The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
News Of the Two States Told in Para
49, graphs.

a Valuable Cup Fo ind OF ST. simon's
Island-A Negress Makes a Desperate
Attempt to Cut a Mans Throat-A
Sensational Shooting array at Stiles
boro.
GEORGIA.
The Irwin County News tells Of a Sycamore
man who. married his second WIG llEo
DAYS after the burial Of the hrst-
There are two notabie twins in Baker county
They are negro women. aud are enjoying hle
at the comfortable age OF sJ years
At Quitrnan Tuesday ii. n. MaIlet. receiver
OF the Quitrson Lumber on pang. ana the ~.
ton and Albany railroad, SoLN uoth properties
for $50 90
alta meeting Of tho commissioners Of l3i5o
county Tuesday resolution WAS pas5,al thdofa-
ing the candidacy OF Capt. Jetfe "a OILS Io-
principal Keeper Of the peniteutla rs.
Mayor Alexander of augusta gives notice
that the railroad ordinance prom litllE eIaius
from runuiug faster than I'VE miles an holr
through the CRY ana reg -talLg them To- De pre-
ceeded 10y a f.alEnal WIiI &c strictly eulortel.
The Bergen Improvement Company has ap-
piled fer a charter in the g-EnH guy e'tet tu''tt.
The petitioners are w. o. allison caroline Al-
hson and w. j. Hewitt u Sew Jersey, ld
VIM. 4. Reoknagel OtGIyua county. 10 Is 50 o.
ply plan OF corporate existence 10 care t'r
lion.
The suit brought more than two years ago
by DIT w. T.. Burt VS. Dr. J. b, Hinliie, OF
AnerIcus, for payment Of an account OF ooi
ana which was attended ultimately by such
unfortunate circumstances the tragic death
OF Two citizens and the wrecklng OF three
happy homes. was PAID IN Iuu tuesday Win
accrued interest
Brunswick Call: W r. Townsend, the well
known planter came down from Jamaica lues
day. As an evidence o. whau Glynn's farm
lands can do, Mr.. Townsend say he produced
this year on several acres OF laIG an average
yield OF seventy Two bushels and SIX euaiso ol
corn to the acre This places Gly.m county IN
the front ranks OF corn producing 0uuiies.
Wellbouse & Son, paper bag man Qfacturers,
have purchased the vacant lot in front -ot Dr
H. @. Martins drug store on Decatur street. az
ton OF q 6-story building having order Ell 4oJ-
600 bricks. This is done 10 give room for their
large ana increasing business. The lot is 10
feet front and 40 teet deep, the rear front be-
ing on the Richmond and Danvllle railroad.
Andrew J. Laird, LaGrange's ex postmaster
has been arrested in Los Angeles, Cal lie
led from LAGRANGE about year ago with
number Of money order blanks in his posses
sion. he continued to use these and to raise
money on them, getting as much as SiOO from
one place alone, chicago, IL was by means OF
these money orders that he was finally dis
covered. He will lie brought back TO Atlanta
for trial. When arrested he was going under
the name OF Louis j. Jack, and seemed to be in
easy circumstances.
News has-reached villa Rica OF the destruc-
ton by fire of the dwelling house and tents
Of Deputy Sheriff George w. Furr OF Padding
county. Mr. FUR was in town having some
cotton ginned. ana his wife and children we're
in Che cotton patch, not far from the house.
The little boy who came for MI Fur says IL
caught from the cook stove. Nothing was
saved il has only been q few days since the
mllSof Mr.. Henderson located in the same
settlement were destroyed by fire, with about
200 bushels OF wheat and quantity Of corn.
