The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30

cotton, to pay for meat at 10 or IL cents
and corn at 81 so, looks like ruin to the
farmers. When they begin to see the roily
OF working all the year TO make twenty-five
| pounds of cotton with which TO Duy one
| bushel Of corn which they could make IN
six months they will certainly STOP the
foolish and rninous practice. Ihere is
enough green gra.s in the fields OF Early
county, which, If properly cured, would
make sufficient hay for all the STOCK IN IL
through the coming winter ana next crop
season. This grass will be allowed TO waste
where Il is and hay at s2j per ton will be
carried around next summer. And still the
farmers complain Of hard times.
/ horrible and fatal accident happened
Mt McDauiel's mill, at Victory, Carroll
county. on last Friday. Alfred Friday was
employed at the mill bearing off lumber.
The mill was cutting Stats and the unfortu-
| nate man had steppei upon the log carriage
ami was in the act Of STOPPING for some pur-
pose when the sawyer. William Baxter,
reversed the lever, turning the carriage
| back The sldden change Of movement
! caused Mr.. Friday to fall against tho saw,
which went through his thighs like flash,
cutting them off few inches above the
knees The point Of his elbow was also
severed. DR.. j. l.. Lovvor OF Bowdon was
sent for, but the poor victim was beyond
human aid. He died about six hours after
the accident He left wife and three
children.
Warrenton Clipper: Last Tuesday night
Warren and surrounding counties suffered
very heavy losses from u rain storm. The
Little river rose twenty-one feet Tuesday
night. From O'Clock until 1879 it poured
down without intermission. The little
streams around Warrenton were fuller than
they ever were before, not excepting
the TERRIBLY floods of 1887 or 1888.
The Macon branch Of the Georgia railroad
was torn all TO pieces. Some reports say
there are twenty-hv washouts between
Warrenton and Macon. There are three
bridges either gone or very badly damaged
within six miles Of Warrenton. The
farmers are the great sufferers.
Their pasture fences are all down and q
great many Of the rails gone. The corn
crop is ruined, and where Tuesday m orning
there was a promise of twenty to forty
bushels to the acre there Is nothing now to
be garnered into their empty barns The
| loss of every bushel of corn carried with it
81 in actual cash. The freshet will rank
with the historic Harrison food.
Last Friday night the house Of Hannah
Grice, an old aud respectable negro woman,
who lived about mile and half from Nc
Donough. on the Griffin road, was destroyed
by fire and her body consumed in the flames
| She lived in the house alone, and the origin
| of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed
she was murdered for her money, as it was
known she had collected $50 a few days
previous and had it In the house. The
house was then burned down over her body
| to conceal the crime. She was a large
woman and her flesh was not entirely CON
sumed, the head aud limbs being burned to
a perfect char, however. and the re-
mains presented a most horrifving spec
tacle. From appearance when found, il is
thought her body was placed between two
straw mattresses before the house was fired,
as the burnt straw appeared to be above
| and below 1t. The house was a one room
structure, and the body was in the middle
of it. Hannah was an Industrious, respec-
table colored woman, perhaps so years old.
owning the house and several acres of
ground, all Of which had been paid for by
her own labor. besides having a
couple of bales cotton laid away
for hard times. The verdict Of
the coroner's jury was in accordance
with the above facts. Suspicion attaches t.
several persons, and the sheriff may soon
ferret out the perpstrator OF the terrible
deed.