The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-08
GEORGIA.


very largely increased acreage of wheat
in Floyd this fan. Farmers are becoming
more and more impressed with the idea
of raising grain. and it will not be long
before the county is selling wheat Instead
of buying -four
Barnesville Gazette: The clergymen Of
Savannah have persuaded the Mayor to
admit that he knows gambling is extant
IN that city, and to taboo the vice, Sa-
vannah always was envious 81 Atlanta.
But the Forest City's Mayor has not yet
qualified to the pace recently set by the
Mayor of the Gate city.
The largest civil case to be tired at
Reidsville this week is brought by Mrs
Matte Bennett against the Sullmore Air
Line Railway for S25 600 damages for the
killing of her husband, an engineer on the
road. W. w. Bennett of Bailey repre-
sents the Plaintiff and G. NJ. Warren OF
Swalnsboro the defendant.
Colqultt county receives $3.50 from the
state pension fund. OF this $l,020 is paid
to widows of Confederate soldiers, of whom
there are seventeen In the county one
thousand, six hundred and forty dollars
is paid to invalid ex-Confederate soldiers
There are twenty-five of these in the
county The remainder. 1920, is paid to
twenty.
Mr.. Joe Matthews, a Lincoln county
farmer, started to Washington Wednes-
day morning TO market bale of cotton.
He drove one-horse wagon and was ac-
companied by two sons. On an upgrade,
twelve miles from Washington, a bolt
broke and dropped one end of the shaft
Uponrthe horses heels. The animal became
frightened, ran the wagon against the en-
bankment, overturned 1t and the bale OF
cotton upon Mr.. Matthews
The Board of Trustees of the city public
schools OF Rome, have dismissed the
charges against r. NJ. Dent, principal of
the colored department. Dent was accused
of buying and selling votes In certain cleo
lions and his dismissal was asked for upon
these grounds. The trustees considered
there was no evidence against Dent and
dismissed the case. The board had no
right TO subpoena witnesses, and none
would appear voluntarily.
Moultrie Observers Mr.. Coy fisher of
Moultrie was married to Miss Leonona
Fulford of Meigs last Sunday afternoon at
o'clock The marriage was a Gretna
Green, or steal-away, affair and was con-
summated without the knowledge of the
brides parents out six miles in the coun-
try at the home of Justice Palmer where
the couple had driven under the pretense
of going to ride. After the marriage they
returned to the young lady's home, where
she stopped, while the groom came on TO
Moultrie.
Ex-senator H. II. Beard of Hall county,
six miles from Buford. had the misfortune
to have his barn burned Thursday night.
The fire was discovered about o'clock,
and as there had been no rain. and the
buildings were very dry, the fire spread
rapidly. giving scarcely time TO get the
mules and cows out OF the stables. In the
barn was about 5000 pounds of seed cot
ton, 1900 bundles of fodder, 80 bushels of
wheat, besides oats and other forage, none
of which was saved. Mr.. Beard has no
idea how the fire originated. There was
no insurance.
Madison Madisonian: Mr. John O'Flah-
erty of Buckhead. the owner OF the 1900
pound hog which has made Buckhead IA
nous as a hog-producing town. will carry
"Old Joe" his thousaud-pound porker, to
Atlanta next week to exhibit him al the
State Fair Mr.. OFlaherty will surely
win the prize for the largest hog in the
state, as "Old Joe" has no superior. Be
sides his huge hog Mr.. O'Flaherty will
have lot of his large collection of Gu
riosities from various states in which he
has Travelled. His exhibit will he quite
an interesting one and viii be viewed with
special interest by the people who go from
this section.
The church of the Colored Baptists I'm
South Quitman was struck by a heavy
bolt of lightning on Thursday. The front
of il was badly torn up and the cupola
set afire. 1t is outside the fire limits, and
there was much delay in starting to fight
1t. The fact that the rains of yesterday
and to-day had thoroughly wet the build
ing enabled the fremen to extnguish II
The confusion was Undesirable. There
were some 300 screaming, praying. negro
women and men, who, when the work was
begun, stopped their noise to bring water
from puddles and wells. The fire was put
out before the bell. which Is the finest in
Quitman, was seriously injured. Two
men fell from the roof and were consld-
erahly bruised. A COW which had taken
shelter from the rain under the church
was killed by the lightning.
Dalonega Nugget: During the year 1875
a gold nugget was picked up on the pubic
square. 1t weighed thirteen pennyweights
and eight grains. Since then several 9TH
ers have been found. Ii is supposed by
our native miners that a large rich au-
riferous vein traverses the public square,
running with the formation on the south
side OF our court house. Mr.. Clark who
was here some weeks ago, with a new in
vention for locating metaliferous leads
deposits, etc., traced this vein with his
instrument, aud according to his expert
ment the lead runs through the vacant
corner lot of DR.. c. H. Jones. in the dlrec-
ton of DIR. Whelchel's Office. Mr.. Clark
says that a shaft could be sunk and a large
gold-bear!ng vein struck. Now If our city
government wants to go into the gold
mining business, they have the property.
At Irwinton last week Mack Cannon and
Mary Brsco were tried for murder. The
latter received a life sentence, while the
former was sentenced TO be hanged on
Oct. q. Mary was the wife of John
Brisco, while Mack was employed by John
as a hand. The two became lovers and
plotted to kill John, and one night last
April, while John and his wife Mary slept
In bed, Mack Cannon took an ak and
struck John a mortal blow on the head,
after which the two took the body 10 a
branch nearby and buried it, returning
20 the house and sleeping in the same bed
where the murder had been committed
few dnys after thew disaOneared ana