Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-25

OF Atlanta. Snider could not meet his
paper and sold out to settle. He will offer
TO pay his creditors 90 cents on the dollar.
This was surprise to the people as he
was considered in good circumstances.
The 16-year-old negro boy who stabbed
Jacob Shelton (colored) at Rome, We'd
nesday night, has been arrested, and
/ proves to be Edward Battey. He is
| brother to viii BatteY, who on the day of
the staoblng was taken to Lookett's con-
| Wet camp for killing the little Wingtield
| boy.
DR.. 1. Il. Hand, OF Baker county, has
returned to Tallahassee, Fla, where he
! goes TO resume the profrssorship of the
/ chair Of therapeutics and matera medica
in the medical college at that place. He
was accompanied by DR.. 2. H. Thomp-
! son. of Blutfton, who was offered and has
accepted the chair OF physiology in the
| same institution.
| Last Monday, as the train on the A, z.
! and l.. K. K. was passing the flag station
! beyond Hudson's station, Conductor clam
saw lady standing near the railroad
who waved a signal for him to stop, and
! it being a flag station be stopped the
| train. Imagine his feelings when he
learned that she only wanted him to mail
some letters tor her.
There are at present IA at the Rockdale
county poor farm, IL whites and 3 blacks.
! There are white men and 7 white women,
and negro man and negro women. OF
| the above number, there are , blind
men and one perfectly helpless. The farm
! c'rsists Of 60 acres. About acres of it
are voted to garden purposes The cost
| OF maintaining them is about S35 per
month.
I. W. and r. P. johnson were standing
near by while some hands We're engaged
! N NJ Ed ANryt, fha oil n1fh
! vile, and portion of the building fell on
them, knocking them down, from the eff
! fects OF which they lay unconscious for
| time. No bones were broken and they
were not seriously hurt. A negro boy,
| Pope Woodbridge, was also knocked down
at the same time.
Between the lighthouse and Retreat,
at st. Simon's, the sound mas made seri-
Gus encroachments upon the bluff. Some
/ places within the last century, the waves
| have washed down the banks tor at least
a hundred yards. There are traces of
wells usei by Capt. Page, grandfather to
! e pit. Mallory z. King, once many yards
upon the bluff, that are now some twenty
and thirty yards out on the beach.
In Brentwood Tuesday Frank Stubbs
shot and fatally injured Sam Smith, no.
toriOus gambler. Stubbs is a quiet and
lnOtfensive character, and the citizens
/
| fired on Smith he (Smith) turned to run
and was again shot, this time in the back,
the first shot tax ng effect in the stomach.
Smith was very low Wednesday, and his
! physician says the wound will prove
fatal. So far no arrests have heen made.
The cause of the trouble is not stated.
Miss Estrlle Wheelan got a verdict
| against W. H. Clark for $1,000 and inter-
est in the Superior Court at Atlanta
Friday. Mr.. Clark has been acting as her
! guardian. She claims that Clark has
been mlsapprOpriating her money. She
| says that during his guardianship be has
never given her but 500, and that he rent
| ed her house and kept back the money.
| Clark claimed that Miss Wheelan's
mother owed him a sum of money and
made TO him trust deed to the house.
| This Miss Wheelan denied.
At Sandersville, Thursday, attention
was attracted to a group of men gathered
around a negro man, a mulattO, who had
the appearance OF being slightly de-
ranged by the excessive use of whisky.
! Upon one point especially was he off, and
| that was that he was going to be killed by
some one if he lived, and rather than that
| he would commit suicide. The time APP
pointed for this heroic deed was 2 O'Clock.
He had two young men write his so
called will, disposing of his property,
Wednesday,, while Mr.. and Mrs. Lon
Smith, who live five miles from Rome on
the Cave Spring road, were IN the city,
their 8-year-old daughter, Della Holmes
Smith, was burned to death. The little
girl was standing BY the Kitchen stove,
when her clothes caught fire. Her grand
mother went to the rescue, but before she
could eXtinguish the flames the abdomen
and breast of the little unfortunate were
| loa4 ], r.1
year while Mr.. and Mrs. Smith were in
Rome their house was burned down.
The nti-prohibitiouists of Fulton coun-
ty will begin next week their campaign
against the adoption of prohibition, as
provided for by enactment of the last Cen
eral Assembly. Petitions are being cir
culated among the business men of the
city, asking that mass meeting Of the
business men of the city who are opposed
TO the measure take place in the court
house next Monday night to take action
in the premises. Several petitions were
out Thursday, and were largely signed.
Many prominent business men were
among the number Of signers.
An outrageous assault was committed
upon the person of Mrs. Joseph Smith,
! widow, living near Shiloh, in Shiloh dis
tIict, Carroll county, Wednesday. Mrs.
Smith was going TO K. w. Harper's from
ner 1atner'B, MT. COOglaTS, Wnen man
jumped from behind a tree on the road
side and brutally assaulted her. After
accomplishing mis- purpose he fled. The
people Of the county were soon aroused
and went in search of the demon, but at
last accounts be had not been captured.
Mrs. smith says the man is a white man
and that she would recognize him.
Wesley James, an Atlanta hickman, Is
in trouble. Wesley had heard OF
what a grand success the State fair Is
TO be, and made up his mind TO take
horses and carriage down there and
spend the week. A gentleman, however,
who holds 8 mortgage on the team, and
another gentleman who is on Wesley's
bond TOR assault and battery, objected
seriously to his leaving Atlanta. Wes-
ley hitched up his horses at 3 o'clock Fri
day morning, while both the gentlemen
were dreaming, and struck smart trot
for Macon and the fair. The police sent
kilograms to Macon, and several other
points, and Friday afternoon telegram
was received that Wesley and his team
were stopped at McDonough.
FLORIDA.
Ocoee wants a good hotel.