The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

TOLD IN PARAGHAFaS.
Death in a Sleeping Cara Planter
Probably Fatally Hurt by Falling
from His Wagon - a Silver Nine
Near Spring Place That De Soto is
Supposed to Have Worked.
GEORGIA.
The druggists of Macon are making pre-
parations for entertaining, in royal style,
the delegates of the Georgia Pharmaceutical
Association, which holds its fifteenth an.
nuaI session in Macon April 10.
". H. Elliston, prominent planter liv
ing three miles west of Baldwinsville, fell
from a loaded wagon Saturday, breaking
it Is supposed, several ribs, and it is feared
his spinal column. Being in bad health, it
is feared he cannot recover.
The grip had novel effect upon Post
master Hare Of Lexington. Since his at
tack he has been unable TO take a chew of
tobacco, though he has been user of the
weed for many years. The least crumb in
his mouth now will give him such a spell of
coughing that he has been forced to eschew
it altogether.
Sunday was the day set apart by the First
Baptist church for the collection Of home
mission money at Atlanta. Dr. Hawthorne
preached a sermon on missions ard at its
conclusion collected from the members
Sl,l25, which will make the First church
one of the leading mission churches in the
southern Baptist field.
Mr.. Venable of Gainesville has a trunk
that was brought from England b. his
ancestors ia 1886, and has been in the family
ever since. It is an Anticipated curiosity,
and viii be handed down from posterity
to posterity. He also has about $4,000 in
confederate moneT-one bill of each denom-
ination issued during the war.
Augusta Chronicle: w. f. Walton of
Green's Cut, VINO was the possessor of a fine
horse, had tie misfortune of losing the ami
NAL in very singular way Thursday. He
had the horse blowing in the field, when a
nest of hornets was unearthed by the pillow.
They Immediately bounced upon the animal
and stung him to death before he could be
released.
A Mr.. White of Michigan who has been
prospecting in the Okefinokee swamp, says
that he killed an animal in that swamp Of
which natural history gives no account. It
resembled a turtle in some respects, but
was four and half feet long and twenty
four inches across The back was covered
with hard scaly substance, somewhat like
an alligators hide. and the animal had a
long, hooked beak.
A young white man was found dead in
the berth of a Southwestern sleeping couch
at Macon Monday. He was Noah Hollineer
of eWeaver, o. He went to Florida
sometime ago in search of health, but grew
worse, and accompanied by brother and
sister he was being carried back home. The
sister, beautiful girl of Is, was almost
overcome with grief and her piteous walls
touched the hearts Of all who witnessed it.
The passenger car on the Louisville and
Wadley railroad performed new feat in
railroad running Monday by running on
two tracks at one and the same time.
While drilling the train the front trucks
jumped the switch and took the
right track, while tine rear trucks
failed to jump and took the wrong track
and continued on the main turnout until
both ends of the car were nearly even.
When the conductor called bait he found
his car in rather an awkward situation.
Jasper Herald: Drs. F. G. Richards of
this place and NJ +. Hawkins of Ball
Ground cut bullet out of Hiram Darnell's
back Wednesday which had been there
twenty-six years. 1t is a rusty pistol ball.
about 44-caliber. and was shot by one of
Ben Jordan's crowd during the war. The
bullet first went through Mr.. Darnell's
hand, then struck him on the cheek, cutting
the flesh and coursing its way to the back of
the neck, then down the backbone to q
point nearly even with the lower part OF the
shoulder blade, whore it lodged, and there
remained until las6 Wednesday, when it
The following story comes from the
asylum near Milledgeville: On last Friday
morning j. w. Beck found that the
cold water pipe in his hall that runs into
the bath tub was stopped up. He at once
called to Mr.. Wright and Joe HUMPHREYS
to ascertain what was the matter Joe
HUMPHREYS came at once to unstop the
pipe. When the valve over the bath tub
was taken out they found fish in the pipe.
Tue fish was catfish about 81 OF 4 inches
long. The fish must have been pumped
from the creek, one mile or more from the
asylum, through pipe and then up into
the tower and then through a pipe TO the
tank on the tenth hall. The fish was alive
when discovered.
Joe Winkler of Spring Place has found a
silver mine In 1872 Bill Learch with a
guide book from the Indian Territory.
reached the mountain and found the same
place, but it was such perilous adventure
that he has never visited the spot again 1t
IS on the east side of Fort Mountain, 800
feet above the creek, in a fssure or cave in
perpendicular wall of rock. 1t is reached
by travelling path hewn out of solid rock.
far above the roar of the water below-in
some places not more than two feet wide
IN some twelve. 1t is supposed to be the
place where De Soto mined for gold. as
there is slab of granite with the letters s
q. I. 0. engraved below cross. and 1882
with numerous hieroglyphicS, carved GA
each side of the entrances.
Alpharetta Free Press: Charlie Lackey
has hen which for fasting ability SURPRISES
DIR. Tanner. On the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary this hen went on her nest. which was
IN hollow log, for the purpose of bringing
into the world another egg. This she sue
ceeded in doing, but to her utter astonish-
ment, when her task was finished and she
attempted to make her exit through the
same hole that had accommodated her when
she desired ingress, she could not get suffi-
Gent foothold to enable her to reach the
small aperture through which she had en-
tered. At the end of the forty-fifth day
Mrs. Lackey found her and rescued her
from death. She had lived forty-five DAYS
without food OF water. She is now fat
enough to tempt the appetite of Methodist
preacher.
FLORIDA.
The last crew of Hudson river shad men
left Chaseville last Friday for New York
John Dzialynsky will shortly move his
cigar factory from Tampa TO Jacksonville
and will employ about fifty hands.