The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
The NEWS OF r1s TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

An opera house is to be built at Milledge
vile.
Dublin has neat new paper called The
People
A movement is now on foot for the cree
ton of steam laundry in Tennille.
A. H. Shaver, who has been doing som
mighty good WORK on the Albany NeLUs a n,
Advertiser, has decided to leave Albany
and is no longer en- the Neos.
B. H. Brantley of Oconee is soliciting
subscriptions for the erection of a Baptis
church at that place. 1t will be remem
bered that the church at Oconee was blown
down by a storm some time ago.
Hack fares are getting cheaper and
cheaper at Atlanta One week ago the
hacks, coupes and surveys charged Is cents
an hour and % cents a single trip. Now
you eau ride for ID cents single trip, or p
cents an hour.
Mrs. Kennedy, living about three miles
from Tennille. was bitten by a rattlesnake
on last Friday week. She accidentally
stepped on the snake and was bitten o. the
foot A physician was Immediately sum-
moned, and medical aid rendered. She Is
out of danger.
There is an old Indian woman living in
the forks Of the Ohoopee river III Emanuel
county lis years old. She lives alons in a
little hut and seems TO be but little inter
ested in what the balance of mankind is
doing. She makes her living by be lab)
The next eldest Is jim Philips, an old negro,
who claims to be Jos years Old The next
Oldest is Sylvia Cobb an old negro woman,
who is said to be l0l years old
B. Dean handed the Jonesboro News
Tuesday block from a garden gate post
that was heTn out and placed in ground in
1904 He made visit to his sister in
Baldwin county. and it was from her nome
he secured the block from the aged vet
serviceable post The post was hewn ont Il
lghtwood tree, and Is perfectly sound to-
day. Mr.. Dean says it is good for anotner
eighty-six years and perhaps much longer.
A serious accident occurred on a Georgia
Southern train at a late hour Saturday
afternoon. Joe Galloway, a young white
man living 10 Macon, had been spending the
day hunting on the line OF that road and
was returning to Macon on the afternoon
train. After entering the car ne attempted
to unload the rife he had been using. When
in the act OF removing the shell from the
gun it exploded, striking him 10 the face
and filling his eyes with powder. He was
brought at once TO NJ &c IN aud taken to a
physician, where bis wounds were dressed
1t is now thought that be win not suffer the
loss of his eye, though at first no hope was
entertained for saving 1t.
Maj. B. W. Bellamy tells the Qutman
Press the following good story on himself:
at was just after the war; he told it.
"when a neighbor OF mine and myself had
most pr missing cotton crops upon which
caterpillars had just commenced their de-
structlve work. We were bemoauing our
hard luck one day when a well-dressed
stranger came alo.g and, taking in the
situation, said that for IS be would drive
every caterpillar out of the field We were
both dubious, but finally Clipped in So so
each and told him to go ahead 1t was
amusing to watch the fellows action. He
went out in the cotton field and commenced
hunting stalk by stalk and row by row for
the king caterplller, he said. Finally, he
bounced down on a big TAT fellow, and.
tying a string around MIN, hung Elm up to
tree, say ng that he W uld die at sun
down and that all the others would leave
the held at once. OF course they didn't,
but by su down the sharper and our IS
were both gone"
Macon Telegraph: Some few DAYS since
the Central railway sold a lot of unclaimed
freight at auction. One party paid 80 for a
box d foIHd it full 4 egant toilet cases.
These he has since peddled ont, realizing $50
gross and S5l net profit. Besides, his friends
have noticed vast Improvement in the
respectable cleanness of his finger nails. An
other party bought lot Of lime for 81 or IS
and sold it for profit Of slme 500 or
more. A box that was knocked down for
81 or 50 was found to contain S35 or $40
worth Of good shoes. Jonn Flynn, the
commercial traveller for A. Gibian & Co.
purchased package hat proved on exam
nation TO be baby chair and rocker. One
party fou d, on opening his purcase. for
which he had paid 81 or IS, that it was not
worth really 81. A negro paid 10 CO is for
what roved lot of books In Latin and
the dead languages. As it was literally all
Greek to him, and he could not read them,
he determined on shrewd
plan to sell his books. slyly conceal
ing 81 bill in the book he
began to turn the leaves. When he came to
the 81 bill he gave an exclamation of sur
prise and delight, as though he had Just
struck bonanza Lem me hab one. - was
the cry all around, as the darkies made a
rush to buy the books. In a few minutes
every book was sold at 50 cents each. Then
fnanciering Sambo retired to the privacy
OF the nearest alley and sat do vn to sort
over his loose change and figure up the
profits. But it is not on record that any
more dollar bills were found in the Greek
and Latin books.
Griffin Cali: A few mornings since one
OF Gritin's most level-headed business
men-a man who would make a model
Dank reSident-enteg ed one OF our clothing
stores TO buy vest. While looking through
the stock he found one that suited his fancy
and proceeded to try it on. After button
ing himself up in the new vest tue clerk
called his attention to another STYLE. which
was admired, and while the salesman con-
Il ued his search for other STYLES, the clear
headed purchaser thoughtlesSly tried No. 9
on over his first choice While this was be-
ing buttoned another was thrown out. and
after crit cal examination was tried on
over the two former ones, when he mer-
chant, thiaking IL not an EASY matter to
strike his customers fancy, was ea.iIv de-
coyed away to wait uuon anot her customer
The would'be purchaser, concluding it was
rather hot weather to invest in a vest
picked up his own coat and vest, and as he
enveloped himself in them stepped upon the
sidewalk. The day was the no test of the
season, and ur friend could lie seen passino
from one to the other of his places of business
with the perspiration dripping from every
pore. Night came on our absent-minded
friend concluded to retire early and cool
off. lmagine his surprise when he began to
dlsrobe- One vest off, then the second a d
the third, when his wife, who was attracted
by his embarrassing ap earance, exclaimed
Henry, what are you doing with
all those vests on?" Henry prom
ised his wife a new silk and a
trip to the springs if she would never men
ton it, and would roll up the vests for him
to carry back to the store the next morn
ing. The vests were returned, the good
wife is off to the springs, and she never III