The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPH

LADIES Who Lived on the site OF Cor
dele When It Was a Field Visit the
Place-Chasing Sturgeon at Forsyth,
a Poverty-stricken Woman in Dan
ger of Being Eaten by Rats.
GEORGIA.
John W Abrahsms Of Lagrange died
Sunday.
Bryant Watkins Of Washington county
died day or two ago.
Rev. B. H. Ivey has resigned tie pastorate
of the B ptist church at Sandersyille. IL
has not been acted on by the cong eSation
yet.
The general meeting and Sunday school
convention Of the Baptist church will begin
in Sandersviile tomorrow and continue
several DAYS.
Five Odd Fellows are interested in the
new lodge at Brunswick, and there are
ninety-five applications for membership 10
be acted upoa Friday night.
The ticket Office of. the Central road. at
Fort Valley, was robbed Monday night
The thief got away with $l0i in money
and several hundred tickets.
DIR. J. W. B. Smith Of Missouri. has been
selected by the Christian church Of Mecon
10 fill the place made vacant 10y the resig-
nation of the Rev. Y. W. Davis.
SUNDAY morning lut hlbCnghs o.4lDhb
house and cotton house Of John Edwards
and Thomas Sherry, who live together about
four miles from Vienna, was consumed by
fire.
Mrs. Mary T. Bryan, the authores5, is
visiting her daughter. Mrs. Charles Byrd, at
Atlanta. Mrs Bryan's health may compel
her to give uD her literary work in New
York.
At Lagrange last Tuesday afternoon
Uncle Peter Galloway, cOlored well digger,
while at work in the well at the LaCtfange
Female College, was overcome by the foul
gas at the bottom, fell back into the water
and was drowned.
l.. J. Gatlin, highly respected ana gen
tlemauly farmer, who only last week as
sumed the general SUPPLEMENTARY of
Cooks steam ginneries at Montezuma, was
killed to-day by falling upon the saws OF one
of the immense gins.
Shake Smith Ccolored) employed at
BANDS sale aud livery stable at Milledge-
vile, fell from a rear door Of tine stable,
distance of ten or twelve feet. last Thursday
night about 9 o'clock, receiving injuries
from which be died on Friday.
Tom Goss, who lost 1912 in Fred Sutton's
barroom at Brunswick early Monday night
while intoxicated, got 1925 Of the money
back in a very singular way Late in the
and Bay streets, and when he awoke found
bis pocketbook with Sl25 inclosed lying on
his lap.
The mother Of the baby left at Mrs.
Ricketson's boarding house at Augusta
proves to be a woman giving her name as
Mrs Kate Thompson Martin. Where Mrs.
Martin has gone is not known. Mrs.
Ricketson still holds the baby and she is
now inclined to keep it and raise it as an
adopted child.
Mary Adams, a young colored girl, was
up before Justice CoSer at Brunswick Tues
day on the charge of assault with intent to
murder. The facts ELECTED in the case were
that in the month of June last Mary
chopped off, with an ak, the big toe of
Arthur Briggs, young white lad. After
hearing the arguments Justice Cocker bound
the girl over to appear at the next term OF
the superior court.
Last Thursday morning between ~ and
o'clock some one set fire to the barns aud
stockade on a plantation near Vionna,
owned by Charles Clewis, and tenanted by
a negro. The object must have been to
burn Two mules inclosed in the stockade, as
there were only two or three bushels of
corn in the adjoining crib. The mules
were horribly burned, and are expected TO
die. Everything was lost
At a meeting of the directors Of the
Georgia Experiment Station Tuesday,
Direct r Redding was instructed TO make
an exhibit Of cotton and corn at the ex-
position in Atlanta aud at the state fair in
Macon. lie was also Instructed to make an
exhibit at both the exposition and the fair
every year from this on. About twenty
two varieties of cotton will be shown, indi-
eating the yield when planted in certain
soil and fortified with certain sorts Of guano.
They will be shown as object Lessons to the
farmer, so that he can see the possibilities of
Georgia's soil and climate.
j. r. billiard Of Oak Grove, Glynn
county, comes to the front with the latest
snake story. He says that few days ago
he saw large chicken snake enter his barn
and swallow the only egg in nest on the
inside of the wall. The snake then sighted
a nest on the outside, ana to reach IL put
about half Of its body through a space be-
tween the timbers. The snake in this
position swallowed an egg from the nest on
the outside. 1t then backed through the
space until the egg in the part Of the body
next to the head came against the timber.
1t could 70 no farther. After working hard
for some while trying to release itself, the
reptile died.
A few nights ego Mrs. Nancy Tanner and
her family, living near Union Academy, in
Washington county, we're awakened from
ny VI
q burglar to the house. The entrance o.
the burglar into the yard aroused a LITTLE
dog under the house. and the intruder
sought to paoify and draw him away. Mrs
Tanner quietly arose and took from
drawer pistol that had lain there undis.
turbed for months, and opening a window
fred two shots in rapid succession at tn
fast retreating form Of the would-b
burglar, who, it is supposed, escaped un
hurt, as no trace of blood could be dis
GOV cred the following morning.
Martha Kinsley of Columbus, a whit
woman 50 years old, was found in a celia
in that city Tuesday confined to her pale
by illness, and literally starving to death
How long she has lived in this dire povert'
and distress no one seemed to know def
nitely, and she could not tell herself In he
den Of filth her only companions, the rats
hold high carnival, and the spectacle pre-
sented was horrible and appalling Tn,
poor unfortunate's hair has been nearly
eaten away by the rats, and her thin limb
show marks Of where the rodents have be
gun TO gnnw the flesh off her bones Mayo
Dozer issued an order to City Physician
Williams TO have the old woman removes
to the hospital and cared for.
Washington county's leading republican
politician, Noah Johnson lcolored), ha,
some variance with Rev. Snelings, paste
of the Sandersville Baptist churca, and Of
Tuesday night last, while serv .ceS were i
progress, arose from his scat and asked TO
letters of dismissal from the church for him
self and wife. The letters were nc
granted then on the ground, the pas
tor said, that il was not the proDe