The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Outsiders Eelo Prisoners TO Escape
From the City Jail of Adel-Damagt
Done by the Storm at Atlanta
Former Georgian Appointed to G
Judgeship in Montana
GEORGIA
Two Americas sportsmen went out q
day or two ago and bagged forty-thret
psrtridges, fifty-one doves, two rabbits AND
a lark in an afternoon.
Dudley DuBose, formerly Of Georgia
has Teen appointed judge for the Tenth dis,
trict court of Montana by Gov. Toole. Tine
salary is $500 per year.
State Geologist Spencer passed through
Montezuma this week on his trip down the
Flint river He is making successful and
valuable geological investigation.
The Georgia Marble Company has lust
closed a contract to furnish the marble
work for the first two stores of the Equita-
bic Life Insurance Company's building at
Atlanta
I. B. Hayes has been arrested at Cor
dele for abducting laborers under contract
with parties there. Hayes came from
Alabama. he gave bond for his appear
ance at trial.
The students of Mercer university are
negotiating with the Central railroad for a
special train at special rates, to take them
to the Georgia Chautauqua at albany on
Educational day" April l.
The city authorities of Griffin will order
an election soon TO determine whether the
city shall issue bonds for the purpose OF
erecting q new building to accommodate
the rapidly growing public schools.
At Halcyondale Saturday at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jud. Newton the "Scriven
Dramatic Association" was organized. After
the election Of officers and the transaction
Of other routine business the guests were
entertained BY an eloquent address by Jud.
Newton.
Among the accidents which occurred at
Atlanta from the great rain was the caving
in Of bridge wall in the western part Of
the city. The damage in this case amounted
TO about 81 900 The wall of the Third
Presbyterian church. on Luckie street.
caved in during services Sunday, creating
CONSERVATION among the congregation. No
one was injured. The damage foots up
about 5000.
Adel NelOs: About four or five weeks ago
the city marshal put an escaped convict In
the city jail, aud during the night he was
liberated by unknown parties The locks
were broken. Mr.. Parrish, the city mar
shal, put on new locks, aud locked up
desperate, who was also liberated. The
sheets OF iron put on the in and outsides,
and good strong bolts put through them,
but all to no purpose, for he can't keep q
person without a guard.
James Norman of Macon, an engineer on
tie East Tennessee railway, Is very Jealous
of his wife. Friday night when he came
home he found Den Walls and John Oliver
making merry at his house, but they were
doing nothing OF questionable character
He drove them out with a piano stool and
they came back. Pistol shots were fred
and Oliver was shot in the shoulder, the ball
ranging downward. He way die. Den
Walls was shot in the left arm, the ball
passing through 1t. Arthur Norman, a
younger brother Of james Norman, saws he
did the shooting. All these parties are
white.
The academy at Jacksonville is con-
trolled by board Of trustees Prof. ]. E.
McRse is in charge. Recently the county
commissioners said that the academy should
teach children fres. Prof. McRae declined
to do this. and the trustees upheld him in
It. The county claims that the academy
property belongs to the county, and the de-
scenda1ts OF these citizens who granted the
pr perty for school purposes claim that 1t
belongs 20 them. The question as to whether
Prof AcRae should be compelled to teach
children free came up before Judge Miller,
at Macon Monday. He decided Ia favor of
Prof. McRae and the trustees, and the pub
lie school children will have to be taught,
at least temporarily, in the court honse.
Mr.. Kratz, while out prospecting near
Lula lake last Monday, ran across a large
wild animal crouched in laurel thicket on
Rock creek, which greatly startled him. as
be was not expecting or prepared for such
an emergency. But he suddenly remem-
bered that no had promised his folks to be-
at home by o'clock, so he hastily rstraced
his steps down the mountain and took a
near route through muddy fields, thorn
thfckess, briar patches and muddy branches
III water. The animal is believed to he a
Mexican lion which escaped from Barnuun's
show while on exhibition at Rising Fawn
last summer. The tracks of some strange
animal have been observed by parties on
different occasions in the fields on the noun
tain.
Albany NeTs and Advertiser; Bill
Brown, who carries the mail between Al
bany and Warwick, which route, by the
way, will soon be abolished, experienced the
loss OF his horse last week, which died from
the effects of mad dogs bite received last
week. Mr.. Brown encountered the dog be-
tween this CITY and Warwick, ard the
canine, without any provocation, sprang
upon his steed and inflicted the fatal bite,
The dog showed every symptom of hydro-
phobia, and as soon as Mr.. Brown arrived
bone he commenced to doctor bis animal.
Last Sunday the horse, however, began to
show signs of madness and by Tuesday, the
day on which he was killed, he was raging
mad, and was only keptin his lot with diff
Guilty.
On DR.. Phinizy's place, in Columbia
county, there lives negro named johnson
Lowe. de is pretty well supplied with
chickens, but, as he says, "they are the
most poculiarest chickens he cher did see. y
They lay and hatch like all other chickens.
but IN a very novel way. In the yard are
seven or eight chinaberry trees, and in each
OF these the hens have built nests. Some of
them are twelve and fifteen feet from the
ground. Oae old frizzly hen set the exam
pie, flying into tree with dry grass. twigs.
cotton, ETC., and building her nest in 4
crotch. Straightway three or four others
did likewise, and now they won't Law any
where else. When the young ones are
Matched out, they soon climb over the elge
and fall to the ground, after which they are
cared for by loves wife.
That was curious case, in which human
nature played a prominent part, in DeKaib
county superior court, recently. Two men
who had been neighbors for years. had
quarreled, and an action for assault anc
battery was the result The defendant hac
employed q lawyer, and had so managed as
to continue the case from term to term. but
at the last moment discharged his attorne,
and announced his attention of defending
his own case, assigning as his reason there