Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-11

oolalnlng IL. Inc money could certainly
not fall into a more deserving family.
AT Dawson Saturday morning John
br0oks, a little negro boy aged years,
hnled Bessie Brooks, his sister, aged 5.
Win shotgun. The children were frol-
Ilcklng around the house, when JACK iok-
lngly told Bessie that if she ran by the
door again he would shoot her. The lit
ne girl again passed by the door and
Jack stepped behind the door,
got the gun and pointed
lady had the full sympathy of her hus-
band. The girl grew into young woman
| hood absolutely without the KNOWLEDGE
80 far as her associations went. that she
was negress. A few months ago Maria,
for such was the girls name, contracted
consumption. All through her fat tai ill
ness she was watched by Mrs. Pickett
with the solicitude of a mother, and when
the end came the dead girPs eyes were
closed by her kind friend. The coffin con-
tanning the remains was placed in the
parlOr, and every honor was paid winch
could have been rendered a beloved
daughter.
The death of Maria Fl. Foster, a col
ored girl, at Atlanta, discloses a story of
ndelity of white guardians to the negro
race. Eighteen years ago a cOlOred wO-
man was dying in Atlanta. Just before
her death she begged Mrs. A. w. Pickett,
the wife of a well-to-do citizen. to see
| that her 3-mOnths-Old. baby was
cared for. The child was shiny black,
showing the pure Ethiopian strain. Mrs.
Pickett took it home and soon took such
an interestin the little girl that she re-
fused to part with her. In this manner a
relation similar to that of mother and
daughter sprang up, in which the
it at the girl for the purpose of frighten-
ing her. While holding the gun in that
manner it was discharged, the contents Of
one barrel entering the girls body, pro-
ducing immediate death. After the shoot
ing the boy took to his heels and jumped
in the culvert, and had it not been for the
| timely arrival OF two parties who were in
pursuit he would have drowned.
Townsville Enterprise: We learn
| from Dir. John Carroll, who lives on the
Monticello road, eleven miles from town,
that windstorm from the southwest
passed through his place on Sunday with
quite disastrous results. His corn was
all blown down and destroyed, some of
his fences completely ruined, and a lot of
cotton torn up and burned by lightning.
Some of the negroes on his place say they
saw ball of fire light in his cotton field
ana roll through the entire crop. bound
ing up and down at intervals. The storm
appears TO have originated near
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! Leon Nee's place and did con-
siderable damage, uprooting his peach
trees and tearing up houses. One tree in
his orchard was carried $50 yards. When
the storm struck MIR. Ed FTanklin's
place it had a sweet tooth; nothing less
! than five acres ofsugar cane would satisfy
it. While there it blew down every single
| pine tree in the patch. 1t then went to
| Mr.. Franklin's kitchen, and playtully
ta1- off tkfa
! COchran's place. We have not yet learned
what it wanted there, or at Mr.. r. B.
Mardre's place, or how much farther il
went toward the northeast. The LeCOnte
pear trees in the storm path stuck to the
county pretty well, but the fruit was
blown off in large quantities.
| Athens Banner Waterman: Capt. ID. C.
| Oliver has received a letter from Mr..
| Spence, living at 124 Walker street, At
lanta, inquiring if such a man as 2.
| X. Sumby resided here, and asking about
/ his character and prospects. Mr.. Spence
/ stated that said 6umby had decoyed away
bis daughter, under the promise that they
would marry as soon as Athens was
! reached. The father wants to know If the
! license has been granted and if the ceFe-
mony took place. If not. where the couple
| can be found and how situated. The girl
! is described as good looking, with large
| brown eyes, black hair and of medium
| size, of rather slender build. She is II
years old, with good address. There are
now two young girls in the city, brought
here by Sumby, and the one calling her
| self "Nellie Gilber'' exactly answers the
/ description of Miss Spence. Sumby is
/ now in Atlanta, and the girls are keeping
/ house by themselves. Sumby, as is well
known, has a wife living, but whether
! they have been divorced or not we cannot
1 say. We advise Mr.. Spence to come at
| once to Athens and carry his daughter
! back home, as she is certainly in a very
| questionable position. For awhile the
| girls run female barber shop, but this
was discontinued the other day. AS no
authority has been given for arrest, the
police have not mOlested the parties.