The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-26
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD N PARAGRAPHS.

a Columbus Man Gives the Farmers
Point on Cheap FarminE-Tom
DeIk Tries TO Break Jail Again
Grimes and AccidentS-Good Crops
Around ChandIer-CaII at Mndi-
son-HuraIars nt Green Cove-Per-
SonaI and General News Notes.
GEORGIA
Brunswick IS preparing TO receive the
Savannah knights Of Pythias ID man
uer becoming 10 that hospi-able city.
An Athens negro. iu order to get out Of
paying debt. reported at the police sta
ton that he had been robbed. An inves-
tigatiOn OF the case landed the negro be-
hind the bars on the charge Of defraud-
ing his creditors.
Brunswick Call: Manager Timberlake
made quite a nice sum an ST. simon this
season: although not quite as much as
last year DE IS pleased with the business.
Times are more stringent at present; and
the hotel man did exceedingly well 10
come out ahead.
Macon News: A very large congregation
assembled last night at Mulberry Street
Methodist church in attendance on the
missionary meeting held for the purpose
Of bidding adieu 20 Rev. and Mrs W. b.
Burke who VIII leave on Thursday for
China 10 resume their missionary work.
Mr.. Jesse Thompson Of Augusta is to re-
build the immense lumper plant destroy
ed by fire during the past year. and on a
larger scale than before. II Will be
known as the Thompson Lumber Com
pany. and about 10000 viii be invested In
the plant. He hopes to have IL In oper-
alton by next spring.
A Columbus man suggests an idea for
the farmers. He says every cotton grow
er should step in quietly and buy futures
on a few hundred bales Of cotton, and
then allow their crops to rot in the fields
not pick a lock. lie says the farmers
could easily corner the spectators IN this
way. without the slightest risk to them
selves.
The Connecticut blue laws" are to be
put in full force in Guyton early next
month No ice. milk. papers. cigars or to-
bacco viii be allowed to be sold in the
town limits on Sunday. The Meldrim
Guidon bewails the new order of things in
this fashion: 1T win be even impossible
for the boys TO get a horse and buggy to
take their girls out driving. When these
blue laws go into effect the town will
be dead sure enough"
The combination, composed of a new
pistol ana a pint Of mean whisky, was
the principal factor in a tragedy last Sat
urday night. AS the result one negro Alb
Billings. is dead, and Dave Malone has
his death to answer for. Billings lived
only about five minutes after he was shot.
Malone says that he and his victim were
standing opposite each other shooting at
the railroad switch which was between
them and he shot Billings by accident
while intending to shoot the switch.
Hamp Massey, who resides just outside
the city limits Of Augusta on the Savan-
nah road, was shot and probably fatally
wounded Sunday night by a negro named
Jeneries. The shooting was the result Of
a quarrel had Saturday night though at
that time the men did not even come TO
blows Massey was attacked by Jefferies
last night and without any warning was
shot down. Massey was sent to the La
mar hospital. where he now lies in a pre-
carious condition Jefferies Immediately
fed and has not yet been captured.
The cotton bales poured into Americas
from every quarter on Saturday, says a
correspondence from that city, receipts
for the day aggregating 466 bales. Al
ready the local warehouses have handled
$500 bales Of the new crop which is I'M
precedented for August. Farmers are
selling their cotton as fast as 1t is brought
in and applying the proceeds to notes due
in October. Bankers and merchants re-
port collections unusually good for the
season, and the outlook for a prosperous
fail business was never so bright as at
this time.
negro named Jim Delaney was locked
UP in the station house IN Atlanta on the
charge Of assault with intent to murder.
MIR Barnes, a prominent farmer of Har-
ris county, swore out the warrant He
says that Delaney shot him about two
weeks ago. Mr.. Barnes gin house was
also burned down a few days after the
Shooting and he suspects Delaney of do
ing II. Delaney doesn't deny the shoot
ing, but says he shot Mr.. Barnes while
the latter was trying to shoot him He
says he came to Atlanta shortly after the
shooting and has been here ever since and
that he knows nothing about the burning
of the gin house.
While in Tom Delks cell in the Atlanta
Jail on Saturday the jailor noticed a piece
of string around the prisoners leg. and re-
ceiving no satisfactory explanation as TO
why 1t was there, stopped down and ex-
amined 1t. To Tailor Eubanks' surprise
the string Immediately gave way when
Jerked and the shackles fell to the floor.
freeing Delks limbs completely. Delx Is
supposed to have a bone key in his posses
sion with which he could until recently.
open the door of his cell, and it is thought
that he has again been planning to get
out Of jail, as the actions of some of the
prisoners, who were involved with him in
the former plot, have been very suspicious
recently A new and stronger set OF
shackles have been placed on the desper.
ate outlaw. and the lock on the door OF
his cell is changed every other day.
Dublin. Ca, Core spondence ,NfornIns
News. Aug. 25.-Mr. Math Rachels. z
wheelwright, han . terrible encounter with
a monster Holstein bull the property OF
Or. Hightower, who wanted a ring place.
in the bulls nose. and procured the ser
vices Of Rachels. After considera bl,
trouble, the ring was adjusted and Mr.
Rachels proposed to see how it worked
As he approached the animal II made 2
lunge him, knocking him to the ground
and then tossed him with his butted heaC
several feet into the air. In landing. h,
fell first on the beasts back, then to tn,
ground, and the eighteen hundred pound
bovine trampled him until the doctor Jerk
ed the beast off by means of a tied rome