The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-07
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

OAhOA41NA IN 4
Condition OF Atlanta's Wounded Boy
Burglsr-An Attempt to Palm on a
/ Worthless Check at Ellaville-A
Letter Written Forty Years Aga
gSad Suicide lin Walton County.
GEORGIA.
There are now at Dsrien loading with
timber and lumber eleven vessels. The
river was too full for much timber 70 come
down duringlast week.
Atlanta is soon to have q first-class milf
tary band. A number Of prominent band
men are quietly organizing, and by May
will be in shape TO do business.
Whigham Grit: Hundreds Of acres OF
corn has been planted this week in our COM
munity. Farmers are bent on raising corn,
tobacco. rice, hogs and a little cotton this
year.
Andy johnson, alias Frank johnson. alias
Lucius, the man who robbed young Frank
Garrard Of Columbus Of a gun, is safely
behind prison bars, where he is liable to re-
main for the next thirty or forty years.
Over twenty tobacco barns have been COM
menced near Whigham and more are being
built A tobacco packing house and ware
house will be necessity in Whigham next
FALL Orange trees are budding near Whig-
ham and will be in full bloom in ten days.
On E. g. Paschal's place near Eatonton q
negro woman named Eveline Werner met g
horrible death Wednesday. She was burn
1ng brush, and in some way her clothing
eaught fire. No one was at hand to help her
and she was burned to death. Her body
was found after she was dead.
A week or two ago a colored woman in
Eatonton was made 10 suffer a cruel disap-
Nf.,Aw ~kmA kAfa H.
TO be married to negro man who lives IN
Atlanta, and she made preparations for the
event. The table was spread and the guests
arrived, but the groom-elect failed to put in
an appearance.
Werrenton Clipper: We don't remember
OF ever seeing the fruits trees SO backward.
This Is now March 4, and there are but few
blooms to be seen. We suppose this is some
evidence that there win be an abundant
fruit crop this yer. We are told by old
people tina fruit was never known 60 be
KILLED in the month Of March by frost.
The school children of the state have
gone to work in dead earnest TO raise their
share of the money necessary to have Geor.
gia represented at the worlds fair. The
children of Albany are the first TO respond
to this scheme. The boys and girls of the
Albany Institute have been at work can
wasting the school children, and as a result
send in a check for $l1.
The finding Of lady's dress, night~gown
and underwear in skirt Of woods near
Acworth Saturday by some hunters
created sensation in the COM
munity. The clothing indicates that IL
belonged 70 weli-to-do people. The affair
IS shrouded in mystery, and every imagin-
able theory is advanced, but no satisfactory
explanation can be made. The clothing Is
marked Annie 9. Jones Graham and
''Annie @. Graham" A COPY of an Atlanta
paper OF Feb. 20 was with the clothing.
Buena Vista Patriot: j. M. Chalkley lost
his mare last Friday. He was blowing
and stopped q moment to move some chunks
in his way. While doing this the mare be-
came frightened and made sudden break,
1oosing herself from the pillow. She ran off
about 100 yards, turning around in circle
several times as something dazed, kicking
every step, and then struck bee line for
home. She did not stop at home, however,
and when Mr.. Chalkley found her she was
lying broedside on the Pineville road
dead. 1t is thought that In the sudden fright
and jump she ruptured a blood vessel,
which caused death.
Harry Gray. Atlanta's boy burglar who
was shot few night since, Is by no means
out of danger and really is no better. His
condition Is extremely critical and DR., Law
boys left leg is paralyzed and he complains
OF shooting pains through his arms and legs,
showing that the spinal column is affected
The ball entered the left side of the neck
and ranged downward toward the front
striking the sternum, the top of the breast
bone, and glancing off to the right DR..
Lawshe has used a drainage tube to the ex-
tent OF 81 inches, but has not reached the
ball, which he thinks is at the spinal column.
Developments will have to be awaited be-
fore the result can be known.
At Ellaville last Wednesday a nice look.
ing young man hurried TO the Planters
bank while the accommodation train was
making up and requested the cashier to pay
a check for SIS. The cashier at first re-
fused to do SO, without some one would
identify him. He presented business card
as follows: Snow g Bailey. importers and
lobbers Of foreign fruits and nuts, is and II
n. Forsyth street, Atlanta, Ga.' He had
letter purporting TO come from the firm
sending him the check. This was signed by
Snow & Bailey and made payable 70
Charles d. Cohen. The check was drawn
on the American Banking and Trust Com
pany OF Atlanta, Ga. The check of course.
was not honored. The bank photographed
that there is no such firm in Atlanta.
Athens Banner: Last Saturday a couple
OF negro women went into the store of
Messrs. Davidson & Lowe and made several
purchases. In paying for the goods bought
they produced a check on the Bank of the
University. payable to Mary Jones, and
what purported to be the signature of Miss
NJ. Rutherford. The amount that the check
called for was 81. Nothing was thought of
the proceeding until this morning, when
she bank refused to honor the check, know
ing the signature was not that of Miss Ruth-
erford. Davidson 81 Lowe at once INQUIRED
of Miss Rutherford as to the validity of the
check and she responded that she had not
issued such paper. Yesterday morning
10 developed that these same negroes had
COTTON off one of their bogus checks for the
same amount on Morris Bros, aud had re-
ceived from them some cash In change.
Messrs. Michael Bros, were presented with
another OF the forged checks, but at this
house it was not honored, as they did not
believe it genuine.
Washington Gazette Mr.. Quinn showed
us an old letter dated June II, 1850. and
written by his wife's father, James R. Du-
Bose, TO Mrs DuBose. who was visiting her
mother in Carolina. From the letter it ap-
pears that our town was getting up sub
scriptions to build the Washington branch
and some persons were opposed to it. Gen.
Toombs made a speech about it. MIR,
DuBose says: "Mr. Toombs' speech
is said TO have produced a won
derful effect upon our citizens. Several
who could not be prevailed on to SUBJ
scribe, and Meriwether (Col. L. M. Hin.
brother-in-law of Mr. DuBose) was one of
them, after they heard the subject made
plain by an able debater In whom they