Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-10
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GEORGIA.
The tunnel force on the Georgia MID
iaud have gone about 40 feet into Pine
mountain.
Tne cotton Drop is about disposed Of In
Favette county. and the prices have
averaged about So cents per pound.
Last Sunday was the coolest day Madi-
son has bad this winter. Ice formed gen.
orally Saturday night.
Friday might a german complimentary
20 the ladies' of Augusta VIII De given by
the Richmond Huzzsrs.
new post Office will probably be es-
tablished AT T. A. Perry's store, in New
ton county, in few weeks.
For several DAYS work on the Young
Mems Christian Assoc alton building at
atlanta has been ustended because Of
lack OF brown stone.
The attendance st the Albany Academy
continues 10 Increase, and Ii has been
sound necessary to employ another assist
ant teacher. Prof. 8. ?. Orr. OF Athens,
is the gentleman selected for the place,
and he will arrive to take charge OF his
6utles in few weeks.
c. Evans Patilio and Ellison r. Cook
passed a cyedita sle examination before
the Quarterly Conference at Griffin sun
daY, and were licensed to preach the Cos
lnended as candidates for admission TO
the annual conference, which conVenes
sn Augusta Dec. I.
Monday, between Macon and Morton,
the stove On CoNington and Macon car
got too hot and the fire communicated to
The wood work. The train was stopped
and water procured and after time the
flames were extinguiahed. The car was
a7ot very badly damaged, but it took some
faDOGidara fla Wnriy IN
Monday Collector CreH shaw received an
application from Coldm bus for license to
sell OleOmargarine. The apple ltion was
defective and It was returned FOR cOrrec-
lien. So far only ten licenses have been
asked for. These are from merchants of
Columbus, savannah, Atlanta ana Au-
Eusta. Up to date no application mas
come from Macon.
Mapier's gin house and about ten bales
OF cotton, and nearly 5000 bushels of cot
ton seed, burned near the line OF Baldwin
and Putnam counties Sunday night. The
gin house and fixtures were very fne,
and the loss Will reach nearly $4,000.
There is no Insurance. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary in its
origin, as ii was Sunday and no fire had
been used since Saturday.
At Atlanta Monday the squad OF street
hands working on Orm0nd street I'M
body had been buried in the sidewalk,
and was about three feet from the sur
lace Of the earth before wOFkmen began
changing the grade. The body had been
wrapped in an old underskrt, q piece OF
lew bleaching and some old newspapers.
One OF the papers was the Marietta Jour
nal, and upon the margin, written with
pencil, vas "the Southern CultiVater.n
At Macon Monday, while charging the
IN Ind -
during the seven years he had been on the
bench be bad disposed OF 2.00o civil cases.
In that time there we're convicted sixty
right 1elonies and 200 misdsmeanors.
Since Solicitor General Hardeman was in
Oftice there had been tried for murder
nineteen, OF which there had been &C.
quilted seven, two were hung, seven were
sent 10 the penite n tiary for life, and three
were convicted of Granddaughter. The
other cases tried and convicted were as
follows; Acquitted thirty five. convicted
siXty-elght, and III pleas OF guilty. a
great number OF which were entered after
the case had been made out to the Jury.
Charles Denton, young man who
mixes rings ana calls him-ef a jugger,
wes arrested at Atlanta Monday night.
Denton Is wanted in McDoneugb, go it is
thought. About two weeks ago Denton
was In McDOnough entertaining the peO-
pie with bis mysteries. One night dur
ing his enRagem emit In that place Larkin
GuilFs store was burg ariZed, and on the
next morning Denton was missing. Later
IN the day negro man living near Nc
Donough came ntO the town wearing a
suit OF clothes hat had been taken from
the store. He was al once arrested, but
secured his release when he satisfied the
merchant that he had purchased the
clothing from " bite man, whom be de-
soribed. The description suited Denton,
The tuggler, but no tIace of him could be
Secured. Last night man from McDon-
pugh was in the city, ana seeing Denton,
pointed him out TO Capt. Grim, and re-
dated the circumstances. This led to his
arrest.
A exsnder Simmons, the negro charged
with attempting to blow up the China
man, CharleyLoo Chong, was puton trial
at Augusta Monday. Mr.. Foster, coun-
sci for the prisoner, stated that he eX
pected 70 prove a complete allOi for SIM
mons; that be was not at the scene of
the crime at the time alleged and had
no connection with it. He expected TO
show further that a white man who had
been intimate with Loo ChOng's wife be-
fore her marriage had made frequent
threats to induce her TO leave her hus-
band; that notes OF a threatening char
acter bad been received by her a short
while prior TO the explosion; that this
AAdu Nah th1piOytu WHERE uyuamlle was
used, and had instructed negro to pro-
cure IL for him secretly. The testi-
moDy then began and continued
tall day long, and at adjourn
ment bad not been completed. There was
n great deal OF contradictory swearing.
Something Of a sensation was Great d
when Mrs. Charles Loo Chong, a lizht
mulatress OF about 20, sweptinto the court
room arrayed IN a yellow silk dress and
seal skin sacque, and a stylish hat with
waving white plumes. She TOOK the stand
and gave her testimony in a subdued
voice and timid manner. She was absent
from home on the night OF the explosion.
Her bed and her cat were blown up. She
had received threatening anonymous
notes short while before 1t happened.
During the course OF the trial some con-
stsrnatiOn was manifested when MIR. Eos.
Ter took ten dynamite cartridges from a
small black sa chel and handed them to
the witness on the stand.