The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-02

/ win be the finest commercial structure in
I Macon. Work viii commence on this build
/ ing during next week. Il will represent,
/ with the lot, $4,000.
A gentleman recently entered a drug
store at Eastman and asked the clerk if be
| had any garlic for sale. The clerk, wao il
an amateur az the business, after surveying
/ the labels on the many bottles, TOOK from
the shelf a bottle II nux vomica, and was
| greatly bewildere1 when the difference be
tween the two was explained 70 him-that
| one was used in seasoning food aud the
other for killing chicken hawks.
Several months ago J. b. James filed a
bill Of injunction in the superior court
clerk Office at Bruins wick to restrain Dale
Dixon q Co. from cutting timber from
ninety acres Of land in the Third civil dis
trict Of Wayne county. Subsequently Judge
Atkinson granted restraining order. Both
parties claimed the timber Thursday night
Judge Atkinson revoked the restraining
order, and this places the case where il
stood in the beginning of the suit.
4 good deacon Of Perry tells startling
story regarding his curious experience
while killing some fowls last Wednesday
morning. He was preparing for an ex-
tsBsive dinner and killed three fowls; the
last one, instead of Topping around like an
ordinary hen and dying when its head was
cut off, got up, walked abont ten feet, laid
an egg and gave up the ghost. In the
meantime the head cackled for near
minute before that. too. became quiet.
William L. Lecounte of Adairsville has
relic Of war times. He was then a young
man, paying his hearts devotion to Miss
Virginia r. Trimble. Being wounded, he
at his leisure wove a fan of rye straw for
his sweetheart, and now his wife. 1t is still
well preserved, and the card that he pinned
to 1t when it was sent was still attached. 1t
is round, trimmed with pink ribbon, with
two rosettes of the same, with bone handle.
1t bears date Aug. /, 1866. Mrs. Lecounte
prizes her present very much.
The latest information from Luthersville
is that N. II. Upshaw, who recently broke
out with the smallpox, is doing well No
other new cases have been developed as yet,
but there was a number of persons exposed
before il was known to be a case of small
pox, and great fear and anxiety is felt in
that section. Gov. Gordon was notified
and has sent to the Meriwether ordinary a
lot Of vaccine virus, which is being dis
trlbuted among the physicians for use
Every precaution is being taken to prevent
the spread Of the disease.
An important case was decided at the
HARRISON court Thursday, before Judge
Miner, who is presiding for Judge Maddox
The point at stake involved the question as
to whether an insolvent corporation can
make mortgage to a director to secure
his debt III preference to other creditors.
Director J. c. Kibbey of the Mer-
chants and Miners bank of Tallapoosa,
had mortgage on the Tallapoosa
Glass Works for s., 800. The case consumed
more than two days time in the trial, and
resulted in a verdict for the bank
At Gainesville the grand jury has re
turned the bill of indictment against
William E. Smith, charged with the killing
of Daniel NJ. Stringer, with its entry of mo
bill" Endorsed thereon. 1t is rumored that
the grand jury had stormy session AMI a
hard tuSsel while investigating the matter,
and the result is not at all satisfactory to all
the members of that august body. The bill
of indictment shows three entries upon it,
to wit: "No bill, "true bill" and mo bill
1t seems that it was considered and recon-
sidered, discussed pro and con, but it re-
suited finally in returning mo bill"
Rev Jesse Boring, D. D., a prominent
Methodist divine, died Wednesday night
at Dixie, at the residence of his niece, Mrs.
s. E. Winter He was enfeebled by age.
being eighty-three years old, but the i'm
mediate cause of his death was congestion
of the bowels. He was at the time visiting
Mrs. Winter and his brother, DIR. Thomas
Boring. Dr. Boring had beeu in the Meth
odist itineracy since 1926. he joined the
conference in 1927. OF rare mental endow-
ments, he had filed the most important po-
sitious in the church in the Carolina, Cali
fornia, Texas aud Georgia conferences, to
which he at different times belonged. He
was twice married. his last wife being the
stepmother of Senator A. H. Colquitt.