Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-01

Thirsting for Revenge.
GEORGIA.
Tie court house Of Newton Will cost about
$4,000.
Bermuda grass is being extensively planted
ln Southwest Georgia.
Horse and mule thieves are making things
lively IN Walton county.
Do0ly farmers report that oats are not so
badly INJURED as was thought at first.
The sixteen year old son Of }. }. HOlcOmbe,
Oh Cross Keys, Dekalb county, has run away
from home.
Richard Magil and Mrs. Jas. VI. Simpson,
both widely known residents Of augusta, died
Wednesday.
A negro woman tramping around Columbus
during the last cold spell mad child frozen
10 death in her arms.
a farmer reported TO the Macon police
Wednesday that he had lost 500 ia money on
the streets Of that city
Lee Cole was convicted. at DOugasville, of
the murder Of Jack w aidrOp, and sentenced
20 the penitentiary FOR life.
on last Wednesday. as T.. J. Robertson was
driving home, Eear Loganville, his mule
dropped dead IN the shafts.
It costs over 5000 per annum to run the
city government Of COvingtOn The MayOr
and C0uncIlmen get no salary.
Fifteen years IN the penitentiary is the fate
or Thomas Witcher, pronounced guilty Of
raping l2-year-Old girl at Rome.
J.. T. Daniel, an old resident OF Columbus.
engaged in the grocery business died sud-
denly of heart disease tuesday.
At DouglasvIlle fifteen defendants plead
guilty To illegal voting. Afterwards. on Il
Test case. the defendant was acquitted.
Frank Leroy, the tramp, who was killed
near Marietta by "a train, was buried by the
county authorities ia the city cemetery.
The parties charged with completely in the
bloody ahray az Mclean some time ago, viii
Doe on trial In Burke superior Court this week
At attempt TO wreck train on the Mobile
and Girard Railroad near Columbus came
very near being successful Wednesday morn
ing.
yertises an election, to be held March ., to de-
eide the question of prohibiting the sale Of
whisky
r. G.. Mcdonald the new editor Of the
the name of his paper q household word
throughout the county.
William II. spencer, who lives six miles
above Lafayette, lost his barn aud stables by
fire last sunday night. Burned with it We're
Two cows buggy and all his corn.
Georgia Fire Company, of Augusta, has just
received new engine manufactured by But
ton. she is sad TO be q beauty and one of the
finest and most powerful i'm the state.
4 child of Randall Grehams, c0l0red, about
3 years ola. living on Col. TOOle's plantation
three miles from Vienna, was burned so badly
few days ago that it only lived about four
hours
Stamps of the and 2-ceut denominations
ran short at the Atlanta post office Wednes-
QNN. ana IDr TWO NtUr- none We're sold. AT
the expiration of that time train brought i'm
supply.
Two chance room mates Of ". =. Avers, in an
Atlanta boarding house, stole his satchel, con-
tainlng, among other articles, certificate of
deposit for Sl,lO0. while me was at dinner
Wednesday.
4 public meeting was to be held in Grinn
yesterday TO consider the feasibility Of organ
izlug Joint stock company for the manufac-
ture Of q Domestic eyaporator. now on cXhi-
bitiOn there by the inventor.
Deputy Marshal Robinson, who is serving
sentence in Albany prison for rendering false
accounts, Is sick and respondent. His SEN
tenec viii expire ON the 18th of February.
He is very anxious TO be pardOned.
Danielsylle has had a general jail deliv-
cry Five prisoners burned a hole i'm the floor
aud mined through rock wall All the
prisoners were put lu for stealing. eNceDt
one, who was put IN for kidnapping q white
girl.
Ellen Mullalev. pretty brunette of sixteen
years, left her home i'm Atlanta Wednesday
morning. promising 10 return in the after
noon. She has not returned since, aud her
parents are distracted with grief. The girl
hau no love affair, and, the parents sav. ap-
peared perfectly happy and contented at
home. Her disappearance Is therefore unac-
ccuutable-
W. T.. Till. OF Henderson, was to marry one
oI henderson, lovelest and most accomplish
eel young ladies Wednesday. az 3 O'Clock
Daring the night her br0ther-in-law. J. r.
Grant, leading member of the Baptist
Church. elOped with the intended bride. Miss
Nena Peddv George W Peddv, IatneT ol
Ntua d. "a Methodist minister of good stand
ing. The would-be groom and brother, both
of whom are very desperate men. on hearing
the intelligence started Immediately in pur-
suit.
some OF the colored people around the Luna
tc Asylum at Miledgeville are badly scared
over ''spOok." They are impressed with the
idea that one of the inmates of the Asylum
escapes just after dark. always returning be-
fore daylight. He strides across the fields IN
@ mysterious way, looks i'm the cabin windows,
tapping the glass with his finger tips, and dis
appearing as soon rs he is noticed. Women
and little children are IN mortal dread of the
spccter.
