The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-05

I anu E'lhA hHt ON Lut llaAA'ilis shihl'
. from ihc train which was still moving
I quite rapidly. His fall broke several
! bones and injured him internally and
/ death was almost instantaneous. lay
/ l0r was said 70 be slightly demented.
The conference Of the Methodist
! church of the Gaincsvill district was in
( session AT BufOrd Wednesday and Thurs
! day. Bishop Haygood presided. DR. W
/ a. Gambler addressed the conference for
/ one hour on Christian education, fully OK
/ planning why the state is Indifferent
| about Christian teachers. Bishop Hay
! good raised the question, "whY men Of
/ the world were giving more money to
! secular education than Christian men
were giving TO Christian education"
/ Balloting for delegates was gone into and
/ II. y. Bell, Of Cumming, Paul Connolly,
/ Of NOrcross, and G.. NJ. Napier of Mon
! roe, were elected on the first ballot.
Athens Banner; Up near Tugalo, Ga,
| there is quite a tourishlng school at
! which a number of little folks are con-
stantly in attendance A few days since
little boy was bitten by dog that came
running through the play ground, and
rather CHASTITY looking wound left on his
leg IL was not known whether or not the
dog was mad, and as the little fellow was
suffering great deal, he was carried on
to TugalO az once On arriving there
Lane of this getty, took the natter in
hand and in the absence Of a physician
barred the boys leg and sucked the blood
from the wound. so that if any poisin
was there it was extracted The wound
was then dressed aud the little fellow is
doing well.
Athens Banner: Probably the oldest
person in Georgia was buried in Clarke
county yesterday morning, when out in
a A
Jones, an old negress, were consigned to
mother earth. She was one hundred and
twenty-six years old. Fora person of her
age she was well preserved, and until few
years since managed to get around very
well. She was the daughter Of a native
African who was brought over in a slave
ship, and was of course one of the old
tune darkies. She remembered very dis
tinctly of the war of the Revolution. in
which her master was engaged. Old
"'Auut Ann, f." as everybody called her was
the mother of seven or eight children, and
the youngest of these is now siXtY-eight
years old and for many years has cooked
for the family of Mr.. Thomas +. Hudson,
Of this county
Albany Herald Readers of the Herald
will remember reading some time ago
about the check for $500 left to the Triton
church by woman in Florida, and all re-
JplNGtt III bIlt EbOu lOIAullt hultu iltkU Lt3-
fallen this plucky little church, and none
reioiced more than the pastor, Mr.. Smell,
who had labored so faithfully in its be-
half. II seems that when MIR. Smell tried
to cash the check it proved to be no good,
and he was unable to procure the money.
Upon Investigation it was found that the
woman who was represented TO have
made the bequest left property in Florida,
but the Triton church was unable to real
800 "a h inc "a
was joke played upon the preacher or
whether some dishonest person appropria-
ted the money, they have never been able
to discover, In either case ii was a das-
tardly piece of work, and all good people
sympathiEe with the church and its pas
tor in their disappointment.
Frank Henniug, a white prisoner in
Fulton county jail, was presented with
a suit of clothing Thursday. Henning
was arrested Monday, charged with en-
tering a room and stealing an outfit of
wearing apparel. He was carried to po-
lice headquarters; the clothing was iden-
tilted; Henning was stripped naked and
the stolen property given to its rightful
owner. What can | put on}n asked
Henning. Nobody knew. GIVE me some
Clothes said Henning. 1t was nobody's
business TO do that and nobody did it.
Henning was in fearfully embar-
became necessary to remove him
to the county Jail. The emergency was
met by Henuing, forced to rely entirely
upon his own resources, wrapping himself
in blanket. At the Jail again, having
parted with the blanket, which was only
loanded him, Henning was left naked. 1t
was nobody's business to help him; the
1atlers had no money for such incidentals;
the county made no provisions for such
Ia record 1fhOYsi ypH on
penditure to buy clothing for prisoners.
Thursday Sheriff Barnes received from
w. j. Tanner, whose heart had been
touched by the story of Henning's woe, a
complete outfit for the unfortunate 1t
was promptly forwarded.
The banks composing the Atlanta Clear
ing House Association have signed an
agreement to charge for the cost of col
lection on all checks and drafts drawn on
points outside of Atlanta which may be
deposited over their counters as cash, the
following schedule to go into effect Aug.
10: On items of New York Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore no charge
will be made. On items on the following
points the uniform rate of 1-10 of
per cent win be charged viz: Augusta,
Savannah, Charleston, Macon, Columbus,
Louisville, Chattanooga, New Orleans ,
Birmingham, Chicago, Athens, Rome, ST
Louis and Cincinnati. On all other points
the following charges will be made: On
items up to S25 a charge of 10 cents; on
items from sos to $50 a charge of Is cents ;
on items from $50 to 500 a charge
of p cents; or items upward
of 800 a charge of Il of /
per cent. In buying and selling New York
exchange the following schedule viii pre-
vail; In seling-On sums up TO 81 600,
81. 30 per thousand will be charged, from
81 900 to 50 900, 50 per thousand viii be
charged from 81, 900 upwards. $3.50 per
thousand. On New York exchange de-
posted, a premium OF as cents per 81 900
may be allowed. In view of the fact that
we are to allow a premium on New York
exchange, we hereby agree TO discontinue
selling New Yorltexchange to anyof our
customers at par.
Perry journal A pistol in the hands
of negro boy did frightful work last
Sunday morning, on the farm of N
Marsh burn, about two miles east of Hous-
ton Factory The older members of two
families were at church several miles
from home. There were several boys at
home, among them Robert Cook and Lee
| Turner. During the morning the boys
went to the house in which the Cook boy
lived. For some purpose Robert went
into the house, and then came to the door
with his fathers pistol in his hand
| The other boys told him to put
the pistol up, that he would hurt
| some one with it. In the mean
time two or three of the boys had entered