The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Gun-Curious Facts About the Pres
ent Sheriff and Deputies OF Floyd
County-The Whisky Question in
Montezuma - Selling Confederate
Money at Bairdstown.
GEORGIA
There are nine Masonic lodges in Carroll
county.
The F. A. Calhoun Company will start a
shoe factory at Augusta.
The lumber constituting the cargo Of the
bark Svalen, sunk near Brunswick, Will be
raised and saved
Charles s. Gardiner, treasurer of the Al
tamaha Cypress Lumber Company OF
Brunswick, died at his home at Chicago
Monday.
Rev. J. J. Farmer, pastor of the Elberton
Baptist church, has secured about forty new
members since October, and his congrega-
ton is steadily growing.
Mr.. Van Cole, living near Carrollton, has
a guinea, hen aud a goose that seem TO
have great affection for each other, so much
DO that all have the same nest.
Fred Gruber was dangerously stabbed by
his brother-in-law, William Wise, near
Brunswick, Monday night. They had
Quarreled over the ownership of a crop.
It srumored that the Lilly Park Com
pany has made an effort to incorporate
their property into q separate town, with q
government Of its own, separate from
Athens.
While Lee Burnham. OF near Stripling's
Chapel, Carroll county, was cutting wood a
day or two ago, his ak caught the clothes
wire aud come down on his head, cutting a
had cash.
Some apprehension is felt in
hat
crop viii be damaged by the late
freeze, though it is too early to determine
the extent of the injury.
For some time back the minks have been
destroying numbers of chickens for ladies
living on the outskirts of Clinton. having
killed Is hens and guinea, besides "A little
chickens, for Mrs. Il. T. Pursley.
Robbers at Macon Sunday night stole
1855 from trunk owned by James Barron,
a saloonkeeper. Robbers the same night
secured about $500 from a bureau-drawer
in the room Of B. P. Weeks, a butcher.
Mr. and Mrs. Saulter, who were shot by
robbers, ct Mrs. Saulter's saloon, near
Athens. two or three weeks ago,
are still too i'll TO appear as witnesses
at the trial Of the men now under arrest.
A little negro child was so badly burned
at A Franklinis home at Washington on
Wednesday that she died in few hours
from her injuries. She was left in an out
house by her mother, and it is thought she
played in the fire.
Wednesday. three gentlemen were dis
cuSsing the Risky question in Montezuma.
One of the party, who had been in the
whisky business, estimated that fully $50, 900
is spent in that town annually for some
thing that does no good and an immense
deal of harm.
Prof. P. NJ. Cheney Of Bairdstown has en-
tered into the sale of confederate money.
He has contract with one party alone to
sell him more than $4,000 Of the money,
aud portion of it has been delivered. Prof
Cheney is paying S. a hundred for the
money, which Is good price.
A night or two ago a miscreant entered
the office Of one Of the press dispatch opera
tors Of the Macon Telegraph, Z. L. Dyer,
and stole his typewriter. TIE machine is
No. Remington, with factory number
64,9A, and is almost new, having been pur-
chased short time ago for over 500.
There are some curious facts about the
present sheriff and deputies of Floyd
county. Before the death OF that good
fellow, Jim jenkins, there were three depu-
ties, and the names of each of them, and
also Of the sheriff, began with the letter
~" They were }. c. Moore, J. NJ. Jenkins,
j. D. Turner and j. P. Mcconnell They
and just three children to each family.
Albany Netcs and Advertiser: IfrAIbert
johnson (colored), who murdered Marshal
Castleberry at Pelham two years ago, is not
in the asylum at Millsdgeville it is not the
fault of Mitchell county's efficient sheriff,
q. w. Swindle. On Jan. last Mr.. Swindle
took johnson from the jail in this city, and,
going direct to the asylum at Milledgeville,
turned him over to the authorities Of that
institution. Sheriff Swindle has a receipt
from the superintendent of the asylum
acknowledging the delivery of johnson. II
johnson, therefore, is not in the asylum, it
Is because he has been allowed to escape by
the authorities there.
On Tuesday morning last. as was his GUS
tom, Mr.. Littlefeld Of Valdosta went into
the house where his puppy had been put to
bed at night, and found him dead. He took
him by the collar he wore around his neck
and laid him on the ground outside. Mr.
Littlefeld went in to breakfast, and his
wife inquired after the puppy's health, ask
ing II he were asleep. Eyes sleep from
which he will never awaken Mrs. Little
field sent servant with warm blanket,
with orders to bring the dog in her room by
the fire. So soon as the servant saw the
dog she replied, Hes dead, sure" Mrs.
Littlefield believed the same thing, but
placed the dead dog by the fire, where she
rubbed, rolled and patted him, pried his
mouth open, blew into it, trying to initiate
the lungs; placed him in hot bath, rubbed
him dry, pus whisky down his throat, and
was rewarded by groan and movement Of
one foot and breathing. This treatment by
Mrs Littleheld Of his body was kept up for
three hours, when, to the delight of his own
ers, he could hold up his head, and is now
we'll
Albany Netcs and Advertiser: At New
ton, ON Saturday night last, after the BUSH
ness OF the day was over aud his store had
been closed, ]. T. Norris loaded double
barreled shotgun carefully with eighteen
buckshot to the barrel and placed it at a
window OF the store through which burglars
had been in the habit of effecting an en-
trance. The gun was so arranged that
when the window sash should be lifted a
stick, one end Of which was against the sash
and the other against the trigger of the gun,
would be forced backward and discharge
the weapon. The arrangements having been
perfected, Mr.. Norris then left the store
for his home and awaited develon.
ments. About II O'Clock that night several
persons heard the report of a gun. but no
one attached any Importance to it, owing
TO frequent occurrences of that kind, Mr.
Norris did not hear the report of the gun
but having occasion to 90 down to his store
next morning, was somewhat surprised &c
find negro in a kneeling posture under tbt
window at which the gun had been placed
The negro was dead, dead as the nrovarhia