Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-26

as to his burial, etc., but as no letter
! could be found or any address OF any rela-
tive he was giyen decent burial at Hol-
BROOKS camp ground.
/ Judge DaTl johnson, OF Wilcox county,
/ Will salt down.this year over $500 pounds
OF pork. he has 800 bushels OF new corn
Tor sale, plenty OF peas, potatoes and
syrup, and several stacks OF fodder over
two years old. He is out of debt and has
money ahead; in tact, he is truly an indie
pendent farmer. lie didn't cultivate a
nil OF cotton on his plantation, and says
ne makes more money on corn, pork and
oeet cattle than he could possibly make
In the cultivation of a cotton crop. Dl-
versIfied and intensive farming is his
motto.
At Butter the Woodward whlffetree or
singletree, recent invention of John l..
woodward, of Taylor county, Is manu-
| featured by Mess:s. Respess, Montfort d.
o3dward, under the tirm name of the
Butler Manufacturing Company. The
greatest advantage OF the Woodward
slngletree is that it does away with the
lapring and bitches to the clovis by
hook that revolVes on pivot. The hooks
that connect with the trace chalns also
revolve on pivots. The factory has a
capacity of one thousand a day, and will
be increased as the demand tor the goods
increases.
Two scenes were enacted on the third
door OF the Kimball House at Atlanta
Tuesday night, which shocked the sensi-
bility OF many people. While the form OF
James 5. Iverson was lying cold In death,
surrounded by the silent watchers, gay
german was being danced in the brilliant
| ~ lighted ball room. The dead man had
been great popular favorite, and many
pretended friends now danced in the i'm
mediate vicinity of his corpse The tick
inc of the death watch, mingled with the
music OF the orchestra and the glitter OF
the ball room, stood over against the
CLEAN Of the chamber of death.
Ubeziah SlatOn. who lives in the south
west corner OF Fayette county, is the
father OF SO many children that he cannot
call all their names. He has been mar
fied twice and had eighteen children by
one vile and twelve by the other, and it
Is related as an actual fact that he has
refused TO accept bets that he could not
call the name Of all OF them in the order
Of tner ages, acknowledging his inability
TO do SO. He had five grown sons in one
company of Col. BOynton's regiment.
Mr.. Slaton is now about 70 years old, and
Is large and muscular, hale and hearty,
doing good days work in the field.
Preston Valentine, of Augusta, has had
long respite since the cOmmitLal of his
diabolcal, fiendish crime, and the muir
derer OF old man Wales will have now but
short time TO atone for his crime.
Wednesday the Supreme Court affirmed
the Judgment of the lower court, aud when
the Superior Court cOnvenes next Mon
day Valentine will DO resentenced, and
before the new year dawns he will have
paid the penalty of his crime. lie took
the news of the decree OF tue Supreme
Court quietly, and says he Is prepared to
meet his God, and could die satisfied did
he know his little ones would be cared
for and taught 70 walk In the patl OF
righteousness.
A good many years ago there lived 10
Elbert0n "idOwer who, as most of this
class are, was very anxious to get mar
ried again. lie made several very des-
perate and unsuccessful efforts about
town among the old maids and widows,
| nut none of them would consent. Finally,
| becoming desperate upon tue subject, he
| uuched up his horse aud buggy, and said
| he was going TO get married. Being asked
| % whom, he replied that be did not know,
| but that he was going to hunt him wife.
| lie took in the country as he came to II,
nquiring at almost every house if there
was u lady there who wanted TO get mar
| ried. After two weeks hunt he found a
tender-hearted widow who consented to
ne his, and they were made man and
wife without delay.
a good story is told Of one of Sum ter
| cOunty's politicians who was canvassIng
| Tor the nomination for a county office.
| One afternoon he attended a gathering in
an out township, and meeting an intelli-
| gent looking young man who he thought
might have some influence, walked up to
| him and shook him warmly by the hand,
| inquiring: show is your tather?" The
! young man answered: "My father has
! been dead three years" "Indeed?" re-
| Piled the candidate, Il had not heard of IT,.
/ knew him intimately; he was one of the
nest and purest men ever knew You
! have my sympathy" etc. The same
| evening he met the same person in a vii
lage near by, and having forgotten his
| face accosted him the second time with
| the interrogatory: 'How Is your fatherr'
/ The young man looked at him for "A mo.
meDt and said: "He is still dead and
| walked off.
| The assignment of Charles NJ. Fort, to-
| bacoonist, which was made Nov. 3. was
no in the Superior Court before Judge
Branham at Rome Wednesday. A few
days after the deed OF assignment was
executed bill in equity for injunction,
| relief and accounting was filed by the
Martin Tobacco Company, OF Larkinville,
n. c., and Frost e. Miller, OF Statesville,
NC, against Charles NJ. Fort, Mrs.
Eudocia +. Fort, Mack G. Mcdonald, and
| Mack &. Mcdonald, trustee. Mr.. Nc.
| Donald is made party because Fort as.
| signed to him, and he now stands In the
position of a stakeholder between the
| complainants in the bill and the preferred
creditor, who is Forts mother. The init
nation of the court at the hearing
Wednesday was that the assignment
must fall when tested by the rulings OF
the Supreme Court in tho case of Turnip-
seed ct al. VS.. George Schaefer, which was
decided at the last term by Justice Samuel
| Hall. The trouble in this case 10
similar TO that in most others, the afiida-
Wit verifying tie deed OF assignment is
| fatally defective. The case was not dis
posed OF Wednesday, but went over until
Saturday next, The assets are abou
$1,000.
| FLORIDA.
Palatka claims TO be without live
real estate agent.
Much seed cane has been lost In Brad.
ford county by the late cool snap.
Gov. Perry has appointed w. X. Hyer,
Jr., Inspector OF Timber and Lumber in
Escambia county.
Venison is becoming more plentiful in
the Pensacola market, ana is selling at
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