The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-17

Provisions Than at ANY Time
since the War-w. }. Julian of Ma
con Assigns With Liabilities of
100000 and Assets Of s25,0OO.
GEORGIA.
There Is talk Of organizing a second
Baptist church at La Grange
Washington couniys annual colt show
will be held on the nrst Tuesday IN Au-
gust.
Master Floyd Murphey, while skating
on Stanord's pond a GAINESVILLE last Fri
day. fell and broke his collar bone
The legislature Of Alabama mas re-
fused % make an appropriation for an eX-
hibit at the cotton states exposition at
Atlanta
Rev. y. 3. Ousley died al his home I'm
Poulan Tuesday night. from hemorrhaga
Of the kidneys, being sick only three or
four days.
one of Elbertons prominent hardware
firms offers $40 in gold 10 the Ebert county
farmer who Will raise the largest hog by
Dec. %, 1895.
Alb. Collier. colored. an old and feeble
inmate of the DOoly county poor house IN
Vienna frOze to death last Thursday
morning, between midnight and dayDreak.
w b. BraceweH of Lithonia. lost his
barn by fire last Friday night. In the
barn was a considerable amount OF corn.
fodder ana other forage, two mules ana
TWO cows.
The city council Of Madison met Thurs
day and declared the result of the recent
election on public schools and bonds to be
1e9 votes for and again rms lnsures
public schools.
Caroline Edgeneld. colored. died at
Blakely Friday from two bullet wounds
inflicted by an unknown negro with
whom she quarrelled the day before. The
negro escaped.
Rev. J. d. Chapman. who has been the
state agent of Mercer University for
some time, has resigned that position ~
accept the pastOrate Of the HaWkinsville
Baptist church.
A charter has been issued the Darien
and Sapelo Towboat Company by the
secretary of state, Incorporating said
company, which is capitalized at $4,000,
with headquarters at Darien.
Five inches of snow fell at Camden
Tuesday night. Many people at that place
never saw the ground covered with snow
before. ana The oldest inhabitant never
saw such a heavy snow fan.
Arrangements are being made to have
shooting match, at live quails, between
Capt n. c. Carr and Maj. t. ID. Quinn,
two celebrated wing shots of Covington.
The match will come of some time this
month.
W. A. Buchannon of Blakely has been
trying the experiment OF fatteuing cattle
on cotton seed hulls with marked success.
Last week he shipped carload of the
latest beeVes ever sent from that sec
ton. He has others rolling in fat in his
pens.
will be asked by the committee on agri-
culture to offer twelve prizes, aggregat-
ing $500, fer the best twelve county dis
plays in the agricultural department The
frst prize win be 1850 and the twelfth
will be $50.
While William Lavender Of Macon was
out hunting Friday, in attempting to pun
his gun through a barbed wire fence,
the weapon was fired and the load struck
him Just above the eyes, ranging at an
upward angle, and inhicting an ugly but
not fatal wound.
At the last meeting of the city council
OF Oglethorpe il was determined to plant
from one end of Broad, the business
street, to the other with LeConte pear
trees. They are to be planted in three
rows one on each sidewalk and one in the
center of the street.
Thursday night about 10 o'clock the
large merchandise establishment of 7. r.
Ramspeck at Decatur was destroyed by
tire. The building was large two-story
frame structure and is a total loss The
loss will amount to 5000 and 5000 is car
ried on 1t with w, Z. Pattillo.
An officer of the Apalaehee brings to Col
umbus the story of the terrible suffering
of an unknown seaman who deserted his
vessel off the Florida coast on account
of the intense cold. He wandered about
the beach and was found near Carrabelle
in a dying condition, his limbs frozen and
the flesh split open.
The farmers of Walton county met at
Monroe last Tuesday to decide what should
ano and the low prices of cotton. 1t was
resolved to reduce the cotton acreage
one-fourth and not to pay more than
Sl6.26 per ton for fertilizers and not to use
much of it at that price.
G. w. Lowe of Duluth wears around his
neck a handkerchief which he states is
from old Ireland by one of his grand par
ents. 1t is of silk and is in a good state
of preservation. He has also in his pos
session four buttons worn by an officer
in the revolutionary war.
The employees of the May Mantel Com
pany, which recently went into the hands
of a receiver, are calling for the satisfac-
ton of the laborers' leins against the
all others legally. They claim that if
this is done, and declare that the money
with which to do it is in bank, that It win
prevent the necessity of their applying
for aid.
Jack Moore who was indicted for muir
der at Buchanan, has been caught near
Garrollton and placed IN jail at Buchanan
His trial will come up at the next term of
court. A few months ago three masked
men attempted TO rob Buck Summerlin
and Summerlin was shot, but lived for
two days. Buck Thornton, one Of the
masked men, was stabbed by Summerlin
and instantly killed. The other two men
escaped.
some one has figured 1t out that not
less than 100000 pounds of meat has been
saved by the farmers of Sumter county
this winter. Not since the war has so
rnNch meat Deen raised III sumter anu
there's plenty of hominy, too, to go with
IT, This amount, together with the large
quantity of potatoes, peas and syrup pro-
duced, will come very near running the
farmers this year. The west will be drawn
on for meat to a very limited extent. There
is also more than enough corn here TO
make another crop.
The governor has offered a reward of
$3.50 for the murdere or murderers of
Green Wells, who was shot from ambush
in Marion county and was killed The
killing occurred on Nov. Ii, and there is
a story back of it. Wells was a member
of what Is known as the United Brother
hood lust what that is does not appear
beyond it being some sort of a secret So
ciety. He had been in attendance on
meeting of the BROTHERHOOD and had left
after a quarrel with other members. He
had not gone far before shot from
ambush settled his career.
A mad dog created much excitement
and did much damage, besides endanger-
ing the lives of many persons, near Ohoo-
pee, in Tattnall county, a few days ago.
A negro's mule was bitten and died in a
few hours. L. r. Bowers mule was also
bitten and died shortly after. Proceed
ing then to Findley & Coleman's still,
the mad dog bit and killed two of their
mules and afterward bit two other dogs.
who also went mad. After being shot
straight through the head the dog bit a
fine Jersey COW belonging to Ounce Cole
man, resulting in the death of the COW
n q. H. I