The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
Tho News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs.

GaTf-d defense IN LoWuuss county
Cs~ Robbers Caught in Morgan
Countv-An Accident in a Machine
sbop-A Negro Dragged Down by an
Alligator.
GEORGIA.
samuel Higgins, of Rome, died Of lock-
Jaw Friday o,-.,,- -
bepr adjudged insane.
pefore the season is over nearly 1000
bsrrels of pears will have been shipped
rom Darien. Last season but very few
were shipped.
+ C. Hogan of Lincoln county is build
inc large two-story brick building on
+be old stand of j. M. Callan, near the
5snot at Washington. Mr. Hogan will
On into the mercantile business.
A Young white boy, by the name of Gus
THOMSON, of Rough Edge district, Troup
county. was fined $50 for drawing pistol
On a negro named Adam McLendOn, by
Tudga Turner. at the regular term of the
Unity court on Tuesday last. He was
also fined S25 for carrying concealed
weapons
The barn and stables on /. N. Williams
farm two miles from Sparks, in Worth
county we're burned to the ground on
Sunday last The place was occupied by
a tenant. who, with his family, was gone
from home. 1t was set fire to near 8
o'clock a. m, by some means unknown.
Loss slight, except the buildings, which
were about S3OO
At Macon Thursday L. Goldman, a
pawnbroker, pleaded guilty to the charge
of selling secOnd-handed clothing and was
fined 500, his license was taken away
and his little pawn-shOp closed up by the
otficers. The secondhand clothing was
bought and not deposited in pawn. To do
this business a special license is required.
Goldman did not take one out.
A few days ago Captain f. J. O'Connor
mailed at the Augusta Office, to a business
house in Huntsville. Ala, letter contain
inc SO Instructions to his clerk were to
rpoister the letter, but this was not done.
The letter reached its destination minus
the money The bills had been extracted
and pieces of a newspaper inserted in
their stead The letter reached Atlanta
all right. but was robbed between there
and Huntsville postoftice inspector
from Chattanooga is working on the case.
Jack johnson, a young man living in the
Mt. Hope neighborhOod, in Han
cock county, died near o'clock
on last Sunday morning last from
drinking laudanum. For weeks he had
been occasionally heard to threaten the
taking OF MS me III LIllS DIuuLtI1 blu liO
one seemed to apprehend that he was in
earnest. Indeed, it is not certain, even
now, the rash act of Saturday afternoon
was really intended. Some think hewent
through the motions in a spirit of bravado,
and that the deadly drug deceived him.
The suit of J. J. O'Neill & Son against
DR. J. B. S. Holmes has been going on at
Rome for four weeks and still continues
The suit is in the nature of a material
mans lien, and is for 81, 900. DR. Holmes
denies the lien by claiming payment, in
feriority of work and in other ways. The
case is being tried before Junius Hillyer,
who was made auditor. There are 395
items in the bin, and every one is being
contested. In the four weeks only three
witnesses have been examined. These
are DIR. Holiness j. j. O'Neill and G.. E.
Murphy.
An unfortunate accident occurred at the
machine shops of the Brunswick and
Western railroad company at Brunswick
Thursday by which Mr. Southland, one of
the carpenters, came near losing his life
while engaged in shaping up a block of
wood at the circular saw. The teeth of
the saw in some way became mOmentari-
" fastened in the block, jerking it from
the hands of Mr.. Southland and throwing it
at a tangent. 1t struck Mr.. Southland
squarely in the face, fracturing his nose
lip and severely brnising his left eye.
There are some nice distinctions in law
A saloonkeeper, for example, can be pun
lshed for selling spirituOus liquors to a
drunken man. Beer is a malt liquor, and
the law does not prohibit its sale to a
drunken man. This, at least, is the in
depreciation of the law by Recorder Andy
Calhoun, of Atlanta. G. w. Lawless, a
saloonkeeper, who was arrested on a
s.-H,s
Gated man, was tried and dismissed by
the recorder. The law says no man shall
sell spirituous liquors TO a man intOXi-
Gated, but says nothing of malt liquors
and Lawless was dismissed for that rea-
son.
Miss Susie Alderman and Mrs. DIR. Nc
Lean, of Statesboro, had an experience
the other day that barely missed proving
serious. They were hitching up Col. Lee
Moore's horse for a drive in the country,
and when about ready to start observed
that the halter bride had been left off.
Miss Susie undertook to fix it, and for
that purpose slipped off the Bride while
Mrs Mclean held the driving reins. AS
soon as the blinds were removed the
horse became frightened at tht buggy top,
and began to cut his capers. He knocked
Miss Susie down and ran the buggy over
her and dragged Mrs. Mclean along as
2A' Nil6u 10 uOIu MN DN inc IOOSG Dflul6
finally throwing her against 1.-THE fence
with considerable violence and making
his escape
Whether or not there is any truth in
the story that a negro who knows a great
zeal about the murder of Policeman Par
kef has been located on the Gresham
plantation, in Carolina, will be developed
IN day or two. Mr. w Fl. Nurnberger
mas received a letter from the gentleman
VINO have interested themselves in the
case, and the information is given that
the negro will be brought to Augusta or
paced IN such a position that an Augusta
oncer can interview him. This. in all
probability, will be done tomorrow.
ChIet Hood is giving all cooperation in
.he matter possible, but does not seem to
lhlnE that the further investigation will
amount to much, or that participation in
!ne matter will be fixed on the negro who
Is now suspected
Inc skeleton of a United States soldier
was resurrected in the Fifth ward just
across the bridge at Rome Thursday. The
seHueman' 5 name cannot be given, nor
yam ms command, but it is supposed that
Lt was a member of that portion of Sher-
Tdh army that passed through Rome.
NE most interesting discovery was a
oId9s buckle that bore the imprint of an
Sd=!e and some words that could not be
ue'iIhered because Of the rust. 1t is sup
1o>ed tnat it is the skeleton of a United
ogites soldier, and Tom Tally expects to
So ABOUT so for the discovery. 1t was