The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Com 4 of Child Who Owned Them.
A Negro Boy Killed by Train While
Asleep on the Track.
GEORGIA.
The postoffice at Flowery Branch has been
made a money order Office.
Gov. Northen he's proclaimed Thursday,
Nov. "A, as Thanks giving day.
When the police Of Macon put on their
winter uniforms the lieuteuants and ser
geants will wear caps the exact pattern of
those worn by naval officers.
A negro man named Henderson was
stealing ride on the Central train Satur-
day night and fell off at BENEFITS mill. He
died az McBean Sunday from his injuries.
A well-known young man of Augusta
tried to pass a check Monday to which had
been forged the name of Hon. Patrick
Walsh. The bank saw the fraud at glance.
The Chronicle withholds his name.
The barn and contents on the Gum place,
about two miles below Macon, near Tufts
springs, was burned Saturday night. The
contents were valued at several hundred
dollars. TWAS owned by MIR. Pettigrew.
The. Bib county grand jury were ex-
aiming state witnesses against the faklrs at
the state fair grounds Monday. Some
twenty-five Of Macon's most prominent
citizens have been subpRnaed as state wit
nesses and the examination was lively.
The bond required of the postmaster of
Macon is S35 900, but it is equivalent to a
bond'of double that amount, as the bonds
men must qualify TO $4,000 Nothing but
individual bonds can be given. Wanna
maker recommended to the last congress
that the law be changed, requiring guaran-
tee company bonds, but the law has not yet
passed.
The other day Rube Evans one of Macon's
brightest artists, went cunning, and the
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bis return was rabbit and squirrel. They
caught Rube's artistic eve, and snatching
up the lid of a cracker box he went to work
with his pastels. In an hour he had drawn
the two beauties on that rough board. In
smother hour he had sold the picture for So.
Augusta Herald: The third party mem
bers Of the West End Methodist church
81 Luke's, are treating the pastor, Rev. B.
Z. L. Timmons. very stability. They
threatened that IL he voted the democratic
ticket they would not pay their ASSESS
ments IL all accounts are true, they are
sticking TO the threat. This is too bad
Mr.. Timmons is an estimabe Christian
gentleman, and should not be treated in any
such manner.
The two cars built at the Central railroad
shops at Macon for the purpose of entering
them In the torchlight professions of At
tanta and Macon have been shipped to At
ianta. The cars are only about half the
size OF the regulation cars, Aand consist of
one freight and one passenger car They
are very light, weighing only 300 or 400
pounds each and were mounted on draws.
Master Maohanic Frank McGee and Fore.
man WIN Goodyear went TO look after the
proper handling Of the cars. After the
rally In Atlanta. they will be taken back
70 Macon and entered In the torchlight pro-
oession there on Thursday night.
prominent society lady in New York
recently tried the experiment of giving a
dinner to party of five friends at an ex-
pense OF IS. The dinner consisted Of four
courses, and, from the description, was a
real gem of dinner. A Macon lady beat
It, however, one afternoon last week She
started the dinner with a certain famous
brand Of canned clam chowder, which is
superb. Then O baked blue fish, followed
by tomatoes, pease, ETC., topping off with
fruit and a canned English plum pudding
The entire dinner for the six covers cost Just
~ %. With the exception of some Of the
fruit, the celery and the bread, every item
of the dinner came 90 Macon in tin cans.
even to the tiny crackers.
y. Hechtl of Macon, whose little child died
last Thursday, tells OF the strange action of
three pet pigeons that belonged to the dead
child. Up to the time of the child's death
the pigeons had never been known to come
unto the house, but on the day of its death
and after the body had been placed in the
colin, two OF the pigeons came into the
room where the corpse was, and few upon
the coffin, and looked at the child's face,
through the glass in the cover. Some mem
Der OF the family frightened the pigeons
away, and they few TO the window and
perched upon the sill, where they remained
all day. In the afternoon the other pigeon
came into the house, and acted in the same
manner as the first two. The pigeons could
not be made to leave the room until the
corpse was taken away for burial
An amusing incident occurred on lower
Broad street at Augusta Sunday night.
The police are going around making
the merchants remove all sign boards
and boxes and other Instructions from the
edge Of the sidewalks and informing them
that they can occupy four feet from the
building to store their goods. Ed Handy,
who runs a small shop on Broad near Center
street, misunderstood the officer, thinking
he said he was entitled TO fonr feet of land
and he commenced to fence In the front OF
his building. He built high fence, which
made an ugly obstruction ana shut off the
merchants on the side. Policeman Mike
Kelly had to go to Handy and explains
matters and make him tear down the fence
Two negro boys named Sidney Martin
and Lawson Edwards. aged about IS, went
20 sleep Sunday night on trestle No. 449C on
the East Tennessee road about five miles
from Macon, just inside the Bib county
line, and one of them awoke Monday morn
ing Ia eternlty. Engineer L. h. Bennett
was at the throttle of passenger train No.
90 and Conductor G. Hammond pulled the
bell cord when they Numbered around
curve en- route for Macon, and when tue
engineer saw two dark objects lying lust
ahead of him on the track near the trestle
between the rail and guide rail he realized
that 1t was too late to stop his machine. A
second scarcely before the train reached the
two men asleep on the track Lawson Ed
wards became aroused and realizing his
danger slipped off the track but his com.
panion slept on. The pilot of the engine
struck him with terrible force on the head
knocking him down a steep embankment
and killing him almost instantly
FLORIDA.
The Needham brick block at Leesburg is