Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-13

Lne late John L. King, OF Augusta, having
held the TWO oldest licenses. His life was
an interesting one. With his father ne
lived in Fort Wilkinson, in BALDWIN
county, long before Fort Hawkins was
built. For thirty-seven years he was a
resident OF Macon. He had been in feeble
health for the past year and was confined
TO his bed six weeks prior to his death.
When the news of Mrs. Brydie's para
lytic stroke at Macon reached Americas
1t carried feeling of desolatIon to every
/ honest heart. Her only brother is Col. c.
W. Hancock; the veteran editor. She is
now his only relative in this country. The
aged brother FASTENED to Macon as soon
as he learned the sad news and is now by
ner side. Her extreme age, y years, rem
ders 1t hardly possible that she can ever
recover. Her condition was reported I'M
changed Sunday. The aged gentleman
Will have the sincerest sympathies Of his
legion OF friends in his sad misfortune.
William Gaffney, alias George Carson,
colored porter in the Spartanburg, ). c.,
post Ofhce, WAS arrested and brought be-
fore United States Commissioner A. B.
| Colvert at Spartanbnrg, S. c., July 8, by
warrant sworn out by Inspector Boy
kin, charging him with stealing postal
funds, stamps and valuable letters from
that office. After hearing the case the
Commissioners remanded the prisoner to
Jail, in default OF bond, to await trial t
| the August term OF the United States
District Court at Greenville, S. q. During
the last thirty days money, stamps and
registered letters mysteriously dlsap-
peared regularly from the post office at
Spartanburg, and Inspector Boykin was
sent from Augusta to work up the case,
with the foregoing result.
At Macon Saturday, during the severe
thunder storm, D. I'll. DeBaum, OF New
York, was sitting in the reading room at
Browns Hotel. d. H. Mullenix, Super
intendent of the Telephone Exchange, was
also in the room, leaning upon the railing
which cuts sOtf the Western Union tele-
graph office. Just as Mr.. DeBaum rose
from his chair there was a sharp report
in the room like that of pistol, and he
fell upon the floor. Mr.. Mullenix and
others rushed forward and, lifting him up,
carried him to the rotunda of the hotel,
where he received every attention. 1t
was at first thought that ne had beer
| struck by lightning, but 1t was afterw ard
ascertained that he had received
only severe shock. The report was
made by lightning striking the telegraph
wire and thus entering the reading room
and striking the switch.
Washington Gazette: On Monday night
DR.. Ward, quite an elderly gentleman,
| arrived here on horseback from North
Carolina. He is the grandfather of Aaron
Ingram, the fugitive murderer who passed
through here about six weeks ago. 1t
will be remembered that a sheriff and
posse, comprising fOGr men, were in not
pursuit Of the fugitive, and that they lost
trail of him between mere and Augusta.
| They then went back to their homes in
| North Carolina. DR.. Ward has followed
! on horseback along the track of the chase
and gathered up all the evidence he could
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the officers of that county could have
caught Ingram, but the North Carollnians
told them they would rather not have
their help. DR.. Ward has gathered up
| good deal of such evidence as this, Which
| leads him to believe that his grandson
was caught and murdered. The old gen.
tleman left here Wednesday on horseback
to continue the search along the Augusta
road.
Albany News: There was a fracas in
the Exchange saloon, between the bar
keeper, Mr.. VIM. Hare, and an engineer
on the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway, by the name of Gaffney, at about
L. O'Clock on Wednesday night. Gaffney
was under the inf1uece of liquor and call
ed for more, and when Hare refused to
give it to him he got mad and COM
| menced to call him hard names. Finally
| he applied an epithet to Hare which
the latter could not stand, and
the insult was resented with the
barkeeper's lemon knife. Policemen
Cooper and Kemp carried Gaffney to the
guardhouse, where he remained all night,
| and when they went to attend to him yes
terday morning he was found in pool of
| blood and in rather alarming condition
from the loss of blood. DR.. Strother was
sent for at once, and bound his wound
and stopped the flow of blood. Officers
Cooper and Kemp say they did not know
the man was cut when they locked him
up ON Wednesday night. They saw no
signs of it, and ne made no allusion to it
himself.
DIR. Roland B. Hall relates the follow
Ing remarkable circumstances: BENJAMIN
Clark has been connected tor many years
with old Ramoth church. ten miles from
EatontOn, Putnam county. So devotedly
attached TO the place of worship was he,
that the neighbOrs often said that "Old
Brother Clark will die in old Ramoth YETI
| Last Sunday the prediction was fulfilled
! in remarkable manner. 1t was the semi
centennial of the dedication of the church,
and large congregation had assembled
to hear the pastor deliver the
anniversary sermon. Old Uncle
Ben Clark was in his accustomed
place, apparently in the best of health
and spirits. After morning services the
where his horse was tied. 1t was the
fitch anniversary of his connection
/ with the church. He had tied his horse
| in that same thicket every year-at least
once every month-for fifty long years,
| and when he reached the familiar tree
he cast his eyes on the summer land
scape in one lingering, contented glance,
and then fell down and died without
struggle. His aged form was removed to
the church, and in the afternoon his fu-
neral was preached in the old church.
Joseph A. Evans, who resides on the
plantation of j. 4. Smith, situated in
what is known as the Cove, in Meri-
wether county, was working in field,
assisted by his wife, little boy and girl,
on Wednesday afternoon, when a very
heavy rain fell and they all went into an
old house IN the field to protect them from
the weather. When the rain was over
they all started for home. On the way
they had TO cross creek on a toOt-log.
The creek being very much swollen, Mr..
Evans took his wife by the hand TO assist
her across; she took the little girl with
the other hand, and the little boy took his
sisters hand; so the four started across
the foot-log, hand-in-hand, to assist
each other. just before reaching the
shore on the other side the mother became
frightened, and by a sudden effort OF Mr..
Evans he saved his wife, but when the
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