Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
An 1s-Year-OId Negro Kills Com
pauiOn of 10 in sumter County - A
Family Made Prisoners in a Cyclone
Pit in Sumter COunty-A Brace of
Grimes in Lincoln County.
GEORGIA.
Berrien County Superior Court cOnve1Eed at
Nashville yesterday.
The Morgan county grand jury recommend
that the salary OF the County Judge be in
creased TO $500.
V. n. Mosely, of Madison, on trial. charged
with heInOu5 assault on his daughter, mas
been eXonerated of the charge.
J. II. .Remsen has been nominated at Lincoln
ton TO fill the uueNplred term OF Judge Z. +.
Tatem, late Ordinary Of the county.
\ daily mail route has been established
from Iallulah TO Clayton in itabuu county,
10 take effect on the first day Of April.
A great many hogs are dying around Athens
from a strange disease. They are attacked
with a choking sensation and nothing can re-
lieYe them. some farmers have lost every
hog on their place.
Tie Wavcross ReDorter says: The wild
land sales Of last week were Illegal, the At
torney General having decided that it was
necessary that they should be advertised for
three months before they can be sold accord
ing to the law governing such sales
Lee county's delegates TO the Republican
state Convention at Atlanta are @. a. An
drews, J. IL. Martin, W. J. Hall and b. c.
Mitchell. Altenates were j. e. outlaw. .. .
4. Hogan, j. II. Peterson and a. X. Cooper.
To the Congressional Convention the dele
gates are Martin, Mitchell. Cooper and Dow
dell. Alternates, Mccoy, Hall, Phillips and
Carter
The sumter Republican says: son Monday
night, 10th inst. a shooting occurred on Craw-
ford HarrisOn's place, about q miles from
Amerlcus. Two negro boys, aged l6 and Is
T.
We're joking one another about some girls.
Gordon said: i am tired of this and
whipping out pistol, fired ball into Harde-
mans right eye, from which shot he died
about ! o'clock Friday morning. George
Hardeman. father of the murdered boy, came
% the city Friday and took out a warrant for
Gordon, who has been on the place up to the
time of his victims death. Gordon is about
Is years old, gInger-cake color, and about )
feet high, with large white eyes, and is quite
intelligent for country negro
The Lincolnton Nelcs says: Jack Hender-
son and Geo. p. Murphev have for several
wears been living with j. y Tarver We'd
nesday. after Jack had been arrested and was
being carried by the officers to Washington
Murphey, who had striven with all his might
20 have hIm lynched. left LlnCOlntOu and has
not since been heard from. The negro con-
fesseS To a large part be took in the
conspiracy against Mr.. Blanchard and laws the
great burden ON Murphey and Tarver. Mr.
IdlNer was arrested Thursday. and the Off
GERS are in active search for Murphev The
charges against Murphcy and Iarver are con-
spiracy and subOrnati0n of perjury. which if
sustained viii 6N upon them "a crime worse
indeed than murder. Judge Hardy fixed the
bail IN each case against Mr.. Taryer at -. 900,
which Ee failed TO give, and was therefore
sent TO jail. The preliminary trial is set for
the 26th inst. save the innocent and punish
the guilty. Neither Talyer nor Murphey are
natives of Lincoln, nor have they long been
residents of our county"
The sumter Republican prints the following:
saturday nFnnf 4 LIapE elDul hmurr ftf.
city, and the indications Were good for q
blow Mr. ID. A. Mayo saw the signs and
gathered his family into a storm pit, which he
had recently finished, and. ike Noah when he
entered the Ark. pulled the covering over tine
door. The rain descended and the floods beat
upon that door, but the inmates of the nit
slept securely through the night and rain.
Early Sunddy morning David arose la his
strength, shook himself and tried to
go up, but the trap door had swollen
and refused to bulge. Young David
went to the assistance Of his father.
bat the door was too heavy for them The
hours rolled by. The church bells called the
people to meeting, but David and ms folks
We're in cave. and could not get out 4 Ab0ut
II o'clock Mr.. VIII or Ben Mayo went over to
see their father, found the house shut up, and
went around to see what was out. He could
hear voices and at last located the place,
where they proceeded. Getting an axe. with
the assistance of the men i'm the pit. he Drized
the door mp and liberated the family. We
have been informed by one who knows that
East AlneEICuS Is completely honey cOmBeu
with storm pits. Nearly every real estate
owner in that portion of the city has place
of refuge from the winds, some of them being
fitted up nearly as neat as parlor, with beds,
tables and other convenIences."
The LincOlntOn Neacs saws: 1T viii DE re-
collected that, in our issue OF February -
notice was given that Jack Henderson had
been arrested under warrant for swiudling
some OF the brethren of his own color out Of
Sls4. But to make the history of his infamy
complete. and to show the defiance OF an law
he had schO0led himself up 10. he on Monday
evening last. about dark. gained access by
trick into the house OF respectable white
citizen OF this town i'm his absence no one
being I'm the house but his wife andlttle child.
when he made highly insulting proposals.
The lady ran to a neighbOr's house. and her
husband. having IN the meantime re-
turned, he and his neighbor started i'm
pursuit, and after desperate race over
which he eNtricated himself. He was how
ever, retaken and delivered to sheriff Bruce
Lang. who placed him in jail to await his trial.
The highest excitement prevailed an over
town, and sheriff Lang, in obedience TO his
sworn duty as an officer of the law. summoned
a posse TO guard the jail. While this was
nothing more than his duty. still our Sheriff
IS entitled and viii receive from all right
minded citizens the need Of praise TO which
lie is entitled for the cool, calm. determined
manner in which he discharged that duty.
supported by the counsel and aid of the promi-
nent citizens OF the town. ON next day he
was brought before ID. ". sale. y. T.. and j.
F., and was committed TO jail. he having
waived preliminary trial. As a matter Of
precauu0n the prisoner was then conveyed TO
Wilkes county iaIl