The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-27
GEORGIA.

The graded road from lrWinVille to FIjZ-
gerald, which IS being built by the chain.
gang. will probably be completed mex,
week.
Cordele Sentinel: Silas Powell has been
acquitted. He was charged with killing
his cousin, John Kelly. last year Be,
fore Kelly died after being shot, # IS
said that he asked his family not TO pros,
ecute Powell Powell is now a free man.
Pugh Andrews, a VIGOROUSLY bad negro
of Quitman, was killed at Halo Saturday
night by another negro in free-for-an
fight Andrews left Quitmau recently 10
work on a railroad and IL seems that Sat
urday night Andrews and several other
negroes became involved in a difficulty,
which resulted in Andrews being shot TO
death.
Parties have been working a great swim
ding scheme on the old aute-bollum ne
groes throughout the Seventh Congression-
al district by representing that Congress
had passed bill TO pension the old South
ern slaves. The scOundrels have probably,
got hundreds OF dollars out of ignorant
and credulous negroes. Judge Maddox re-
ceived a number of letters in reference TO
the matter before leaving Washington, and
he has had several since returning home
A man by the name of Rumbly, who
until recently, was a resident of Iowa,
was tried in Griffin last Friday on a writ
of lunacy before Ordinary Drewry, 1t IS
not believed that the man Is crazy, but
as he was unable 20 support himself and
family, 1t is said he Insisted on his wife
suing out a writ of lunacy and have him
sent to the asylum, where he would be
cared for by the state, She did as he
suggested, and he was allowed to pick his
own jury He was found insane, of
course.
Washington Gazette: Jim Howard. the
hermit, who lives down near Graves noun
tain, was In town on Tuesday, and at
tTacted crowd wherever he went. He
is one of the greatest oddities of the hui
man race and does not come to town
more than once or twice in a decade. All
of his possessions would not bring 10
cents, and yet he will not live with either
one of his sons, who would support him
in comfort. They have each tried to ge;
him to live with them, but he says they
just want to get what he has got.
Thomasville Times Miss Ruth Hanna
and her cousin, Mr.. Howard Hanna, took
a daylight start from Melrose planta ton
the other morning, with a view of catch
ing a wildcat which had been seen on
Mr.. Hanna's extensive game preserve. The
young lady, who is q most accomplished
horsewoman, and young Hanna, succeed
ed in running down the cat after an eX-
citing chase, and bore 1t back home in
triumph before 10 O'Clock. The cat was
a very large one, and It's capture by Miss
Hanna and her young cousin was feat
of which veteran sportsmen might be
proud.
Controller General w. A. Wright has
asked for the arrest of the officers of the
Old Wayne Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, with headquarters at indianapolis,
Ind on the ground that they are doing a
fraudulent business in the limits of the
state of Georgia. 1t has been found by
the controller general, upon investigation,
that the Old Wayne Mutual company mas
not only been doing business in Georgia |
to a considerable extent, but that che |
company is without a paid-in capital and |
has further written to agents in this state
TO openly disregard the laws of Georgia |
on the subject of insurance.
Telfair Enterprise: Mrs. Grimes, the wife |
of very poor man. became the mother of |
twin boys on Sunday evening. She was
taken with commissions and came near dy- |
ing curing the nlSUt. next morning tie |
top of the old house in which they lived |
caught on fire and the husband picked |
her up and carried her out into a fiell !
with the twins and two other children, |
where he left them while he returned 10 |
the burning house and succeeded in extin- |
gushing the fire. after 1t had burned a |
third of the roof off. He soon nailed |
boards over the burned place and brought |
his family in, and all are doing wen.
The State Normal School at Athens will |
need much more room for the accommo- |
dalton of teachers soon. About May |
there viii begin great demand for ad- |
mission TO the school, and this demand |
will have to be refused unless more room |
can be provided. So President Bradwell |
as he is to admit just as many |
teachers as possible, has fallen back on |
his tents and will put the young men I'M
der canvass for the summer season. a
few days since at the sale of the govern |
ment property in Athens, President Brad |
well bought 100 single tents at a bargain |
and will soon put them to that good use. |
An amendment has been granted by Sec
rotary of State Cook to the charter of |
the Moultrie Terminal Railway Company, |
giving an extension to the line of the |
from Sinclair to the northern
boundary line of Colquitt county. The |
new addition to the road opens up an
extensive lumber country which has been |
productive of turpentine and lumber for |
the past few years, but has been worked |
so far by means of teams, as no railway |
has entered the forest The extension }
the line of the Moultrie company will be
of great value to the property owners of
Colquitt county. as 1t will give them an
other and faster means of carrying their
product in the shape of turpenune to the
coast and inland markets.
FLORIDA.
The market in Starke is full of nice
strawberries, not the small kind, so often
found, but large, red, lucious ones
Capt. ]. o. Walters has established
weekly schooner line between Punta Cor