The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEws OF raE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


Lonely leoute-A Razor PICKED Up
on Battlefield stinin Uss-A Macon
Lady VINO Befriends All the Stray
Cats.
GEoR GIA.
Four frame structures were burned at
Austell Saturday night.
The Inasons Of Fort Gaines viii soon be
gin work on their building.
Col. J. J. Rogers has just completed his
telephone line from GAINESVILLE 20 ZebuloI
via Miner
It is understood that Ed. Elder will soon
begin the construction Of @ new SSO,OOt
hotel at Indian Spring.
There is some talk Of starting a regular
New Orleans coffee saloon in Atlanta The
pretty Creole waiting girls will be imported.
A dry kiln at Adairsville, contai n. ug
10000 feet Il valuable lumber, Joseph
Gardner owner, was partially destroyed by
fire Sunday.
Two carloads Of cotton on a siding in the
Macon and Covington yards at Macon were
destroyed by fire Monday. Forty-two
bales were consumed.
Near Montezuma. Saturday, two negroes,
Alonzo Galloway and Ric- ara Hangabook,
engaged in a fight, in which the latter was
seriously ana probably fatally cut. Gala
way has been arrested.
Saturday afternoon a negro named Taylor
entered a store in Craw9 ordville and accused
a clerk Of stealing. A. W. Mushan, while
attempting to put the negro out, was
stabbed by the latter. The negro escaped.
George Muse of Atlanta increased his
sales $40, 900 last spring by Offering prize
of $50 in gold to the person who guessed the
nearest TO Atlanta's population. lt was a
happy thought and very rsmunerative
one.
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta are
drilling on the capitol grounds three nights
in each week now for the Piedmont expo
sition drill The Rifles will begin drilling
tomorrow night, and before October both
companies will be in excellent trim.
The Albany Guards and the Knights of
Pythias will unite in a fair. The dates
selected are Dec. Is, 16 and IL. The
fair Will be held under the auspices of both
organizations, and it is designed not only to
make it financial success, but the social
event of the season.
The Fulton county commissioners have
fixed the rate Of taxtatlon for this year.
1t is 35 40 cents Ii was made fractional
so as 10 make the state and county rate Is
cents on the hundred, as the controller
has fixed the state at so $40 cents. Mr..
Cooper's report shows that the county's
expenses this year will be SINS
The large residence Of Mrs. @. f. Miller
of Hepzibah. was entirely consumed by fra
Monday. The house was rented by 3. II.
Rivers of Avery whose furniture, includ-
ing a new piano, was also burned. The
dwelling was insured for 81 800 in the
Southern Mutual. the furniture was not
insured. The origin of the fire is unknown.
There is rumor that Tom Voolfolk may
not be sentenced to hang until the October
farV ~
which begins the first Monday in October. 1t
is also rumored that Judge Gober may pass
the sentence in the place of Judge Miller,
disqualified. In the meanwhile Voolfolk
keeps fat and appears indifferent to his i'm
pending doom.
Miss Hattie Hester is the United States
mail carrier over the route from Condar,
Laurens county, to Montgomery county, a
distance Of forty miles, through q sp arsely
settled region, which she traverses three
times week. She drives her own mail
cart, carries a revolver. and is as punctual
as the sun at all seasons and in all weathers.
Besides transporting the mails, she manages
a farm, gets out lumber, splits fence rails
and contrives to support q widowed mother,
two young sisters and brother, while she
Is not 20 years of age.
At Brunswick Monday car No. 2, John
Moore, driver, was rua into by an East
Tennessee train, on Cochran avenue, near II
street, and Sc flying several feet into the
air, turning the car completely over and
laying it on its side several feet from the
track. The driver said he was running east
ward on Ii street and train of cars on
side-track hid from view the train which
was coming on the main lire. The mules
bad just crossed the track when the train
struck the car. A woman and a child, the
only passengers, saw the train before the
driver and jumped from the car without
being injured.
The fight at fredericksburg on Dec. 10,
1862, was bloody one. 1t lasted all day
long and at night "a 900 dead and wounded
men lay upon the battlefield, 1000 OF them
being confederate soldiers. The morning
after the battle ii. b. Tread we'll, now a
resident of Brunswick, and who was men,
Der of the Tenth Georgia battalion, COM
manded by Maj. Emory Rylander of
Americas, went out on the battlefield. Near
two federal soldiers. who appeared to be
father and son, he found a razor, a razor
strap, shaving brush and a small piece of
soap. These he took, and. having used up
the other portion of the outfit, still uses the
razor when he wants to shave.
A Macon lady makes it rule to gather
up all the stray cats that come near her,
and feeds and cares for them as tenderly as
If they were the finest Of maltese. Right
now she has twenty-Seven cats of all grades
and sizes, some Of them miserable things,
and not few of them carrying scars and
other evidences of having been brick-batted
and boot-jacked and run out of premises
when they we're not wanted. The older and
scrutter the feline the better she likes
them, and it is a sight to see her ring "A bell
when the food is ready. They respond with
alacrity and take the food from her hands.
1t is regular cat asylum, and the lady
finds pleasure in thus healing the bruises
and making life worth living for those
abandoned waits.
An unknown white woman left baby at
Mrs. Rickelson's boarding house at Augusta
Monday TO be cared for while she went to
get her trunks from the depot. The woman
has never returned, but the following note
was found pinned to the baby's clothes
Dear Mrs. Riqketson: There is no shame
attached 10 the baby. Its father died four
months ago, and / have to work for a
hvlng, ana l cannot support myself and
work for the infant. l want you to keep il
and raise 1t, and if you will not, then send
II TO the orphans home, and name it con
turmon. viii send you some money soon
to buy the baby clothes" The note was
unsigned, and who the woman is that left
the baby is what the inmates of the house
are anxious to fad out.
Jesse Paulk, the heavy weight sheriff of
Irwin county, said to d Brunswick Times
reporter Monday: Il have been to Darien
to-day to deliver Charlie Reeves to sheriff
Biount of Mcintosh county. | had a hard
time capturing that negro in the far-off
mountains of Alabama, and | have not been
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