The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TaR NEWS OF raE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

Hand Horribly Laceratsd by a Gin
IN Georgia-Joe Coburn in Column
bus.
GEORGIA.
Charles Schrigle of Fort Valley ATTEMPTED
suicide Monday by cutting his throat. h
viii recover.
A mule owned by Richard Butler
tcoIoredl of Schley county fell into wei
Wednesday, and broke its neck.
A negress living near Cochran has giver
birth TO seven children at three births
three at one aud two at each of the Others
Will n. Harden, the weIl-known southern
novelist. the author of white Marie, ha.
gone from his home in Dalton TO New York,
where he will resume his work
The Brunswick Terminal Company i'm
ported number of Canadians TO work at
the new docks at Brunswick, and the long
shoreman OF Brunswick are 50 indignant
that some Of them have struck.
An old gentleman named E. A. Stone was
bitten by a mad dog in Marion county Sat
urday morning. He went to Buena Vista
20 try the virtues Of the maidstone, and
four applications of the stone belonging to
Mr.. Hair were made, it adhering every
time.
At Marietta Wednesday Foster Barber,
soa of ]. B. Barber, living two miles south
of town, had the misfortune TO have his
right hand and arm terribly lacerated by
being caught in a cotton gin. IL is feared
the limb will have to be ampu ated. w.
s. Buise, prominent farmer. was killed
By the same gin few years ago.
A man named Hannibal Allen, working
on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail
road, was shot and instantly killed Friday
hU a 4. lVahh Klharf0n Iha diff1.
Guilty grew out of the negro taking a melon
from Mr.. Webb's field. The coroner has
returned a verdict Of voluntary man
daughter. Webb has not been arrested.
In McDuffie superior court Wednesday
an Important suit was up for considera-
ton. 1t was the case Of j. c. T. Bakor VS..
the Georgia railroad. The plaintiff, while
attempting to board a Georgia passenger
train at Bonneville, in McDuffie county, in
1889, was quite seriously injured. YER
dict of $1,000 was rendered in favor of
Baker, who lives IN Atlanta
The other day white man sat down on
the steps of a store near the court house in
Americus and went TO sleep. While asleep
he fell off the steps and cut his head quite
badly. Strange TO say. the maa didn't wake
at all, and he didn't know anything of his
injuries until Patrolman Smith woke him.
An artery was cut, and tho man might have
bled to death had he kept on sleeping. The
man was not drunk.
Lawrenceville Herald. J. W. Bennett,
who lives in Gates district, brought to our
Office a few days since curiosity. It is d
badge about the size of silver quarter,
with picture of George III. on one side
and REX Del Gratian on the other, 1868.
"In memory of the good old days" 1t was
found in a cotton patch, where the land had
been cleared eight years, and had evidently
been buried long time.
Six workmen engaged on Charles Grit
feth's residence at Athens were precipitated
from their dangerous altitude to the ground
Wednesday. They we're working on some
high scatfolding. In their descent one of
them, named Sam Harris, was impaled on a
picket fence The paling passed almost
through his thigh, making an ugly wound.
The other workmen were not seriously in
iured. Harris will not die.
George Muse, clothier of Atlanta.
offered prize of $50 to the person who
guessed nearest the population of Atlanta.
Between $1,000 and 100. 900 guesses were
made; The editor of the Lawrenceville
Herald guessed 65, 800; Miss Fannie How
ard of Atlanta guessed 1882. The census
showed the population to be- 1851. Each
had come in nine of getting the exact num-
Der, and Mr.. Muse divided $50 between
them.
When the train ran into New Hope.
Houston county, last Sunday evening, it
was discovered that the trestle across the
gully there was defective. Monday morn
ing the passengers got out and walked over.
and as the train passed some of the supports
gave way. Coming back at noon the train
was stopped there, and the passengers came
into town in buggies and carriages. The
trestle was repaired and the train passed
over about an hour later.
Mr.. Rogers, a son of Can't r. N. Rogers
OF Milton county. went to Duluth Monday
in wagon, to which he had hooked a pair
OF mules. As he drove into town the mules
became frightened and ran away. When
they reached the railroad crossing thew
turned into cut in front of Mr.. News
residence and met an engine coming up the
road. Both mules were killed, the wagon
was thrown clear out of the cut and Young
MIR. Rogers head was crushed, causing in.
slant death.
Martin Cohen (colored), living on Broad
ways Hardup place in Daugherty county.
HAD hid his arm terribly lacerated with a
gun. Dr. Miner Davis was called, who
placed ligature above the wound and
went to attend another urgent call. During
his absence the negroes unfastened the
bandages and Martin began bleeding to
death. DR.. Bacon was summoned from
Albany, and found the negro about to ex-
pire. He amputated the arm, bSt fears he
cannot survive the flow of blood.
The largest rattlesnake ever seen in Geor-
gia was killed Saturday in Lee county upon
the plantation of Secretary of State Gen.
Phil Cook. The news comes through Phil
Cook, Jr., son of the general The snake
has terrorized the neighborhood for years.
and its death Saturday was the occasion
CT jubilee celebration among the darkies
in that vicinity. Even the white people
Joined in the general feeling of relief that
so dangerous and dreaded neighbor was
rid of at last The snake, bv actual
measurement, was little over eleven feet
long 1t had nineteen rattles and button.
The Americas Recorder says that the
Columbus passenger train last Saturday
had the most variegated combination in
the make up of its crew that has ever rolled
truck over steel rail in Georgia. The
conductor was full-hedged Irishman. the
baggageman was Jew, the engineer a na-
tive OF Denmark, while the man on the
opposite seat hailed from Italian shores. and
the porter, as every one knows, wore the
ebony complexion peculiar to the land of
Congo. Thus the Emerald ISLE the Dark
Continent, Sacred Palestine, Snowy Dem
mark and Classic Italy were all represented.
TeDyears ago one of the most widely known
OF the American pugilists was Joe Coburn.
His name was on everybody's lips. and he
engaged In some OF the tiercest fights Of a
decade ago. He was as we'll known in
america then as John L. Sullivan is now.