The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHa


A Negro of Dougherty County Acct
dentallv Kills Himself Inferior Mel
ons Going Forward - Employees of
the State Insane Asylum Serensde
Col. Humber 90 A Tree That Kills
Cattle.
GEORGIA.
Brunswick can now boast OF fourteen
churches.
A 14-year old boy acted as street car
conductor at Macon Sunday.
The Seamen's bethel was dedicated at
Brunswick Sunday afternoon.
At st. Simon's mills, Monday, the spire
of the Episcopal church was struck by
lightning and damaged to the extent Of
$3.50.
The MARI iage of Mrs. Lizzie Willard nee
Miss Lizzie Harrison, formerly OF hines
vile, but now of Cocoa, Indian River,
Fla, 70 Mr.. Gould Of New York is an
nounced. Mr. Gould has an elegant home
at Cocoa, besides his mansion on Fifth
avenue.
On the Fourth of July Columbus will
offer to her visitors as one Of the induce
ments mammoth chicken pie. The pie
will be z feet long, D feet wide, and Will
contain between its crusts ten dozen
chickens. For % cents the hungry excur-
sionist is allowed a fill-up from this huge
pastry.
Albany Netus: Some of the growers are
shipping very inferior melons just now, as
well as some of the very finest ever grown
in Southwest Georgia. A car was shipped
from these parts Saturday, containing 1860
melons weighing less than 1900 pounds
This would make them average less than
twelve pounds.
Saturday, in Dougherty county, young
negro named George Crawford, living on
what is known as the Giles place, accident
ally shot aud killed himself. He was fool
ing with his gun, attempting to load it,
when it went off. and he received the entire
contents of the barrel In his left side. He
was buried Sunday.
j. NJ. Bryan reports to the Middle Geor-
giG Progress maypop growing on the
limb of a persimmon tree. The maypOp
was fully developed and firmly attached TO
the limb of the tree. He plucked it from
the tree and compared it with one that
grew on the vine, and found them to be
identically the same.
Rev. E. E. Harllng said to a Gainesville
Courdnt-A mericGn reporter: Never felt
more gratified than | do now. A great
many predicted that | would die before
taking the census in the Seventeenth dis
trict. l am in as good health or better
than when | commenced the work, and am
now ready to make my returns to Mr..
Haley, the supervisor. / have found
moustronsity in the Seventeenth district.
1t is a homeless child, about II years o!d-a
male-never has spoken word, walked a
step or eaten bite that his mother has not
chewed for him. He is the son Of John
Stockman of Euharlee, and weighs only
about twenty pounds"
The MadiSOnidn tells an interesting
story of an old and time worn pocket Bible
which the Rev. Il. Ii. Lawrence carried
during the late war. This Bible was given
him by an old friend, Col. John Q. Adams,
and was priced by Mr.. Lawrence very
highly. He always carried it in his coat
pocket. At the battle of kennesaw noun
tain bullet struck the Rev. Mr.. Lawrence
on his left side, penetrating his coat and
shirt, then into his Bible, stopping at
Isaiah ill.,, Z. Strange to say, the Bible
saved his life, and he preserved the book
with the bullet in it until his death The
first ermOn he ever preached be took the
verse at which the bullet stopped for his
text, and preached the sermon at Antioch
church, Morgan county.
On Saturday evening last, while talking
to a friend, James Chambliss, a mill hand
at Manchester, a suburb Of Macon, was APP
preached by Frank Phillips, also an employee
of the mill, who struck Chambliss a blow on
the left cheek, telling him to the earth.
Both parties then went off and armed them
selves, Chamblss with single-barreled
gun loaded with No. q bird shot
and Phillips with a Smith & Wesson 80
caliber revolver. Returning to search for
each other they met at Henry Crawfordis
store, near the Central railroad track, Ma
con and Western line and Immediately
opened fire on each other. Chambliss
planted the load of birdshot in Phillips left
groin and across the lower part of the
or oh fo ba ricylf inf
painful wound. Chambliss then ran,
Phillips following, after firing at him sew
eral times. One call only took effect, strik-
ing the back of the head just above the
nape of the neck, running along the skull
under the skin and coming out near the left
ear. Neither man vii die.
AT Milledgeville Saturday night the en-
ployes of the state asylum for the insane
serenaded ex-Steward r. G.. Humber.
After the music one of the party marched
from the line formed in front of the gate,
and briefly told the colonel of their devo-
tlon to him, pledging their support and
stating that it was with opposition that
they made their visit as the officers of the
institution opposed and tried to pre-
vent it, Col. Humber Is not the choice
of the officers for the legislature
Col. Humber replied, thanking them, and
saying that he was not fighting the asylum
nor would he, but on the contrary that he
would support it, and he hoped the men
would not suffer for their actions, as they
were free citizens and had a right to use
their liberty. Col. Humber did not make
his announcement, but it is thought that he
will do so within a week. This is the first
time in a long while that the employees of
the asylum, as a body, have varied from
the wishes of the officers, and the result of
their action is awaited with interest at
Milledgeville.
The SchIey County Ne1cs says: "There
has been strange fatality among cattle in
this section of late. Besides those hereto
fore mentioned in the NelUS, we have heard
of several Others. Tip Barnes lost eight
head last week, and his son-in-law, Tom
Pitcher, lost two. all running in the same
pasture where there is plenty to eat. Mr..
Barnes thinks they eat poison ivy, or some
other poisonous plant, in the pasture. c..
H. McCrory found his fine young jersey
heifer dead in the pasture last week and
he thinks that she, too, got at some poison
Gus weed. This matter ought to be inves-
tigated. II there is weed, vine or tree
that IS so destructive to cattle it should bs
exterminated. There is an evergreen tree.
known in Florida as wild olive. growing
promiscuously on the streets and in the
yards of Tallahassee that is as sure death
to cattle as chopping Off their heads. One
might storm blew down one of the trees