Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-13

day. He Is desperate looking negro,
win long bushy hair and beard. His
clothes were torn into threads, and his
long nails and cleaning eyes gave him
t9e appearance of fierce wild animal.
he was committed to the sylum.
richard Smith, negro employed on the
government works st Uchee SHOALS, on
Chattahoochee river, was drowned Monday
morning. He went out in a boat with
three other negoes, and while trying to
pass under one Of the lines that held the
barge TO the shore, they were capsized.
Inc others swan ashore, but Smith found
a watery grave.
Romulus Wardlaw is trying to run q
raft OF eighty sticks, twenty feet long,
down Flint river. He has only gone about
SIX miles, and he is having to repair the
ralt the third time. He is about half a
mile above Drayton bridge, and his raft
being in seven sections, is very unwieldly
In the swift and narrow stream. His des-
tination is Apalachlcola.
Tuesday Judge W. H. Bankston, who
lives about four miles from Barnesville,
In Monroe county, was carrying some
wood up the steps into his dwelling, and,
losing his balance, fell down the steps to
the ground. The fall resulted in one of
his arms being broken and his shoulder
dlslocated. Judge Bankston is some
where in the neighborhood of IS years of
age, and weighs about 200 pounds.
The latest statement in the George
Schaefer failure case at Hampton puts
the assets at $780, 1851 and the liabilities at
$loo, 691. The assignees are James s.
Akers, Of Iowa, Inman & Co., and Henry
Schaefer. The largest sum is due S. NJ.
Inman & Co.-$49,000. His other indebted
ness in Atlanta will reach $4,000. Schaef-
er owes $4,000 to ODER e. Jones, fertilizer
dealers, Baltimore. The preferred credi-
tors are S. NJ. 1nman & Co.
At Americas, in the case of Dickson &
Vlgal and G. Z. Clay, in which the credi-
tors OF the former prayed for an injunc-
ton against the disposal of the stock pur-
chased by Clay, Judge Fort decided
against the creditors, but stated that their
remedy was an attachment under the
debtors act" j. c. Matthews, who rep
resents claims to the amount Of $4,000, has
| SEED out an attachment, and will serve il
when the business is opened.
At the monthly meeting of the board OF
! trustees of the public schools of Column
bus, Wednesday, W. ii. Spencer was
| elected princi al of the colored schools, TO
| fill the vacancy caused by the death of 2.
Is. Peters. Il. B. Hodges was elected
| principal of Clafin academy. Miss Katie
Mason rendered her resignation as one OF
the floating teachers of the white schools.
The vacancy will be filed at the next
meeting of the board.
The City Council of Albany having as
| sessed a tax of One-tenth of l per cent.
| upon the property of that city for the pur-
! pose of maintaining a white school, the
colored population became indignant be-
cause their property was taxed to educate
white children. Whereupon the City
| Council ascertained the amount of tax
which the colored people would pay to be
| $50, and set aside that amount to repair
the colored academy.
1t is rumored that Judge Simmons is TO
| preside at Liberty County Superior Court
next week. There are some old cases OF
! long standing in which Judge Adams is
! disqualified, and he desires to
make an exchange so that
| these cases may be disposed Of.
| The following cases are dOcketed for
| trial: On the issue docket, "a cases; on
the motion docket, 8 cases; on the crimi-
nal docket, 10 cases; total number, As.
Considerable excitement is prevailing
| in the southern part of Chattooga county
over the discovery Of some valuable min
erals on the farm of Thomas Majors, al
Menlo. The stone lately found is thought
to be very valuable. 1T is said to be al
| uuOSb dD OIAt1lhlib dc a uldAuOnOs InCl6 A1
a very fine mineral spring on Mr.. Ma jors'
farm, for which it is said he has been
| offered by a company of Atlanta drug
gists $1,000 per year for lease OF ten
years.
AT Brunswick, early Sunday morning,
ShannOn's gTOceTy-a One-stOry building
was burned to the ground. The fire is
said to be the work of an incendiary.
Sunday night just after dark as Mr..
shannon was riding by in the vicinity OF
| Sulphur springs he was fired at by an UNI
known party, the bullet passing through
his hat. An attempt to fire his grocery
was also reported to have been made al
most month ago, but it tailed owing to
the building being too wet to burn.
William Cooper, a cOlored boy employed
on Cotton Row, and Owen James, a we'll
known young cOlored barber, got into a
difficulty at Augusta Wednesday, which
may result fatally for the latter. They
| were in the alley by the Western Union
Telegraph Office, and hot words led to
blows. when Owen James threw brick
at Cooper, who ducked his head allowing
| it TO pass, and, at the same time, drove
mis- knife under James right arm, and
again rapidly drew it across his neck, in
! fiicting dangerous and possibly fatal
wounds. Cooper was arrested.
At Atlanta, Wednesday, the Governor
appointed the following representatives
to the Florida forestry meeting at De Fu-
MAX Springs, Fla: District Delegates
! DR.. E. w. Lane. Scarborough; q. b. WOot-
| en-. Albany; George W. Jordan, Hawkins
Vile: John b. German, Talbotton; w. l..
Peck, Conyers; II. r. Ridley, Cornucopia
! Joshua Know les. Greensboro; r. ID. VIM,
Lawrenceville: c. z. Pringle, Sanders
Vile; George Waring, Cement; and dele
rates from the State at large, d. G. Bar
row, Philomath, and David Vason, AL
banY.
Alexander Montgomery, formerly OF
| McDufie. but now residing just across
the line in Glasscock county, discovered a
negro stealing corn from his crib on
Tuesday night of last week and ordered
him to halt. The negro ran, when Mont
gomery fired four shots from bis revolver
at him, one Of which took effect in the
abdomen. The negro ran on 10 his home,
carrying the sack Of corn with bin, went
10 bed and did not tell his wife that he
was shot until the next morning. The
wound, however, was fatal, and on
Thursday morning the negro died. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict OF justi.
fable homicide.