A shocking accident occurred al the depot at
clayton Monday night. resulting in Che almost
another which VIII pro ably prove fatal lhe
negroes were jim Berry and Norris King, the
TWO hands employed OF the railroad werehouse
at this place. They We're standing one on each
side OF large trunk which stood on the depot
platform, ana we're in the act OF transferring 1t
from the platform to the baggage car. They
had taken one step with the trunk between
them when they were caught by a backing
freightcar and rolled and crushed horribly
Jim died In about twenty minutes. Norris is
4 IN critical condition
Lawreuceville Herald: Last Sunday night
Maria VIM. cOlOred, made q desperate at
temptto cut Marshal Bankers throat. They
We're COMING home from preaching and Mar
shall was with another girl This so cnraged
Maria that she stepped in front Of The couple
and with razor struck az BarEer's throat She
MISSED ner ann but cut an ugly cash on his
chin. Then desperate light followed, bot no
further damage was done except by-sttnder
was Knocked down with a rock, IL was "a mar
row escape; if the razor had struck his throat
II would have proved fatal The marshal was
notitedof the trouble and he went after the
woman VINO did the cutting. The house where
she lived was searched but she could not lie
found on further examination she was found
~ Aus AtWA On LlQ OF tue mouse. she was car
!led 70 town ana lodged In Jall to answer for
the oaense at the next term of the court
Brunswick Call: Joseph w. Wallace, the
ingenious Joe, known throughout this section
as collector OF things quaint, curious and rare.
now has iu his possession a relic worth ITS
weight IN GOLD. 10 is an oldfashiOned silver
VINE cup, and is doubtless nearly two cen
turles ola Ihe cup from Gllappearances, was
beaten out by Sllyersmth, and on the front
slde mas engraved IN old style script, the let,
L. M hi an a.
with bunch OF oysters and has kept il ever
since, endeaEorlng to trace up Us history. lie
nnally concluded that it was lost overt ard
from the yacht of Commodore Thomas Hello
trope Bloom who came to this coast early in
the eighteenth century on exploring expedt
lions with Gen. Oglethorpe. MIR. Wallace was
once ohered fifty francs for this cup by re
preventative OF BarOnRothschild who was at tht
lme in correspondence with Jewish citizen
OF Brunswick The baron was getting M a col
lection OF curios, and when his attention wa
drawn TO this cup the oher was made bu
StoutIy refused.
Columbus EnQuirer-Sun: Tuesday mornfns
between the hours OF and O'Clock JessJ
Allen, Whe lives on First avenue between
thirteenth and Fourteen "a streets, was robbed
OF ejl1 ali his earthly possessions. The rob
berry was particularly cowardly. as the victim
is an old man OF So and the money was the
ss.iilss Ol oner a year some features OF th'
9nalr are especially pitiful and unfortunate
Mr., Allen. who keeps a fruit stand in the iron
part OF his house had succeeded in scrapinl
together this amount OF money, which he hat
deposited in the bank On Saturday he drey
II an out and went up 90 Harris county on sun
day to place it in the safe OF q friend No
finding his friend at home, he returned Oh
Monday, bringing the money back with hin
and for safe keeping hid it between the mai
tTesses Of his bed. Yesterday morning at th
time stated above he stepped out OF the room
10 give some orders TO a woman living lie,
doors above VINO does his cooking and up5l
his return discovered that some one had take
advantage OF his short absence amt robbie
him OF MS money. The saddest part OF an
that Mr.. Allen was rODucd in about tho SAM
manner year or SO ago of an he had then
Ihis second calamity has almost completed
Frustrated the old Uan
Detective Bill Jones the celebrated Swan
FOX, has returned 10 Atlanta from most SD,
cessful trlpto Alabama. lie succccQeJi in lanl
ing in jail with plenty Of evidence he tlinkl
10 convict Allen Peters, Nathan Peters an
Abe Crawford. three OF tae most notorious 10
burners, and all round incenuiaries. that hav
infested Georgia and Alabama In the last thrc
months. Their lrst iuccndiary act was tl
burning OF the gin house, carriage house an
SIX head Of mules ca the plantation OF Ua
Bradley. That was iu Alabama. 5sst aero
the line from FLORENCE. ia stewart count,
Georgia. Their next outrage was thc burain
Of the sin house on the plantation of Ben Git
gerald brother Of Senator w A 4