tuition and thereby extend
its benefits.
d. w. Harvey of Lafayette says that on
Tuesday of last week, when opening new
road about 200 yards up II the side of the
Pigeon mountain, a fiat rock was moved.
Beneath it was stove pot that contained
g., 6SS i'll specie.
Squirrels are said to be more plentiful in
Irwin county this year than for many past,
and the sportsmen are having no little fun
Shaving them. One hundred and five were
killed by one man in the Oconee swamp in
three days not long since.
Charlie Bonner, negro IF Douglasville
does not possess the discriminating taste of
an epicure. Recently castor oil with coffee
grounds SprinlSled in it as given him for
10 nit Itch cd
his lips and asked for more.
A meeting of the directors of the Macon
Construction Company wss held Thurs lay.
Business of importance was transacted in
regard to the i Junction suits and other
matters. After alengthy session, dividend
of . per cent. on the stock was declared.
The commissioners of roads and revenue
of Pulaski county are suing the bondsmen
of Mr. Pollock. late tax collector. for 5 APO.
The bondsme have offere $1,000 as full
payment, and the gr nd jury, by re solution,
advised the commissioners to accept the
1900 and dismiss tie suit
The English company who are mining in
the Nacoochee mines have found another
big nugget of gold. Not long since they
found two nuggets weighing 507 and 800
pennYweights respectively. The latest find
was of a nugget which weighs 1909 penny
weights, and IS valued at s., 500, 1t viii be
shipped to England.
Fifteen arS ago there was find nea
Tri II. Some ha DIS were at work cutting
down hollow post oak As it broke OIL
the stump a Mexican. dollar rolled out.
When thorou IN search was made a num-
Der Of them were found. All ere coun-
terfeit Some over of the queer had,
times past, used this oak as the keeper of
his dangerous secret.
W lie at work on the Manchester Mills
in Nineville Thursday the scalfod on VIII CHI
he was standing av way aud Sherman
Eth t, a colored brickmason. fell n distance
of fifteen feet and was seriously hurt HIS
arm and several of his ribs we're broken
aud he was otherwise seriously hurt He
was considerably b .uised aud may be con-
fined TO his bed for several weeks.
The corouer's jury has finished its labors
in the investiga ion into the death of the
negro Joe Bird. 1t will be remembered
that some three weeks ago, on a Sunday
afternoon, there were number of bows
playing together in the Warrior district
and that Win Sanders and Joe Bird got
into some sort of trouble and Sanders shot
Bird. The jury classes the crime as muir
der.
One of those singular snakes, known as
coachwhips, was seen figh ing a mocking
bird in North Albany garden tue other
day. 1t was dispatched and measured
nearly 5 feet in length. A lit lie boy hear
ing Of the popular superstition that il a
dead snake is hung up it will bring rain,
tried it with this erpeut and the result was
that, although drought had p evaied for
three weeks, a cloud managed g rise up
fro "a somewhere below the horizon aud a
slight shower was the result.
Arthur Hayne, who figured in the kill
ing of the Italian, ChriStop line, at A lanta
several mo { S ago was arrested Wednes-
day night for attempting to kill another
youth of his own age. Hayne had been III
the Cat Ole fair in the centennial building
and be anne involved in quarrel. Leav-
ing the fair room the two BOYS renewed
the difficulty in The ball, and Hayne pulled
a pis oil r the purp Sc of shooting his
antagonist, but was disarmed by bystand-
ers before any harm was DONE
On Mr.. Coles plantation, in Webster
cou ty, Joe Phillips shot another negro
with pistol, on Friday, the ball taking
effect in the breast. The latest news from
there on Saturday was that the wounded
man was still alive, though in precarous
condition. The cause of the difficulty is
said TO have been fight bstNe two
women, and P1ilip' victim was shot wolfe
trying T. sepGrats them. Tn murderer
lef immedia ely after the shooting, but
was captured in d lawson Saturday by
Sheriff lobe Thornton.
Some northern gentlemen prospecting for
mineral near Powder Springs hava found
corundu on the farms Of J hu b. Bennett
10 Metre and Beverly Turn r. Corun-
dun is nearly pure alumi q " hen trans
parent the blue Is caleb sapphire red the
oriental ruby, yell W oriental topaz, gree
oriental enc ALI, and when vio.et, oriental
amethyst. some crys.al with radiate
cha oyant interior are often very beautiful
aud are called aSteriatod sapphire. Corun-
mum is next 10 diamond IN hardness, and
the transparent red chrys as next TO il in
value
John Mavo Of Dolly county is said to be
one Of the best rife shots IN the world. He
will st II his door aud shoot the hoad Off of
q lizard running along on the fence 100
yards off Whea he nas his hogs killed,
negro man will jump astrde Of a hog
catch hold of both ears OF the animal and
turn its head toward Mr. Mayo, who will
shoot Il in the head with his rifle. II is
claimed that he " i'll sho { "a crow on the wing
through a crack Of the fence ard the fence
viii be fifty yards from him. In fact, his
friends believe he is the equ Of Bogardus
and CArver. but he cannot walk.
A Worth cou ty man heard worthless
negro Boosting Of how ma " ogs he had
killed, aud bow much meat he had at home,
aud Knowing that the negro hal never
owned hog, and knowing, too that he
had lost sey eral thousand pounds, had an
officer 20 arrest the man and search his
place. He found all Of his meat except a
fe" undred pounds, aud negro ac-
knowlcdged having stolen 10 from him At