Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-06

A Connie of Justices Have Lively
T;me at CIayton--A Plant Growing
ont of a Ceiling at Augusta-A
COnsumptive Dying at Macon Or
ders His Coffin.
GEORGIA.
Trade is good at Macon.
Charles Barlow, formerly OF Americus,
Init more recently Of Snow, Dooly county,
died at the latter place Sunday Of con-
sumption.
All the religious denominations of
Gainesville will unite in series of SER
ices TO begin on May 10. These meet
ings will be held in the court house.
At Douglasville, Tuesday, Col. P. l..
Mvnatt. OF Atlanta, addressed a large
crowd In favor of electing men to the next
LEGISLATURE who would not modify the
nowers of the railroad commission.
At Lexington the court house commit
too has set apart a day for the laying of
he cornerstone, which will occur on
Nav Is. The Hon. Joel A. Billups, of
Madison. has been chosen as the orator for
the day.
TWO or three nigh,I ago an incendiary
fire at Ben Hill destroyed the steam saw
mill, gin, and other machinery OF Mr..
lanes Barrett. The loss was S., 900, with
no insurance. The mill was doing the
grinding for miles around, and, as all the
water mills were washed away recently,
the loss Is severely felt.
Up. Adair, of Gainesville, accidentally
shot himself through the hand Saturday
evening last, inficting an ugly though
not dangerous wound. He was working
ON the gun, had discharged one barrel and
thought the other one empty. When he
stuck hot iron to the tube it went off and
l. ,ral, 70 a1tn rSckr nnf
Rev, Z. N. Glenn. the pastor of the
Hartwel Circuit Methodist Episcopal
church. has been confined to his room for
several weeks, suffering intensely with a
neuralgia affection of the head. About
the time the physicians arrested it, and
mis- friends expected cOnvalescence, his
heart became affected, and he is now in
quite a critical condition.
Wash Stooall, a cOlored workman on
farm few miles east of Marietta, was
engaged Monday morning in clearing out
a place under some trees, when a limb
which had been hanging loose for years
fell, and struck him on the head and killed
him. No one was working in the field
with him at the time, and as he did not
come up some uneasiness was felt. So a
search was instituted, and his body found
with the limb laying across him.
The store occupied by the Singer Com
pany at Rome is plasl cred and finished in
hard white. When the food came the
walls were saturated. A few days ago
little bllster-like ruptures OF the hard fin
sh, about an inch in diameter, were no.
ticed. Soon they began to break and the
white crust fell off leaving round spot
of mortar. Out OF it came the slender
shoot of some kind of plant. The seed ev-
identity had been deposited some years ago
in the sand. The water Of the aoDd
caused the seed to sprout and the germs
made their way to the light.
The elegant chair in which President
jefferson Davis sat on the platform, dur
ing the delivery OF the address on the &C.
casiOn of the unwilling OF the statue OF
Ben. Hill was furnished by Mrs. K. H,
Stewart, of Washington Seminary, and
Mrs.Z. d. Harrison,Ot Atlanta, and is now
the highly priced property of Capt. Rob-
ert E. Park, of Macon. Several attempts
to purchase 1t were made, but a Macon
gentleman is it's owner. The chair in
which Mr.. Davis sat in Montgomery dur
ing his public reception there has been
ordered appropriately inscribed by May
or Reese, and preserved among the valua-
bic relics in the splendid City Hall.
The casually quiet and peaceable Justice
Court for the Clayton district was the
scene of turmoil and strife Tuesday. Jus
tees Long and Derrick were presiding
Everything progressed harmoniously
until Squire Long informed Squire Der
rick that he had received note against
him Esquire Derrick Tor collection, and
asked him what be intended to do in the
matter. Mr.. Derrick promptly responded
that the consideration for the note had
utterly and totally failed, and that he did
not intend paying the same, and, more
over, that the note was out OF date.
Squire Long replied that 1t was about as
dishonest TO plead the statute of limita-
ton as it was to steal. Derrick said he
was as honest as Long or any one else.
Long resented the implication and rose
with a chair, and made for ''that other
Squire" At this stage friends inter-
fered, caught the chair, and finally sue
ceeded in pacifying the angry 'Squires.
There is a sad case in Macon. 1t is the
fading life Of a young man whose devoted
mother, with limited means, has carried
to many climes TO try if she could not find
some place where the balmy air and life
giving sunlight would restore the roses to
the cheeks Of her cherished boy. But her
efforts were all in vain. Gradually he
grew worse, and when she arrived In
Macon, en- route from Florida, the wan
cheeks and sunken eyes OF the youth
showed but too clearly that consumption
had irrevocably decreed that ne should
VIC tC1Nal oEht lNA Nj Nldys uu-
dertaker. and purchased metallic burial
casket, so that there might be no trouble
in arranging for the transportation Of his
body to his old home in Providence, r. |.
He talked in a cheerful business like way.
of his approaching dissolution, saying
that he could live but few hours longer,
and, mindful of his mother, he purchased
as cheap casket as would serve the pur-
pose OF carrying his body the long Jour
ney, after death. He is still living, but
may die at any moment.
Marshal Fox, Of Jacksonville, arrived
In Macon Tuesday, having in charge a
young man named j. b. HOrd, who was
being carried TO the asylum at Mlledge-
vile. Mir. HOrd has. by trading, accumu-
lated snug sum of money. Last year
when the base ball craze was at It's high
est pitch his mind became affected, and
ever since he has been considered Of I'M
sound mind. He has been comparatively
harmless no 10 last Saturday night. when
be attacked his landlady, Mrs. Wilkinson,
with knife, and probably would have
done serious damage but tor the interfer-
enee of people who rushed 10 her rescue.
lie was then tried on writ Of lunacy and
adludged insane. In order 10 bring him
quietly, Marshal Fox promised TO allow
MIN TO come 10 Macon To see game Of
base ball. This inducement brought him
10 Macon without trouble. lie was al
lowed 10 go about where he pleased,
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