The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-13

Alliance of Warren County.
GEORGIA.
The Piedmont Chautauqua will orer
Wednesday Of this week.
The directors Of the Peoples Nation
Bank of Americas have declared a seul-
annual dividend of per cent.
The steam boiler of James Seals saw,
mill, three miles from Cuthbert, blew VI
Friday, severely wouudlng a negro man.
The loss Is considerable.
Work on the handsome block Of stores
James A. Benson is erecting on Main street
a. W Washington, opposite The " ashln gton Elk
change bank, Is progressing rapidly.
The ginnery outfit and building Of the
Poweilville Ginning Company in Heard
county Will cost about s.. $50, and it is pro-
posed 90 have everything ready 70. business
by Sept. l.
The farmers of Clark County all say that
while their cotton and corn has been consider
ably retarded and possibly injured by the
recent dry spell, the fruit crop is abundant.
Inc peach aud apple trees around Athens
are heavily burdoned with what promises
to be an abundant yield.
Attic Celebration on July 4 at Demo-
rest, Habeisham cuuuto, James Poor and
S. jenkins, got into a fight during the
Scuft1e George Scott came up and Logan TO
carve Poor up with knife ne cut him once
on the bead once on the hip and twice in
the side, infictiug severe but not danger
Gus wounds.
Mrs c. A. Lane who lived about two
miles south OF WayorOss, was standing on
her porch last Tuesday, with her baby in
her arms, and talking excitedly TO her son,
who had failed to please her in some matter
In her excitement she stepped Off the p1rch
fell heavily to the ouud aud was dead
before assistance could reach her.
J. A. Wells, who was at work on the
Georgia, Carolina and Nortleru bridge over
the Oconee river near Athens, had .he mis-
fortune Saturday to have piece Of the
iron work Weighing over Two tons fall upon
his right foot Ii was BADLY crushed but
being very skiltully set by DR.. s. G. Bone
dict, he viii be enabled to be out again in
about a month.
Near Augusta Saturday Sam Taylor,
a colored boy lost his left eye by
the accidental discharge Of a gun IN
the hands of Ed. Bennett. also colored. Ed
was on his way TO shoot a hawk, with his
gun thrown across his shoulder. Sam was
walking behind him, when the gun in some
way, accidentally discharged, two birdshot
entering the eye.
A. &. Baldwin sold his interest in
the Macon Evening NeWs, lgU shares OF the
capital stock. Mr.. Baldwin retires from
the paper, but has not fully decided whether
he will remain il the south for the present
or return to the west The health of his
wife, which induced him to come here, has
not been improved-in fact, the reverse is
true, hence be may return to the west at
once.
The people of Waycross are taxed on
property assessed at s., 282. 406 There are
2ll colored children in the public school be.
tween the ages of 6 and To- There are 2l0
white children in the public school.
The school tax paid by the whites is
SS,026 %, giving a pro rata share to each
pupil, white aud colored of 81 ~. The
colored people pay SlO6 10 Of this tax, or to
each colored child 501s cents, making the
total school fund aggregate 50. 1872 75
The committee of the prohibtionists,
Andrew j. Coub. George G. Thomas aud H.
c. Tuck, has drawn a bill providing for a
dispensary for Athens, and after revising it,
will send IL to Hon. w. J. Morton, repre-
sentative from Clarke, with the request that
he Introduce 1t into the summer session of
the generg assembly and urge its passage.
1t is framed with great care and with the
most rigid res .rlctlons, and both sides of the
liquor question seem to be quite willing to
give it thorough trial If The legislature
should see fit to pass it.
The Augusta Ice Company will enlarge
again. This step has been decided on O. |
cause the demand for ice compels it. The |
increase in capacity will be from twenty |
two to thirty~seven tons day, and the I'M |
provement will be made next winter The
surplus storage supply and capacity will
also be increased. One thousand pounds of
ice were stored before this season opened.
and but for this the supply in Augusta
would have been short this summer A
much larger surplus will be stored next
winter.
Macon Euening NetDs. 1t happened not
long ago, that man Of good character and
with many friends was brought to the court
house mental wreck, and coming before a
board OF examiners it was decided that he
must be sent to the insane asylpm. An old
time friend heard OF his sorry plight and in
Kindness Of heart went to see MIN. The
visitor was recognized and cordially re- |
ceived, and the two sat on the bedside |
pleasantly chatting, until suddenly some |
note was sounded, which touched the rift |
within the Lutte, when almost without warn !
ing, the kindly caller received a blow
square between the eyes, so strong that il |
staggered him. He escaped in great haste. |
Athens LeCg3r: A gentleman whose
strolis during Assure moments nave taken
him around the CITY limits and extensively |
into the suburbs states to the IedGer |
that parties in Athens have been anus |
ing themselves recently by shooting buz |
yards AT one place near a slaughter house |
he found fourteen buzzards, which he was
told negro had shot with Winchester
rife in pure wantonness, Just to practice
rifle shooting on the wing. The buzzard is |
a natural and very thorough scavenger.
and In Georgia, as in nearly all other states
is protected py law. The butchers are very
indignant over the killing of 80 many buzz
yards near Athens, and If the parties who
shoot buZzards for pure wsntonnes5 are
caught they will find out when they nav
the legal penalty that hunting buzzards Is
sorry sport at best.
Baker Green assaulted Matte Brown
near the colored Methodist church at Davis
boro Friday. Both parties are coored.
Green is 20 years old, while tine girl is only
IL. II appears the two met in the road.
when Green threw bis pistol in the face OF
the little girl, throwing his arms around
her at the same time. The loud screams Of
the little child, whose home was only O few
hundred yerds away, brought her mother
near enough to prevent the ruin of the
child. AT the near approach of the girls
mother Green turned the child loose and
ran into a school house a short distance
away, where he was guarded by two negro
women until n. II. Jordan happened along
and brought the would-be rapist to town
and turned him over to Deputy Sheriff
Sheppard.
Toccoa NetrS: Last Satur lay, about
O'clock p. III. a pistol shot rang GU. from a
house Oh Alexander street where two COL
ored persons were living, startling the peo-
pie in the DeighboThood. who hurried to the
house and fCund a cOlOrad woman living in