The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE


Indian Relic Found in Wilke
County-A Trunk With a History.
GEORGIA
There were only six deaths in the Dun
canvile district for the year ending May
Slst.
Rev. John W. Heidi Of Atlanta dedi.
Gated the new Methodist church at DanburI
yesterday.
The first Methodist conference ever held
in Georgia was held in the Petersburg dis.
trict, in Ebert county.
The annual district meeting Of tn
Augusta circuit is now in progress at War
renton. A large number Of delegates from
the various churches in the district are il
attendance.
Rev. William z. Walters, once a promi.
nent Baptist minister Of Anderson, S. &.
and who was born in Hart county, thi
state, was found dead in his bed Saturda,
morning at Hartwell.
During a storm at Cusseta, lightnin g
struck the teleg aph wire, stunning tn,
operator and knocking him about ten feet
When he regained consc business half ar
hour later, he found all his papers on fire
and the instrument completely destroyed,
which cut off all communication by wire
Bob Lee, a colored deck hand on the
steamer Milton II. Smith, was drowned at
Columbus Friday night He, with other
negroes on the boat, decided TO 60 III bath
ing while the boat was standing at the
wharf. Pulling off his clothes he leaped
from the deck Of the steamer into the river
and struck out down stream In a few
moments il was noticed that he was no
longer in sight, and a search failed to find
him.
Crawfordvile Democrat: The old car
Yfage in which Hon. A. Ii. Stevens used to
ride around to make those rousIug old
speeches which now fall on our ears from
history, will be offered for sale during court
week Relic hunters will do well to be on
hand 1t will be sold straight-out or ratified.
1t is now the property of Z. II. Ogletree,
and is in a pretty fair condition. II ratified
it will be done in the interest Of the Stephens
monument.
Arlington Banner: Mr. L. Bellebon,
the artistic painter, has a curiosity in the
way Of trunk. 1t was made sixty three
years ago on Ochiti island, in the Pacific
ocean. 1t was manufactured from the
wood Of the camphor tree and is beauti-
fully finished in brass. Clothes deposited
in it are safe from all vermin. Mr.. Belle
bon's father, who was a surgeon in the
French navy. had the trunk made, and 1t
has accompanied him in three trips around
the world.
Washington Gazette: George Balton has
brought to town the greatest Indian relic
ever found in Wilkes c9u " 10 these latter
days. 1t is an ear shen pot that Will hold
little more than a gallon, burned hard aud
in almost perfect state Of preservation.
Some think it as shsp=n in a willow bas-
ket, as the small lodentsuons all over he
outside indicate. Portions Of the outside
are blackened from being used on the fire.
This pot was buried under field that has
been in cultivation for perhaps a half
century, and the ws,hing Z the soil dscov-
cred it This old relic was found on Mr..
Balloons place near Cisrks Station, in this
county. 1t is on exhibition at Lucas, Ham,
mack & Co.'S
Buena Vista Patriot A difficulty arose
between two colored boys named Dock
Gaine5 and Homer Ma his at Mahala
Chapel, in the northeastern portion Of the
county, Monday, in which Mathis was killed
by Gaines. The trou lie ar Sc during the
progress Of base ball game, and the sab
stance Of the evidence adduced from wit
nesses before the coroner's jury was about
as follows: Both of the boys were on the
same ''side," and the dispute was about
which one was entitled to the bat Gaines
struck Mathis light blow on the side OF
the head just above the ear. Mathis walked
off few steps with his hand on the spot
where the blow had been made, pulled out
MS knife $50 one OF the witnesses stated and
as he walked back aud passing Games he
received another blow from the bat in the
hands Of Gaines just above the first. which
produced conclusion of the brain, and he
died in few minutes. The verdict Of the
jury was that Gaines was guilty of murder.
Elberton Star: A story is told on a
Mcintosh street young man that is creating
good deal of amusement among his friends.
The young man, as is we'll known, is very
far gone on certain blue eyed belle, and
cards for the marriage, so the knowing o es
say, will soon be sent out. The other night
he was heard talking in his sleep, when his
friend softly struck match and witnessed
sight that has furnished the boys some
thing to talk about for several DAYS past
He was hugging and kissing the
pillow, and my dearing and talking
TO it in the most de-away love sick man
ner, calling it his darling, his own true love.
and assuring it OF his lifelong devotion.
His friend looked on for a few minute, B.,
enjoying the scene, but when he began to
enumeraue his plans for housekeeping, and
the various arrangements he had made for
their comfort and convenience, the affair
became too funny to resist, and he broke
into loud laugh that woke the love-sick
swain up; who, when told about what he
had been doing, instead of enjoying the
joke and laughing over it, denounced the
whole thing as made up yarn and wanted
10 nsnU ABOUT III, OUT MS friends stick to
the absolute accuracy of the story.
Capt. J. r. Stoney of the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery railroad day
or two ago struck an artesian we'll in the
Oconee river, where he is engaged in put
ting in draw bridge. A solid rock founda.
ton was necessary for the big iron cylinder
to rest on, and Capt Stoney was boring
through the mud and sand at the bottom OF
the river for this when the well was struck.
A piece of iron piping was being used as a
probe or punch with which 10 find a rock
bottom, and after driving this through
several feet of mud thick stratum of QUICK.
sand was struck. Through this the
punch was driven and on down into
the mud again, when suddenly
stream of water gushed from the
end of the pipe and spouted high in the air.
Some one suggested that an underground
stream had been struck by the drill, and an
artesian we'll in midstream was the result.
The piping is driven into the ground to the
depth of fifty-two feet, while the other end
projects several feet above the surface of
the water. 1t stands nearly in the middle
of the river, and from the end of the pipe
bold stream jets high in midair. The
water is almost as cold as ice and as clear
as crystal, and has continued to gush forth
since the moment the stream was struck.
j. A. Reynolds, who claims Athens as his
home, but who formerly worked in Savan-
nah as an electric Ineman, has invented a
device for running buggies by electricity.
He uses the storage system and six or