The morning news., 1891-11-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Hartwen Man Nearly Loses ais LIZ
While 'Possum Hunting-A Bullet II
q Tree-A Man Falls Forty Feet a
Newman, but Escapes Death-A BOY
Killed by House Falling In or
Him.
GEORGIA
F. C. Daniel Of jackson county killed aud
sold pig this year which brought S4l So.
The long contemplated athletic associa-
tion at Mercer has at last been organized.
There is q great demand for dwelling
houses at Athens, and there are very few
70 rent.
Omaha. in Stewart county. has been in
corporated aud a town government ap-
pointed.
An effort is to be made at Cairo to elect
board Of aldermen who will prohibit the
sale of liquor.
Will Blssh, the negro who murdered Tom
Bone in Montgomery county Oct. "a, will
be hanged in that county Nov. 20.
Mrs. j. H. Sibley of Union Point is one
of the delegates in attendance upon the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union con-
vention at Boston.
The twenty-hfth annual meeting Of the
South Georgia conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church will be held at Ccrdele,
commencing Dec 2.
The plans and specifications for the
Acworth depot have been drawn, and it
will not be great while before the work
men will commence to build it.
Camden county will name the next state
senator from the Fourth senatorial district.
DR.. Burrell Atkinson has been very fire.
quently and generally mentioned.
The Mercer College class in telegraphy
which has recently been organized, is In
good condition. The class consis of eight
students, who are making rapid progress in
the study.
The railroad commissioners were in AL
bany yesterday TO INSPECT the place whsre
the railroad has been ordered to build a de-
pot, and to otherwise look into the railroad
condition there.
A new clerk in store at Brunswick, who
Is Just from the country, distinguished him-
self the first day by trying to remove the
chimneys from the incandescent lamps to
light them with match.
James Smith, living about eight miles
from Dublin. on the place Of W. W. Robin
son. had the index finger of the right hand
badly mangled in a cane mill The finger
may have to be amputased.
The Mozelle correspondent of the jackson
HsrGld says: W. h Venable has a horse
that chews tobacco. He says his horse will
DO DETER on ton ears of corn twice q day
and plenty of tobacco than his other horse
will with three feeds a day.
Fred Wiebens of Hartwell has in his pos
session the tooth of a mastodon. 1t weighs
fraction over pound, is as black and
slick as stone coal. Ii must have belonged
TO very large animal, as it is worn to the
hollow. He values it highly.
Several times recently rocks have been
placed on the Middle Georgia and Atlantic
rails at different points OH Magnolia Hill. 10
Putnam county. 1t is thought that this is
the work of little children who are en-
tirely ignorant Of the improperly and dan
ger OF their action. No doubt it will be
stopped.
While the patronage OF Mercer College is
greatly increasing under the exertions of
DIR. Nunnally, her prospects for obtaining
the $40 900 necessary TO obtain Mr.. Rocke-
teller's $40 900 by Jan. l are also increasing.
Dr. Nunnally's exertious have been re-
warded, and subscriptions are daily being
added to the already large list.
DIR. Joe Allison has just returned to Car
tersviile from Walker county, and exhibits
mammoth ear of corn grown in that
county on the farm of j. N. Shaw. The
ear weighs about two pounds and is of a
size which it taxes only thirty-five to make
bushel. Mr.. Shaw Will make 600 BUSH
els this year, OF which this ear is only a fair
specimen.
viii Temples came near losing his life
from peculiar accident while 'possum
hunting near Hartwell a night or two ago.
ne was carrying an az on his shoulder aud
stumbled and fell, the blade Of the ak strik
ing him on the back of the head and outing
cash an inch long, The wound bled pro-
fusely, out fortunately was not deep. The
crowd brought home two big fat 'possums
RrEf IL
Norton OF Fort Valley, met with very
painful accident last Saturday afternoon
Wnile at play with party of boys he
attempted to run under a house. and failing
70 stoop low enough his head came in con-
tact with the edge of the sill and the scaIp
was torn almost entirely Off the top OF his
mead: making CHASTITY wound. While very
painful it is not considered dangerous.
Near Lumpkin, few days ago W.. A.
Morland found pewter bullet imbedded in
tne neart OF a poplar tree about two feet in
diameter 1t was not compressed or bruised
as II 1t had been discharged from a Oun
out was as smooth and regular as the new.
nodded ball. 1t must have lodged an a
spent ball in a small sapling, and the large
Tree from which it was extracted was
formed around 1t, how many years ago is
purely matter Of conjecture.
Brunswick Echo: An Echo reporter was
OUT riding few days ago when he met an
oiu oarky In the northern suburbs of the
city gathering green persimmons. Won
oering what on earth any one could want
with the green fruit, we ventured TO ask
nim what be wanted with them. "You see.
Doss, the times has been so hard with me
tnat our rations had to be curtailed. n
wen, what has that got to do with the
persimmonsf' asked the reporter. Oats
what I'm getting at now, boss. You see wa
nab to eat green simmons to draw our
stomachs up to tit our rations,"
Newman Herald and Advertiser: HI
banta had a narrow escape from death on
Monday afternoon last. He was at work on
tne new building at the fertilizer factory.
when the scaffold upon which he was
standing, gave way and he was precipitated
70 the ground, distance Of forty feet or
more. The fall was a terrible one, and but
for the fact that the descent was broken by
striking some intervening timbers he would
undoubtedly have been killed. AS it was.
he sustained painful injuries about the back
and hips, and will probably be laid up for
several days. 1t was a fortunate escape.
George G. Jenner, who lost his position
az state secretary of the Young MenIs