The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

AdaIrssiue - Strange Mortality
Among tine Negroes Around Lo-
sanvilic.
GEORGIA.
The lady riders Of brownsville have
formed a cycling club.
5i-s. j. 81. Simmons Of Dawson died
Thursday 1f heart failure
The commissioners of BIbb county VIII
appropriate Sis.sSl.S5 for the public schools
this year.
During the week there was shipped
from the port CT Dariel L5i261- feet Of
timber and lumber.
The man arrested al Pensacola, Fla,
supposed 10 be Ebb Johnson from Dodge
county, is not Johnson
The citizens Of Hawkiusville viii vote
on June IL for or against issuing bonds 20
build a water works and electric hght
plant
The Sd mi-anuudl cooperation meeting OF
the Chrustan church of Northeast Geor-
gia is being held al Bethel church, near
L0eanVill-.
Brunswick Advertiser: The turtles seem
as numerous as ever, nine having been
caught So far this season. the largest
weighing 56} pounds.
81.
county of the murder of John Chancery,
died In a cell in that county day or two
as0. An appeal was pending.
The first watermelon IN Tifton this sea-
son was growh tn Worth county on the
Rya,s Fruit Company's farm, and was
brought 10 Triton on May rs.
The commissioners of Bibb county have
let the contract 20 build new iron bridge
81. 4fyr of na Of
Spring street. Ii Is 20 cost $4,000.
2. T. Taylor. one Of Baldwin county's
oldest citizens. died Thursday night He
was IN his SSth year and has been a MEM
Der of the Masonic fraternity for the last
nifty years or more.
Friday, Ethel Mason, the 6-year-ol1
daughter Of Alderman E. II. Mason Of
Brunswick while playing at her home.
fell from a swinging grape vine ana broke
her left arm above the elbow.
Claud Auuer's stable of race horses from
Macon are winning races on the Pamlico
course at Baltimore. News has been re-
Ceived in Macon that two of his horses
were winners Tuesday. One came OUT
first in a field of seventeen, and another
was second In a field Of ten.
The commissioners of Bibb county are
pushing the work Of swamp drainage rap
idly, and win complete the enterprise at
the very earliest possible day. The COM
missioners hope 10 have the great work
finished before the expiration of their
term Of service on Jan. i, 1891.
The Ensign Lumber Company has
bought a fine body Of round timber in
Dolly county from S. r Hanks of Wells
VILE \. Y. This timber has been sought
after for number Of years by lumber
men, but heretofore Mr.. Hanks has re-
fused TO sell. 1t is all virgin pine, never
having been turpenuned.
The charge Of rape against George Tus-
sett, who was arrested at Augusta a few
days ago, has been dropped Mrs Willie
Smith, the woman concerned, swears there
was no foundation for the charge; that
her husband Ell smith, went into Thorn
son, and without authority from her.
made the affidavit and sent 1t on 10 Mag
istrate Vaughn
There is a patty custom in LAGRANGE.
which is observed on ell funeral occa-
sions. As soon as the hearse and funeral
cortege appear on the streets every busi-
ness house in town closes il doors, and
remains closed until the procession passes
Sut or sigll. Ihe same respect is shown
Tor an lnIant as for an aduS-for the
poor and lowly-born as for the oldest and
proudest families Of the community.
Maj. Warren, the veteran secretary OF
the state executive department at At
lanta. who has been III for quite a while
al his home in kirkwOOd has undergone
no percepuble Improvement during the
past Week. The latest reports are that
his condition remains unchanged His
disease is a peculiar one, and seems to
puzzle the physician. They have as yet
been unable 10 determine whether it is
eryslpelas or blood poisoning.
Arthur Glover a well-known young far
mer living near Americas, was badly in
jured a day or two ago in rather singu-
lar manner. He was riding a mule on the
farm, carrying in his arms a grain era
dle TO oe used in cutting oats. The mule
SHE'D ana threw Mr.. Glover, who fen TO
the ground with the grain cradle beneath
MIN The sharp knife cut him in two or
three places, the cash upon one arm being
quite severe. His injuries are not serious.
The part Of the sundry civil bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton for services rendered the govern
menl IN the construction of its building
al the exposition grounds has been am
proved, IL is understO TODD and il is now
only a matter of time before the money
viii be paid the exposition COMPANY.
Ten days Will probably suffice. A meet
Ing OF the company will be held at that
probably settled.
kilograms and letters from Beaumont.
Tex, state that Willie Cannon, son of
w. +. Cannon, of Selma, Ala is under
arrest there suspected of being VIII Nv
u ioyd county officers are expected there
TO identity him. Young Cannon left Sell
ma Tor Beaumont last January He is an
exemplary young man and is of splendid
family, His father is agent for the Stan
GARD Oh Company, a steward in the First
Methodist church ana superintendent Of
the sunday school.
The negroes in the country surround
sng LoganviNe and in that place itself
are becoming greatly alarmed at the rapid
1eath rate Of the negroes. Since March
1872 the negroes have been dying at a
rate never before equaled. However IL Is
only negroes that are dying The death
rate OF the white people is less than in
any year in long time. This is remark
able. Some attribute the causes to ex-
posture. Some say il is because the ne
ggoes cant get whisky, the county having
peen dry since Jan. 1, 1885, and that when
they expose themselves to rain and cold
ana nave nothing to stimulate them thev
contract diseases which cause death in
the spring following.
John Mashburn's little boy. aged about
10 years, was badly bitten by strange
dog that entered his yard at Hawkins
vile Friday and was after the ducks
The boy ran out when the dog turned.
spFang on MIN, getting him down under
the edge Of the house and biting and lac