The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-17

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Breeder-A Negroes Painful Expert.
ence With a Cosl Chute-A Freight
Conductors Narrow Escape from q
Horrible Death-A Negro Euckster's
shrewdness.
GEORGIA
movement is on foot to establish a
lemale college in Newman.
Capt. D. r Dean of Bo.tsford, Sumter
county, has lost the sight Of one of his eyes.
Rev. E. J. Beadles Of Newman has been
called 10 the pastOrate of Emmanuel and
Grace churches IN Atlanta.
Can't. J. r. McCollum Of Newman went
or bird hunting Saturday morning and
had the remarkable luck TO bring down nine
cartridges at one shot.
Mrs Wiley Ammons, Who has resided in
Stewart county since 1888, and who is now
50 years of age, made her first visit TO
Lumpkin last Tuesday.
Rome was visited Friday night by five
tlocks Of wild geese. Tney flew around the
electric lights for some time and then took
their departure, flying northward.
Lott Warren, who for the past seven
years has filed the position OF agent for the
Central railroad at Americas, has severed
his connection with the road. Mr.. Warren
is succeeded as agent by w. H. Williams,
y,
Ala.
A. Y. TOole, a Macon groceryman, pro-
poses to sue the city for S20,000 damages
for false Imprisonment. Toole was fined
$40 by the reco. der for violating the market
ordinance, and also IS for contempt of
court. Refusing to pay the fines he was
locked up.
James Thurman of jackson county died
at his home few days ago. He was well
known in Georgia as a successful horse
racer, and raised a famous stock of horses,
which always won and was never known
to be beaten. He joined the church and
quit the turf about two years ago.
Howell Cobb Glenn of Atlanta is to be
married March 26 to Mrs. Mary Kitson of
New York city. Mrs. Kitson is described
by those who have the honor of her ac-
quaintance as being most charming and
beautiful young widow-an Englishwoman
by birth, but for some time a resident of
New York, where she has been greatly ad-
1nired
Sam Walker, a railroad negro who works
for the East Tennessee road, was on train
Saturday near Juliette, Monroe county,
when he met with a peculiar accident He
reached his arm out OF the car window lust
in time to be struck by the edge of a coal
chute standing close to the road His
thumb and wrist were broken and his hand
fore he can do any more work.
Canton AdUance: Two little girls of R.
W. Hilhouse, living about four miles below
town, were shot last week by the accidental
discharge of an old musket. The gun had
been placed in the rack above the door, but
in slamming the door to it fell and dis
charged its load of bird shot in the legs of
two OF Mr.. Hillhouse's little girls. Neither
OF the children, however, were seriously
hurt, although they both escaped death very
narrowly.
Griffin Cali: Quite an amusing fight was
witnessed on one of our streets Yesterday
evening. A man under the influence of corn
juice, while walking along a back street
collided with fence on which was painted
in large red letters "W. w. C.,n which he
imagined to be ''the other fellow" ohstruct-
ing his passage, when he began testing his
manhood and swearing that he could lick
Air. w. W. G. or ANY other man" who
dared cross his path. 1t required two police
men to take him off, while he swore he
would whip that fellow the next time he
came to town.
Carrollton Free Press: David Smith, a
farmer. living near Sewell. Ala, left Car
Tollton Wednesday morning of last week
with load Of guano A few miles this side
of his home he left his wagon with young
man who was with him and went on ahead
Just before getting home he took near cut
through piece Of woods, and ia this piece
of woods, half a mile from his home, he was
found dead next morning. 1t seems from
the position that be was found In that he had
sat down on log to rest, and that he must
have been stricken with something like apo
plexy. The young man who was driving
the wagon had camped about two miles
from home and did not get in until next
morning.
AT Macon Friday night, while Freight
Conductor Felix D0ugherty was standing
In the Central yard talking to his engineer
he started to step aside in order TO let a
switch engine pass. His foot caught, aud
he could not extricate it. He was struck
by the switch engine and hurled several
feet forward, and was thrown in the middle
of the track. With great presence of mind
ne spread out his hands and laid as fat as
possible for the engine to pass over him. A
portion OF the engine, however, bumped
him on the head, and just as the cross beam
of the tender was in the act of striking him
which would have killed him, the engineer
of the switch engine succeeded in stopping
his engine.
negro hucSster in Augusta has caught
on to the rural dodge, and keeps a tattered
jeans suit aud old SLOUGH hat in which he
DISCUSSES himself whenever he wants to get
off stale stock. When the market is over
stocked with eggs and the commission men
"a
less, he buys hundred dozen OF SO and pre-
pares to do the town. When he buys them
he is rather sly" young man, but when
he gels out on the street, barefooted and
one suspendre, with sharpened stick hold.
ing up his antlquated and time worn trous-
ers, ana basket half filed with cotton
seed and eggs on his arm, his best friend
wouldn't know him. He sells his "fresh
country eggs" at about 300 per cent profit
Albany NeaUS and Aduerti ser: While
Hon. II. ID. Mcintosh and his son were
attending Bishop Vincsnt's lecture Thurs.
day night, party visited his premises and
tried TO frighten his wife. Mrs. Mcintosh
heard him in the back yard, from whence
the dogs drove him. He then went to tha
front door and knocked, Mrs. Mcintosh
inquired: "Who's. therep The knocker
would not tell who he was, but kept asking
the lady questions. He wanted boarding
house; he wanted to come in to talk to her
wanted her to come out and show him the
way to a hotel-all with the purpose Of
frightening Mrs Mcintosh. Mrs McIn
tosh did not frighten worth cent. but, get
ting her husbands pistol, quietly AWAITED
developments. Finding that he could moi
scare her the villain departed.
FLORIDA.
A Presbyterian church is to be built al