The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-07
GEOHGIA.

GEORGIA.
Bulloch county has been dry county
for just twenty years.
Hon. Ben f. Russell advertises his half
interest in the cambridge Democrat for
sale at a bargain.
The chances are that the entire Fourth
Georgia Regiment will encamp on Cum
berland Island early in the coming sum
mer.
One of the most important local enter
prises to be inugurated in Cordele this
year is the boring of a large artesian well
10 supply the whole city with wafer The
city is now furnished with water from
springs near the creek, but the water for
drinking purposes does not agree with
some of the people on account of the large
ner cent. of lime it contains. The con-
tract for boring The we'll has been let to
Mr. John L. Cole Of Wenona.
The city of Dublin is 90 have two new
depots, and both of them are to be built
in sixty days. One of these will be for
the Wrightsville and Tennille, and the
other for the Macon, Dublin and Savan-
nah Railroad. For some time it looked
as if these roads would get together and
build a union depot, but the officials of
the two lines could not agree upon GER
tain details, and as a consequence two
separate depots will be constructed.
Ringgold New South: Mr.. R. B. Trim
nher OF Ringgold, an old Confederate SOL
der, may be put down as the second
Georgian who reads every issue of the
Congressional record. For years Mr..
TRIMMER has been a sufferer from in
somnia and he says that the Congress
sional Record is che best known quietus
lot h.ao IL
nerves to tranquility, and finally pass him
over into the arms of Morpheus, the God
of Sleer.
A terrible storm passed over Gwinnett
county Wednesday, doing extensive dam
age 10 growing crops and fruit. T. ].
Cooper, a prominent citizen of Gates dis
trict. reports that most all of the glass
in the windows was broken and that the
fruit trees were stripped of their fruit,
together with the leaves. The woods look
like winter time, the hail having stripped
the trees Of their leaves. Mr.. G. w.
Pharr reports that the wheat fields are
total lose.
SwansDoro Pine Forest: One Eaton, a
negro school teacher from North Caro-
lima, who was tried for the murder of
Parry Franklin, also colored, and acquit-
ted OF the charge az the last term of
Fmaruel Superior Court, has been APP
pointed census enumerator for the Fiji
ty-eighth district, G. NJ, of this county.
There is 9lso a case pending against him
for carrying concealed weapons, and he
will be tried for this offense in the City
Court on the fourth Monday in May.
A severe electrical storm passed over
Elberton Thursday. Lightning struck the
dwelling house of Mrs. J. p Chandler,
damaging the house considerably and
shocking the family, but they escaped Sc
rious injury. 1t also struck the barn of
Mr.. L. l.. Stephenson, doing some dam
age. 1t struck a shop in the western
part of the city and killed a fine COW be-
longing to Mr.. j. S. Tate. Several hail
storms have passed over the county in
the last few days. but no serious damage
has been reported
1t is claimed that bite on the hand
from a blue-gummed negro woman, SUI
san Rozier, caused the death of another,
Sue Davis, in the country near Cochran
Sunday and the coroner on Thursday re-
turned a verdict for involuntary man
slaughter. The woman got into a dispute
one Saturday night about three weeks
ago, and the Davis woman bit her an
tagonist on the hand, making only small
wound. Blood poison set in, which end
ed in the woman's death last Sunday
evening post mortem examination az
the inquest showed a fracture of the
skull, made by big stick in the same
fight. but the bite caused the blood poison
The negroes in the neighborhood explain
the fatality by declaring that the assail-
ant was a blue-gummed negro, whose
bite, according to their universal belief
is the same as a ratilesnake's. -