The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

dentally Kills Herself il Liberty
County-A Child Drowned in a
washtub-Narrow Escape OF Mus
cogee County Man from Death in
Blazing Woods.
GEORGIA
A new saw mill is being built near Mill
er's Buff, North river. near st. Mary's.
The Georgia Press Associat ions annual
meeting is to be held in Macon next June.
Several gentlemen who are visiting Val
dosta for the winter are discussing the FEAST
bility of establishing a canning factory In
Valdosta.
JED. Ship, who but recently com-
pleted one of @ haudsomest residences IN
Amer:cus on Lee street, sold it to p. @.
Clegg, for $4,000, Friday.
brunswick spent nearly 5000 for street
improvements from Jan to Feb. 81, ana
the money could not have been expended in
a better cause-mostly toward filing in and
leveling the low places.
The Baptist church building committee
of Americas hsd a meeting Friday night
and organized by eiecting S. H, Hawkins,
chairman, and James fricker secretary,
and unanimously agreed to go right ahead
and build brick church to cost not less
than $50, 900.
H. I. Davenport of Americas has just
received the plan from T. A. Kluttz, arcbi-
tect, of Faye teville, n. c., of an elegant
two-story residence, which he proposes to
erect at once ON his vacan- lot on College
street, fronting south, near the residence Of
u. b. Harold.
A few days ago an accident occurred at
the mills Of r. A. Hatcher, IN Burke
county, which resul ed in the death Of
Henry Ellison. Some of the gearing needed
wedging, and Mr.. Ellison attempted to do
the wo while the mill as running. He
was caught in the gearing and one hip was
crushed and his body was terribly lacerated.
He was almost disembowe ed.
DR.. Boggs, chancellor of the State Uni
versity, visited the branch college at Mil
ledgeville last week. He expressed himself
as highly pleased with the building and
grounds, and the teaching and government.
He was especially pleased with the military
features-and cOmplimented the cadets on
their soldierly-bearing, and the evidences
of culture revealed in their manners.
Friday morning J. H. Dupree of Ameri-
Gus had chase after fox. He had seven
dogs aud col red man with him, ID d
run of three hours. The old fox doubled
and turned, jumped to one side and
then the other, trying to throw the dogs Fl
the track; but they hung to it, like tick
on a lean COW, and after a thirty mile race,
caught the sly rogue and worried it to
death.
There is a class in the Baptist Sunday
school of Americas composed Of Young
men who are all employed in different
business. The class numbers thirteen, and
is taught by young lady, who meets them
every Sunday morning. There is a baker,
farmer, stenographer, painter, blacksmith,
telegraph operator, shoe clerk, dry goods
clerk, banker, II erchant, hveryman, dude
and lawyer in the class
The Baptists of Marietta are making
preparations to entertain the state Baptist
convention that meets there in April. 1t is
probable that the Woman's Missi Jnary So
ciety of the state will also hold its annual
meeting there at the same time, as it
has been invited to do so by the church at
that place The two bodies comprise about
$50 ministers and delegates.
David Hutchinson, from Adel, in Berrien
county, came to Valdosta on the G. s. and
F. last Thursday. he Is in his S0th year,
and that was his first ride on a railroad
train. MIR. Hutchinson is an intelligent
man, and has always been leader in his
neighborhood and county. He came to this
portion of Georgia in 1882. He has never
been sick but one day since lie was grown,
although he was ''sickly boy"
L G. Golding of Brooks county has forty
barrels of syrup ready to ship to upper
Georgia as soon as some man offers him 40
cents gallon for it. He says he will keep
it till the hoops rot off before he will take
less. He will not buy a pound of guano
this season, but will depend on his compost
heap entirely. He says when this is ex-
hausted he will stop planting cotton and
plant the reminder of his land in corn and
pinders.
A man was in Americas Saturday with a
mule % years old, that he was trying to
mortgage. The animal was sway backed,
spawned and blind in one eye. The fellow,
after being treated by friend SAID: give
carried thirty-six mortgages on that mule
a year-some of them as high as $40-for
twenty years II can get $50 on him this
year, I'll turn him over next fall tt the
money lender. But dern his hide he's got
sway-backed and blind carrying mort
cages"
The children Of Mr. and Mrs. James
Dudley, who lived in the north western part
of Was lington county, were out in the
yard playing on Wednesday of last week.
and after awhile the mother no ed the alb
sence of the baby, about years old, from
the group. A search revealed to her the
heartrending sight of the corpse of the little
one in tub Of water. 1t is presumed that
the child in playing in the water lost its
and was unable to raise himself up.
The following appears in the report of
the secretary of the American Kennel
Club (of which August Belmont, Jr, of
New York, is president. read at its recent
annual meeting in New York, and, as the
report was adopted, the Atlanta assoc alton
stands "dropped;" 1.-The National Poultry
and Pet Stock Association of Atlanta, Ga.
never replies TO any of the communications
sent to them, and never has paid dues, and
your secretary would respectfully recon-
mend that these three (Winsted, Stafford
and Atlanta) clubs be dropped from the list
of members.n
A few days ago, while II. II. Singietary's
CINE at Lacrosse, with circular saw driven
The piece was nearly as large as a mans
hat, and cut solid piece OF the saw frame
smooth In twain that was 6xS inches, just
missing Oliver Lumpkin, who was " ork-
ing the machine, and went nearly 200 feet
on level, striking Mr.. Singletary's store
house, cutting the Notwithstanding in two,
and going about half through post, which
prevented it from going through the store
and probably killing several persons
A sad tragedy occurred last Tuesday in
the neighborhoJd Of Trinity church, in
Liberty county. Mrs. Martin Long was
assisting her little boy TO load his gun, in
order TO shoot some larks in the II Id Tue
ramrod had to he taken out, aud Mrs. Long
caught hold OF the end of it with the muzzle
pointing toward her body In some way
the gun was discharged, and the entire load