The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-28


Hunting Frolic.
GEORGIA.
A Catholic cemetery is to be laid out al
Augusta.
Lexington is getting to be quite center
for the stock business.
Col. r.. C. Humber was stricken with
paralysis, at his plantation, last Friday, IL
Baldwin county.
Henry tIreer was thrown from a horse at
Augusta Thursday. He suffered fractured
arm and internal injuries.
The owners of Augustus rev paper, the
Ereninq Herald, CLAIM to have been offered
end declined profit of 25 per cent. on their
Investment
Quite a number Of whisky wagons were
in Gainesville last week. IL is not an I'M
common thing for whisky to be rotailed on
the public square there.
Capt. r. H. Millege and family, including
his mother, Mrs. {. II. Milledge, have
moved from FORSYTH to Atlanta, where they
will make their future home.
A dispatch from Washington, D. c., says:
s'Gen. p. u. b. Young is here, and rumor
credits him with desire to secure the In
dian commissionershlp recently declined by
Mr.. Walsh"
The Crawfordville Democrat has just cell
ebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its
birth. II the paper is as good fifteen years
hence as it is now its readers will have no
cause to complain.
COW belonging to Mrs. NJ. E. Marin of
Lincolnto1 went mad on Saturday last.
The COW ran everybody off of the premises,
but she fell into ditch and broke her neck
before doing any damage.
Griffin Call: Over 25, 900 bales OF cotton
have been received up TO date in Griffin
this season. which is more than the total re-
ceipts of last season. The receipts will go
beyond 30, 200 bales, which was the estimate.
Griffin Call: 1t is the opinion of fruit
growers generally that there will be an
abundance of fruit the coming year. At
least the indications point that way. There
has been cold enough so far to keep back
the sap. and it is hardly probable that the
weather will be such as to endanger the
fruit.
The cotton press at Griffin, which has
been in operation since the middle of Oc-
tober, is proving q profitable investment.
About 1900 bales have been compressed
and 50 economically is it operated that a
dividend of fully e5 per cent. is looked
for by the stockholders at the close of the
season.
Banks County Gazette: The 2-year-old
son OF Ben Caudell, about shutdown on Dec
10, was eating COOLERS, when the young
sister. who was playing with him, ex-
claimed: Brother is choked!" He had
inhaled goober with the hull on into the
windpipe. DR.. Thomas Hayden was called
in. but when he came the child was too lar
gone for any operative measures.
Sheriff Berrie, while walking through a
dimly lighted store at Bruins y lex Friday,
stepped into hole in the floor with his left
foot ard fell heavily on his left side, the
sharp edge of the plank striking one of his
lower ribs, very nearly breaking it. Mr.
Berrie managed to walk to his home on
Reynolds street. and sent for DIR. r. E. l..
Burford. He made q thorough examina>
ton of Mr.. Berries side aud pronounced it
very severe bruise, but said that no serious
injury was done.
At Brunswick last Sunday morning Mrs.
Mershon, wife of Judge NJ. L. Mershon,
missed costly diamond ring from her
room. Thursday morning Detective Wig
gins learned that the ring was in the posses.
sion of negro named Cooper. He claimed
that negro boy ABOUT seventeen years OF
age, who is servant at Judge Mershon's
home, had given the ring to him. The boy
said he found it in the yard near Judge
Mershon's home. Those who are acquainted
with the case say it was stolen, and that the
guilty party will be prosecuted
Macon Telegraph: Edwin Hendrix, @
young mail clerk, has disappeared since
Dec. l, and nothing can be heard of him
The young mans parents live in Milledge
vile, and are very anxious about him. Ii
fact, they seem to think it possible that fou
play may have part in his unexplanabl,
absence Hendrix, who is a mail clerk OF
the railroad between Camak and Macon
got leave of absence for one day on Dec. l
and left the depot to go up town, telling hi
friends that he would be back shortly
Since that time nothing has been heard o
him, although every effort has been mad
to discover his whereabouts.
Atlanta Journal: On the turpentin,
farms Of Capt. G. McKinnon and s. A. AL
ford, near Statesboro, the most of tn
laborers are Croatans. They are about tn,
color of Indians, and the the women an,
sun, are real bright in color. The men an
women have straight hair, and are intelli
gent people. They are said to be homes
and Industrious They stick to each other
and don't mix much with the negroes. Capt
Mckinnon tells Us they are a distinct rae
in North Carolina, where their homes are
and are supposed TO be mixture of Indian
and Portuguese.
Tallapoosa Journal: Sunday afternoon
while riding along the Waco road, abou
two miles from town, j. r. Knapp and hi
daughter, Mrs. Lyell Carr Of New York
met with an accident from which the
luckily escaped with their lives. The hors
took fright at some object. SHE'D and be
came unmanageaDle. Mr.. Knapp made
desperate effort to keep the animal in th
road, and succeeded until the wheels of til
vehicle came in contact with low STUMP
the jar throwing him violently to til
ground. The horse sped on and Mrs. Carr
thoroughly frightened, jumped from tn
carriage, receiving severe cut on the face
straiuing the chords of her left limb fror
the knee to the foot, and badly bruising tn
knee cap.
Augusta NeaUs: James NJ. Cobb. Jess
Dias and Quincy Stillwell, all neighbor,
who live near jackson station, twelve mile
from Augusta. in Carolina, on the POI
Royal and Augusta railroad, made up
hunting party early Thursday morning {
spend Christmas in the woods. While tb
gentlemen were walking single file throug
the bushes Mr.. Stillwelrs gun was acc
dentally discharged by the hammer gettin
caught in a limb. Mr.. Dias was walkin
couple Of feet behind Mr.. Stillwell, who's
gun was over his shoulder, and the entir
load entered Mr.. Dias' right breast, produc
ing almost instant death. Mr.. Dias was
prominent young man and a prosperou
farmer, and was well known in Augustl
where he frequently visited.
AT present not more than forty-five coun
ties are represented at the states techn,
logical school at Atlanta, and the followln
gives the number of students that com
from each OF these countless: Appling
Barlow =, Bib J. Campbell / Carroll