The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-12
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD m PARAGRAPHS.

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Pays S425 Rent for $50 Mule
Two Women Jailed in Athens 70
Iufan ticide-A Mans Ske'eton Founr
II a Swamp in Telfsir County.
GEORGIA.
The matter OF establishing driving par
and race trackin or near Valdosta is bein
agitated again.
The Washington Compress Company ha
declared dividend of 20 per cent. for uh
year past The capital is $4,000.
Col. r. E. Park of Macon has received hi
commission signed by Gov. Northen, a
lieutenant colonel of cavalry on the gov
ernor's staff.
Efforts are being made to raise $25, 00
TO purchase and operate an oil mill auC
guano factory in Covingto1. About SlO.-
600 was subscribed in two days.
At Newton Sheriff Byrd has behind III,
bars William Thomas, alias Alonzo GRAY
who Is wanted in Cherokee county for the
murder Of his brother-in-law and for big,
amy.
Atlanta has lost one OF her largest furni-
ture establishments. The Rhodes g. Hav-
erty Furniture Company have wound up
TIER Atlanta business and gone to st.
Louis.
~ AZ AAlUib ludu pIODhDAe budL a Iuib Will
be taken against the sheriff of jackson
county for his refusal to call for John More
head, who is confined in Clarke county
Jail for highway robbery.
All Of the saw-mills, planning mills and
Single mills in Abbeville are running on
full time, and large part of the material
manufactured by them continues to be CON
sumed on buildings going up in Abbevilie
The court house commissioners are now
negotiating with capitalists for Terrell's
bonds, and it is very probable that they
will tie sold within the next few days. The
county may take I'D ten Of the bonds, leaY-
ing only twenty 10 be sold.
A party of young people were out target
shooting at Graham, Appling county, last
Thursday, when one of the party Thoughts
lessly pointed the pistol toward the resi-
dence of Jesse Lord. The ball struck Mrs.
Lord on the head, iniicting severe wound.
WV. Turner, editor and proprietor of the
Albany NelcS and Advertiser, has received
and accepted an invitation from the ladies'
memorial association Of Cuthbert and the
confederate veterans association OF Ran
dolph county to deliver the memorial ad-
dress in Cuthbert April q.
A man named George Watkins, who was
wanted Ia Pickens county for assault with
intent to murder, was arrested on j. A.
Clark'S place, near Calhoun, Monday night,
by Sheriff n. III. McGinnis and posse con-
sisting of w. II. Willingham, L. Z. Erik
and John Simpson. He was lodged in iail.
Townsville Times: Nose Williams, not
to be outdone by Nose Futch, who boasts of
being the owner Of three-legged chicken,
comes to the front with a chicken with
on!y one leg, perfectly healthy and hops
around the yard with great deal Of agility
Mr.. Williams thinks his chicken is entitled
to pension.
OglethOrpe Echo: A negro living near
Lexington has paid 1926 for a fifty-dollar
mule, and still does not own one hair of the
animal. That is he has been renting the
beast for seventeen consecutive years, pay
ing rental OF as year. 1t is not a gray
mule, either, and seems to be in as good
trim as 1t was the first year the negro
worked him.
Oglethorpe Echo: For the past two weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. Nat d. Arnold Of Charokee
Corner neighbo hood, have been in suspense
about their sweet little 2 year-old girl, who,
while at play, swallowed an S-peuny nail.
AS yet the cOid has shown no signs of in
convenience, but her parents are fearful
that harmful results will follow If the nail
is not removed
While out hunting near Powder Springs
dey or two ego Rev. Mr.. Morgan was
hlf with small shot from the gun of q friend
that was with him. He received very slight
wounds II Tie calf OF the left leg, In the
arm above the elbow, in the back and on
finger Of the left hand. lie was on the OPP
poslte side of q small swamp from his
friend when the gun was fired.
Miss Matte Storey OF Greensboro has
a curiosity in the shape Of birds nest 1t
is the nest of an ordinary hair sparrow, and
Is woven OF hair and grass. The popularity
OF the nest is that one end is a second nest,
perfectly formed, though very small. The
supposision Is that this smaller nest was
designed rs a receptacle for food, upon
which the young spGrrows were raised.
DR.. T. II. McWhorter of Rutledge, a
prominent physician, for some time has
beeu troubled with an affection of the feet,
and these members were gradually shrink
ing ~ and becoming useless. Amputation
was decided on as being the only remedy,
and last Monday they were removed. The
operation occupied more than an hour. but
1t YES perfectly performed, and the patient
stood it admirably.
W. Il. Sapp, the young man from Web
ster county Dfn was arrested at Dawson by
Sheriff Christie on warrant sworn out by
MIS-. Bowman, chargll ( i'm with larceny
after trust In cotton -rGnsaction, having
escaped from the sheriff will forfeit his
bond Of 500 Friday Sheriff Christie had
another warrant for Sapp, charging him
with misdemeenor, and the sheriff went
up to the weltth district to serve it. Sapp
outran him, and got away.
Greensboro UCme Journal: P. M, Moss
OF White Plains is entitled to the palm on
turkey hens. Mr.. Moss owns three turkey
hens, and these are the only ones in his
neighborhood. In visiting the nests recently
he found, the first day, in each of the three
nests one egg; the second day two eggs
were in one and three in each of the others,
the third day the principle of arithemetical
progression was pursued and three eggs
were taken cut Of one nest and six out of
each Of the others.
Hon. z. B. Hodges Of Hartwell, senator
OF ths Ihirgy-ffst district, had slight
stroke # paralysis last Saturday morning.
About II O'Clock, while attending to some
business in the court house,a strange feeling
stole over him and he determined to 90
home. He grew worse as be proceeded and
II was with difficulty that he reached his
residence. and he had to be assisted to bed
nv Mrs. Hedges. His right side was power
IS ard his speech was affected. By Sun
daY morning he had recovered the use of
himself and has improved ever since.
Athens Banner: The coroner's Jury which
h q u1der consideration the case of the
caild in garden near the tan yardbranoh,
met this morning to hear the testimony OF
Dir. Jackson, who had taken the body to see
whether it had ever breathed or not. The
evidence all went to show that Minerva
Sims was the mother of the child, and
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