The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-24


Some Big Timber 20 be Turned ou'
at Cordele-A Aontezuna Man Nys-
teriously Missing.
GEORGIA
An oil mill is 70 be established By nexi
season at Crawford
Fort Valley has Just los. large canning
factory By not having water supply.
Mrs. Gould Of Mahen has made arrange
ments 10 build ten houses q: Madison al
once.
Phil Bell viii BE- hanged for murder a
Louisville Jan 3. The execution viii bs L
private.
On the first Monday in January next .
new mayor and board Of aldermen are . b
elected at Aontez1ma.
The building committee for the new
Baptist church at Hamilton has raised
$l,100. They want $500
The Presbyterians # BainbridZs raised
over 500 by their hurch fair or bezsr last
week, for the benefit Of their proposed new
parsonage or manse-
II is currently reported tia. the negro
Jack Anthony, who was supposed b have
been lynched at Linc0luton, was taken q
South Carolina enc set free.
P. VI. Davis. counsel Of jim Hut. who IS
under sentence Of death for the killing q
l. u. Waller, viii u we for & new trial 81
Hart county court this week.
The Jesup hotel az Jesup caught fire. bu,
IL was soon extinguisned, doing 10 dsnsge
but 70 burn goOd-sized hole near tas
chimney from which it caught.
Judge D. B. Jay Of Leary. after entering
suit against the Central railroad FOR inj1-
rfes received IN an accident on the extern
sion. accspted compromise Of SLOO0.
Ebert Askew has b1ught an interest in
the firm Of Austin & CO. Of Jefferson, and
the business viii hereafter Be conducted
under the firm name Of Askew, Smith &
Co
A pretty pyramid Of Barlow county ores
adorns the public square AZ Gainesville,
near the two railroads. Il il made Of the
late county mineral exhibit at the Pied
mont exposition
The stockholders Of the Ammons' cotton
chopper are much enthused at the prospect
Of soon raising the Sl00, 900 necessary TO
erect the plant 10 Macon for the mAnnfac-
ture OF the implement.
For SIX or sight weeks Capt W. Il Har-
rison Of AOntezuma has been sbsent, and
MS family have no idea where be is ami Is
very much distressed about him. When
last heard from he was in Atlanta
Y.
Jeferson was incenssd over an attempted
rape upon the person Of ore Of jackson
countys leading white women. The perpe-
traitor Ii said 70 be q prominent man IN
that town
John ellis and Bob Wilson (colo-eCD
were arrested at Swainsboro last week for
breaking n. n Burdens store-houss and
taking away a lot Of goods They were
sentenced 70 nine months each Ia ths county
chain-gaag.
A Brown roOd farmer asks that the
Madison foK-bunterE give due notice % that
community when they expect to make
another raid, 50 that the neighbors can put
up their calves, and tlus save them from
being chased all over ths country instead OF
the foxes.
DR.. FELTON, was elected q delegate from
Barlow county b. the conference Of the
Hsthodist church, which meets in Cedar
town Wednesday. Il Is thought that he
VIII be elected a delegate 70 the general
confe -snes, which viii assemble at st. Louis
next May.
2, G. Yeomans IT Cortlele is now engaged
In the timber ~ ioesA He has taken a con.
tract 70 furnish one piece 1Sx22 inches at
one end and l6xl6 az ths other end. rs fest
long. he has also agreed 70 furnish anot or
stuck 70 feet long, 1872 at one end and
Ao1-c az LDe OlbeF end.
John MoxleY Of Swainsboro has a vaIu-
able house cat. A few nights ago an owl
caught one II Dir. Moxleys chickens and
the cat followed, and when the owl came 20
the ground the cat made Fl ght and succeeded
In whipping the owl. She then carried the
chicken back 70 the house.
W. A. Greene Of Taylor county lost s10n
in Oglethorpe last week while paying mis-
taxes on some land be owns in Macon
county. He thinks ne laid it down in the
treasurer's Office and went of and left IT,
and that it was picked up by somebody who
was there at ths same time.
The charge brought against O. II. Ison
and Il. W. Champion Of Griffin. that they
violated the United States laws against
counterfeiting by using metal checks in
their pool room, has been declared b.urd
by the United States commissioner, and the
accused have been discharged from further
annoyance in the matter.
Wednesday morning Of last week this
sidewalk Immediately In front Of the Heard
house, Arlington, was the scene Of a serious
and almost fatal difficulty between C,I
Henry q. Sheffield Of Arlington, and James
y. Price Of Williamsburg The difficulty
grew out Of disagreement over a mort
gage paper in which both Of them were in
terested.
Al negro fracas near Aycock's grocery
at Monroe Last Saturday night. Seaborr
Williams was shot Ia the neck by TncI
Hester, both colored. DIR. Long cut the
bullet out, finding 1t imbedded near the
carotid artery. Tuck Hester was shot
through the right forefnger, but they claim
that the whole thing was an accident. and
that Tuck shot himself through the finger
and Seaborn through the neck at the same
time.
Vsldosta Times: Uncle Billy Register o.
Clinch county came % Valdosta on Monday
last and deposited his money In the Mer.
chants Bank. He is Is years old. and for
many years has been known TO be the nos.
SCISSOR Of much money, and he has never de-
posted in bank before, but he has come
TO the conclusion, wisely, at last, that il is
not good plan TO keep money about the
premises. The fate OF his old friend and
nsigbbor, Uncle Billy Hughes, and his wife
moved him TO do it.
SwainsbOro Pine Forest: Haear. tb,
colored girl at Rev. f. w. Flanders
last Tuesday was Mapping before the fire
when her clothes ignited and she awoke tc
find herself enveloped in a sheet OF
flame. No one was pre- sent when it hap
pened, but in her mad delirium she rushed
in the bed room Of Mrs. Flanders, caught
the old lady aud Miss Lila up in her arm
and threw them upon the bed, thus SETTING
their clothing and that of the bed on fire
and but for the heroic action of JohI
Hooks three helpless women would hhy,
persisted In the flame. His hands were fear