The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-23

The News Of the Two States Told
in PARAGRAPHS.

Bluff in Attempting 70 Escape and is
Captured The Grasshopper Plague
Strikes Clarke County.
GEORGIA.
The cotton CROP is fully month behind
in Douglas county.
LcCoute pears are going q begging
around Blackshear
J. Z. McLendon. "a wcll-Snowu citizen
of Macon, died Thursday.
Mrs L. II. Adams has purchased lot
70 build home on in ElDcrton.
The Methodist quarterly conference
Convcnos at Elbcrt0u tomorrow.
Woodstown is the name of another new
post0ftice established ian Henry county last
week lis located beyond Sandy Ridge,
and Win Woods is postmaster
Uncle Isaac Grant of StockhridCc, q
survivor of the Indian war OF '3b, has been
placed on the pension roll by Secretary
Smith. and received his first draft from
the government this week
The enlargement of Hotel st. Simon is
being discussed. The hotel has averaged
from 26O to 270 regular guests for the past
week In addition to this there has been
an unprecedented rush of transient traf-
fic.
During thunder storm Wednesday the
gin house of G. w. C.. Monroe near Put
nam in Marion county, was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed, together
with its entire contents. The extent Of
the loss could not be learned.
Robert Freeman and Robert Lylct's two
boys of about is who live on Broad river,
five miles from Toccoa, were playing
Thursday morning. Freeman had pistol
in his hand, and in the scutlle it was
discharged. the ball entering the breast
Of Lylcs, who died in a few minutes after
wards.
Mrs. Hattie A. Gum. of Macon. seeks
to eniOin her husband. Col. L. NJ.
Gum, from interfering with her property
in any way. and desires to have severed
the matrimonial bonds that unite them.
Col. Gum is a well-knOwn citizen and
planter, and last year was a member Of
Gov Northen's staff.
Receiver H. NJ. Conner. Of the Central
road, has filed his answer to the petition
OF Tax Collector Jones. Of Bibb county.
asking that the road pay 1886 taxes due
Bib county for 1892 Receiver Conner
admits that the amount is due, but says
the Central has not sufficient funds on
hand to pay at this time.
The bell at the Presbyterian church at
Roswell did service at an academy in Sa-
yannah near a hundred years ago. Miss
Mary Minton's mother, nee Miss Rosa
n dUluIt. dGltlNihl CtllilOl al but utdutNINs
When the Presbyterian church was or
gained here, the people of Savannah pre-
scented them the bell from the academy.
-Four years ago Brown Lawrence, of
Augusta, bought some beeves in Tennes-
see After slaugtcring one of them he
found a peculiar object in its stomach
On cleaning it he found that it was gold
dollar and that the Lords Prayer was on
one side of il. The dollar Mr.. Lawrence
gave to James r. Randall. II is now
prized as "A curiosity by Mrs. Carrie
Doughty of Augusta.
The Fourth Georgia regiment will hold
their reunion this year at Talbotton on
the 2nd of August A picture OF Gen.
DOleS. It's hrsJ colonel Will be pres 3nted
10 the regiment by Miss Daisy Hall of
Macon, daughter of Rowland b. Hall, one
of the old mambers of the regiment. The
picture win be received for the regiment
by Gen Phil Cook, who also went out
with the regiment, and was one of its
colonies The picture of Gen. Doles was
painted by Miss Hall and she makes a
donation of il TO the regiment. The pic
ture will be ratified and the proceeds go
towards the erection of a monument to
Gen. Doles at Milledgeville.
On Monday nj ght Marshal Purcell ac-
companicd by Deputy Collector Ware,
made a raid about four miles east of
one was there but they secreted them
selves-and waited. About daylight a
man approached the still The revenue
men appeared, and The moOnshiner
Started to run In his hurry he fell
down a bluff and made an ugly wound in
the back of his head. He was easily cap
tured. The name Of the captured man is
Marion Pilgrim, and he is a notorious
moonshiner who used to convert corn
into mountain dew" in White county.
Prilgrim was carried to Atlanta
Tuesday night and lodged in Jail
Athens Banner: The grasshopper is a
burden in Clarke county Just now. A
regular army OF those insects has taken
possession OF certain portion of the
county, and are playing havoc with the
crops. They We're first noticed several
days since when they were near the old
Phmizy place. They were i'll drove and
covered the ground completely for more
than an acre of space. They were then
moving along rapidly and cutting down
everything in their way. Wednesday
they struck the farm of +. NJ. McI4eroy,
about three miles from this place and AT
II o'clock commenced their work, BY
night they had eaten up an acre and d
half Of corn and cotton and were still en-
gagged in their work Of destruction. A.
one place where they had to cross a small
branch, they literally damned up the
stream, and the army passed over. A
last accounts the farmers had gotter
together and had ten negroes at work
driving them back and killing them. TIL,
most effective way Of desuOyin!
Them seems to be the torch
and the farmers are burning them up
Athens Banner: Five Forks was con
sidera bly, stirred up Wednesday evenn,
about dark by the accidental killing o.
one OF its most popular young men. rh
sudden report Of a gun in the home o
Mr. Faulkner. of that place put the pee
pie on notice that something had hGppcnei
and il was only u few minutes until it wa
announced that Mr. Polk Faulkner wa
dead. Young Polk Faulkner had beeI
out in the country and was just returning
hume He walked into q room in tn
house where his younger brother was sit
ting with u friend. Over in the corner So
an old gun that belonged to Jim Faulkner
his brother. The gun hadn't been loade,
for three years, but it is always
the unloaded gun that doe
the mischief. The Young ma
didn't think it was loaded, but as il haT
pened it was loaded, and that, too. wit
buckshot Polk Faulkner took the gu
in his hand and said, iOkingly: Boys,
believe [ will kin myself" They laughe
and so did he. He then started to set TN
gun away. and his brother caught hold c
the gun to help lower il 10 the hool
just at that moment % deafening repOT
came, and Polk Faulkner STAGGERED back