Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-02

Columbus Times: Monday night a mob Of
negroes went to the house OF Ed. Bryant col
ored, in Northern Liberties, and attempted to
force an entrance, threatening to kill him.
Bailih McMichael was summoned. but when
he reached the scene the mob had dispersed
He procured their names, and yester ay war
rants were issued for six of them, but they
have skipped the city"
Mr.. Gather, of the Ashville Egis, works out
September weather as follows: "Area-From
the Lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic
to the Mississippi. South-1-2, rain; 3 4. thun-
der storms, variable weather: 81 fair or varia-
pie; o-lO, Ialr. thunder storms, storms in the
Middle Atlantic States; 11-i2, cooler fair per
haps thunder showers or rain: 1914, fair, hazy
and warm. rain or thunder storms; 1919.
heavy dews, clearing after rains"
The Georgia Legislature has a committee to
investigate the Western and Atlantic Railroad
lease, which has been in session two weeks.
The Atlanta POst-AppedI, August Both, SAYS:
J .ast night the committee had before il the
EDITORS OF the city daily newspapers. Few
questions were asked them, and the drift of
the examination seemed to be to discover the
owners OF the lease shares. and whether there
had been any discrimination by the lessees."
Mad son MadisOnidn: Hon. Eleazar II. Co
hen, Mayor Of Madison. died last night. Mr..
| Cohen enjoyed considerable local popularity
/ and was elected without any opposition Mayor
/ Of our town last April, this being his second
/ term. He was generous man and true to his
/ friends He was sixty-two wears old-Mr
4 .
/ Awtry was, at the time Of his death. a very old
/ man. and had lived in Madison for longer
time than any one"
Americas Republican: ''Messrs. Hawkes. &
/ Usry received their self f-Dropelling road engine
/ on Thursday of last week, and went out in the
/ neighbOrhOod Of Mr.. Dolly Hawkes. on Satur-
/ day to test its qualities both in the wav of
navigation and ginning cotton. Being the first
/ OF the kind ever received here, crowds of our
/ citizens went down to the depot to see it make
/ start. Steam was raised and it moved out of
I town, taking back street, without any
| trOuble,lguided by two mules"
| Atlanta Constitution: about four O'Clock
/ yesterday evening Mr.. N. NJ. Blount who is
/ engaged at the Central depot, was cslled hur
/ riedly home by telephone message saying
that his child had fallen from a second-story
| window. After reaching home he learned that
the child was sitting on the sewing machine
near the window, when it became frightened
and tumbled out. The child was about nine
/ months of age, and the distance to the ground
was about twelve feet, but fortunately tie fall
| miracle
Atlanta POst-ADpeGI: There are eighty-two
| prisoners now confined in the Fulton county
/ JAIL among them ten females, all negroes
/ There are five for murder VIZ: John d. Cox
/ well, white. or Wilkes county; John Belts
/ cOlored, Clayton county; A. B. Doyle. white
| Spaulding county; John w. Rogers, Pike couR-
/ ". William Gilden and Ike Thomas, both col
/ Ored, are from Fulton county, and are charged
: with attempted murder. The jail has accom-
mOdatlOn Tor $50 prisoners, though il has con.
/ tanned as many as 100.
The Post-AppeaI says rows were frequent
| "Wednesday in various parts of Atlanta. One
/ OF them reached the Recorders Court, which
developed that the watchman at the com
press was assaulted with stones by a negro
mob and hit in two or three places. Whisky, as
/ usual. appears to have played leading p1rt
/ On Broad street. near Peters somebody
/ rammed a cheese box over the head of another
/ somebody both cOlOred, but the party said as
] he Ipd nal of hat hsa
| posed it was joke. There was another row
/ between two white meH at Bradley's store on
Decatur street. and they landed in the Re
| cOrder's Court.
/ Atlanta P0st-ADpedI: "a Mr. Ford an aged
/ gentleman who has been boarding for some
/ time with Mrs. Edward Cox at Decatur, and
/ had been acting strangely for some days, was
/ found at O'Clock this morning In the yard
/ having jumped from the W stairs verandah,
| some twenty feet. He was taken up uncOn.
Scious and DR.. a. s. Mason sent for. but his
| services were unavailing, the unfortunate
| mans injuries being fatal, and from which he
| died at sunni ise this morning. Various causes
/ are assigned for his death, one that he fell
/ from the verandah, another that he jumped
/ with ths intent Of committing suicide. and still
| another, that in mt OF temporary alteration
/ of mind superinduced by some days Of ex
cessive indulgence, he threw himself to the
ground"
| OF the COvington fire. a dispatch to the Au-
gusta EUening Ne5US, of August 3lst says
n
| covered issuing from the stores of Thos. Camp
/ and S n. Stalings, on the west side of the
/ public square in this place. The alarm was
| sounded. and the citizens were soon upon the
/ grounds to find the fire under such Headway as
/ TO be impossible to save the buildings. The
| flames spread rapidly. and the entire block was
/ soon envelOped by the devouring element The
/ following houses were burned: Thomas Camp,
| hardware; S n. StalliBgs, groceries; B c. al
| bea. saloon; n. Anderson. dry goods; LstimeT
| Brothers, dry goods; w. s. Brown, drugs;
| Dearing & Gwinn, dry goods: the beautiful
| residence Of the late DR.. Hendrick, opposite
/ COxs Hotel. the Enterprise newspaper office,
aud negro cabin in rear os Dearing &
/ Gwinn's."
| Americus Recorder: Nothing has transpir-
/ ed in our county in a long while of sadder ma
| ture than the sudden drowning on Saturday
| morning last OF the little of Mr.. Sid K Jor-
/ dan, OF Schley- Going by the Parker, or old
| Ramsey mill, on return home from Americus
the father left his little boy in the bug y and
| went in 10 get a sack of meal. The miller, Mr.
/ Billy Parker. came out to hold the mule. when
/ he took fright, backed off the dam, ,precipitatng
/ the boy, buggy and mule into the deep water.
/ Though unable to swim, Mr.. Jordan spraDg in
/ to save his son. 1t was some moments before
/ the miller could rescue Mr.. Jordan. during
| which time the child sank. Unsuccessful at
| tsmpts were made to obtain the child by diving;
| one party felt the body with his foot and
| brought it up. Life was not quite extinct, but
/ ali attempts at TesuscitatiOn proved unavail-
Il ing, the body having been under water for near
/ ten minutes. The mule vas also drowned"