The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Child Badly Cord by a Cow at
Brunewick-A Section Master Un-
der thu Wheels of a Hand Oar The
Tax Returns of Randolph County
A Negro and a Mule Killed by
Lightning in Brooks County.
GEORGIA
Charlie Bostick of Spalding county has q
five-acre patch of millet which will net him
$S5 PER acre.
A debt Of 81, 500 still hangs over the pub
lie library at Macon, and Is pressing
heavily on 400 members, who won't pay it
of.
The officers TO manage the Alliance ware
house at Griffin for another season are as
follows: J. D. Williams, general manager
s. C. Mitchell, salesman, and J. c. Dunn,
shipper.
Last year Randolph county returned
taxable property 70 the amount Of $685.,
074 This year she comes forward with a
return Of 81, 507, 046, an increase of S4l7,972,
CT nearly a cool half million.
Waynesboro Citizen. On Thursday on
Mr.. Frost's Baldwin Miller place, Ben Ben
nett tsolored) beat Henry Bostic, colored
boy about Is years old, 50 severely with
stick that be died Ia few hours from the
inhuman clubbing. A warrant has been
issued for Benefits arrest.
The Presbyterian church at Marietta has
unanimously called Rev. j. H. Hubner OF
Thomasville to succeed Rev. j. H. Walker
as their pastor. Rev. J. II. Walker was some
time since called by the Presbyterian
church in Birmingham. Ala, which call he
accepted, and which left the church there
without any regular pastor
Quitman Free Press: A negro and a mule
were electrocuted in Brooks county Wednes-
day afternoon on Sam Claytons place.
about four miles west of town. The negro's
name was Dock Cross. he had tied the
mules head to his foot to keep him from
biting the corn. He went out during a
thunderstorm to unfasten him, and, while
STOPPING down trying to unite the knot, a
stroke Of lightning killed them both Death
was instantaneous, neither negro nor mule
ever knowing what struck them.
Near Flowery Branch Saturday, N. D.
Smith section master on the Richmond and
Danville railroad. net vito a painful, if not !
serious accident. He was on lever car |
running at high rate Of speed on down |
grade, when one Of his hands Loaf his bal |
ance and fell from the car. Mr.. Smith |
made an effort to catch him, and was also |
caught by the falling man, who pulled him !
off The car and across the rail in front The |
CdIt AOuueA WIN SIX lleu huQ a lOG OF LOOlS, |
passed over Smiths body injuring him |
dangerously, if not fatally. Two OF his |
ribs were broken. The section hand who |
fell was only slightly hurt, as be fell be- !
tween the rails.
As Edna, the 1l-year-old girl Of w. /. |
Winchester, was passing Magnolia park, at |
Brunswick Monday, she came near being |
gored to death by vicious COW grazing |
there. The cow saw the child walking by, |
and with the cunning characteristics OF |
vicious brutes, no doubt thought it helpless |
and made murderous charge. One of the |
cows horns penetrated the ohild's dress |
near the waist, and, though it did not enter
the body, caused painful abrasion of the |
skin, as it ranged upward toward the head. |
The child was knocked down and the COW |
was preparing for a second charge when |
Mrs. Winchester, who had come to the res. |
cue, succeeded In soaring her away.
Macon Telegraph: In the house known |
as the old PuRh house the infant child of a |
women named Clay died some time during |
last Wednesday night The woman was |
sick and, although the house is filled with |
negroes, the death was not reported to the |
proper authorities until Friday, the third |
day after death. Sanitary Inspector Blue |
secured the certificate of death, the |
order for a pauper's coffin and. also. |
permit from the mayor authoriz, |
ing the sexton to give the body |
free burial. He then sent after the BODY. |
but the mother bad placed it in box, and |
carried it to Fort Hill cemetery in East Ma |
con. The inspector tore up the papers and |
went home, rejoicing that the little atom Of |
humanity had been given burial at last.
Late that evening he received a second |
notice of the child being dead, and, on |
going to the house, found that burial had |
been refused at Fort Hill because of the ab- !
sence OF certificate, and the body was once |
more in the house. Ii was too late for |
burial that night, and, after getting new |
certificates and permits, the child was at
last buried four days after death.