The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-03
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBORS'
Georgia.

a Hamburg lady Of respectable stand
fnp and antecedents has been caught stealins
sn6try articles from various Augusta Stores.
The new savannah City Council seems 10
be giving great satisfaction TO the people.
TbeS sweep even cleaner than most new
DR.. Dixop, of the First Baptist Church
OF Augusta, has recently declined call 10 q
New York church, at salary of more than
twice what he is now receiving.
Tie exodus of negroes from the Vicinity
of Macon is largely accelerated by the ex-
tremely low rates charged by the Western
Road OF Alabama.
w. A. Alexander. Of White County, was
found In Taliaterro County on Monday last
with his throat cut. 1t Is thought he commit
ted suicide.
On Tuesday not ton OF coal could be
bought In Atlanta. The difficulty seems to be
that owing to the washing away OF the Resaca
Bridge the coal communications have been cut
of.
On the night of the 2sth ultlmo, the barn
of Mr.. Ebenezer Daniels, about ELK miles from
Augusta, on the Savannah Road, was onrned,
t0Tether with Its contents OF hay and foddeT:
A negro has been arrested on suspicion CT
being the incendlary.. e-
Indianapolis, fell from train on the State
Road while In rapid motion and was crushed
to death. The body lay upon the track near
Dalton, and was again mutilated by freight
train. The unfortunate man was tourlst, en-
route to Florida, and he was not missed oy nls
friends on board the train until some hours
after bis death.
In December last bookkeeper of N. P.
Stovall, in Augusta, lost four thousand dollars
In bills from his pocket. Nothing could be
discovered uatil Thursday, when negro was
detected who confessed that he had found
portion Of the money. His statemants are so
confused that 1t Is believed he knows what has
become OF The total sum, aitnousn ne @ is very
defiant. he says that he lost cne hundred
and fifty dollars In Savannah. His name is
Barnes Harris alias Tony Harris.
"A serious accident occurred on Weones-
day night to the down passenger train on tne
Western and Atlantic Railroad. AT point
between Alatoona and CarterSViiIe orosen
rail thew from the track the Pullman sleeping
car. Racine. The car turned upon lts eide.
Wrscking the wood work to considerable
extent, but fortunately for the lives OF the pas
eepgers, the run of occurred on level ground,
the embankment at that place being OF very
slight elevation. The car contained about
twenty passengers, among them three or four
ladies, two OF whom, we deeply regret to
Learn, were severely injured. One oil the
ladies had an arm broken, and another was
Injured Internally. During the chaos created
by the accident, and while human beings,
bedolothes, mattresses, baggage ana splluL-
cred wood were jammed together in almost
ineytricable confusion, the stove, as usual on
such occasions, being red hot, set the car on
fre. However, by the presence OF mind OF
apAuvalid lady, the fire was extingulshed be-
fore 1t had made any serious progress.
North Carolina.
-Turpentine is being abandoned n Wake
and johnson Counties.
Captain Hail. agent of the Southern Ex-
press at Charlotte, Is dead.
The Raleigh Sentinel ssye: "The body OF
John Hogoe, citizen of New Hope Town. |
ship, whose mysterious disappearance we no
ticed few days ago, has been found In
swamp. The evidence is that the young man |
waa murdered.
Basil Lee. the oldest colored man In Cas- |
well County, being In his one hundredth year, |
was killed the other day by a tree falling on !
him. The Chronicle says he was former |
slave OF Washington, aud was twelve years
old when General Washington gave him his |
choice to live with him at Mount Vernon or |
be sold. he preferred being sold, and was
sent to Richmond and put on the block and |
was bought by member Of the Lee family In |
Caswell, and has remained in that family ever
Hince.