The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-21
GEORGIA.

Low at Pensacola Herring in the
st. Johns.
GEORGIA.
Saloons are closed at II p. M, in Column
bus.
Only six deaths occurred in Macon last
week.
One company has offered par for Albany
6 per cent bonds
The government coast survey party IS
now operating in Cumberland river.
Macon households are working all sorts
of devices to guard against burglars.
Every obstruction in tae way of low
bridges will be removed from the Ocmulgee
river before July l.
One of Brunswick's hest known lumber
firms Saturday chartered nine vessels to
load lumber for foreign ports
The trial Of Lula Ray at Dawson for the
killing of II. A Suggs resulted in a verdict
of involuntary manslaughter, with fine
of $50.
A meeting was held at the court house on
Thursday night of last week looking to the
organization iof a military company in
jackson.
Judge r. T. Jones of Waynesboro had
his pocket picked of S53 and check for
500 Saturday while getting on the train
for Augusta.
At depth of $50 feet two streams of
water have been struck at the aTtesian well
on the Brunswick Brewery and Ice Com
pany's property.
Mrs. Maggie Buskirk of Bucyrus. O., was
in Brunswick Saturday morning looking
for her runaway husband, who deserted her
in Galveston Tex, Jan. /.
A weather bureau with the full equip
ment of a signal station will be established
in Macon by March l. and an experienced
observer placed in charge.
E. p Minor, of Gwinnett county, has
pair of boots that he has been mar
ried in three times. He also has a wool hat
that be has been wearing for twenty-years.
At recent meeting of the Madison city
council the liquor license was raised 500
higher, making the license now $3.50 per
year. This raise caused a little cOmmotion
among the liquor dealers.
The Brunswick Light Horse Guards and
the other companies which compose the
First Regiment Georgia Cavalry will vote
for a Northumberland, senior major and
junior major of that regiment Saturday
night, Jan. 25.
Friday night near the North Eastern
depot, at Athens, Jim Robinson was shot
through the leg by another negro who was
playing with pistol. The ball entered the
Negroes thigh, but only inflicted a flesh
wound, from which ne viii shortly re
cover.
W. NJ. Holman Of Griffin, has a horse
apple tree in his yard which bore full crop
of apples last year, they getting ripe about
Aug. 1. Since then it blossomed out again
and the second crop, numbering about
twenty-five apples, ripened and fell off "a
few days ago.
at Nahunta, Saturday, William Leary
became involved in d fracas with two ne
groes, Henry Jones and Lee Smith. Hot
words passed, whereupon Smith fired at Mr.
Leary, but missed him, the contents of the
gun striking his 1l-year-old son, Claude, in
the stomach. The boy is not expected to
live.
An old negro man last week brought to
Elberton some homemade cigars. These
were made very extensively during the war,
and this old colored man says that in time
past he supported his family on the proceeds
of this work, sometimes making as much as
IS day. They were of good flavor, and
said to be splendid when fully dry.
Two colored men on Maj. Wilkins Ell
more farm near Waynesboro got into a
fight Saturday. One of them received a
severe cash in his head from an ak, and a
peacemaker in attempting to separate them
had his arm badly cut with hoe in the
hands of the party whose head was cut,
The other fighter was not hurt. The two
wounded ones were brought to Waynesboro
for repairs.
AT Geneva, Saturday, Sam Sumlin be-
came exasperated with Walter Ingram on q
Jrihing provOcatiOn and plunged his knife
in lis side to the abdominal cavity, infiict-
ing cash three inches long. The wounded
man was taken to DIR. Winchester's office
where the wound, by the skillful hands OF
the doctor, was properly stitched and
dressed. The wound is considered not nee
essarily dangerous Sumlin made his escape
Both were negroes.
In fight in the Tennessee Valley o.
Rabun county last week between two North
Carolina brothers, by the name of Foster
on one side, and Ike and Jess McCurry OF
the other, both sides were badly bruised up
The Fosters were knocked down with rock,
at least four or five times each, and one o.
them received two serious wounds from
revolver, one in the mouth and one i'll the
arm. Ike McCurry was severely stabbed
in the back with pocket-knife
Saturday night at Conyers some one free
into the house of d. w. Murdoch, tax col
lector of Rockdale county, with the purpose
1t would seem, of numbering him. He ha
q little table which he keeps in one corner
of his room, upon which he does his writinl
at night The ball, which came from No
IS pistol, passed just over the little table
and had Mr.. Murdoch been at his usua
place would have been killed The pisto
was fred by some one standing in the yard
Mr.. Murdoch hurried out into the yard, bu