Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-30
GEORGIA.

His morse " hAAH AnEEEeu and Then
Kns himself from Remorse.
GEORGIA.
me NEGROES Of Quitman are taking but lit
f- N anv. interest in politics.
po.k Almond. OF R0ckdale county. had his
1.-f terribly Iacerated by a gIn Friday eve
rr- one finger was cut completely on.
George ". Adams, Of Camp Hill, accident
ally shot himself Friday while handling a
r-ral. The uaI entered his eye, producing
death m q few moments.
The following deaths are reported; At
frIruUu-. 10. IT, Bessau and Mrs. S. A .
carter. SO LaGranEe. X. e.. Allison: at
Gainesville, Col. F. II. johnson; at Augusta
Mr-. P ,-lrunk, aged 90 years.
t.eurzct0wu Echo: The cotton CROP OF this
county has been greatly cut short bv dry
weather, and tw0-thirds Of an ordinary crop
IS now the calculation. The corn cr0U is tOle-
r good. The sugar cane and potato crops
.-s very poor.
An Augusta man writes as follows: Bv a
rough calculation. the corn on a chess board
altIug one grain on the first square aud
.u-Iug on each succeeding one OF the sixty
9 r would ON l.s4f.s75 barns each holding
100000 bushels OF 100000 grains each. bushels
r.HuI numbers IL the United states made
.-a..NIua1 bushels each year. 10 would re-
.lr. "a little over 80 years TO make enough.
a BURGLAR entered the house Of Prof. Ivy W
uu--lu, al Linton. Thursday night and stole
r.r.e gold watches. He first went into Prof
I.EGau.s room, where q lamp was burning
81 -1t his watch from his pocket without
la.l- discovered, and then went upstairs 10
s. room occupied by VI. L. Duggau, DR.. J. b.
UH--lu AMI John Allen. In this room he got
i gold watch from the mautlepiece belonging
fu ur. Allen, and a watch and some small ar
tIr..- from Ut l. buggau's pocket, but failed
tr .rI bis pocketbOok. containing an amount
rruurty. which was In his coat pocket NJ
o. ul--Hu arose about an hour before day
break. aud ln dressing discovered that his
watch was gone, and on reporting his loss it
sla- soon found that the other two 7yese also
gone. s party OF men at once went 10 the
house ul q suspicious negro. One Of the party
tf.-.aI the door and called for the negro. who
Immediately jumped out OF back window
sud attempted to make his escape, but was
-lHu caught by Mr.. BaNtOn TraWick. who is
noted l- "a swift runner. Ihi7 attempt TO es-
cane was about the only suspicious evidence
obtained at last accounts.
NuE ~tebbins. a resident Of Mcintosh c0un-
l-. HIrutssed hIs horse preparatory To taking
s. drive % a friends house IN another part Of
tHe county After DE had haruessed the horse
auI hitchei It t0 the buggy he started 20 leave
.t for the purpose % getting some articles he
desired from Che house The horse was res
rIEe and would not stand. and every time Mr..
-frhbius started for the house the horse would
attempt to walk OF. After several Intellectual
attempts to quiet the horse and get DO 20 stand
sti.l. Mr.. >teluins flew toto terrible passion,
rushed into the house, seized his gun and shot
the horse. which fell % the ground dead.
Mr.. >teuuius was under the impress
Ieu that the gun was loaded with small
- shot but found. after DO was too late, that
some one had been using it and left it
r1afeI with burksbot. Fiutsug that he had
AiIeI his horse, Mr.. ~tebbins reloaded his
-uu lud Left the house. His wife thought he
81 .- iu one 90 Dis its % passion and had left
alme for the purpose of cooling OF, and that
Be-. would return during the afternoon, but
such IId NOT prove 20 he the case. lie has been
absent now SIX days and his family have not
He.r.I 3D. wori ON him. The suppOsItI0u is
fs.lt boz became temuralIZcd at his fool hardy
s-.r aud went uut into one OF the swamps in
.H HHHrHlrII and |IIrFT his ffU
Wr -.aUHIu- was about 80 years old, and at
s.r-.- ual subject 90 terrible fits Of passion,
sH# flr hours would rave like an insane
mlu. hu1ak KING down everything that came Iu
his uav. at other times he was as dOCiie and
gentle a- + lrmb. He leaves a wife and two
children.