Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-06

to move his quarters, aud had gotten
about thirty feet from the stump when it
was struck by lightning and torn all 10
pieces. MIR. Mulligan was knocked down,
and for some minutes was insensible.
At Marietta Friday peculiar accident
happened to DR.. +. NJ. Johnson as he was
driving To his house. He encountered the
Marietta and North Georgia train, and
his horse becoming frightened, began to
back. He got out to hold it. but could
not restrain it. 1t backed into a cut Just
as the train was passing, the horse follow
ing beside the track and the buggy falling
upon fiat car Of the moving train. DR..
johnson escaped without injury. but both
horse and buggy were badly damaged.
F0rty-eight years ago there was rOus-
ing barbecue and celebration OF the glOri-
Gus Fourth IN West Point. Gen. Hugh A.
| IIaraldson, Hon. Orville A. Bull and Col.
Julius G. Afford, all OF LAGRANGE. We're
present and made thrilling speeches. The
speakers stand was in a beautiful oak
grove, where the Opera House now
stands. The toast rendered by Or. James
Cherry. which called Col. Afford TO the
stand, was as follows: ''The Hon. julius
e. Afford, The war-hOrse of Vroup, whilst
fighting fanatics in the Lalls Of Congress
or Indians in The Chckah0mlny swamp,
is ever ready to do his duty"
While seining in Cedar creek, near
CedartOwn, one day last week, the sons of
Isaac Baker discovered bag full of dry
goods that had been suspended by a cord
and weighted beneath The water. They
proved to be of the lot stolen from Pitt
man & Son, at Lime Branch. In the bag
was a coat little worn, by which it was
hoped an Identification of the thief could
be effected. billiard Wright, having
been seen wearing the coat, was arrested.
lie was tried before Justice lIedbetter,
when half dozen negroes swOre that the
coat belonged to Allen PascOe, the negro
who was killed in CatOosa last week. The
negro was discharged.
A few days ago a man about 30 years of
age, and girl of about Is crossed Tay-
tors Ridge at the Maddox Gap, in Walk
er county, IN light spring wagon, on the
rack of which was strapped a trunk. AT
ter crossing they turned down the valley
towards Shiloh. When they reached
Capt. McWilliams' place they inquired if
colOred people lived at cabin which was
IN sight. Beng told that they did, they
drove up to it, and the man got out and
handed to the astonished inmates a bun
die, which he said he had found on the
east side of the ridge. That done, he
drove OFF Immediately. The bundle con-
tanned a mulatto child two or three
months old.
Naldosta on suspicion Of robbing the post
office at White Springs, Fla, was held
until Tuesday, when he was carried to
Florida to stand his trial. His LAWYERS
made an effort to secure his release
under a writ of habeas corpus, and while
the case was being heard before the Ordi-
nary an order from the Governor of GeOr-
gia, in response to requisitiOn from the
Governor of Florida, came directing the
m I'm IA T1Tia n
Florida authorities. This put an end to
the habeas corpus case. James GO,dwire,
cOlored, who was in court watching the
proceedings, was arrested on suspicion Of
being implicated in the crime.
A serious encounter occurred in Fannin
county, about five miles from MOrgautOn
Friday, between three of the Hunter boys
on one side and Jesse Cole and his three
boys on the other. All four Of the Coles
are badly cut, and it is said that old man
Cole and two of the boys will certainly
die. One of the Hunters had sued one Of
the Coles some time since, out of which
feud had grown tetween the families. On
last Friday the Coles went to the field
where the Hunter boys were at work and
raised The row, when one Of the Hunter
boys did All the cutting. The Hunters
refuse to leave, and say they will stand
their trial let the result be what it may.
No arrests have been made yet.
Robert Carr, colorgd, OF ValdOsta, was
in the habit of quarreling with and fight
ing his wife They parted several times,
and when they last went together again
it was upon the condition that her brother
should live in the house with them as
sort of peacemaker, or protector for his
sister. Wednesday Carr got tired OF the
presence of his broter-in-law and ne pro-
ceeded to get rid of him. He got an AK,
IL bIv
dealt him blow aimed at the head, but
the brOther-in-law lodged and caught the
blow on the back of his neck. Carr left
his victim for dead and slipped out for
unknown parts. The brother-in-law did
not die, and was walking about Thurs
day.
At Wrightsville a few days ago light
ming struck Capt. J. II. Hicks barn and
killed one of his horses, besides setting
the barn on fire, and it would have been
burned but for the assistance of some ne
grOes. IL also struck q tree about 100
yards from the barn, and then struck the
ground between the tree and the barn. II
struck the ground in q cotton patch and
killed the cotton for twenty feet square.
1t looked as if it had been burned by fire.
There were several other horses and
mules in the barn, but, strange to say, il
did not seem to have any effect on them
at all. The horse TINT was killed was
feeding in the stall with his head against
the side of the building, and this is sup
posed to be the reason that 1t had more