The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

a Negroes Arm Torn Open by a
Flash of Lightning-A Birmingham
Jeveler Brought Back to Augusta
on a Serious Charge-A Sumter
County Baby Meets a Peculiar
Death.
GEORGIA.
The police of Atlanta are to have picnic
this month.
The clerks of Brunswick have organized
branch of the Knights of Labor.
Judge J. D. Russ has severed his connec-
ton with the Butler Herald, aud will start
new paper.
Mrs. n. J. Paschal, one of the best known
and most estimable christian ladies In Lin
coin county, died Saturday.
Mrs Price, the wife of Rev. Lewis Price,
the county school commissioner of Liberty
county, died few days ago.
The Bryan county veterans have been in
vited by the Liberty association to meet
with them at Taylor's Greek the first Tues
day in August.
Rev. r. E. Steele. the evangelist of the
Savannah Presbytery, has closed a series Of
meetings which he has been holding for the
past twelve days at Hinesville.
Rev. James Wood Pogue is now pastor
only for the Georgia Avenue Presbyterian
church at Atlanta Heretofore Rev. Mr..
Pogue has had charge OF both the Georgia
Avenue church and the Wallace church, on
West Fair street.
At Flovilla q night or two ago several
young men attending a concert got into a
row, when w. II. Barnes, a very quiet
young man, went up to stop the difficulty
aud was shot through the fleshy part of the
thigh by Raze Coker.
Near White Plains, last Monday, jeff
Copelan drove up TO Seaborn Jernigan's
and hitched his mare TO a rack, and wens to
look at some hogs belonging to Mr.. Jer-
nigan. While he was gone his mare slipped
the bridle ran away, smashed the buggy,
and in fall broke her neck.
George Gray, a colored man, was sitting
in his cabin on Capt. J. A. Cobb's planta-
ton, a few miles from Amerlcus, on Sunday
night during the storm, when the house was
struck by lightning. The chimney was
; knocked down, the house torn up and Gray
had one of his arms ripped open and badly
torn up. He was knocked over but is in a
fair way to recover.
Americas Herald: Sunday night the
! electric cars were out during a pyrotech-
snical display Of the elements, and Capt.
} Rses says that he felt no more danger than
If he had been in feather bed. The light
ming flashed necessarily and made the night
as light as day, yet the employees of the
electric railway stood to their post and ran
their coaches all over the city. They seem
to attract no electricity from the clouds.
Charles w. Klein. young man who has
been carrying on jewelry business at Bir-
mingham, Ala, for several months, was
arrested Saturday night, and will be taken
back to Augusta on charge Of seduction.
1t is charged that he ruined a young lady
named Mills, several months ago, and fled.
Klein's father, who has been a resident of
Birmingham for several years, informed
the authorities at Augusta of his sons
whereabouts. After the arrest the old man
said Charles had always been a hayward
, son, and he wantsd him sent to the peni-
tertiary.
A man of good appearance, who regis
tered at the European hotel as r. J. Wood,
Is now under arrest at Atlanta. He was
arrested on suspicion because OF his resem-
blancs to photographs in possession of the
police department. The photographs, two
in number, are of Frederick Kimball, who
is wanted in Worcester, Mass, for embez-
Element of 900 in railroad bonds, and
So, AGO in national bank currency. There 1.
every reason to believe, however, that he i,
not the man wanted. An officer from Mas
sachusetts is on the way to decide hi:
identity.
n BOSAtACA Lno DCSn hlCd III bAG
office at Cedartown, signed by Israel P
Davis, William l.. Crow, /. c. Davis, anc
others, asking to be cut Off from Polk and
joined to Barlow county. The petition sets
forth complaint that it is twenty-five mile:
to Cedartown, and inconvenient to transact
the legal business of citizens at that county
site. 1t is only twelve miles 10 Gainesville
while it is twenty-five miles to Cedartown
and they ask for a good slice of Polk to BIZ
attached TO Barlow from the east side OF
Buncombe district. The petition will be
heard by the ordinary ninety days from
date Of filing in office.
Americas Herald: Last Friday Thoma.
Grantham and his wife, who live on Mich
Jordan's place, few miles from Americas
went to work in the field and left their in
FAINT child asleep on the bed at home. Az
hour or two later Mr.. Grantham went into
the room and found that the child, which
was only about7 months old, had fallen be-
tween the bed and the window sill and had
caught between them. with the back of the
head resting on the SILL pushing its fac,
down among the bed-clorhes, thereby sGffo
eating it. When discovered the child we
still warm and its little pulse Pickering
Assistance was called, but the life of tht
little one was too far spent to be resusci
tated, and it died in a few minutes.
FLORIDA.
Corn is waist high on the east coast.