The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
~ PARAGRAPHS.


Broken Up hy the Preachers son
Disguised a. ku NIuN-
GEORGIA.
Brunswick is 70 have an ice plant man
utactory-
augusta is 20 have a new telephone SER
'ice very shortly
Col James 3I. Arr.neton. ex-tax as-
SCISSOR Of Polk county aiet IN Eut A1nart
Wednesday.
The oat crop around Movlurie g. Zee
ported killed. and seed oats TO repiant
seem very scarce
The second oat crop 10 Pulaski county
was killed uF the recent freeze ana q
lreat many farmers SAL b. unable to
plant again because they eanno. get the
seed.
1loutrie's first brick buildings VIII ho
commenced soon. the brick being now
on the ground. They VIII DE- three hr .is
msr.
The bad weather Of the las, month nas
prevented the rurpcntiue men around
Moultric from cutting IS muny boxes as
they intended. SO a smaller output and
better prices may Doc expected.
Last "Wednesday about i1 o'clock the
large ginnery of Coleman Is SHitcn ar
Moulrie caught on fire. lhe IRE eaking
out in some loose cotton. Ine tre was
nut out before serious damage Was
done.
There lives iu Jones county q badly vino
mas Necl UtttEfFN lNriAt-l years ana
IS the mother az g, host OF noyS, who s;.Ns
that she never bought a pair 0f socks for
them She knits them herself. having
knit more than dozen pairs his winter.
Ev-State Senator -. II. Whitaker died
ri his residence at eranklin "Wednesday
morning at 4 O'Clock. Tuesday while
making an argument ln q case before tue
county board OF education. he was stricif-
en with paralysis and never rallied from
the attack.
The must disastrous effect Of The snow
al Moulfrie was the collapse OF "a. D.
Dukes warehouse. 10 was a long build
ms filled with grain, buggies etc, and
tie weight Of thc snow cuuaed The roof
30 fan IN. breaking several bugsits. ANA
doing other damage.
The pahlonega Methodist church has
been established for near nifty years and
The music from yiuhn was never heard
N.ithln IT, walls untl on one or Two c.-
asions huL "a ieW months ago. 4tug{e
=. church from this kind Of an instyIueut
81 not very much enjoyed by some OF tie
oldest members.
a very novel case came to an end at
Gibson during the session of The superior
court which convened on Monday last.
.iohn b. Williams brought suit for 50 600
against the Augusta southern railroad, be-
cause the company revoked his annual
mass Tho nudge directed a verdict in
savcr OF the defendant.
A fairly well dressed, middle aEed white
man was killed Thursday evening one and
"a half miles from the deuOt at Crawford
Mile by the down fast train at o'clock.
l5is name Is not known lie was heard TO
bay that he was from Louisville, kN.
'ihe body was fearfully crushed and
fnangled He had been drinking during
fhe afternoon.
Dahlonega Signal: During the recent
blizzard hundreds of birds and MANY
partridges We're found dead I'm the woods
On this section having frozen TO death.
Very often YOU would md snow birds
sitting with their heads under their wines.
You could pick them up and after remain
hand awhile they would got
warm and fy Off.
The ten frame houses at Cochran avenue
Uud L street at Brunswick, owned by
Dr. j. NJ. Madden, formerly occupied by
the Italian sewerage laborers, and known
rs Lltala, were burned TO the ground he
tween ? and s o'clock Thursday morning.
Ihere Is no doubt agg 70 the incendiary
origin Of the flames. The ten houses were
Iully insured for Sl.510.
j. A. Ingram Of Tusculum. who is agent
for the Central railroad at that point,
FRIDAY. AS he stepped from q box car TO
The depot platform his foot slipped on
the snow and he fell backwards. striking
ans head on the iron rail. An ugly cash
was cut in his head, and he was carried
home in an unconscious condition. DR..
n'arVer OF Guyton was summoned, and
says that Mr.. Ingram is not seriously
hurt, and viii be all right in a Few days.
Near Irwington a good old colored
brother was running a protracted relig-
sous performance holding until y O'Clock,
and then with a sunrise meeting. All The
negroes were getting religious; they
would go to sleep while plowing in the
ueld and every bOdys chickens We're ais
appearing right along. Some gentleman
made the remark that he would give any
shing TO have this midnight circus stopp-
ed. So the son of the Coiored Paul the
preacher DECIDED to put a qnietus on the
proceeding. lie knew the thing to scare
3 negro with, so h borrowed an old
gray horse, false face and his NAM
rlyis midnight celestial robe and was
an n ftH Wsafn Nap
was propounding the gospel with a pow
erful voice, and his text was DE LORD
will protect you hrudder. so be not
afraid" Just as all. the brothers and
sisters We're believeine that the Lord
would protect them In an things, ANA
thinking they would not be afraid to
count the whiskers on the Hons nose,
nor to drive the devil from his den, up
rode the "son Of the old man" in his
aisle and with that Whoa" which was
peculiar to the kukluX, he dismOunted
in the midst of the fearless audience.
Their courage vanished and their faith
had departed. II is needless to attempt
10 describe the scene that followed. The
old preacher was the first man to reach
the ground, and received only q few cuts
in passing through the window.
Brunswick mes-Advertiser: T.. A.
Miller was in the city from Cumberland
Friday, and brings a story of a wonderful
of conversation among the islanders for
the past several days. The thing in QUes-
lion was frozen during the blizzard and
washed ashore on the beach. where IL was
discovered by Mr.. Miller. 1T looks as big
as a bath house" said Mr.. Miller. after
assuring the reporter that he was not as
piring for Brunswick's historic knife. ut
has a round head. with one eye and a
small mouth. Its body is immense, and il
has two great wing-like fms, which meas
IRE, when stretched out twelve feet from
Tip to tip. We were unable TO turn the
monster over or TO move 1t in any way. I
would judge that the weight is fully OD0
pounds" The people on the island have
all enjoyed a look at the strange dweuer
Of the deep, and even the lifelong fisher
men have been unable to name 1t. ITS
too big TO stun. " said Mr. Miller, Tor we
would soon have It on exhibition. Any one
who believes this to be an exaggeration
is challenged to come to the island, on a
money guarantee, and see for himself. -
Capt. Frank Fader Cumberland's popular
pilot, says the sea monster weighs al least
ZOO pounds. bur corroborates Mr.. Miller g
description in all the other details. Capt
Faders father. a pilot of forty years eX-
perience, says he has never seen anything
like it, but that it resembles a sea COW
more than anything else. An effort viii be
made TO have the skin stuffed for Dreser-
walton, though its size is a very formid-
able obstacle.
FLORIDA