The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-22

A Dog Climbs up a Chimney 90 Es-
cape Cromatiou-A Boy Mysterious
" Disappears.
GEORGIA.
Cotton is opening iu some sections of
Houston county
John Hasnor. o German baker If Bruins
wick died suddenly Thursday morning.
Only about twenty carloads OF melons
per day are shipped from IlomasF.lle
now
john G.. Tomblmson, % most worthy citi-
zen of NaldGsta died last Tuesday after
a long illness.
A bottliug establishment viii Dee started
in AbbCvill. as soon ass suitable buildings
can bc secured.
The Cordelc district conference Of the
VI. I. church, south, will convene in Alb
beville next week.
1t is reported that there are caterpil-
lars in West Doughcrty and that cotton
is threatened with destruction.
j. K. Alliton has gathered. cured and
housed $1,000 pounds of German mille-.
raised on three sores of land at mis- tur-
pentjne farm in Irwin county this season
The store of II. G. Dye. in the Whaley
block, at Jesup, was burglarized last Sat
urday night The loss is estimated at
Sl00 Entrance was gained through a front
window.
q. w. Gibbs is Offering o reward of So
for the delivery 70 the sheriff of Wilcox
county of one D. !. Patterson He is
charged with abducting a daughter of
Gibbs from her home in May last
Mr. W. B. Torhmc. agent Of the East
& West railroad at Gainesville, was ar
rested last Saturday for q shortage in his
accounts amounting 70 $3.50. He was
placed under a light bond, and his case
was SET for trial.
r. H. Graddick, Of GAINESVILLE, is the
owner Of a $50 din dated in the year l719
The printing reads thus THE bearer is
entitled to receive sixty Spanish milled
dollars, or an equal sun in gold or sill
yer, according to a resolution of congress
of IA January. l119 " IL is signed by Jos.
(or Jas Watkins. IL was printed by
Hall x Sellers.
A young man by then of Brady, and
giving Atlanta as his home, was arrested
at Griffin Wednesday morning for rihiug
X NJ McNeill's pocket of several dollars
the night before They occupied a room
together at the helms house, when Brady
arose at an early hour and helped himself
to McNeills cash. Mcneil is from Mari
eta The money was refunded.
Richard Foster, the little negro who
killed Walter Brown, another negro boy,
at Rogers Station, on the 18th of April
last, was tried in Barlow superior court
on Tuesday on the charge of murder, and
the jury rendered a verdict Of guilty, and
on account of his youth, recommended
him to the mercy of the court. He viii
get life sentence Both of the negroes
were about the same age, between thir-
teen and fourteen years old.
A most distressing accident occurred
last Friday about two miles from Carbon
dale, in Whitfield county. John SaylOrs
was feeding "A threshing machine, when
in attempting to adjust some part of the
machinery, he accidentally stepped into
the mouth of the threshcr where the
wheat is fed in He made an effort to
eXtricate his foot and called for assistance,
but before the thresner could be stopped,
the rapidly revolving teeth had literally
torn it from the ankle Joint.
Mrs. Mary Hook, of Albany, is dis
tressed over the disappearance of her
z year-old boy, who is known at home
as Son He left home a week ago last
Monday, and friends at Sasser put him
on the train for home on Saturday night.
He came to Albany all right, but mover
went home. His mother has tried in vain
to learn something of his whereabouts
She thinks that he may have boarded the
excursion train on the Brunswick and
Western road on Saturday night.
DRsJ d. Maynard was arraigned be-
forePthe Wilcox county court last Mon
day, charged with assault and battery in
the case in which DIR. Maynard assaulted
g. f. Nasworthy, and was found guilty
and fined $50 and costs. In the case of
the state against j. ID. Maynard, charged
with pointing a pistol at another in which
the defendant entered a plea of not
guilty, the case was nolle pressed, de-
PENDANT paying costs The fine and costs
IN the two cases amounted to $50, which
was paid by defendant.
Wednesday afternoon as the Passport
was going through a slip up the Satilla
river, a row boat with eight men in it
was sighted right in her wake. 1t seems
that the man who was prOpelling the
boat thought she was going to get struck
and called out TO the men to Jump, which
command they Obeyed All the men cX-
cept one We're picked up, and it is sup
posed that he was overcome, or could not
swim, as he went down and nothing more
was seen of his body, No one knows his
name or where he was from.
An Athens lady in looking over some
old papers that she had came across two
old confederate stamps that We're issued
by L. Crawford, postmaster at Athens.
The stamps were sold at once to Mrs
Davis for SO They had been put on q
letter and sent to her brother at Huntels-
vile, Va. The brother served through
the war and carried the letter with him
after the surrender He started home
and was killed by bushwhacker in Ra-
bun county The papers that he had
when he was shot We're sent to his sister
and on one of the envelopes were the two
stamps.
Last Monday morning VIM. Hartman,
express agent al Tennille, prepared his
money packages for shipment, and In one
package was S5025. He was called from
his Office few moments and locked his
doors. When he returned he found one
of his packages missing, and knowing no
one had been in through the doors he ex-
amined the windows and found one
could be raised. He then knew someone
had been in. He at once began to give
notice, when a gentleman informed him
that he had seen a certain little negro
boy acting suspiciously about his Office
he found the negro who acknowledged
taking and burying it. The boy was
made to return the money, however, and
was whipped for the 0Hense lie is about
10 years Old.
A big sale was made by the lie COnte
pear growers in and around Cuthbcrt
Thursday, They sold to one party their
entire crops about four car loads, on the
trees. The party TO whom they sold is
already on the ground. with large force
OF hands and is gathering the shipment
While the price sold 81 was considerably