The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-24

| Of lumber. Fluker Bros, expert machinists
and makers Of cotton gins, will put in their
stock. Mr.. Charles Alexander IS cor
1 pOratOr also. The stock viii begin at
/ $4,000, but will be increased. They will
have planning mills and foundry.
/ The Sumter county commissioners met
| Monday to hear read propositions from the
| Americas Manufacturing and Improve
ment Company and the alliance. regardin 2
the purchase Of the old court house lot. No
proposition was received from tue alliance,
/ but the improvement company renewed its
offer TO pay 5000 for the property, and
agreed to erect upon it a $50, 900 hotel. and
70 invest $50,0 in securing manufactures.
! The proposition was sent to the grand jury,
who recommended the sale Of the property
to the improvement company.
John Hill, living lust north of Albany,
has a wonderful hen. 1t Laws every day
regularly a couple Of eggs. When it leaves
the nest it looks back, counts the eggs
therein, and if it finds that it has only added
one egg to the number tha5 was in the nest
when she first took her seat, she returns and
adds her second to the number to keep up
with her daily task She was set on twelve
eggs recently, and to the establishment of
her owner she Matched out fourteen chickens
from the dozen eggs. Many Of her eggs are
double yolked, and that is the only explana-
ton.
An old-fashioned emigrant wagon, COW
cred with canvas stretched on diverging
hoops, gathered back SO as to have a circu-
lar opening at each end, once SO common in
the frontier sections, but now quite scarce,
| reached Macon Wednesday night. Inside
was the usual carefully assorted accumula-
tion of household articles and some very
lively freight, in the shape of several chill
dren, a woman and paralytic man. 1t
was John Newton and family, on their way
/ f-1rr nj nr1E gTo IN hr1r
county, Virginia, which was their former
home.
Crete Manley of Spalding county boasts
of hog with a unique trait Tuesday,
| when one of his wagons started to town
| with load Of cotton one of his hogs took
his position under the wagon, and as the
wagon moved off the grunter kept bis place.
Some time was consumed in trying to drive
the hog back, but TO no purpose, as he was
bound to hold his position. The wagon
was driven to Griffin warehouse, and
while unloading the pig lay down under the
| wagon like a well trained watch dog until
the driver started for home, when the pig
also took up his line of march and left town
in mis- position.
Joseph Strickland, member of Com
pany K, Twsnty-sixth Georgia Regiment,
walked forty miles from his home in Wayne
| county to Waycross TO attend the confeder-
|
day. He didn't walk home, however.
The 'boys" filled his empty purse with
| silver. The record Of his service tells that
he never did an hour of extra duty, as a
punishment; that he was with his command
in every battle in which it engaged; and
that from the day of his enlistment until
the star of the confederacy went down at
| Appomattox, he was true, faithful, and at
every roll call
| H. IL
that the phenomeEally warm winter will
prove injurious, il not totally destroy, the
fruit crop of next summer. If we have cold
| weather fro m this time on, it is the preva-
lent belief that the fruit crop will not be
damaged in the least The ctd will check
| the tendency of the trees to blossom until
due season, when the whole energy Of the
trees will be revived. The cold that does
! the damage to fruit trees comes late in the
season, after warm spell of sufficient du-
ration TO cause the trees to put forth the
tender fruit buds, whichsars nipped by late
colds, and the energy of the trees is after
ward expended in foliage. If the cold
weather which is now promised will only
hold on until spring spreads her fowery
mantle, then no fears will be entertained
that the fruit crop will be blighted.
In the dense swamp Of Muckalee creek,
that borders the plantation Of Maj. NJ.
Speer, eight miles south of Americas, sew
eral hundreds of wild and fierce hogs have
| roamed and multiplied for several years.
Their depredations In neighboring corn
fields during the summer months have re.
suited in great loss to the farmers of that
locality, and to reduce their numbers, or
else exterminate the entire lot hunt has
been organized. The party will consist of
about forty sportsmen, armed with Win
chesters and breech-loading shotguns. These
will divide into two bands, and, with the
aid of hounds, will Scour the swamp until
the game Is started, when the hogs will ba
slaughtered indiscriminately. In the drove
are many old and fierce bears that will
are even that the hunters and dogs will moi
escape without dangerous cuts from theil
razor-like tushes,
The old battle flag of the Brunswick
Rifemen was given to the new company
at Brunswick, Tuesday night. before large
audience and with appropriate exercises
The historic flag had been encased in O
large, handsome frame, and on its front il
the inscription: Brunswick Rifiemen, Oct
20, 1860" In the lower right hand corner Of
the frame was card, on which wa:
printed the battles in which the Rifle
men had been engaged. This memorandum
reads as follows: 1S62-Battle of Cedar
Mountains. Aug. 9; Manassas Junction
Aug. %; second battle of Manassas, Aug
~ ana 81; battle OF Chantllly, Sept. /.
Sharpsburg, Sept. II; Fredericksburg
Dec. Is. 1S63-Battls of Marie's Heights
May 8; Charlottesville, May 8; first
battle of Winchester, June 1S; battle O
Gettysburg, July l, 2 and s. 1864-Wilder-
ness, May 3, g, and z; Spotysvania, May 10
II, and H. The Pines, May Is; North Anna
May23; Turkey Ridge, June l ; Cold Harbor
Juae 3; Lynchburg, June IA; Kemstonn
July / Maryland Heights, July g.; Monoc
acy, July 9; investment Washington City
July II and 10: battle of Smokers Gap
July II; second battle of Winchester, Sept
10; battle Of Fishers Hill, Sept. %; battl,
of Fishers Creek, Oct. 10; continuous bat
, ties around Petersburg, Dec. l to March 2S
1865 storming Fort Steadman, March %
battles on retreat, April to 9; surrender O
army, April g..
News has just reached Hiawassee that
there are about seventy-tfve cases of measle
at Young Harris institute.
A movement is on foot to establish terri,
Gotta plant on the Yellow river, three mile
from Covington, where there is an abund
ance of the finest clay for this purpose /,
be found in the state, says the Star.
paint or ocher mine is also located near tn,
same place, and will probably be opened III
in a short while.
At Macon there is a project ON foo
between the city and county TO drain tn
surface water of the swamp lands below tn
city in order to make better the genera
health Of the lower part of town and per