The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-04
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

culiarities-A Boy Killed While Eunt
ing in Burke County-An Atlantis
Girl in Trouble.
GEORGIA.
There are fine deposits of lime in paying
quantities. from four to seven miles of
Whigham.
DR.. n. D. LeFevre died at his home in
Spalding county Friday, after an illness OF
some time.
The body Of R. L. Lyons, who met his
death in a wreck near Montgomery on
Thursda7, was buried at GAINESVILLE Fri
day.
The buildings at the pumping stations Of
Atlauta's new water works will be erected
by Miles q Bradt, whose bid for the work
was $4,000
Bishop Nelson will hold confirmation serv-
ices at the Episcopal church 10 Sylvania,
Friday morning, April %, and will also
preach that night.
On the plantation Of Lewis & Thompson,
six or seven miles southwest Of Lumpkin,
Monday, q negro child about 4 years old
was burned so badly that it died during the
day.
A lively sensation Is rife among some col
ored people near Euijay, who state that they
have several times lately seen a large wolf
near their premises and that it chased some
children home Tuesday.
Z. A. Lane Of Emanuel county writes to
the Sylvania Telephone that he did not con-
cent to the burning OF the house In which
the desperate Tom Hendricks was confined.
The house belonged to his wife.
A young man named John G. Gray
from West Point, was assaulted on
Second avenue at Rome Saturday morning
at 80 O'Clock by a negro and robbed Of
81 IS The negro made good his escape.
Jake Ellis, a negro Of Athens, received a
very painful wound Friday from a sling
shot in the hands Of a young man named
Gum. Gum was shooting robins and did
not see Ellis. The wound is a serious one
and the negro may lose his eyesight.
Becton Isler, Cahoun's tax collector, says
that out of 4l0 q. fas. that he issued for last
years taxes only five or six have been col
lected He thinks there has been dereiction
of duty on the part of somebody, and it is
suggested that the county commissioners or
the next grand jury investigate the matter.
There is diversity of OPT ion in regard
TO the damage done to the prospective fruit
crop in Stewart county, by the freeze Of
Marcl 10 and 20. Some think the damage Is
only slight, others say about 20 per cent. of
the crop viii be saved, while it is asserted
still by Others that the destruction is almost
total.
Whigham Grit: J. J. Edwards, n years
old, has made seventy baskets since Christ
mas without the aid of machinery. Mr..
Ed awards came to WhiRham from Texas 10
December to spend a few months with his
daughter, Mrs. Guilford, and not wishing
50 be idle, and seeing so much good material
here, he went to work.
Ellijay Courier: Last week Ulysses
Aaron young man who lives IN the Tur.
uptown mountains, about six miles from
ElliJay was out hunting with his rife in a
loaely part Of the mountains, when he was
TO discover hugh panther In the
act of sprinCing on him. He took aim and
fired, luckily killing the beast, which was a
large specimen.
Sylvanls Telephone: A hawk flying
over the premises Of @. w. Blythe near
Buck Greek ia this county CHANGED to see a
goose grazing afar off from the flock.
Thinking this would make him O nice meal
he few down aud attempted to carry the
goose off TO his long home. But the goose
resisted and the other geese hearing his
cries few 10 the rescue and the hawk soon
lay dead upon the ground.
No decision in regard to the location Of
the Georgia Odd Fellowse home has yet been
reached. The committee which has the
matter in charge met at Atlanta q day or
two ago aHd was TO have agreed on the To-
cation then, but D. B. Woodruff of Macon
presented strong bid from the Odd Eel
lows OF the Central City for the home, and
this put off the decision until April IA. when
the COMMITTEES will meet in Macon, inspect
the sites offered, and then determine the
question of the location OF the home.
Dr. J. Nj. Glover will remain in jail at
GAINESVILLE another six months. 1t will be
remembe red that he was convicted of muir
deripg his wife at the September term of
ha - Era Ill 4
was recommended to the mercy Of the
court His attorneys moved for new trial
and obtained 1t, and the case for another
hearing was set for Saturday last, but the
most important witness in behalf of the
state was sick and the trial was postponed
until next September court. Glover is
looking well.
At Milledgeville Friday the students of
the Georgia Normal and Indu,trial College
gave the teachers OF that institution holi-
day. 1t being April l, the girls, who had
been in prison since Christmas, felt like en-
loying fine spring day among the birds Of
the air and the flowers of the field. So
when the time came that morning for the
young ladies to march from the dormitory
to the college, they fell into line, but in
stead of going to the college they marched
through town and across the Oconee river,
and there enjoyed the day.
j. j. Wayne, q carpenter living at Mon
roe, was found dsG1 in a small branch FRI
day. 1t seems that he had been on a spree
for several days and having work on hand
decided TO sober up, so he went out on q
small creek fishing in order to get away
from whisky. From all the surrounding
and the fact that the water
was not more than eighteen inches deep
where he was found, it Is believed that be
was stricken With paralysis or apoplexy and
Tell into the creek. There were no marks
OF foul play or anything to indicate suicide.
Waynesboro True Citizen: Your Uncle
Jack Tyler has some very strange physical
peculiarites. One is that to eat anything
strongly favored with onions makes him
sweat profusely on top OF the head and
along the nose. The other is that when he
eats anything salty it makes his head itch
almost intolerably. There is no doubt about
the salt being the cause of the itching, for
he is baldheaded. He has another pecuI-
iarity that we came near forgetting and
that is his ears ore almost constantly red
and hot, no matter how cold the day mny
be. Notwithstanding these thugs, Uncle
Jack manages to keep fat, and like most fat
men is clever and big hearted.
The work CT renovating the old "state
portraits" is progressing finely. Three large
rooms In the new capitol have been appro-
priated for tie use Of Mrs. Gregory, the
artist selected by the committee to do the
work. Under her skillful brush these vain
able portraits of the "old governors O,
Georgia" 50 long neglected, are being
hands 1mely restored TO all their original
freshness and beauty. There ara some six
teen or more, many Of them I'm a very
0llaplQateQ condition. and are bainU nov