The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-11

Fire Destroys the HandEomest Rouse
In lLaurens CountY-A Boy Danger
ously Slabs his Playmate.
GEORGIA
The LAGRANGE mills are selling tons upon
tons Of their Chattahoochee guano. cotton
seed meal and acid, and it is being hauled
out in large quantities.
Heidingsfelder & Marx. propristors of
the Commercial hotel at Macon, which was
recently badly damaged by fire, have been
awarded &, 900 insurance money.
The town OF Dublin has purchased the old
academy property from the board Of trustees
and the Masonic lodge. The price paid was
$1,000 The building will be moved and a
town park made Of the grounds.
Near Ochlockonee day or two ago a lit
tie son of II. Golf was badly burned and is
not expected to live. He was In the field
where his father was burning trash when
his clothing ignited and was almost COM
pletely burned from his body.
William Hendry, q farmer living near
Ochlockonee. Thomas county. lost 900
panels Of fence Sunday by fire. 1t was
with great difficulty that the flames were
finally extinguished. Besides ali the neigh
bors. citizens from Ochlockonee, had to go
20 his assistance.
Last Wednesday morning two negroes
Swanson. living near Lagrange, got into
fight, IN which Peter was considerably
worsted. Besides biting Peter over the eye
aud in1icting an ugly wound, Edmond cut
him with Ratchet. inficting most pain
full wound ia Peters leg.
Earnest Bagley, the 14-year-old son OF
Mr.. Bagley of Columbus. who is connected
with the Georgia Midland railroad. amused
himself Sunday afternoon with spring
board 10 the back yard OF his fathers house,
The board is an excellent one and the boy
succeeded in jumping so high that when
he came down he missed his footing, fell
TO the ground and broke his arm Just abo 70
the wrig1.
The clubs all over the state are making
great preparations to fight in the supreme
court the taxes that have been laid upon
their organizations. The Elke of Augusta
were notified by the controller general that
they would be compelled to pay tax
license. and everything is being prepared
for grand legal battle on the subject. The
Elks Club is strictly private organization.
Only those who are members can partici-
pate in the privileges, and on those grounds
the fight will be made.
The beautiful dwelling Of n. f. 'Vickers.
near Montrose, in the western portion Of
Laurens county was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night Of last week. None OF the
furniture was saved. The dwelling was
three stories high with a mansard roof aud
was built by Col A. E. Vickers In 1871 or
1872 at Il cost of $4,000. 1t was one OF the
handsomest houses in the county and one of
the prettiest country bones III Georgia
The cause of the fire is unknown. There
was $4,000 insurance on the house.
Atlanta Journal: A gentleman who is in
position to know laughed very much at
the effort to bring out Col. German for
governor as a candidate against Gov.
Northen. 1T suits the purposes of some
people 10 try and use Col Germans name
In that connection, but / happen to know
that Col. German is for Northen for gov
ernor, and has but very recently assured
him OF his support and good wishes. Col
German will be candidate for congress,
and Moses will have To 'everlestingly dust
TO beat him."
Two small boys. Edgar Byrd, aged 10
years, aud Carl Cooper aged ~, live near
together on Tenth avenue, Columbus, and
Tor a long time have been playmates. Mon.
day. together with several other boys, they
were playing when quarrel arose between
them. In fight which followed Cooper
stabbed his companion in two places with a
long bladed pocket knife. A out In the
shoulder, though painful, did not seem ssr-
ious. The lower cut, however, WAS only
half an inch in length, but every time the
boy drew his breath the air escaped from
1t, showing that the knife had penetrated
into the cavity Of his body. Dir. J.. s.
Mitchell says that young Byrd is seriously
hurt, aud his wounds may have very grave
results.
Washington Chronicle; Last Friday af-
ternoon Masters illus Ivey and Jimmie
jackson decided TO go out cunning, so going
by Mr.. Kramer's store, they persuaded
Joe" Mr.. kramer's little rat terrier. to
accompany them. Arriving at the hunting
grounds the boys decided 20 fire Off their
guns to see that they were all right. One
Of them aimed up a tall pine at q bunch OF
burrs. and succeeded in cutting or the top
OF neighboring tree; while the other,
shutting his eyes, let go both barrels in the
direction of an imaginary covey of par-
tridges; but alas little Joe, hearing the
shooting and running up at this moment,
received the entire charge intended for the
fleeing birds, and with feeble yelp, closed
bis eyes forever on the scenes Of this world
Augusta Herald: w. H. Boulware. a
prominent country merchant over in South
Carolina, attempted suicide Saturday
night. Mr.. Boulware has been drinking
heavily for the past two months aud his
friends have been fearing something of this
kind. On Saturday night he had O severe at
tack OF delirium tremens. In the midst Of
his agonies he plunged a knife up to the
handle into his throat. He was found in
bed next morning lying unconscious in a
pool Of blood. A physician was summoned
and the work of resuscitation was begun.
When he had sufficiently regained his
presence OF mind TO speak sensibly he
voluntarily said that he would rather kill
himself than to be killed by the "blue
devils" He is considerable better at the
time OF this writing, but his friends are
still little apprehensive.
Macon Telegraph: The Macon postoffice
Is to be provided with novelty in the way
OF cancelling and postmarking machine
Postmaster Locke has received instructions
from the Postmaster General to look into
the possibility of securing motive power for
a new postmarking machine, 70 take the
place of the hand machine now in use.
Postmaster Locke hoped to have the
machine operated by electricity, but finds
that be will have to use water motive power
The providing of power canceling and
postInarking machine for the Macon Office
Is something great. There are only six of
these machines in operation in the United
States, at such places as Now York, Boston,
Washington, Chicago. Philadelphia and
baltimore. There is not one in operation in
the south. The machines will cancel and
postmark 10000 letters per hour. POST
master Locke thinks it is the purpose of the
department to place the machines in all
Offices Of the Importance of Macon.
A correspondent of the Brunswick Times
writes to that paper from WaynesviIle as
follows: I'm the woods to the east Of the
railroad, about twenty.four miles from
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