The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Four Insurance companies to Make
Their Semi-Annual reports The
Hasty Action of q School Teach Or
of Pierce County Results III Sud-
denly Quitting the Walker Settle
ment.
GEORGIA.
Adit. Gen. Kell has issued commission
TO Capt James B. Fraser OF the Liberty
Independent Troop.
The Gate City Guard will attend Trinity
church next Sunday in full uniform to
hear a sermon from their chaplain, Rev.
Walker Lewis.
The GradyCadets are arranging TO hold
fair or give some kind OF entertainre
this fall for the purpose Of raising fund
for the purchase of dress uniforms
Cherokee Advance: D. P. Lusk OF
Moore's mill has Calcutta SOW about b
wears old, solid black color, that las given
birth TO seventy-seven pigs, ever one OF
which were solid black.
At Augusta Monday, J. ". Wooten,
electrician of the Atlanta telephone ex-
change, while attempting TO board nov
ing electric car, was thrown against post
and his shoulder blade broken.
The negro who passed check for S25
with the forged signature of Gov. Ben
Tillman Of South Carolina upon w. II.
Nurnberger Of Agnsta, has been arrested.
HIS name is Williams, and he was caught in
Edgefield
Later advices from Sandersville say that
the Jury in the Trull case, for the murder of
Sam Tauton last October, after being out
sixty-ive hours, brought in a verdict of
guilty, with recommendation to lmprison-
ment in penitentiary for life.
There is half jersey GOWN Jacksonville
= II n. L
and now has her fourth calf, and has ne ser
had more than one calf at a time. This
COW gave milk at 10 months Of age, and
has not been dry" exceeding three months
since the first milking.
A gentleman from Baltimore, who ives
in Macon II ndsy, was wearing a necktie
made Of a rattlesna6e's skin with the rat
ties for scarf pin. Upon inquiry it was
learned that the gentlemen had killed the
snake, a large 9-Yesr-old one, on the st.
Johns river in Florida about thirty
miles above Jacksonville, and had its skin
made into the necktie.
At Lafayette a few days ago Milly Marsh
took in a waif, young black girl that had
no home or friends. A range thing about
the girl is that she does not like to wear
clothes. She says little or nothing, bul
evinces q strange antipathy TO clothes. IL Il
thought that the girl was reared in the wilds
where wearing apparel is scarce. Besides
this she has wild and hunted look.
There are large crowds daily in atten
dance at Richmond campmeeting neal
Hephzibah. Last Saturday at the early
morning service a large fox, hotly per
sued by large pack of tired dogs, which
were urged on by party Of excited hun.
tiers, ran under the stand and for while al
was pandemonium. The animal was fin
ally chased out aud caught in q creek hart
by.
One night last week, Bristol Wells, a ne
gro living near Chappel's mill in Lauren
county, accidentally aud dangerousl'
wounded his brother, Sherman Wells. Bris
tol Wells was cleaning up an old pisto
when it was accidentally discharged tn
ball entering the body of his brother jus
under the heart. DIR. J. H Duggan wa
called TO see the wounded man, and he 1
now getting along very well though not q
all out Of danger.
The mayors race in Athens will b
heated one from the present appearances
Capt. w. B. Burnett, whose name wa
mentioned in connection with that offic
declines positively to make the race. an
that leaves Mayor Brown the only al
bounced candidate. However, Hon. II.
Tuck, ex-representative from Clarke,
being urged to make the race, and wi
probably do so. Between Tuck and Brow
the race will be hot
Washington Gazette: A few morning
ago out at A. j. Newsome's, Miss Eliz
Newsome, after getting up and dressing
went to her bed to make it up" In turn
Ing the mattresses about, what was her hoI
ror to fad lying between them big black
snake, nearly four feet long. AS soon @
she could recover from her fright she Gale
in her uncle. Mr.. Newsome, and had ii
Intruder dispatched. 1t is supposed the
The snake had been there all night.
Twenty-Five boys, employed by the gla
works, Augusta, struck Monday. The
asked for an incrsase of pay from 40 cen
TO so cents per day. President Miller TO
the boys that the company was not in pos
ton to grant the increase and twenty nil
of them went out. The company emplo
about fifty boys. One white boy alol
went out The other strikers are color,
boys. One negro boy refused TO strik
The others that remained in are all whit
Four insurance companies have failed
make their semi-annual report to the go
ernor. and as a consequence cannot do al
more business in Georgia this year. IT
following are the companies in defsul
Commercial Alliance Life Insurance Cor
pany of New York; Imperial Life Insuran
Company of Detroit; Bankers and Trader
Accident Company Of New York: Ne
AOlA ANCiueuS lusuTauCe COMPANY. a
Of the Georgia companies have filed their r
ports as well as all the assessment compante
marine insurance companies and pla
glass companies. The companies have bee
more prompt this year In filing their r
ports than at any former time.
Walter, alias Tootsey Meyers, a your
white man Of Augusta, was arrested Satu
day morning, and is held by the police ,
the charge of larceny from the perso
Sunday night Oscar Irby got on a spre
and in his wanderings he sat down on Il
steps of the Augusta factory and Z,
asleep. Before falling in deep repose
noticed Meyers pass. When Irby w
was awakened this morning he missed 8
and his gold watch and chain. Meye
was arrested and carried to the barrac
drunk. While being searched, Irb,
watch rolled out Of Meyers trouser lie
and fell upon the floor. The chain w
found in his hat. Meyers will be pros
cuted in the superior court.
At Lafayette some time since j. :.
Hutchinson, for want of experience, q
tempted to couple car on the inside oil
curve. OF course he got caught L
engineer saw his imprudent act, and
promptly moving the train forward lit
released him. When some of The trs
hands got to him one arm was hanRi
down helpless. He was taken to a hou
and when asked if he was hurt, said:
am either badly hurt or badly scared"
was put on a bed and doctor hurrledv Sc
for. When the doctor got there he fou
that bis collar bone had been broken. T
strange thing about il is that, although {
man was. indeed, badly hurt, he did Z