The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-14
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Death at FIetcherville - An Ebert
County slanderer Ordered out of the
County-A Couple Of Curious Eggs
An Arrest for Arson at valdosta-A
Chuds Life Saved by School,
| Teacher.
GEORGIA. 90
There is talk Of another cotton factory in
Rome.
Darien's new rector is expected about
! Feb. l.
Five new stores are in process Of erection
| at Knoxville.
Rice plantations in Mcintosh county are
gong begging this year
Work on the Empire mills at Darien is
progressing satisfactorily.
Hancock county people spend all of
10000 for liquor every year.
Elberton is at present besieged with drum
mers. They report slim sales.
Watkinsville is on a building boom and
there is not vacant house in town.
George Nix, master car builder of the
Americas, Preston and LUmpkin shops, has
resigned and will probably return as en-.
gineer on the road.
Over 300 mules have already been sold in
Dawson this season. a fresh carload arrives
| every day or two. and the trade promises
to be unusually large
The old barroom that J. W. Suelllngs has
rented from II Martin at Madison was
formerly a church building, and was wor-
shipped in before the war
Mrs. Julia K. Reed Of Eatonton received
on THURSDAY IS, 900 on the life insurance
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y. Reed, late Of Putnam county.
Fakirs who accompanied show played
havoc with several parties at Alapaha last
week. They swindled their victims out Of
sums ranging from s. up to 800.
Rev Samuel Scott having been called to
| serve the Presbyterian churches at Eaton
| ton and Monticello has accepted and moved
his mother TO Eatonton last week.
The new public school building at New
nan is now about completed, and will be
formally turned over 70 the school board by
the contrac ors on Wednesday next.
A large quantity of timber arrived al
| Darien during last week Seven million
feet of timber arrived last month instead OF
| 5000, 600 AS published by mistake last week
Messrs., Tos2lin & Traywick- have secured
| q quantity of fine timber within half mile
of Cordelle, and will erect at once large
SAW Hills, a SnlDHle ullIl, VhTIebJ WOThS aIlO
| furniture factory in Cordelle.
A serious fire came near breaking out in
the drug store of Dr. w. c. Kendrick at
| Dawson, Thursday. A can of varnish ex
| ploded, and it was only by prompt action
with vet blankets that the flames were SUD
pressed.
At the town election of Butler
| held Saturday James o. Waters was cleo ed
mayor without opposition, The following
aldermen were elected; r. E. Allen, A. b.
| Chapman, X. G.. T. Hallen, j. w. McCrany
and r. A. Scandvett.
On Thursday morning last, while Thomas
| Cash was working in Mickeps planning mill
at Elberton, he accidentally had little cir
cular saw to come in contact with his thumb
and hand, severing his thumb through the
| bone AID seriously cutting his hand.
Frank Thornton of Elberton has in his
| possession q couple Of eggs which are curl
ositles. They have two shells; the yolk is
| inclosed in the smaller one and the white
around it in the larger. The eggs are as
large as goose egg, which they closely re-
semble.
The new counclmen Of Quitman are in
| favor of the graded school if it can be con
Quoted without levying an onerous tax
upon the people. When they are certain,
rs they surely will be. that the school can
tax, the last shadow Of objection will be
| removed.
Dr. Samuel j. Jones died at his home in
| F!etcherville Thursday night, after an i'll
ness of only a few days. DR.. Jones was
| born in Liberty county in this state in 1887,
and lived there until 1868, when be moved
to Thomas county. lie had been twic
m lrried and leaves five children, two by his
first and three by his last wife.
More than 100 carloads of cotton seed
have been shipped from Griffin this season.
This is about $4,000 bushels, which, at the
rate usually put to the acre, would give a
solid foundation for a crop on 5000 acres,
or about one-eighth Of the total number OF
acres in cultivation IN Spalding unity
| This docs not include seed which has been
shipped from other stations in the county
Chairman w f Penniman has returned
| back to Brunswick from a visit to Lieut.
| Carter, United State, engineer at Savan.
nah, touching the dredging of the sand spit
near the bell buoy off Brunswick Lieut..
| Carter has Furnished him with the requisite
machinery that will d the work in couple
of days time. The machinery lett Savan-
nah Friday, and work will begin, probably,
| to-day.
The directors Of the Newman Land Com.
pany held a meeting on Monday night last
and declared a cash dividend of Is per cent.
on the capital stock, leaving a surplus OF
| $500 ia the companys treasury. The divi-
denh and surplus represent the first install.
meut paid on the lots disposed of at the
| public sale in November last, two-thirds OF
the purchase money being yet due in an
nual installments
Dawson Journal. The last issue of the
JourndI mentioned the fact that Master
| Hugh McNulty, for a boy, was receiving d
remarkable salary in Savannah-S65 pei
month. Soon after accepting the position
in Savannah he received an offer of 81
per month from the First National Bank OF
| Sheffield. Ala, and is now engaged there
His success is phenomenal, but Is gained by
merit and Intelligence.
Tho dress of Willie Camubell a niece OF
| p. r. Shy and pupil in Miss Julia Adams
school at Eatont0n, caught on fire last
| Monday in the school room. Miss Adams
succeeded in extinguishing the flame with
out injury 20 the child, but vas not so for
| tunate herself. One Of her hands was pain
| fully burned. But for The prompt action
Of the teacher, Willie would have been seri-
ously, # rot fatally burned.
George Hold 1es Of brunswick has secured
from an English ship, now at the upper
dock, two stuffed fish that are natural curl
oslties, the one a porcupne aud the other
pin cushion fish The former is covered
with sharp th0rns resembling porcupine
quilts. The latter is something Of the shape
and appearance Of duck, the mouth being
something Of a blll and the fins something
like wings. II is covered over thick with
little file needle points.
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