The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-25

Disappear from ROme-A Desperate
KIngsnake Vanquishes and swaI-
lows "A Moeeasin-AIIeEed Poison
ing OF Some Fine Live stock.
GEORGIA.
The Fayetteville News has changed
management. s T. Blalock retiring ana
Charles H. Evans assuming editorial
charge
Eastman Times-Journal: Seab Jones for
got all about eating his breakfast last
Thursday morning. He took up the entire
day telling every body about that hhe DoSs
which had reached his home.
Creenesborough Herald-Journal: The
most beautiful sight in the world Is 10
see a family gathered at the heartnstone
with the head of the family reauinB me
local paper-paid in advance.
Times Recorder: AS though Americas
CUP of sorrow was not trimming over by
the spread of the blOomer craze, the acme
OF exquisite misery Is reached by the an
nouncement that a female base ball club
viii hit US next week.
Times-R Recorder: The Americas small boy
has the balloon craze" badly, ana al
most any day large and neatly mace pal
looms may be seen floating in space Many
of these paper toys are carryed a distance
of fifteen or twenty miles.
negro woman named Duncan living
in the southeastern part of Naldosta ac>
cidentally shot herself Tuesday morning
while handling A revolver carelessly. The
ball entered just above her knee ana pro-
duced a very painful wound.
Baxley Banner: DR.. Sharpe of Tattnan
county met with very tragic accident
last week He was travelling along, when
young man shot at a hawk Ihat was
fixing low, one Of the shot glanced ana
struck the doctor, passing through his
body.
Blackshear Hustler: William Turner.
aged IS, aid Mrs. Marina Turner, aged
NnxF al here
and wife for seventy-five years, and at
this writing both are enjoying good
health Mr.. Turner spit 1000 fence rails
last winter.
The Eastman Times-Journal has an in
teresting communication from T.
Brand, who escaped from j X. Allison q
Co.'S convict camps in WILCOX county
few days since. Circumstances prevent
the paper publishing the letter, but II Is on
exhibition in the othce.
Vienna Progress: r. s. Middleton is
engaged in gathering his grape crop and
making IL into wine He will make loo
gallons Of wine from his present crop.
He has realized a neat sum already from
his peach crop, and has peaches sun 10
ripen for the next two months.
Lightning struck a tree within ten feet
of W N. Talleys house at Pleasant Grove,
near La Grange, splitting the tree open
and also struck a negro cabin on w. X.
Bradfield's place, tearing clock 70 spln-
ters There was a lamp on each side OF
the clock which was hit by the lightning
The fine dwelling OF Z. L. McDilda, two
miles from Lyons, Tattnall county, was
totally destroyed by fire at IL O'Clock sat
urday night. A widow lady and two chill
dren occupied part of the house ana they
lost all they had. The fire originated In
the pantry, where rats made frequent oep-
relations.
The dry goods house Of James G. Faux
of Americas was closed Friday evening
by the levying OF an attachment upon the
stock In favor Of Daniel, Miller a. 90. OF
baltimore. for the sum of S692. Mr.. Faux
promptly gave bond in the sum or $l,5lO
and announces that he viii resume bush
ness this morning.
During the thunderstorm at Americas
Friday lightning struck the arresting
board in the Office OF the Postal Telegraph
Company here, causing loud report like
gathered about the door. but the damage
was slight, and Manager Davies soon had
the wires in good order again.
Ed Roane has brought to the Oglethorpe
Echo Office quite an oddly in the shape
OF a stalk OF corn. Besides having ears
in the usual place this stalk grew into
five off-shoots at the top, there being a
each shoot. These ears are not on the
side of the stalk, as other ears, but direct
~ on the end of the limb.
The Triton Gazette calls attention to
an incident that occurred on Friday of
last week. Mrs. Elizabeth King and Miss
CANINE Branch professed faith in Christ
and were baptized, at the Overstreet
f. Clark. The occasion was the 92d birth
day of the first lady, the second was
about 10, while the officiating clergy
man was in the S2d year OF his age.
Star: Lightning struck the barn of j.
C. Jones of Statesboro Thursday evening,
the front being torn up and all the corn
knocked out OF the barn, the dwelling,
only a few feet distant, was robbed, and
the rods certainly did not draw the light
ming, as is claimed by the rod agent
This is the second time that Mr.. Jones
has suffered loss by lightning; his dwell
ling was struck last year before it was
completed.
serious accident happened to Mrs.
Simpson, over the Brooks county line,
a "a. last aV' saturday n1ds '0 Week. She
and her son were on their way 10
church when the horse became frightened
and made a dash with the wagon. Mrs.
Simpson was thrown from the wagon and
her hip joint broken. DR.. Ben Burton
went out and set the fractured parts
Mrs. Simpson is above 60 years OF age
and the accident has been very painful In
its results.
Eastman Times-Journal: Within the last
few days the two horses of John Carr
have died in a very mysterious manner.
Both exhibited every evidence of having
been poisoned. They were both good ami
mails and the loss falls quite heavily upon
Mr.. Carr. 1t is hard to believe that any
one could deliberately do the degrad ding
work of poisoning this valuable live stock
still things have this appearance. The
of poisoning that the scoundrelly perpe-
traitor will be caught and shown no mercy
at the hands of the law.
The Tocca Times man met one day re-
Gently Henry tricks, who resides a few
miles below Toccoa on Tugalo river. on
June last he celebrated his Seth birthday.
He was reared and has spent ninety years
of his life near Walhalla, 8. c. Mr.. F'ricks
is full of life and vigor and moves about
as sprightly as most young men, works
daily on the farm and enjoys good health
due, no doubt, to his strictly temperate
habits. He frequently visits his old home
in South Carolina making the distance of
thirty miles on foot in one day Mr.
tricks remembers seeing the first wagon
ever in this country, at the age of 49, which
was considered great curiosity in those
days.
Friday night about II o'clock a negro
was discovered by the side of the Plant
system tracks near Ben Jones' residence.
Naldosta, with a bad cash cut across his
forehead, his face bloody and apparently
in pretty bad fix. Ben Jones, Jr, who
had retired for the night, was attracted
by the negroes groaning, and he went
after some one to assist in moving the
wounded man. When he returned the
man had gotten up and gone. This morn
ing he was discovered near the water tank
some distance of. Some negroes in the
neighborhood had bandaged his head and
given him some relief. The negro could