Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-20

"hou Luld NC Tween wanted III QuNTT6l
arose between them. Words led to blows
ana then Ella drew araZor and commenced
! TO carve Lula. Lula had bad cash across
the collar bone, and her right cheek was
| cut through. Her face was bandaged,
! but she said sne could run her tongue out
through the hole in her cheek. She had
another severe cut on one of her legs.
! while the wounds are not dangerous, they
| are all severe, and show that the woman
who used the razor meant business.
Near Griffin Thursday John Jones,
negro boy about Il years old, employed by
! W. ii. Dickinson, struck MIR. Dickenson's
/ son, Emmett, severe blow on the head
| with rock, which might have proven
! fatal. 1t seems that Mr.. Dickinson had
left the negro boy blowing and left his
| youngest son, Ernest, to see that he did
! bis work well. the darkey becoming in
sulting, cursed Ernest, who in turn
Whacked him over the head with a stick.
! After short tussle the negro got Ernest
! down and was on top of him when an older
| brother, Emmett Dickinson, ran up and
separated them. After separating them,
Emmett. with his younger brother, walked
of thinking the row had been settled, when
Jones picked up large rock and struck
him on the back of the head, from the
| effects of which he was an hour and half
recovering. The negro was brought to
Griffin and bound over to await the action
Of the grand jury at the August term OF
SpaIding Superior Court.
At Macon Sunday night about 9 O'Clock
people living in the vicinity OF Brunner's
drug store were startled by the cries of
police" "murdern etc, crowd soon
collected, and the figures of two men were
seen running away ard were lost in the
darkness. Officers Long and Allen Jones
hurried to the scene, and found Hal Nc
Whorter, negro drayman for A. Gibian
d Co., with his throat badly cut, the
| blood flowing in big stream. He told
the officers that he was walking with the
| wife of Dave Nixon, the barber, and
while crossing from Brunner's drug store
to Frederiek's grocery store, just opposite,
he was assaulted by Dave and negro
named Robert johnson, and that johnson
held him while Dave cut his throat with
razor. The wounded negro was carried
to the residence Of DR.. j. G. Johnson, cor
ner Oak and Third streets, where his in
juries were attended TO. He was cut
twice In the throat and was Also cut in
the hands. DR.. johnson sewed up the
gashes, but he thinks one of them will
prove fatal.
Said Lieut.. Wylie, ofthe Macon police
force, Sunday: "Several years ago a negro
was bitten by a cat and applied to me to
know what to do about it. he was anX-
lOus to kill the cat, but the owner swOre
he'd kill the first man who laid violent
hands on the mouse eater. | advised the
negro to wait a few days and perhaps ne
would catch the cat and make way with
it without letting the owner know any
thing about ii. A month passed and the
cat lived, though the negro came to me
daily during that time and reported. |
never grew so tired of anything in my
life as | did of hearing about that cat.
That negro bored me fearfully. and one
dRU Vuh / I
wanted to hear of another cat, | told him
to give it arsenic, The next day the cat
and four dogs we're dead. The owner of
the cat of course laid 1t all on the negro,
and the result was a Negroes head nearly
broken. Then a warrant twas sued out
for assault and battery, and the cats
owner not having any wealthy friends
went to Jail in default of bail. The
case finally went to trial and the cats
owner was convicted and sentenced to
sixty days imprisonment. In the mean
time, his house was set on fire, and the
wind which sprang up at this time COM
municated the flames to adjacent houses,
ameng them that occupied by the negro
who was bitten and beaten, and all were
burned to the ground. The cat owners
family spent the most of the cold night in
the street and their children died with
pneumonia thus contracted. The negro,
in moving some of his effects saved from
the fire, was run over by train while
crossing the track and lost his leg. In
consequence of the loss by fire of every
thing he had, and the death of his chill
dren, the owner of the cat was released
from jail after serving thirty days, and
when he went to the spot to look upon the
ruins of his home, ne saw the cat that had
caused all this trouble was walking about
the ground as live as any cat you ever
saw. This is a true bill, for l saw the cat
myself after it had been dead month"