The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-10


ton Due TO Drinking Ice Water The
Slayer of Henry Head SUrrenders
Voluntarily.
GEORGIA.
DIR. w. Furlow Holt was buried at Ma
con FRIDAY He died at Chicago.
The Athens Banner wants the salaries
Of the city officials of Athens cut down,
Franklin ought 10 have canning
factory. Less than 5000 will equip one
Of 1000 cans capacity per day
During the month Of June there was
shipped from DariCn. cOastwis" and for
eign. l2412.g4S feet of hewu and saWn
timber and lumber.
Montezuma offers to build $50, 900
court house and 10 furnish lot to build
it on, absolutely free of charge to the
county. provided the town is made the
county seat.
Speaker Crisp reached Americas Fri
day from his flying trip TO New York to
deliver the Fourth of July GRAFTON, for
which purpose he left last saturday
Barring the fatigue of the trip this hot
weather the speaker is all right.
Henry Dyer and Martin Thornton en-
gagged in an alteration at Newman on the
Fourth of July. and Dyer hit Thornton
in the jaw with a wagon-spoke. Thorn
ton was msensible for half an hour from
the effects of the blow, and has not yet
recovered. Both parties are colored.
An undivided one-sixteenth interest in
the American schooner Cassie jameson
was sold at public cutlery at Darien on
Tuesday for $500 and the old tug Leo for
for $50, Mr.. VIM Dowuey being the pur-
chaser of both. The property belonged
to the estate of the late John Malcolm.
Major W. L. Glessner arrived at Macon
Friday with a party Of about forty prom
inent OhiOaus who come TO Georgia to
investigate the fruit lands of middle
Georgia, and especially the fruitful terri
tory near Macon. The party is composed
of good business men, many Of whom
have already invested largely in Georgia
land and orchards.
John s. Fish died suddenly at Dalton
FRIDAY morning. The cOrOncr's jury
rendered a verdict of apoplexy, the at
tack being brought on by exposure TO the
sun and too much ice water Mr., Fish
was superintendent Of the Iripoli mines
and part owner He came to Dalton from
Franklin, Pa, and discovered the mines.
He was an esteemed and valuable citizen.
The Twelfth Georgia Battalion of ar
tillery, of which the old Newman Guards
was a part, will hold its annual reunion
in Charleston, 5. c., during the first or
second week of August-not later than
the 18th. Excursion rates from Atlanta
TO Charleston and return will be 81, in
Guiding a siXty-mile ocean excursion from
the city Of Charleston out TO the At
lantic
While negro in Towns county was cut
ting down an old oak tree his AK sud
denly sunk deep in the hollow, and then,
what appeared TO be the remains of a hu-
man skull rolled down and out at his feet
He did not stay to investigate, but, leav-
ing ak and tree, made "a Decline for
home, where he arrived half dead with
fright. 1t was some time the next day
before he could be persuaded 20 return
and locate the tree The skull was found
as he had represented, also one or two
small particles of bone, and what APP
peared to have once been sword. all
though no handle was attached to it.
How did the skeleton get in the tree z
The latter is a very old oak, and from all
appearances, the CHASTITY human relics
must have been wedged in there for a
great number of years.
During a revival Of religion among the
negroes of Baker county an old negro
told his wife that he had "seeu vision. -
and had been commanded to go out in an
old field about midnight and seek reli-
hgion. His wife was impressed with
his account of the vision and advised him
to follow its commandment. Accordingly,
about y o'clock the next night the old
negro started on his mission. He had
been away perhaps an hour, when his
wife heard grOans outside, accompanied
by loud banging on the door. Discover
ing that it was her husband, and that
he was in distress, she FASTENED to admit
him, and when he found breath to ex-
plain, he said PUT de latch on that
door an put the table ergin it; de angel
come down and chase me outen de ole
fell, an he's a-comin' down de road now,
an comm lax de debbil, wild wings ten
foot long, an bill like a woodpeckerl' -
Macon Telegraph; An unknown negro
worked a sue cessful dodge on Mr. N. B.
Johsnon that for pure cheek and
audacity is hard TO beat. Since
the watermelon season egm Mi.
johnson has been bUllng melons by the
car and selling them out to the local re-
tail merchants. He has his own teams to
haul the melons from the cars to his store
and from there he sends them out TO the
dealers in quantities of fifty and upward.
In handling the melons il is necessary to
employ several lahOrers For the past
few days he has noticed strange negro
who would assist the laborers employed
but he has never asked for a situation
When asked by Mr.. johnson why he was
working he would reply that
he wanted drink or dime
which was always readily given
Saturday Mr.. johnson learned why the
negro was such a willing worker and had
been so gratuitous with his services. Mr.
johnson had young white man employed
to drive his delivery wagon, and yester
day he was told to take fifty melons tC
MIR. PAGES and fifty to Mr.. Isaacs and
fifty to Mr. Johnson at the VinevillC
branch. He started off, but had only
gone as far as the city hall when he was
overtaken by the negro, who told him that
Mr.. johnson had made out two bills fol
the melons, one to each party, and sale
for him to collect them. The youngwhitt
man never suspected anything wrong
and when the melons were delivered the
negro presented the bills for $3.50 each
which was paid. He put the money il
his pocket, got back on the wagon anC
came down town until nearly at MIR
JohnsOn's store, when he said he woulC
get off, as he had a little business to at
tend to. He got of and has not been seer
since. The police are looking for him.
Arthur Glover, who shot Henry Head
last October, arrived at Augusta Satur
day and went TO police barracks, where
he gave himself up. Mr. Glover was seer
by a Herald reporter Immediately upon
his arrival, to whom he gave the follow
ing story of the shooting: Il was talk
ing to another gentleman" be said, "anC
we began to quarrel. Il asked him if he
meant 10 insult me, when Head walked