Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-12

the eve. Etheridge fred again. and his
antagonist dropped. EtheTidge arrived at
Macon Saturday to have his wounds
dressed, and said that he heard that the
other man was dead, and he expected to
De arrested at any minute. He left Macon
for EatOnton.
Detective William Jones returned to
Atlanta Sunday from Oak Grove, Fla,
where he has been for several days at
tending the trial of negro named Jake
Johnson. Several weeks ago Johnson
placed an obstruction on the Savannah,
Florida and W estern railroad track, mar
Oak Grove, to wreck passenger train,
but the engineer detected the obstruction
IN time TO stop his train and prevent the
wreck the negro had schemed. Johnson,
after placing the obstruction on the track,
waited near by to see the result, and
when the obstruction was removed and
the train started out, he stoned it. The
case was a bad one and was placed in the
hands Of Detective Jones, who traced the
crime TO Johnson. Last week Johnson
was plaeedO on trial, and Saturday the jury
brought in verdict OF guilty, and john
son was given three years in the peniten-
tiary.
The City Council of Augusta has elect
ed city officers as follows; W. NJ. Dun
bar, recorder; Edward Collins, jailer; NJ.
j. DeWen, city hall keeper DR.. Il. o.
Gercke, superintendent treedmen's hos
pital; j. A. Bryan, city sexton and park
keeper; Alfred Wynn, assistant sexton;
Drs. W. II. Foster, George q. Dugas and
T.. Z. Goodrich, city physicians; w. g..
Jones, city sheriff; j. CARTRIDGE, chain
gang guard; John W. Weightman, canal
guard; Augusta Chronicle, city printer;
John Kennedy, superintendent of streets
and drains; ii. Brandt, cemetery watch
man; II. T. Pray. bridgekeeper; II, c..
britton, market clerk; A. II. Davidson,
city engineer and superintendent OF ca
S; Dennis Bennett, assistant engineer:
f. +. DOscner, inspector and collector of
water rents; W. Edward Platt. chief OF
fire department. The chief was made a
regular city officer and elected by cOun-
Ill. lie has formally been elected by the
vote OF the fire department.
jerry Tarver, one of the prisoners
" no escaped from the Waynesboro jail
Tuesday, has been recaptured He
i badly wounded. and says Depu Sheriff
Z5rn shot him the night an effort was
made to capture William Garvin, the
murderer OF Bill HanknsOn. He states
that ne and Garyin were asleep by the
camp fire near the Savannah river when
the posse came up to capture them. He
also says that he did not shoot Dir. ZOrn,
but that GarvIn did. The officer states
That he knew he hit the man who shot
him. Gary is still at large, but every
effort Is being made to effect MS capture.
The Savannah river is at present
too high for him to escape iuto Carolina,
and he is SIN lying around in the woods
Of the river swamp near his home. Both
cOiOred and white citizens are doing all
in their power to aid IN the capture or the
murderer, aad considerable excitement
prevails in the neighO0rhOOd where
daryin is secretng himself. TarVer Is
charged with cotton stealing.
An interesting case has Just been de-
eide by the Probate Judge OF Ebert
county. Richard Burton, VINO recently
died in that county, was a citizen Of Ten
nessee. His Wlll went TO probate and
record in the pP0Oer court OF that State,
and as he had property in Georgia in Ell
bert county, a certified copy Of the record
ct the viii was sent there for probate.
Mrs. 7. /. Billiard, one of the legaJees, by
her attorney, Joseph X. W0rley, filed a
CaYe8t and attacked the will SO far a. IL
RELAXED 10 tue property in Georgia, upon
the ground that the will was not executed
as required by the laws Of Georgia there
being only TWO witnesses to it, Georgia
law requiring three. Fbe c8Yeat was
sustained and the will declared vOiu as
TO the property IN this State, consisting
Of /, 200 acres of land and $500 in notes Sc
cured by lands in this State. phe will
made Mrs. Billiard heir to an eighth Of
the property after $1,000 OF special lega-
cies mad been deducted. As it now
stands, Mrs. Billiard wHl receive, as to
the property IN Georgia, a child's part,
which is one-third, in right Of her mother,
deceased, and One-eighth of the property
in Tennessee. Mr.. Burton wrote his " i'll
himself.