James p, Laytleld, Of Harris county says
That he is cutting a jaw tooth i'm the place
from which he had one pulled some time go.
He Is 80 years of age. \ Columbus gentleman
i5 years of age says that ne cut two jaw teeth
at the age of 30. Another gentleman stated
that he had Il nephew who had cut his third
rrt Of teeth. The second were decaying and
ha had them all pulled out for the purpose OF
having false set made, but before the dentist
got hem ready he discovered that nature was
supplying them for him.
Last Friday !. y. JOyncs, merchant at Clay
tom, received q letter from his father at Nuh-
blu Ridge, $. c., stating that Frank Sanders
hat escaped from jail there and gone towards
Eapan county. and requesting him to look for
him. which he did. He came near Clayton
saturday. and Mr.. JOVues learning at once
That he was not far away. took three or four
men with him and found him at the house of
James Gaines, about three miles from town.
AaltN aIIENttu ana bEouEuL MIN To lHll- lie Is
charged with attempting TO murder his wife.
forgery, and stealing Sl0I I'm money. He is
wanted i'm Hart county, this state, for burn
luS some straw stacks.
The Amcricus Republicans SAYS. Mr.. w
w trucrrr. of this city. is in many respects
au extraordinary man. lie Is now about 40
years old. I'm childhood both his arms were
cut OF. about half way between the elbow
aui shoulder. 10y q sugar mill. But he was q
1--we boy. iulI of vim, energy and aggressive
-e.s and 1t was not great while before he
r HnH H Ion d fNatnHnH L.
81. H.. ami IS yet a man of prominence. iuteg-
fitt and usefulness. He has a wife and sew
era. children, Is Coroner ot the county, act
.l- .allu ol AmerlcuS district. and making
handsome support. In the business of life atr.
arterry hardly misses his arms. He inserts
lAe Ieu stad i'm his mouth when writing and
writes as legGly and as fast as men generally
write who are accustomed TO the Use OF the
pen. He can swim, drive a horse, tie knot.
-lov. gun, and do almost anything and do 10
-tlli as well as If has arms had never been
.lt oa Mr.. Guerry is intelligent. reliable
and entitled 90 great credit for the manner in
N4ich he has met end mastered the difficult
PES " Aleh stood ln his way
Robert smith. c0lored. was convicted at Car
teres ille this week Of voluntary manslaughter
iH Nulng stephen Pruitt, also cOiored. The
punishment Is from one TO twenty years in
-he penlteutiary. IL Is i'm the discretion of the
Judge 90 tiN his term anywhere between those
Injuries ltls probable thar a motion for q
new trial viii be made by the defendants
counsel. PruItt was killed about the lst of
October, lsSS. on the farm Of Mr..
freeman. about four miles
tIaia OIfteiS5 -ile, on the Ten
uessee road. The blow ts0t produced death
was inflicted with the sharp edge cf an axe.
ani split the skull entirely open, leaving the
rain exposed. Notwithstanding the terrible
euiu8. Pruitt lived several days. but
a.tlue,i IQt ale most part in an unconscious
AuuHOn. cmltA does not deny having given
tae hloT. but claims that AZ 3 rs done IN self
license; that PTuitt was advancing on him
itl sn open knife and attempting TO cut him
when be MT him with the axe. The testimony
Na- somewhat conflicting. and 10 was hard TO
sc5 at the exact truth of The affair. But rs
leaal iu such cases. whisky Was at the bot
~ or rhe whole business, as they were both
-elsE the eight occurred.
--~k sterig ". II. Ne
one night last N, aasled gp about
alchy, OF Lafayette. was -~~s ID fgeut
MM0 clock by some one ON the sIf,. -
iAe lali. He knew the voice. and t0ld ,-
-Hu 10 come IN. Instead OF the gentleman
DO hdllooeu coming in. another man Of the
me name came. lie asked McClatchy where
-atlle GodsOn was Matte GodsOn. it viii be
Aemoered, was placed in Jail two weeks
- On q charge Of murder. The gentleman
lu called Tor her was her uncle. The Sher-
eupposlng he just wanted To see her, told
- sile was IN the adjoining room. The party
At IN and told her IN an uudertoue TO get
@4a put ner clothes on as quick as she
", luat they had come after her. Since
McClatchy has been Sheriff. one party
peen taken out Of jail by force,
OF course he thought this was the
Ae again and this suspicion was
AEluened Dy his seeing four or five men
e,de the door. He stepped quietly to his
41 and got his pistol. and as quietly
-Aed IN the room where the man was and
'fe the party was aware Of il lie had him
eleu. McClatchy told him that that game
oeen played on him once before, but was
"A 70 be repeated. As quick as thought the
FL n1 hands went up. and none too soon for