The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEws OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

LOg-A Dog TndJ OnoerSJandS the
Fire Alarm Signals-A sensational
Rumor as to the Cause of the New
nan Suicide.
GEORGIA.
Edgar DeHaven, aged II, of Macon, died
Monday.
There are more public schools in Franklin
county this year than for several years
past
Michel Paulk Of Irwin county has a male
child is months old that weighs fifty
pounds.
Andrew Watson tcolored), aged II, was
drowned while in swimming, near Albany
Sunday.
Robert Searcy lcolored) was drowned by
the capNzing of a boat near Talbotton
Thursday.
The Floyd Rifles of Macon will leave for
Cumberland next Saturday night to spend
week in camp.
There is more building going on in
Rochelle at present than at any one time
since the foundation Of the city.
new postofiice named Edna has been
established at the turpentine still of j. j.
Dennard, about eight miles north of
Rochelle
R. D. Vow and C. W. vickery will be
appointed administrators on the estate of
JOsePn n. NIcAeIg VI OdInesFlIe. IHs
bond is $4,000.
Montezuma, and committees appointed to
make arrangements for the soldiers re-
union on July 80.
negro boy seized white school girl
aged 10 years at Elberton Thursday with
fiendish intentions. He was frightened
away by her screams. Lynching was
talked of, but he was let off with whip
ping.
Linton. the negro who did so much shoot
ing at the depot at Brunswick when the
Townsville excursion was leaving there a
few weeks ago, is in such a condition that it
is thought he will eventually die. He is out
of his mind, and raves madly over the
shooting.
Daniel Williams, who is wanted for muir
dering negro girl and baby and fatally
shooting a woman in Kissimmee, Fla, four
years ago, was arrested in Brunswick Mon
day. Tho negro has been i'll the employ of
ex-Sheriff E. A. McRae of Telfair county
for some while, and ne never discovered
that he was wanted for murder.
Lewis Neal (colored) was at work in j.
Nd. Rampley's well at Franklin on Thurs
day, when a basket or bucket of rocks fell
back on him, inhicting severe injuries
The front bone of bis left arm below the
elbow was disjointed at the elbow and the
truded through the flesh and a number of
pieces we're taken out.
Rochelle Solid South. Probably the
the largest chincopin tree in this country
is on the place of Mr.. David Strickland, in
Dooly county. 1t is fourteen feet in circum-
ference two feet above the ground, so we
are informed, and its branches, which reseln-
bic those of an umbrella china, are at least
sixty feet across. This tree issaid to bear
several bushels of iruit every year
Saturday afternoon, about o'clock, as
George Wllkerson and Mitchell johnson,
both colored, were leaving Shellman the
latter shot the former, intiicting a serious, if
not fatal, wound In the left breast, Just at
the top of the heart. Both OF the boys
lived few miles below town on William
Binum's plantation. They were drinking
aud quarreled about a woman. johnson Is
in Jail.
It became rumored at Newman that the
troubles Of Miss Green, who committed
suicide there a few days ago, began with a
note written by young attorney of the
town to the ladies who keep the hotel where
she was boarding This rumor proved to L
without foundation, as the ladies keeping
the hotel say that no such note was sent
them. But 50 intense was the feeling in
certain quarters that the gentleman. in
question was advised by his friends to wit,
draw from town until a calmer state #
feeling prevails.
Brunswick Post: Sunday morning about
o'clock R. S. Lambert, who is connected
with the clothing store of E. II. Hirsch on
Newcastle, went down to the store for some
purpose, and on opening the door was
almost stifed by the dense volumes of smoke
that met him. He knew there was fire
somewhere and rushing in discovered a
counter Of gents clothing ablaZe. Quickly
procuring several buckets of water he sue
ceeded IN extinguishing the fire, which ap-
peared to have just originated. The loss
will be only nominal Mr.. Lambert thinks
the clothing caught from an arc light which
hung just overhead. He says that the floor
was burned few nights ago just under the
light MIR. Hlrsch was away at the time,
having left for Atlanta on Saturday night
Alpharetta Press: Some time between
April l and April Is a hog belonging to
Sylvester Nesbit Of Newton district wan
dered from home. Mr.. Nesbit made dill
gent search for the hog, and, not finding it,
he decided that 1t was gone for all time and
dismissed the matter from his mind. On
Sunday, June 20, Mr.. Nesbits boys were
playing about big chestnut log. They
heard something grunt like a hog. and,
looking down, they saw protruding from
the end Of the log something's nose which
they thought was an opossum. They made
ready TO capture the 'possum, but wher
they were about ready to nab him they say
that it was not 'possum, but the devil
himself. They fed to the house and
there raised the alarm that his sa-
tanic majesty had been located in
a hollow log. One Mr.. Camel, a tenant on
Mr. Neshit's farm, returned with the boys
to the DEVILS lair, but instead Of finding the
sooty Plutonian functionary they found
hog, which for three months had been
fastened in the end of an uprooted monarch
of the forest. 1t was mere shadow of a
hog, there being no substance but skin and
bones, We suppose the hog, being filed
with evil spirits ran violently toward
Chattahoochee river, and while thus run
ming down a steep place stove himself into
the log. Notwithstanding its long fast and
close confinement the hog still lives and
breathes and has its being, and will prob
ably be ground up into sausage about next
Christmas.
Macon Telegraph: Charlie Campbell ran
up here from Florida the other day. He
lives in Ocala, not far from the phosphate
beds, about which so much has been said
and written. He told how the beds were
discovered. The owner of the land is a
good, easy sort of fellow. and the only use
he could make of the stuff, which seemed to
be plentiful, was to make the chimneys for
cheap houses in his section. One day he cut
out some square blocks of it and found it to
be very good substitute for bricks. You
know all the bricks used in Florida are made
in Georgia, Macon furnishing the bulk of