The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-15
GEORGIA.

There are now confined in the state San
,tarium, at Milledgevnie, 1852 patients
SIS white females, $40 white males, 1853 COL
ored females and 1926 colored males.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Arp of Gainesville,
Ga. will celebrate their golden wedding
March 7. 1899. They have already receiv-
ed some wedding presents. Their six sons
and four daughters will be with them on
this important occasion.
The Athens Banner puts it in this way:
"The SWEETEST social event of the year will
be pulled off tonight when the reception
and dance given under the auspices of the
military officers stationed mere compii-
mentary to their friends occurs a Dupree
Hall
There are several negroes in Early
county who have solved the race problem,
so far as it apples to themselves. They
own well stocked farms hogs and cattle;
in fact, are in easy circumstances The. e
negroes take very little interest in poll
tics. while they have considerable L" flu
ence."
A bale of cotton has been kept at gin
near Sandersville for the past ten years
Inc ONINE lIlGH SdAl llE HONlu kdhG ~
cents per pound or nothing for it, The
bagging has rotted from exposure to the
weather and the lint is now being scatter
ed by the wind. The owner could not get
10 cents and has accepted nothing.
A serious shooting ARRAY occurred at
Sycamore Saturday evening when Mar
shall Rape attempted TO arrest G. w
Young, citizen of that place who was
under the influence of whisky and resisted
arrest by cutting the marshal severely in
the side, whereupon the marshal shot
Young through the stomach Doctors say
Young cannot recover. Rape's wounds
are not considered dangerous. CitiZeus
tried to separate the parties, but were I'M
able TO do so.
Mrs. Sara Hickson died Saturday night
at the home of her son, Mr.. ]. A. Hickson,
al Eko She would have been SO years
old in January. She was an estimable
Christian woman. She is a sister to Mrs.
William Means and Mrs. James Elliott of
Barnesvilie. Besides these and many
friends, she leaves five sons and two
daughters, and many grand and great
grandchildren 10 mourn her loss. Her re-
mans were inferred at the cemetery at
Perry Sunday.
srocher in the baggage car of train 80
Monday afternoon lay a white boy appar-
emily about 10 years of age with one leg
entirely mashed in two the dismembered
foot lying at the foot of the stretcher. He
was being taken to the Plant System Hos
phal at Waycross for treatment. Inquiry
of the railroad people developed the story
that the boy was trying TO climb on the
rods of a freight train at Cairo when he
fell and the wheels passed over his leg.
The boy lived in Pensacola and said his
name was smith.
Monday night about dark an inquiry
was made by a couple in a buggy for the
Justices of the peace residence at Boston,
10 which place they were directed. On ar
irving there t was discovered that it was
Mss Drew and Mr.. Robert Cargil, of near
Miocosukee, wishing TO secure his services
in matrimonial alliance. Judge Jordan
is always ready to help in any good cause
and very soon tied the knot hard and fast
They had already been 10 Metcalfe in the
hope of meeting d minister there, but,
ia ling to do so, drove fourteen miles 10
this place, succeeded and went back re-
joicing.
Triton Gazette: The Gazette has re-
marked before that this is a potato year
Whether caused by the inancia pressure
war scare or hard times, the tubers have
Just fairly bumped themselves in produc-
ing freaks. The latest and queerest was
brought TO this Office Monday by MIR. Il
Il. Gay, a handsome and clever young
farmer from Brookfeld neighborhood. The
potato has a set Of natural teeth, firmly
embedded where its jaws would have been
had it been an animal The teeth were
evidently once those of COW, but are
now firmly grown, by some strange freak
OF nature, fully half inch into The sde
OF the potato. This freak Is on exhibition
at his office, and all doubers are invited
TO call and inspect it,