The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-14
GEORGIA AND Florida.
rHE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


An Augusta Contractor Skips-The
Rice Crop Up the AItamehs.
GEORGIA
A deaf mute named Lula Bailey was
killed on the railroad track near the barrel
factory st Augusta Sunday morning.
The Episcopal church at Dewitt is now
undergoing construction. The frame work
Is nearing completion and work will be
begun on the inside in few days.
Sheriff Patterson arrived at Bainbridge
Sept. 10 from Arkansas with Walter and
John Williams. A large crowd of curiosity
seekers were at the depot to witness their
arrival.
Sunday morning at about O'Clock John
J. O'Connor q valuable employe in the
machine shops of the Georgia railroad at
Augusta, died after an illness Of several
weeks duration.
DR.. Young ]. Allen, from Shanghai,
China, IL on a visit to his family, who are
st Newman, Ga. he has two daughters at
school at Wesleyan College, Macon. The
Methodists Of Georgia and the south will be
glad TO welcome the doctor back among
them.
The schooner NJ. K. Rawley, Capt. Bar
ter, bound from Darien to an eastern port,
put into st. Andrews sound the other day
leaking badly and with sickness among the
crew. This vessel is loaded with lumber
aud IL is said the sickness is swamp fever,
contracted while the vessel lay in Darien
hsrbor. A naphtha launch left for the
vessel with physician on board.
Mrs. Josephine E Delay died In Augusta
Monday morning Mrs. DELAY was born
in Charleston In 1918, and consequently at
the time OF her death was "a years OF age.
She was a pious Christian woman of q
tender and loving nature. whose long life
was shining example to be followed and
sought after Three more devoted Chris
tian woman and loving sisters could not be
found than Mrs. Delay, Mrs. J. Alma
Pelot and Mrs. MCQUEEN Of Camden, s. c.
Covington Star: The registration just
closed IL the largest ever had IN Newton
county. The number Of registered voters
for the coming elections fs LOSS. The next
largest registration before this one was for
the prohibition election on June %, 1892.
The number registered for thst election was
1874. The ma ortty Of the present regis |
tration over that one Is ia. or the 2,0S8 |
voters now registered 1887 are white and |
S01 are colored. This gives the whites a |
clear majority Of 476.
At SylvAnia Sunday night young ne- |
gro named June PollIns was shot and |
killed by an unknown person on the out |
skirts Of Sylvania. The shooting occurred |
at a house. The murderer, concealed near
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going out OF the house to ascertain the |
cause, was shot, He died almost instantly,
being struck just above the heart This is
the story told by the inmates of the house.
After the shooting the women left the BODY
lying where it fell, where is remained all
night Suspicion rests on a negro named
Jim Burns.
Augusta Chronicle: Subcontractor C. H.
jackson is under arrest in Chattanooga for |
aRfprinor A,,r 80 -
Rounds money. He left Augusta Saturday |
night with the purpose OF evidently trying |
to reach his old home, Kansas City, but a |
telegram from Chief Hood forced him to |
lay over In Chattanooga. The charge |
booked against him is larceny after trust, |
and as jackson refuses to return to Georgia |
and Augusta without requisition papers,
these papers will be gotten out as soon as |
possible and an officer sent to Chattanooga
10 bring jackson back.
A peculiar surgical operation was uer-
formed on the person OF Robert McKin- |
ney, who lives in Texas valley, near Rome, |
MIR. Mckinney is an old confederate vet |
eran, and during the last battle around |
Richmond he received q wound Ia one of |
his legs That wound never was cured,
bat continued 20 give him pain and suffer-
when DR.. Henry Battey amputated the
limb. DIR. Battey was assisted by Drs. w.
A. johnson and G. s. HarriA When last
heard from Mr.. Mckinney was doing quite
well and bids fair to survive the aTnpu-
tation.
Brunswick Times: Yesterday G. A.
O'Dennell OF Charleston arrived in Bruins
wick after weeks visit to the rice farms
up the Altemaha. He is interested in the
rice business and has been up the river
He told Times man that the
prospect at present needed q little light on
10 to make 10 favorable. In other words it
Is gloomy. BE says the very heavy rains
and winds, together with the extremely
high tides, have thrown much CT the crop
into the mud, and that there will be greas
loss "The sooner this rain ceases" he con-
oluded, "the better it will be for the rice
planters"
Albany Herald: The average Georgia
darby will attempt at times TO exhibit Bis
knowledge, or rather his lack OF kno Wedge,
even though 10 causes him to show bis ex-
ceedtng ignorance. The tales about their
corruptions OF words and idioms are anus
Ing and ludiorous In the extrema A farm
hand near Albany, who had heard some
thing OF the miners riot IN Tennessee re-
Gently, said to his employer: ~ heered soma
thin erbout war Roin' on up north
What's de 'casion TO itgn II was explained
that 1t was only a riot in Tennessee on the
part or some miners, but the darky did not
seem to understand what a riot was
"Reckon 1t mus be data ar war whuts 10 w'd
de price o. cotton" he said, with knowing
look, as he walked away.
J. Hill & Bro, wholesale grooers of Cor
dele, have fled their complaint with the in
terstate commerce commission against the
railroads for the heavy freight rates given
20 Cordele. Their complaint states that
grain from the west is brought by the rail-
roads every day through Cordele to Al
banY, Americas and Macon, and vet Cor
dele has a higher rate than all the other
points and nearly double any one of them.
Cordele ought TO be competitive point be-
cause we have three independent lines of
railway. The city council is going 10 do its
best to get Cordele acknowledged as a com
petihve point and have her freight rates
put on par with Macon, Americas or AL
bany. Complaint is also lodged with the
Southern Railway and Steamship Assooia-
zion, and the people ere long hope to get re-
lief. II the petition lie not granted the citv
council will employ competent attorneys to
present the case.
AT about 30 o'clock Sunday afternoon
Miss Fannie Hereford Strahan died sud-
denly at the home of her mother. Mrs.
Judge Strahan, on Alexander street. At
tanta- The news OF this death will bring
sorroW 70 many friends OF this charming
young lady and of the family. Miss Stra-
han was a daughter NJ 1Ibief JustIoa