The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24

/ sets placed in tine hands of T. B. Miner, as
receiver. The liabilities are said TO be about
| $. coo or $1,000 ana the assets less than
/ half this amount. Among the mortgages
against the Messrs. Pendleton, all amount
ing TO about 81, 900, is one made TO their
mother for nearly 81, 900. Mr. Miner, the
receiver, who was formerly connected with the
Eastman Times, viii continue temporarily
the publication OF the Iimes-JOur1tdL
Recently an old gentleman, elegantly
dressed in navy blue suit stopped in front
of Oconee Street church in Athens and gave
the rope used for fire alarm a pull and tile
bell sounded once. He then stepped up 70
the door and waiting a few moments gave
the rope three pulls and the bell sounded
three times. A crowd went TO the church,
and found the gentleman on the door steps
He said be was lost and thought some one
would come TO the door and ne could find
out if he stopped there last night. He evil
IDENTITY thought Oconee Street church a
boarding house. The old gentleman had no
idea how near he came to raising the fire
alarm.
Arthur Leavy, son Of L. J. Leavy of
Brunswick, came near being drowned a
night or two ago. He was on board the
steamer Pope Catlin, returning from trip
TO st. Simon's. 1t being late before the
boat arrived he dozed of and went to
sleep. Arriving at the dock some one
awoke him. He rose TO his feet in a dazed
sort of a way, started out on the gang
plank and stepped off into the river Before
he could recover his senses he had sunk
twice. As he was going under the third
and last time he recovered his wits and
struck out for the dock, and by an effort
pulled himself on to it.
Lafayette Messenger. Whenever there
is offered in the United States a prize open
to the whole country for the family that
has the greatest length, breadth and thick
ness, Walker county, through the Coulter
boys, will be sure to take it. OF the six
boys. going up by steps and commencing at
the lowest, Jim is feet 4, Mac feet 6,
VIII feet 6, Tom feet Z, Oscar 6 feet
and Richard feet II. The parents were
8 feet and 5 feet respectively. 1t is I'M
necessary to say that the boys in their rear
ing had the advantage of limestone water.
Their weights run from 200 to 262 pounds,
making total of 1867 pounds, and an aver
age of 22S pounds.
Cedartown Standard: How's this for
bee storyl w. j. Richardson CHANGED to be
at s. w. Green's place. about three miles
west of town, last Monday at the time
swarm of the latter's bees had settled on
the limb of red oak about 20 feet from the
ground. Mr.. Green was somewhat at loss
TO know how to dislodge them, when Dir.
Richardson asked permission 90 fire the con-
tents of his gun ut the swarm, promising
TO take the wing off the queen bee. He
blazed away, and after a time the whole
swarm came to the ground, following the
queen, whose wing had been taken off by
the shot. She was put into the hive, where
the bees all followed her, and where they
are now manufacturing concentrated
sweetness at lively rate. Mr.. Green is in
hopes that Mr.. Richardson will go out and
display his craftsmanship whenever his
bees 'feel that way"
Engineer McMann of the Central road,
has disappeared, and his whereabouts are
unknown. He has been running the ac-
commodation train between Atlanta and
Griffin for some time, and is regarded as a
steady, intelligent man, and a fine locomo-
tive engineer Thursday he arrived at At
lanta from Griffin, at the usual hour, and
after turning his engine over to the hostler,
went to a restaurant and took breakfast
He has not been seen since. He lives in
Griffin, and on the day Of his disappear
ance his family IN that place got a tele-
gram from Macon saying that the author-
ties of the Central road down there had re-
ceived telegram from Atlanta stating that
the engineer had dropped dead in a drug
store in Atlanta. His son went to Atlanta
and searched in vain for the missing man.
ne udlOcr was IepOitcu W tno pOhCe, duu
every effort will be made to find him.
Marian Wheeler, who was recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Canton, will not take
charge of the office just yet, and probably
may never. While looking over some pa
pers, a few days since, United States Dis
trict Attorney Darnell saw something that
caused him to telegraph to Washington and
stay Mr.. Wheeer's appointment 1t was
an old law case in which Mr.. Wheeler had
been defendant before the United States
court. Newt j. Wheeler, the father of the
postoffice applicant, ran a government dis
tillery. He had 900 gallons of whisky
in bonded warehouse. The
warehouse was burned down and the propri-
etor made claim on the government for
an abatement of the tax on it, swearing
that it had been burned. The lawyers in
vestigated the matter and found some of
the whisky which had been represented as
burned. The father and two sons, one of
whom was Marian Wheeler, were put I'M
der heavy bonds and afterward had to pay
about 81, 500 before they could get out of
the trouble. The present postmaster. H.
III. Kellogg, who was appointed under
Mr.. Cleveland, will hold over.