The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

THE NEWS OF THE TWO 6TAibS
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Fatal Injuries Inflicted by Plow Han
dle-A Tramp's Curious Manipula-
ton of Money-Women Taken Out
and Whipped Near Bruton.
GEORGIA
Superior court convenes Ia Valdosta to-
morrow.
Hon. A. II. Colquitt will attend the
Methodist centennial at Lexington, KY.
d. q. Sheehan declines to reconsider his
resignation as captain Of the Spalding Greys
of Griffin.
John O'Hanlon of jackson was robbed on
St Simon's island Friday of pocket book
containing $50.
Charles Henderson of Eastman killed
eighty-six large rats in his corn crib last
week in less than an hour.
Mrs. Jeanette Haas, the mother of Mrs
Jacob Haas and Isaac E. Haas, died sud-
denly of heart failure at Atlanta Thursday.
Rev. r. P. Bryan, pastor of the Metho-
dist church at Wrightsville, died Wednes-
day night. He died singing sin the Sweet
By-and- by"
W. H. Mckenzie of Green's Mill. Macon
county, died Thursday from wounds in the
abdomen made by pillow handles while plow-
ing in new ground three weeks ago.
Mrs. r. L. Holbert, who was frightfully
burned at her home near Ball Ground few
weeks ago, is suffering great deal, and her
death is expected at any time. Her left
arm was amputated last Sunday, and the
other arm will probably also be taken off.
0. P. Bonners little son, while hunting
near Crawfordville last Monday, shot a
large blue crane. breaking its wing, and
otherwise injuring it so that he brought his
game home, and fell very proud of his sue
cess as a markham. The bird measured
five feet in hight.
Two painful accidents happened at the
bobbin mill at Watkinsvllle a day or two
ago A bobbin few out of the machine and
struck James Maxwell in the forehead,
knocking him senseless. Ted Williams was
the next unfortunate. His chisel got caught
in one of the pulleys Wednesday, and whirl-
ing around with terrible force buried itself
about four inches in his thigh.
Charles Burns, tramp who was arrested
in Pickens county, has been indicted by the
grand jury of the federal court at Atlanta
for counterfeiting. The case is a peculiar
one. Burns neither manufactured nor
raised money, but reduced genuine $40 and
$50 gold pieces to the value of silver by ap-
plying a chemical Since there seems TO
hoNS DCCu bbAle Ohb hL ihNC4blNh W Ut
fraud the government, the chances are that
the case will not hold.
A few nights ago party in mask went
to house near Bruton station, occupied by
three OF four wanton women, and took two
of the women out and applied to them n
buggy trace pretty freely. 1t Is reported
that Maud Brown, one who made her es-
cape, has gone to Macon to put the matter
In the hands of the federal officers. claiming
that she recognized the masked party. The
house had become such notorious null
sance that the citizens decided to take the
matter in hand and see if they could not
suppress it.
The Canton AdUdnce says r. I. West
brook has found an Indian relic on his
place in that county. 1t is thus described I:
''The curiosity in question is fiat rock,
symmetrlcally and perfectly dressed, five
and a half inches in diameter and three
inches thick, with the outer edges perfectly
rounded, resembling large gold ring. On
either side kind of basin or mortar is cut
two inches In diameter and one inch deep,
The whole work is perfectly done, and no
touch of the file, chisel, or other modern
tool, can improve its appearance. For what
purpose it was used or intended we have
not the remotest idea, but evidently It must
have been valued very highly, as 1t required
much work to complete it, no doubt and is
a work Of high art"
Macon EreTi1lg Net0s: A party of Macon
gentlemen returned last evening from
Andersonville and Americas, where they
had been TO try and make purchase of a
certain piece Of property at Andersonville,
wherein is the celebrated Providence spring
which northern writer's have described
wildly in writing the alleged history of
that famed prison. The fable is that while
the yankee soldiers were confined in the
stockade there, during the late war, hundreds
of their number suffered and died for want
of pure water. One day, however, as a
number of them lay gasping for breath, a
bold and beautiful spring gushed from the
earth at their feet, which was named by
them providence Spring" In fact, there
never was anything of the kind. The prison
was located at Andersonville on account of
the healthfuluess of the place and the su-
perabundance of pure, fresh water. A
beautiful limpid stream ran through the
stockade in which the prisoners were con-
fined, and from the sides of the wooded
bills within the Enclosure a half hundred
springs flowed down into the little creek
below.