The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-08

Pasteur Institute of New YorIS-The
BhrneSvIIIe Hosiery Company
Makes "A Big sale of Its Product to
New York-Death From the sting
of n RattIesnake.
GEORGIA.
A scheme is on foot looking to the cree
ton Of hose factory at Gainesville.
Dawson is to have electric lights at
once. The city council, at their meeting
on Monday night authorized the issue OF
$1,000 OF bonds for this purpose
Capt. w. W. Davis Of Cuthbert claims
the honor OF shipping the first Georgia
peaches 10 New York. On May g he dis
patched six baskets Of ripe peaches 10 the
metropolis.
Ribb county is going into the peach bus
mess on large scale, and, 100 acre
peach farm. with 10000 trees on II. IS one
of the big enterprises already undertaken
by prominent Macon men.
There are now over 5000 fruit trees in
the region between Plainv!lle and Adairs-
Vile and the prospect is that part or the
present crop and all Of next years crop
will be handled in car lots from Plainville.
Fruit growers in Houston county say
many peaches have fallen from the trees
within the last two weeks, thereby reduc-
ing the number OF peaches % mature, Dnt
very much increasing the quality OF the
fruit.
The midsummer society event for Allan
ia and Georgia Will be a grand cavalry
contest TO be given at Athletic Park on
June Is by the Governors Horse Guard
for the benefit of the wQmau's board Of
the exposition.
Mrs. Matte Kicks of Tweed. met with
an accident last week. She had been out
on q visit and was returning home, when
she got entangled in some limbs and fell
to the ground very heavily, fracturing her
leg below the knee.
A. j. Clark having bought the interest
of c. w. Steed in the GAINESVILLE F'urni-
ture Company, the firm of Clark 4 Steed
has been dissolved. The business Will be
continued as the GAINESVILLE Furniture
Company, Clark & Clark, proprietors.
One hundred and ten men from Fort
Barnacas, La, arrived al Post MePher-
mand of nine officers. This troop is COM
posed of the same soldiers who were for
merly stationed a. Fort Mcpherson. They
Will spend the summer there.
A deed from n. Kahrs. OF Augusta, TO
G. F. Mattlage. Of New York, has just
been filed, lat Augusta. The property trans
gett, and extends from Broad TO Ellis
streets. On II is a brick building which
covers the enGre lot. The price named in
the transfer Is $4,000.
The Trenton News says that at Rising
Fawn the town council imposed nne of
81 upon negro who laid out a white man
with billiard cue for saying he was better
than a negro. On the same day az TINS place
white man was fined s. and costs for
thres tening TO blow the heart out OF a ne
gro who disputed his word.
A negro witness at this term Of court In
Burke county wore a coat which was iden-
titled by a prominent gentleman who saw
him as one be sold to the negro in 1875,
while salesman for a mercantile firm in
Waynesboro After nineteen years of SER
vice IL is in very fair condition and viii
probably last five years longer.
perwood johnson, young man en-
ployed In DR.! A. l.. Curtis drug store at
Atlanta, was seriously Injured Thursday
morning by the explosion of a bottle of
acid, which .spurted over his face ano
Ia
DR.. Calhoun's office, and is now resting
easHysi although the physician cannot tell
not. - = - - ~
The GAINESVILLE Hosiery CO. received a
large order Monday for their goods. II
amounted to several thousand dozen pairs
ofasocks, and they will be shipped to the
New York firm who sent the order in at
an early date. Although the mill has re-
Gently secured two additional rooms 1t is
now crowded TO It's utmost and VIII make
the building of new factory imperative.
This the company hopes TO do at some time
during the fan season.
Sheriff Jake Moore, of Rome. is at At
lanta to ask the governor to give James
Tennessee his liberty. Tennessee Is now
serving a fiVe-year term I'm the penitentiaTy
for larceny. During the last exposition held
at Atlanta Tennessee was arrested on tho
charge of larceny, and was convicted and
sentenced to five years at hard labor. He
stole 500 from a farmer who lives in North
Carolina, who. at the time, was in attend
ance upon the exposition. The money was
recovered and Tennessee was tried upon
the charge before Judge Richard Clark.
The Vienna Progress says that O. e
Ringlands COW did not come up TO be
MIXED at the usual time recently, and Mr.
Ringland went to look for her. In the back
alley, on Judge ], b. Scotts premises he
found the COW tied, and Homer Logon, the
young man caught robbing the cash draw
ef Of ]. T.. Perrys store a few days ago,
was quietly milking her Mr. Ringland
threatened to kill the young man. and he
uigon) suggested that instead Of killing
him he whip him. Conserving Mr. Ring
land gathered a board and gave him such
whipping as would have done the young
man good If properly administered years
ago.
Mr.. Walton and the two Hardison chill
dren were bitten by a mad dog near By
ron, in Houston county, about twenty mad
stones were received in response to tele-
grams. All were applied. hut not one or
them would stick 10 any of the wounds
Mr.. Walton left Byron last Monday morn
ing for New York. TO be treated at the
Pasteur Institute. His friends contribu-
ted TO the fund to defray his expenses,
and the railroads granted half-rate fares
for the round trip. The children who
were bitten on the same day and by the
same dog will be sent, or not. as advised
from the institute after Mr.. Walton Is ex-
amined.
Mrs. Dr. j. A Carter, sister Of ex-Gov.
Northen, died Wednesday at her home
in Charleston, few miles from Atlanta,
after an illness of several months du-
ration. Mrs. Carter was prominently con
nected and well known in Atlanta. Mrs.
Carter was the mother Of Josiah Carter,
formerly of Atlanta, but now of New
York; James T. Carter, the well-Snown
real estate dealer; Frank and Win Car
ter, two well-known printers of Atlanta:
Mrs. J.. w. MeGin and Mrs Will Paden.
Besides these children she had a number
of relatives in Atlanta All Of her chA-
dren We're with her when the end came
except Josiah Carter, who is in New York
city, where he is engaged in newspaper
work.
A very peculiar case of rattlesnake bite
is causing much comment at Tweed at
present. The little 10-year-old girl of How
ard Lee was returning home one night
after dark about a year ago, and on the
route she had occasion to cross a large
branch. A log SPAWNED the run Of the
branch. She did not observe the bulk
toward the end of the log, and as she
stepped OF the log the bulk, which proved
to be a rattlesnake in its coil. struck al
her, purying its fangs in the child's foou.
On arriving home she began to complain
of singing pains, the foot swelling 10
immense proportions. Physicians were
hastily sent for and medicine prescribed
The wound was cauterized and corded
The child got along nicely until last
Wednesday, when the poisonous virus be-
gan to manifest itself, the girl being
seized with eXcruciaung pains in the
stomach. and blood flowed in strAa m e