Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05
j. II. ESTILI, PROPRIETOR. Saw

sight was most horrible and siekenino one
Az Ine inquest. two of the men who had charge
OF the prisoner when ne left Dixouia- tesfifieS
,.r '.eJ ns, ulo not know who the firing party
Wefe' ana verdict was rendered that deceas-
e. came TO his death at the hands o. An un-
s kh0Wn party or parties. family living near
InoIsa Ia 1ord say that they distinctly heard the
report y. HVe guns IN The direction of the ford,
one Gay last week, and supposed il was some
hunting party. 1t is rumored that the guards
were overpowered by body of armed and un-
,es ~ IN, = ile1. VINO seized Johns AMI after tax
ing MN 70 indian ford. shot him to death
Says the Athens Chronicle: zone of our
readers suggests that it would be more Judi
clouS 70 give the city stock to the Macon and
BrunsWlck Road to secure the completion of
me northeastern, than to secure assistance
% from Ihe teorgia. The plan would be to ex-
oend the FORMER from Macon via COvington to
Athens, and thus obtain through line from
Ihe west TO the coast at Brunswick. We in
eorse the pan most heartily. and wish it could
to the Georgia Road, but thought at
the time We wrote the editorial two
weeks since ON that subject, that our
only nope OF aid was from that source. Our
proposition briefly stated is this: list, The
Northeastern must be built and 1lOlc; 2d, We
ttnlS section of the State) are not able TO do it,
and hence must look for outside aid; Sd, we
are Wiling 10 vote for 3 gift Of the city stock
TO any corporation that win complete it and
give Us proper guarantees; 4th, we prefer any
other corporation to the Georgia, but as q
we say accept the Georgia."
Says the Macon telegraph and Messenger:
we are again called upon to record another
distressing accident in our midst Steve Hsr-
risnn, young negro man, member of the
choir OF the Second Baptist c0lored church,
died yesterday morning at five o'clock from
Injuries received the night before about nine
O'Clock, while coupling cars at the Central
Railroad. It seems that a shifting engine CON
tanning one car backed 10 be coupled 10 train
or cars: Steve Harrison did the coupling
and as he started to step from between the
cars the two boxes r6bouuded back in some
manner and Harrison was caught against
the breast between the butts or projections of
two cars. He then stepped out, however, gave
m me ORDER an rlght and the train moved on:
Harrison spat up little blood, but did not
complain much at the time He told a com
paniOn, however, that he would 20 to a drug
store and procure some liniment with which to
rub his breast. This he did and went home
During the night, however, he grew worse, aud
died yesterday morning at five o'clock. This
Is, indeed, singular case of vitality and
death"
Madison MddiSOnidn: "a breeze Of excite
ment stirred up our usually quiet city last
Thursday. IC was currently reported that Mr.
W. A Broughton had seriously shot a negro
about ten miles from town The rumor was
soon authenticated by Mr.. Broughton himself,
who came to his place of business Immediately
after the shooting took place. Below we give
Mr.. BroughtOn' statement as to the cause Of the
shooting: He had sent out warrants for the
arrest of two negroes whom he suspicioned as
the parties that entered his country store sew
eral weeks ago and robbed i5 Of lot of goods
He went out at the request of the arresting Of
ficer to assist in the capture OF the offenders
TssO negroes were arrested aud goods bear
ing his mark found in their possess on
One of the negroes, Chester Shy, was
placed under his charge by the officer
Chester requested him (BroughtOn) to go
with him to neghbOriDg house, as he wanted
to see party about taking care of his wife
while he was under arrest Broughton con-
sented and they went into the house The ne
gro. after making necessary arrangements with
Hickman the occupant, seeing an opportunity
to escape, ran out BroughtOn told him to
halt. and upon Chester'S failure to comply with
this request he (Broughton) shot with the in
tentiOn Of soaring Chester, the ball entering
the back near the kidney and coming out at
the stomach. Mr.. Broughton states that the
shooting was entirely accidental Mr.. BrOugh-
ton Immediately came to town and sent out Dr.
George at his own expense to dress the wound.
He is one of our leading business men, and we
are sorry of the above occurrence. The negro
was still alive at last accounts"