The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Stand Constant Use for a Year
Gov. Gordon's Reminder Of the Rae
coon Roughs.
GEORGIA.
Brunswick is going to take census on
her own account
Women set all the type on the Columbus
Euening Ledger.
Rev. W. b. Jennings, who has been trav-
cling in the Holy Land, has returned home,
ana will occupy his pulpit in the First Pres
byterian church at Macon next Sunday.
There is over 8, 900, 900 increase in the
taxable value Of property in Blob county.
The books for 1890 have closed, and Macon
and the county are in a prosperous condi-
ton.
John Jones, a colored man in the employ
of James B. Fraser, was instantly Killed by
lightning last Thursday evening while
drawing water at Mr.. Fraser's still in
Liberty county
The Constitutional Guards of Liberty
county had a good time at Taylor's creek
on the Fourth. An effort is being made To
get the governor TO alnul the order OF the
advisory board recommending the dlsband-
ment OF the company.
John Richard Hardin, who was implica-
ted in the great railroad riot Of 1886 at Fort
was killed, was arrested at Brunswick Mon
day There is a 81, 900 reward offered for
the man. and the officers will receive It.
Here are incidents Of trip en- route by
mail from Albany to Macon Saturday:
Near Americas a negro was found dead by
the side of the track stabbed TO death, with
a knife IN his hand. Near Fort Valley
quantity of dynamite which had been placed
gu the track was exploded, seriously Earring
She train.
Macon Telegraph: 81 know man." said
a dlnner-fellow of mine, who heard me men
ton the age of the brush, who uses but one
pencil a year, and he has much use for
pencil too. He is careful in using 1t, and
along about December he has hard strug-
gle to write with it, it is so short, but he
hangs on to it until Jan. |, when he buys
another. 1t is merely within"
Sylvania Telephone: w. N. Hobby came
near being seriously hurt last w ednesday
night by his horse falling on him. 1t turned
a complete somersault and fell on him, and
but for the fact of having a cavalry saddle
on with high back and front, which no
doubt kept its weight from coming down
on him, he would have been fatally hurt.
He was badly bruised but not seriously
injured.
At Brunswick, the people along Newcas-
tie street in the vicinity of Gloucester,
about s O'Clock Monday night, were at
tracted by very bright hight in front of
the Oglethorpe hotel. Upon investigation
tree fronting tue hotel was found TO be
on fire at the top. The cause was at
tributed to the electric wires coming in con-
tact with the top branch. The blaze died out
after few moments.
A light gray coon skin lined with red is
hanging up against the wall i'll the COVER
nor's office. IL was presented to Gen. Cor
don in Chattanooga last week by j. Henry
Behan, former major of Buford's division
of Forests cavalry. to remind him Of the
Raccoon Roughs. When Gen. Gordon en-
tered the army he went in with the Sixth
Alabama Regiment as captain of the Rae
coon Roughs, and the coon skin will serve
to remind him Of the stirring days Of his
early life as a soldier.
Early County NeiCs: A large hawk
caught a very large black snake, and the
snake, in self-defense, cooled around the
hawk so that the hawk could not fly. A
negro came along, crossed the hawks legs
and tied them. Then the negro hit the
snake and killed him, and released the
hawk, and he few off, with the long string
flying like streamer, to a tree top. The
string got wrapped around a limb and the
hawk swung down. The negro cut the tree
down and recaptured the hawk, which he
cooked and ate next day for dinner We
know that this is SO, because Frank Pickle
told us SO.
At Brunswick, Monday. Collector John
H. Deveaux was called upon to consider
the case of the steamer Pope Catlin for
violating sections 4465 and 1866 Of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States. The
steamer ran aground on a sand bar on the
night of July 4, and the captain was charged
with carrying a great many more passen-
gers than the quota allowed the vessel.
The matter came under the jurisdiction OF
Collector Deveaux, and, the evidence sus-
tanning the charge, he fined the owners of
the vessel $50, which was entered against
them. The fine will not be collected how
ever, until the Secretary Of the Treasury
has approved it.
Albany NelUs and Advertiser: How
many of you Albanians know that Albany
has female Jeweler. fair, young and pretty,
who can hold her own by the side of the
best watch builders and repairers in the
state2 1t is Miss Ella L. Joiner, l6 years of
age, and daughter of the Washington street
jeweler. J. W. Joiner. Three years ago
Miss Ella, then little girl of Is years, ex-
hibited such fondness for knowledge about
her fathers business and was SO apt in what
he showed her and so retentive
OF what he told her that he CON
cluded to allow her TO stay in his
store with him as company and learn what
ever she Pleased ABOUT the business She
Immediately applied herself, and the more
she applied herself, the more proficient she
became, and the more proficient she be-
came, the more she fell in love with the
business, and 1t was not long before she
had jewelers. table of her own by the side
of her fathers, and she has worked when
ever she wished (which was most Of the
time ever since, and now she can clean Oh
build any watch that you can carry her
And she says she Is going to learn how tc
make the different parts of a watch, and
become regular all-round matchmaker
A party of gentlemen were talking at tn,
hotel in Watkinsville recently, when the
chance OF escape of prisoners came up
Il have been a convict lessee for a number
of years" remarked Toon Powell, gentle
man well-known over Northeast Georgia
land never had but two prisoners to escape
was not at home, or would have caugh
them. 1t is almost an impossibility fol
them to do SO. When l was grading tn,
Covington and Macon railroad a negro tina
was employed in grading the road murdered
another in this county, and immediatelv
escaped. He had several hours the start
and the track was too cold to pu
dogs on it. Although hundreds o
negroes were employed in the
grading squads, decided upon the track
believed to be the negroes when we left.
followed this track for thirty-eight mile
without losing it. AS there was no pecul
iarity about his foot considered the feat