The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA .
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

AILOhS W Low oo OCN1
Delivery-A Little Girl Knocked
from the Track by Train-Jail De
livery at Eastman-A Drunken Mar
Narrowly Escapes Death at Macon.
GEORGIA.
Georgia has 800 ife-term convicts in the
penirentiary.
The registry list of Newton county con
tains about l ,9ll names.
Jim Crawford shot and killed Dick Shep
pard near Chipley Monday morning. Craw
ford has escaped.
Charley Glover, negro, was found guilty
Of murder at Covington Saturday. h'
killed Robert Whalley.
W. b. Sperry, who will undertake thu
management Of the Brown house on Oct /
arrived in Macon Sunday.
Walter Minson, a young Macon dentist
has been missing since Friday. His rela-
tives and friends are greatly alarmed.
The dwelling house of Heard Barber. at
Rockmart, was burned Saturday. Nothing
was saved from the building, and there was
no insurance.
The fall term Of the State academy for
the blind at Macon opened Monday. There
are about seventy-hve white and twenty five
colored children at the two academies.
n6 OF mtTCtI uuiNCA SAbJf 4Ah-
con, will commence on Wednesday. Stu
dents have commenced to arrive. The en-
rolIment will be larger than ever known In
the history of the university.
Will Hamilton and John Thomas, two
negro boys, got into fight on Ivy street,
Atlanta, Saturday night, and Hamilton used
a knife on Thomas, cutting himseveral times
quite severely. Both were arrested.
Two negroes got into difficulty Sunday
at Wright's camp, near Elberton, and one
of them was shot by the other. The ball
penetrated the left side just above the hip.
1t was q glance shot and did not do much
damage.
Master Chaudoin Ethridge shot a blue
crane, measuring six feet from tip to tip of
its wings W Wednesday morning near Elber-
ton The crane had a snake several feet
long in its mouth, which it had partially
swallowed.
Saturday night the grocery store of Bed
dingfield Bros. Macon, was robbed by IN
known parties. The robbery is supposed TO
have occurred about 10 o'clock. The parties
drove up to rear window opening on an
alley, and carried off load OF goods.
The prospect is that Athens will have free
mail delivery by Jan. l next. The postoffice
department regulations require only a bust
ness of $4,000, while a postal inspector
finds and will report that the Athens office
did a business of over $11,5OO during last
year.
At Gainesville Sunday morning Dr.
Charles A. Ryder discovered a negro bur
glar in his residence. The negro fed and
DR.. Ryder fired four shots at him, only one
of which struck the fugitive, and that one
not hurting him sufficiently to stop his
flight
On Saturday night four prisoners broke
Jail at Eastman and escaped, by saving the
bars with a caseknife that had been con-
verted into a saw. Two of the prisoners
were under sentence, and were being
held in Jail for the arrival Of penitentiary
guard.
The Brunswick longshoremen went back
to work Monday morning on the same terms
existing when they knocked off last week.
There was heavy accumulation of freight
awaiting shipment on the wharves and a
''glut' was imminent had the stoppage con-
tinued a few days longer.
Little John B. Gordon Hightower, son of
Burt Hightower. of Atlanta, was the victim
of q painful accident near Scully's paper mill
yesterday morning. He was playing in a
barn, and accidentally stepped into an open
ing and broke his left thigh. DR.. j. c. Avary
was called, and with DIR. Akers set the
fracture
One OF the most remarkable characters in
the country is an old colored man named
Olmstead Banks. who lives near Newman.
He is now 30 years of age, has had three
wives. is the father of forty-one children.
and has nearly 400 grand and great-grand-
children. He is still in good health and
capable Of doing fair days work on the
farm.
The little 2-year-old daughter of A. F.
Truett was knocked from the track by the
passenger train at Hamilton Saturday
morning, badly bruising it all over and
cutting its face up very badly, and iniur-
ing il internally. It was remarkable that
the child escaped with its life The bruises
were attended to, and at last report she was
resting easy.
Griffin NetUs: j. R. Ellis was in town
Saturday tracing up a warehouse receipt
which one of his negro hands, John Buch-
anan, had failed to return. He found that
the receipt had been stolen by Jack Allen, a
negro, living on an adjoining place, aud
who had been with Buchanan the day be-
fore. who had sold the bale to Mills Bros,
had the check cashed and skipped out to
parts unknown.
For large boy, full grown without a
pound OF surplus flesh, Master William
Knight who lives near Flowery Branch.
may be put against the state He is only
IL years old, weighs les pounds and will
measure as many lnCneS around the chest as
any 200-pound man in town; does a mans
work on the farm. except blowing, and has
an appetite which needs no aid. He is a
perfect picture Of health.
Griffin Call: Sunday morning, about 12
o'clock. a negro man was unprecedented ia
stealing pocketbook at the Racket store.
Upon being accosted about it, he lost no time
in displaying his pistol, with which he pro-
posed to defend his fair name" He was
soon under arrest, when the pocketbook was
found upon his person. In less than two
hours he had a hearing, and was sentenced
TO ten months on the chain-gang.
Becky Orange, woman who has re-
Gently been In the asylum, and who has
since July been at her sons house on Capt.
English's farm, near Atlanta, wan
dered off Friday and has not returned. She
Is 81 years old and weighs about 210 pounds.
She carried with her two dresses. one a
light muslin ana the other checked ping-
ham. Her son would be thankful for any
information that would lead to finding her
Americas Recorder: Saturday morning
Constable Colt arrested and brought to the
city three men under a very grave charge.
Some OF the party are very well known in
Sumter, and the case promises TO become a
prominent sensation. The charge, as sci
out In the warrants alleged riot and the in.
sulting Of ladies few miles from the city
few days ago. All three of the men gave
bonds for their appearance before com
Knitting court.
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