The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-18


Sportsmen Complain Of Mysterious
Headaches-COcLGgh "a Fad
With Small Boys of brunswick.
Bigamy Case At Augusta With SEN
satfOnnI Features.
GEORGIA.
The exposition flyer of the Central rail-
road made its first trip from Macon TO
Atlanta Monday. About 81 passengers
were aboard
Adam Andrews. a fireman on the Geor-
GA road. had his foot mashed at Au-
gusta Monday morning by piece OF
iron falling on IT,. The wound was pain
ful, but not serious
Chronicle: There is some quiet work be-
ing done preparatory To pushing the new
hotel project for Augusta, and when the
batteries are opened up On the puUhc IL
viii be with telling effect
II. Wilson, who keeps a tailoring es-
Establishment over MOhrmans at Augusta
was closed up Monday morning by Mrs.
Abrams under a laborer's lien Of $50. The
attachment was made in Judge Neib-
lng's office.
Two fiat cars loaded with lumber were
wrecked al Unadilla Monday evening. The
accident was caused by a defective switch
joint in the side track The same train
met with a like accident at Piuehurst,
an hour before. losing one car there
The Macon News has been requested
by the ladies who not long since iu-
terested themselves in the case Of Mrs.
Office for the purpose Of receiving. dona-
tions to the fund 10 be used in the de-
tense Of the half witted old woman.
Col. f. ID. Huguenin of the Second
Georgia regiment has been invited by
Col. Kellogg. marshal Of the day, TO act
as a member OF his stam on the opening
day of the Atlanta exposition. Col Hb-
guenin is one OF the most popular mll-
tary officers in the state and his services
are always ia demand.
The Pullman train, the finest cars in the
world, and the train that was on exhibi-
ton at the worlds fair, reached Atlanta
Monday afternoon and was carried out
TO the exposition ground at once. The
train will be on exhibition under the
and rolling stock of railroads.
An electric storm caused considerable
excitement at Odum Saturday evening. The
store of j. B. Clay was struck by light
ming. Several shingles and the top Of
the chimney were torn off. Several GUS
toners were in the store at the time
all Of whom felt the shock more or less
but none were seriously hurt.
News reached Augusta Monday of a
fire at Hephzibah on yesterday by which
Prof C. II. 5. Jackson's kitchen was
destroyed For a while IL seemed that
the fire would be much more serious, but
fortunately the flames were suppressed.
Prof Jackson is a popular and efficient
educator and has the sympathy of hosts
of friends in his loss.
From p A. Moore, Of Athens, who
has been along the fiood-washed shores Of
the MlQQle Oconets the Macon leitAFdpn
learns that hundreds of acres OF corn were
completely inundated and ruined, The corn
is filled with mud and hardly dry yet
The bridges that We're washed away were
the best iron bridges OF the county, and
those left were of wood.
Call: The small boys in Brunswick
have mania for game chickens, They
send to the breeders in North Georgia
and purchase the birds by the coop,
often paying as high as $500 each for
the lighting cocks. party of i've boys
oil "a "a FaaHH
ers paying the usual high price of $500
each. The kids get together and enjoy
seeing the game cocks kill each other.
Macon News: On Saturday night Fire
man Charles Cunningham met with a
bad accident a short distance from For
SYN. He was on freight train No. g6,
from Atlanta for Macon. While the
train was running at the rate Of twenty
five miles an hour, he fell from the ten
der, striking the ground headforemost
with terrible force. When found by the
crew he was thought TO be dead. He
was carried to Forsyth and given at
tention by DR.. w. r. Ponder, the roads
surgeon, who pronounced him seriously
though not necessarily fatally injured.
Telegraph: A great many of Macon's
sportsmen are complaining that they
have headaches, without being able to
account for them A gentleman drove out
into the country few miles the other
day, and after firing couple of shots at
bull-bats, came home with roaring head
ache, although he vows he had not touch
ed a drop of mountain dew" The fire.
quency of such complaints has put people
to thinking, and as a result the conclusion
has been reached that the white or smoke
less powder now used in loading shells
is the cause of the trouble. The powder
is said to contain nitro-glycerine in such
relation that the explosion causes a shock
TO the nervous system.
Irving Griffin of East Macon, says the
Telegraph, has not gray hair in his
head and is less than 45 years old. lie
is apparently a young man, but he has
been made a widower four times, and is
the father of three children by his fifth
wife. With each of his wives, Mr.. Grif-
fin boasts-and his neighbors bear him
out in 1.-THE has been extremely happy,
and no gloom came into his home untii
death destroyed her who had frightened
IL. Mr. Griffin came originally from
Twiggs county, but Tor the past seyerai
years he has lived in East Macon, nshlnS
and doing whatever he, could TO earn a
living. He has one little girl, besides the
three by his last wife.
A few days ago T. ]. Carstarphen of
Macon saws the TELEGRAPH. caught a fine
sturgeon up the river at the New Dame s
Ferry mill. The announcement of the
fact caused considerable surprise along
this portion of the Ocmulgee, but since
that time, several of the big fish, weigh
ing between ninety and l40 pounds have
been captured in the river of the Macon
shores. MIR. Herring drew up TWO me
surgeons near the wagon bridge on the
East Macon side on Friday, one weigh
ing about ninety and the other 10 pounds.
Besides furnishing meat of various flaw
ors, which is sought by a large number
of people, the surgeons are good for
fattening hogs curing disease in dogs,
etc. 1t is said that by boiling the skin
and head Of the sturgeon the soup OBJ
tanned will fatten the leanest hogs in ten
days time, while the oil viii cure the
worst case of mango and start a dog to
gaining flesh in from one to three days.
The state convention Of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union will meet at Macon
Tuesday afternoon at O'clock at the
First Baptist church. The convention will
be in session three days, and viii be one
of the largest attended and most inter
esting religious gatherings ever held in
Georgia. 1t is expected that there will be
500 delegates present from all parts
of the state. Addresses will be made BY
DR.. Hawthorne, DR. Gambren and other
distinguished Baptist preachers. 1t is a
meeting to organize a state convention
for the Young Peoples Societies. connect
ed with the Baptist churches in the state
Addresses of welcome will be delivered
and appropriate responses made. The en-
tertainment committee has been actively
at work some time providing
homes for the many delegates who will be
in attendance. The large number of dele
gates expected TO arrive will be met at
the depOts by committees and escorted
to the hospitab'e homes that have been