The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-06
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
News Of The Two States Told in Para
graphs.

The Murray Hill Property at Augusta
Sells for SO GOETHE Fortune of the
Late Senator Brown-A Man Killed by
the Bite OF Mathematical st. Au-
gustine Woman Chloroformed by a
Burglar-A Saw Mill Burned at
Alapaha.
GEORGIA.
Warren Garrett is a candidate for the
Office of clerk Of Taylor superior court.
w. o. Herndon, a merchant of Hogans-
VILE, has assigned. Liabilities $4,000; as
sets $4,000.
A large, new dry goods establishment
will be one of the new year institutions
for Brunswick.
A charter of the Aiken Canning Com
pany was granted by Judge Sweat at
Brunswick Tuesday.
At Alpha Sunday night the saw mill of
j. B. Galloway was burned to the ground.
The loss is about $1,000. with no insur-
ance The origin of the fire is thought to
have been incendiary.
A good deal Of corn has been offered for
sale at Sandersville. The local demand
has been supplied, and 1t is now difficult
TO find purchasers. 1t is being offered at
ou cents per buSHtAf NuOA6n EOAlAE HAS ntGh
sold as low as 40 cents.
An old and respected colored man named
Ben Jones was struck and knocked from
the track by the pilot of the east-bound
passenger train on the Georgia railroad at
the Covington depot on Saturday morning
last and almost instantly killed.
At Columbus Monday night two negroes,
Mack Alexander and Son Banks, engaged
in difficulty. in which the former used
a knife to such effect as came very near
proving fatal to his opponent. The diff
Guilty is said to have been started by the
negro Alexander taking "A flask of whisky
belonging to Banks and running home
with it,
The schooner Susie H. Davidson, now at
the Satilla river mills at Brunswick was
attached Tuesday by Officer Leavy, for the
amount of towage bill due the Passport.
The attachment papers were sworn out by
Capt. B. A. White before Justice Hitch.
Officer Leavy will serve the papers on
Capt. Powell before the schooner is
ready to sail. The amount of towage due
the Passport is 500.
DR.. o. c. Pope of Augusta, has been in
vited by the president of Mercer Univers-
ity of Macon, to take charge of the de-
partment of neutrality-suspicious. and
delivery of sermons in the theological
school connected with the university,
which begins Jan. 8, for session of TWO
months. 1t is expected that large num-
Der of ministers of the Baptist denomi-
nation will avail themselves of this special
course to rub up in their studies.
The congregation of the Jewish syna-
gogue in Augusta have decided to adopt
the reform custom of gentlemen taking off
their hats in church. Heretofore 1t has
been optional with the worshippers
whether or not to remove their hats. The
Orthodox Jews always wore their hats in
the temple during the service, but now a
general rule has been adopted so as to
make it uniform, and in future all male
attendants at the services will be re-
quired TO keep their heads uncovered.
Just before day Monday morning burg
lars, by the use of a step ladder, broke
open a window at the rear of Mr.. PutzeFs
saloon and entered his restaurant attach
ment. His elegant $l75 cash register was
taken out in the back yard, where the
bottom was smashed out of it, keys
broken and otherwise badly damaged. The
register contained $40 in cash, and of this
amount only $3.50 was taken. Mr.. Putzel
said he wuold have given $25 rather than
have his register torn up like it is now.
Brunswick Times-Advertiser A repor-
ter visited the residence of W. H. Ander-
son, and saw the very peculiar work of a
burglar who entered the house Sunday
night. The residence was unoccupied at
the time of the burglary. One of the front
windows was broken open with a rock
and through this entrance was effected
Nothing was taken but a few lamp burn
efs. Everything in the house was turned
topsy-turvy; the mechanism Of the clocks
were all carefully picked to pieces, and
the burglar left a pair of black socks in
the center of the parlor floor. 1t was sus-
pected that the burglar was one of the
Italians, who had spotted" the house
while at work on the Mansfield street
sewer, but this was proven false by the
socks which were thin, black ones. The
Italians all wear thick, wooden socks.
c. K. Leitner of Augusta, who has been
contracting in South Georgia, tells of the
following deplorable accident that hap
pened a few days ago in a camp near Lake
Butler on the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad. r. d. Mond. a cross
tie contractor of Geneva, had stroled
from the camp on a hunting expedition
He was chasing a wounded squirrel when
huge rattlesnake fastened its teeth in
the fieshy part of the leg. Mr.. Mond killed
the snake, took his pocket knife and cut
out the flesh bitten from the calf of his
leg and with his suspenders lightly corded
the leg above the wound, but to no effect
lie was found unconscious in the big road
with the following note to his brother
who was in camp: About ten minutes
ago ] was bitten by a large rattlesnake
NAiN 0-isAhAS' Ut a PASSV Jul VI
my leg and corded it, but 1 don't think
Will live to reach the big road. Take
care Of my little boys" After the dis
covery of Mr.. Mond in an unconscious
condition he was carried to the camp, but
did not revive, and that night he died
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Rosa. the A.
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs r.
l.. Salter, was horribly burned Monday
shortly after noon. Some little boys were
burning on the grass on the vacant Quinn
lot Just south Of Mr.. Salters residence