The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-14
GEORGIA.

0EOHOlAs
t3uena Vista is excited over the emigra-
ton craze Many negroes have left there
TO go out 10 Arkansas to work on farms.
Ricbland citizens are now drinking ar
teeian water. The well is 400 feet deep,
and has capacity of fifty gallons per
minute.
Miss Myrtle Addington of Buren,, Union
county. committed suicide on Sunday
nigbt March 5, by taking prussic acid,
because she learned that James M. Mich
oIson. the man she loved, was to be mar
r,sd 10 another woman. She was, 1t is
said an attractive and an accomplished
Young woman, 20 years old.
Adel News: Two boys about IA years old,
each belonging to prominent families of
This section, decided to try their fortunes
IN the road Accordingly they walked 10
cell intending to board the first south
bound train. But Mr.. Will Shaw was
there and recognized the boys and had
them cared for by the Mayor until thelr
PARENTS were notified. Mondays noon
rain brought the little fellows home
Rev E. e. Eoss, L. L. D., of Nashville,
o3itor Of the Nashville Christian Advo-
cs,e has been rendered the presidency of
the University of Georgia. DR.. Hoss sue
.oa5ed Bishop FITZGERALD as editor of the
official organ of the Southern Methodist
Church and is considered the most schol-
arlv man in the church DR.. Hoss' TRENDS
are urging him to continue in his present
place. where they say he is needed at THIS
time.
A new church building will be erected
In the near future by the members OF the
First Baptist Church of Atlanta. 1t is
proposed to make the new structure one
of the handsomest church buildings in
that city. Several meetings have been
held lately by the board of deacons and
the trustees of the church for the pur-
nose of discussing the question, and sew
eraI weeks ago decided action was TAX
en-.
After an extended hearing Saturday aft
ernoon Judge Orr bound over w. W. Has
keH. a fire insurance agent of Atlanta,
for larceny after trust. The warrant was
taken out by Walter Tomlnson, and the
disagreement between the TWO has been
pending in the courts for some time. Tom
linson swore out the warrant against Has
ken several days ago, and no sooner did
he do so than Haskell took out one
against TomInson The latter was heard
before Judge Foute on Thursday, when it
was dismissed.
Buchanan Tribune: Georgia keeps on
educating more lawyers than there are
clients. more doctors than there are pa
tients and more preachers than there are
congregations, while the East is turning
out men who can build and run engines,
who can build and run factories and
railroads Georgia is the devil on long
cared politicians and big-fee chargers but
slnl
turn out man a year who can make a
wheelbarrow or stock frowe.'
The hardware store of Messrs. Johnston
& Bethune, at AIilledgeville, was broken
into Thursday night and a lot of guns
and pistols, to the value of probably $3.50,
was taken. The store was entered from
the rear window and the burglars left alb
solurely no clew, Friday a sufficient nu-
eleus of evidence having been gathered,
warrant was issued against Jesse Tins
ley, the porter and he was arrested and
put in jail. 1t seems that Tinsley was
in a hurry to convert his booty into cash,
and as result he was suspected.
In the case of L. A. Baldwin against
the Atlanta and West Point Railroad
which had been ON trial all last week at
Newman, the jury returned a verdict Sat
urday morning for the plaintiff for $1,000
and costs of suit. The case was stubborn
ly contested from start to finish. Baldwin
lives in Talbot county and was passing
through Coweta county to Hogansville
with a carload of stock, when an accident
occurred, inhicting permanent injuries
upon him. His hearing in one ear was
destroyed, his left arm rendered almost
useless and his spine was injured.
Flowery Branch Journal: Mr. Henry
Little, one of the Oldest citizens of this
county, tells good story on Gov. Gambler.
He says: when a little boy, Allen re-
turned from his first trip to
mil with this report to his
father: Father 1 saw that miller stealing
our eorni when he thought was not look
ing he took out boxful and put it into
ms big box. But when he was not boxing
went up and put it back again. Mr..
Little adds that ALIENS sense of right
was so strong-even then-that when his
father explained that the miller was only
taxing his pay for grinding, the boy could
not rest until he had gone back to pay
Sne miller" 1t is needless to say that
Ar Little is very enthusiastic Gambler
man
Mr.. A. L. Dix, Troup's popular tax re-
ceirer, says that the chickens belonging
10 an old negress who lives a few miles
aooVe town froze to death during the re-
cent cold, and the old darby, 10 recoup
ner loss, decided she would pick them and
cave the feathers for her pillows. So out
the hennery she went, brought in the
olu rooster first and pulled the feathers
from him by the handfuls until all were
IN. When she finished him she laid him
uo"n on the hearth and went out to get
9"oIher to pick, when. 10 and behold! on
s u,r return the unfeathered bird was
,anaihS up before the fire Hopping his
naked wings aud growing as If II was
Shfistmas with him. Col. Dix gives the
i,"me of the darby and tells where she
1Fes, and says it was a common Troup
county chicken.
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