The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-20
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA
There is a fanny residing in Hightower
district, pumpkin county, composed of six
persons whose weight aggregates 1,2S9
pounds. The husband weighs 30 pounds
and tiie wife weighs go.
The Gainesville revenue officials cap
tured a large still in the middle of the
Chattahoochee river in White county
few nights ago located on an island. The
operator plunged into the river and swan
out.
The following Georgia postmasters were
appointed Friday; Miss Katie Bown,
Coleman, Randolph county; Mary l..
Wade, Naken Brooks county; II. Q.
Jones, Seney, Polk county; J. K. Landon,
Swifton, Epson county.
Capt. John D. Easterlin, superin tendent
of the Southern Bell Telephone Company,
has presented to his employees in the cities
of Mobile, Montgomery and Selma, Ala,
a good sized check as a reward for their
services during the yellow fever epidemic.
Sheriff Berry has returned to Sparta
from Jacksonville, Fla, with Sim Brink
ley a negro who escaped from Sparta last
summer Brinkley Is a dangerous negro
and is wanted for numbering an old negro
man in the southern part of Hancock
county.
The following Georgians have been
granted pensions by the Federal govern
ment Original, Harvey Ross, Thomas
vile, Sc; widows, Indian war, Kittie Chris
tian Adams, Goodwill, s.; original, Ben
jamin Handy, Mays Station, s.; original,
Hugh c. Brownlee Fitzgerald, S.
The primary election at Fort Valley
Thursday for Mayor and four aldermen
and two school commissioners, resulted
as follows: For Mayor\A. d. Skellle; Tor
aldermen, L. p. Gray, L. l.. Brown, }.
u. Marshall. w. E. Brown; for school
commissioners, ]. B. James, j. A Houser
There is a good deal of all kinds of tim
Der IN the creeks and small branches in
the up-country ready for Darien when
there is water enough to float it out.
During the week there was shipped from
the port of Darien, coastwise and foreign,
3,776, $40 feet of timber and lumber, valued
at $S71s1.
The Recorder of Atlanta will have an
other case to investigate which involves
the interstate commerce law. License In
spector Hunter has made a case against
w. H. Brown, who represents the Chi
cagos Portrait Company, and the charge
against Brown is that he is doing business
without license. Brown has been secur-
ing photographs In Atlanta which he sends
to Chicago to have enlarged into crayon
portraits The work Is all done in Chica-
go and the portraits are delivered in
Original packages"
Dahlonega Nugget: Even the revenue
officials sometimes have tricks put off on
them. We understand that some fellow
In the lower portion of Lumpkin county
wanting So put up little nine or ten
gallon still in a furnace where there was
no mash nor anything else of the kind
and then reported it to the officials re-
Gently, who went forward and destroyed
it, making the proper report to the de-
partment for him TO get his money, thus
making big profit on the investment,
even off of Uncle Sam. Then we are in
formed that later on another old useless
still was fixed up at another place and
reported in the same manner.
Arthur Samuels of Burke county was
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun a day or two ago. His father was
at one time United States Marshal for
the Southern district of Georgia. Mr..
Samueis was hunting on Capt. c. b. Bas-
tons place in Burke county. The dogs
had run game of some kind to cover and
Mr.. Samuels was investigating. He plac-
ed the gun in an upright position, leaning
against the log about which the dogs
were gathered. In some way the weapon
discharged. The load of shot caught Mr.
Samuels in the breast. just above the
waist, ranging in and out. emerging just
above the heart and missing that vital
organ a fraction of an inch.