The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TEE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Desperate Fight With Closed Doors
in a Room at Athens-A Macon Dog
That Understands Through the Tele
Firemen-A Lowndes County Family
Poisoned.
GEORGIA.
The African Methodist Episcopal church
is holding its district conference in Butler
this week
Charlie Goodrum of Athens has returned
from an extended tour north, studying the
various electrical appliances.
Next Sunday afternoon local division of
a brotherhood II Locomotive Engineers
will be instituted at Americas.
James NJ CASTOR, farmer living two
miles east of Carrollton, fell dead Sunday
while feeding hogs. He had heart disease.
Mrs E. Christian of Roswell has a quilt
she made in the 65th year of her age that
has s, PCS pieces in it. The name of the quilt
is hexagon log cabin.
AZ Abbeville, Monday, the boiler to Cars
well & Stubs shingle machine exploded,
killing a Mr.. Russell instantly, and fatally
injuring Mr.. Davis, and seriously injuring
II. c. Ammons.
A D. Chapman killed a large bird on
White Water creek, near Butler, last week
known as the heron. 1t was five feet high
and measured seven feet across its wings
The bird had caught large fish, which it
was unable TO carry off.
A negro living on the plantation of ".
H Toombs, near Washington, had his
throat cut by another Sunday evening,
killing him instantly. There had been some
quarrel between the families and these two
took it up. The murderer has not been
caught
The African Methodist Church in Mil
ledgeville which was struck by lightning
July 5. was insured for $1,000 In an in
surance company of New York. The agent
Informed the company of the less aud they
directed him to pay them $50 to assist in
repairing the damage
Mrs. Georgia Tribe of Roswell was
badly burned Sunday while preparing din
ner. One leg of the stove had got out of
place. While trying to replace it, the stove
turned over, emptying kettle of boiling
water and a pot of hot soup. Her face and
arms are badly burned
Jim Davis (coloredl of Sumter county, a
few months ago, was bitten by dog. His
upper lip was so torn that DIR. Wise of The
Plains had TO perform an operation upon it.
The wound healed nicely. A few days ago
the lip began to tester. He went into
spasms, and Saturday he died in great
agony.
The Rev. l. w. Waddell pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Cuthbert, has ten
dered his resignation to the session of that
church, taking effect from Sunday. Mr..
Waddell and his family will remain in Cuth-
bert, he occupying the chair of science and
literature IN the agricultural and military
college.
Albany NelcS and ADVERTISER. The
opponents to the fence law, principally
those people living on the other side of the
river, having filed counter petition with
Ordinary Sam w. Smith, asking him not
10 call an election on the fence law question,
Judge Smith has set next Monday, the 2lst
instant, as the day upon which to hear both
sides Of the question.
Wesley Wainwright of Taylor county
killed a large rattlesnake last Thursday
morning about 3 O'clock. Mr. and Mrs.
Wainwright were awakened by a singing
noise. They arose aud made light. The
snake, when found, was coied up ready for
striking near the fireplace on the inside of
the house. 1t measured feet and inches
and had fourteen rattles.
The members of the Atlanta fire depart
ment are conducting most novel lottery
scheme. There are fOrty-eight fire alarm
boxes in Atlanta. Every Monday morning
forty-eight slips of paper are put into a
cigar box. each having a fire alarm box
number written on it. These forty-eight
numbers are sold to the members of the de-
toll prize "a so. Now, the first box from
which an alarm is sounded wins the money
for the fireman who holds the correspond
ing number.
Gainesville Tribune: On Tuesday last
the lightning played a strange freak at A.
j. Meals, near GAINESVILLE There was no
cloud in the neighborhood, to speak of, and
no rain nearer than five or six miles, when
fearful bolt of lightning shot from the
heavens and struck couple of trees on the
roadside. 1t was accompanied by an awful
crash of thunder, and everybody in the
vicinity received a severe shock. The
heaviest shock was received by man who
was digging well about four hundred
yards away.
John McCraney, living near Kingston,
has found a most wonderful stone. While
blowing on a sandbar in the Etowah river
he saw something shining with the most
brilliant of lights just to one side of him.
He stopped his pillow and went TO pick it up.
1t was clear white stone, the size of an
egg, rejecting in one way all the colors of
the rainbow. Turning it over, the colors
took on the character Of a spirit level, fol-
lowing each other up through the center of
the rock till all were gathered in one end.
Mr.. McCraney has been offered 81 900 for
it, but refused it, He will take it to At
lanta to have Infested. 1t may be dia-
mond. 1t emits perfectly white light in
the dark.
A few days ago the family of Turner
Raiford, living in the upper part of
Lowndes county, was poisoned by the
cook. The cook was a negro girl who did
not want to cook for the family, but was
made to do so by her father In order to
get away she conceived the idea of putting
the family out of the way by poisoning
them. She ground up match heads in the
coffee and put rat poison in the bread. Mr..
Raiford was away from home at the time,
and soon after the poison was taken by his
wife and three children they became very
sick DR.. Bonquine gave antidotes to coun-
teract the poison and soon had them out of
danger. They we're dangerously poisoned,
but at last accounts were out of danger
The cook has been arrested and will be
punished for the crime.
Rome Herald. Do you know Rock
Carnochan' Well, if you don't, everybody
in Rome does. He is a dog-a regular En-
glish terrier-and he has sense like folks
real smart folks at that Why, Just the
other day the fire alarm began to sound
while Rock was taking his regular afternoon
nap at Carnochans saddlery store. II,
heard the alarm, Rock did, and at the frs
tap, with bark and bound, be went fiyin,
up Broad street Getting to the corner O
Broad and Fourth avenue the alarm had
struck four and stopped. So did Rock b,
waited, and then again the alarm begat
and stopped at eight-making fortv-eight