The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-05


Killed in Laurens County
Escape From the Calaboose at Con
versa Child Smothered 10 Death
at Dalton.
GEORGIA.
Adairsville is to have a military COM
pany.
The steeple Of the Baptist church at
Statesboro Is about completed
The nav roll of the Atlanta police force
for the past month amounts TO s. Isl %.
C. Il Caldwell Of Macon was so over
come by the extreme heat Wednesday that
he tainted in a street car.
The Spalding Grays of Griffin will hold
an election tonight to fill the office OF cap
tain, which is now vacant
1t is probable that the word college, in
the title of Wesleyan Female College at
Macon will give way TO the word uni
versity."
Little George Robertson, who was bitten
by a mad dog few weeks ago, has returned
TO Augusta from the Pasteur Institute, New
York, and is pronounced cured and safe
from danger by DR.. Gibier.
Six cases now stand against j. II. Kim
brell, the man who opened an original pack
age barroom IN Lithonia, and they will
bring him before the United States court so
soon as it is again convened.
Conductor Bob Wallace Of the Georgia
railroad has lost his sight. DIR. Calhoun
says his case is a hopeless one He has been
compelled to leave his post, where, as a
young man, promotion awaited him.
Ebin Barnes, who lives on Mil creek,
near Siko, Bulloch county, was digging
well last week, and when about twenty-five
feet below the surface he struck lot of
glass quartz or something like it. A speci-
men will be sent to the state geoiogist for
analysis.
Statesporo Eagle. A reader Of the Eagle,
whose name we have forgotten, brought 20
this Office some time ago sample OF mari
taken from Ogeechee swamp. IL looks
very much like the mari used in making
guano, and who knows but what this sec
ton is rich in that mineral.
The Rome Tribune runs as an original
editorial a clipping from the Atlanta
Journal saying that the present census gives
Savannah a population of $1,000. As the
census shows As, 2l4 within TIE incorporate
limits the Rome paper, in company with
the Atlanta publication, is about nine years
behind the times.
Augusta Chronicle: The soldiers are
wondering among themselves what has be-
come of the cloth which Georgia was to
receive from the war department with
which to equip the state forces with the
regular army uniform. The question also
occurs, who is to make the unifOrms' The
boys want better fitting uniforms than
Uncle Sam gives his regulars.
John Mills barn, three miles from Griffin,
was fired by an incendiary Wednesday
morning at 3 O'Clock and burned to the
ground Tracks were followed some dis
lance through plowed ground made by the
fleeing ncendiary, but he made good his
escape. There was but little grain or forage
in the barn, and the building was the prin-
cipal loss, estimated at $780, The stock was
all safely removed.
A small cyclone passed through the south
eastern part of Adairsville Tuesday after
noon about o'clock. The only damage
done was blowing off part of the roof OF
the shelter over the planer of Henderson q
Hilburn. Willie, the eldest son Of Mr..
Henderson, undertook to go from the shell
ter to the gin house, which is only about
three feet distant from the planer shed
when the lumber fell on him, breaking his
ankle
Dalton Citizen: The July fly. large In
sect with quay wings, resembling some
what the locust, has made its annual
appearance. The July fly makes peculiar
shrill, rasping noise with its wings, and
there is belief current with many people
that frost will fall exactly three months
from the time it is first heard. When heart
in the early morning it is a pretty good
indication of extremely hot weather fol-
that day.
The 6-months-old-infan of Patsy Macon
{colored) Of Dalton was found dead in bed q
few mornings ago. The child was ap-
parently in good health the day before, and
the mysterious manner of its death led to
coroner's inquest over the remains. Tht
jury, after careful investigation of thu
matter, returned a verdict of academia
smothering. 1t is supposed that the mother
while asleep, carelessly rolled upon the chill
and smothered it to death.
A baby's corpse was found buried at tn
intersection of Gwinnett and Washington
streets at Augusta Wednesday An oil
negro woman, while digging bait, came oil
the buried box iu her garden, and was hor
rified to discover in it q child's remains
Decomposition was well advanced. Tn
mother was discovered to be Lou William,
She and her husband, ignorant darkes
had buried the child there being too poor
they claimed, to give it other inteTment
No prosecution will be made, as the jur
excused the woman through absence of an
eliminating features.
Dublin Post. Last Tuesday mornin
when Mr.. B. w. Ratified went into his corr
field be found that something had bee
depredating upon his crops and had don
considerable damage thereto. Upon exam
ination he discovered the footprints of whit
he supposed to be huge bear and immed
ately secured pack of dogs and gave chas
After running the track all day and fl
q considerable distance through swamp
ponds and thickets, just before night the
came up with the object of their cha
which proved in fact TO be black bea
weighing $50 pounds, and after kilt
two dogs and wounding several others.
was brought to the ground by innumerab
shots from Winchesters, shotguns, pistol
etc. He seemed to be making his WI
toward the Oconee river. From whence
came Is a mystery, as he is the only one
his species known in this country for year
w. H. Paul and Westley Mitchell, ha
ing bored their way out of the calaboose
Conyers Sunday, left in hurry for cool
quarters. They had been sentenced TO Il
prison forty days each for fighting, cursin
etc, on June %.
FLORIDA.
II is rumored that the Waldo ice facto
will be moved to Fernandina.
At st. Augustine Wednesday color
man had both his legs fractured by hea
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