The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-06

Girls Remarkable Escape from
Death.
GEORGIA.
The Augusta council has appropriated
5000 70 extend the city water works TO the
exposition.
The city council of Augusta is trying TO
remove all swinging signs and awnings, but
the matter has been deferred one month.
Ex-Gov. Bullock thinks Cleveland and
Thurman. and Alger and Morton will BE-
the tickets Of the democrats and republi-
cans.
P. L. Gregory, butcher of Blackshear,
was horsewhipped Monday morning, but
no statement as TO the cause has been fur
nished the press.
Senoia Sentinel: Col. Jim Shell delivered
his maiden speech last Friday morning.
His rich, musical voice could have been
heard the distance of three miles.
At Macon, Monday, Deputy Sheriff
Menard closed the store of Charles H.
Russell, on Cotton avenue, at the instance
OF L SprinZ, executor of the estate of
Jacob Russell, deceased.
The ministers of Atlanta have divided the
city into districts and Will visit all the non
church going citizens and beg them 10
change their course. This element in
Atlanta is quite large.
Near Athens one Of the negro hands en-
gagged at work on the Macon and Coving-
ton road was shot in the back Monday with
a 3S-calibre revolver. He treated the mat
ter quite cody and does not seem TO be at
all affected by the wound.
Col. William A Harris of Worth county,
secretary of the Senate Of Georgia, has
been at his mothers, Mrs. Judge Iverson L.
Harris in Milledgeville, since his attend
ance on the convention in Atlanta, on May
9, being treated by his brother, DR.. IversOn
Louis Harris, distinguish Confederate
surgeon. He is suffering from an old gun
shot wound.
Milledgeville has been prohibition town
two years and in that time only two arrests
have been made for drunkenness or dlsor-
derby conduct caused from liquor. Not
over fifteen cases have been made in police
court from any cause in that time This is
prohibition argument in a city Of 6,OOU
people. Over $50 cases were docketed the
two years before prohibition prevailed.
While running a line recently through
southeast Georgia into Florida with a view
to connecti & some point on the East Ten
nesse, Virginia and Georgia railroad with
Jacksonville, the engineering party killed
more than 100 large mocc1sin snakes, some
of which contained in their stomachs large
numbers Of fish, while in one was found a
odhl4i t4- llbi = Iluu MY dlllkdbJIb hbEb
killed, and bear and large panther.
Mrs. Lettie Laird, wife of William Laird,
prominent Atlanta merchant, has in
stituted suit against atlanta for $4,000
damages Mrs. Laird was out driving on
Flat Shoals road in 1884, and in crossing
Grant street the buggy ran into a deep
washout across the street and threw her
and her little girl out on the ground. She
sustained injuries which have made her
an invalid ever since, and the child was
badly bruised but not seriously injured
Morgan Gaskins (colored) came to his
death rather mysteriOusly last Friday night
in Telfair county, near Cabbrille He was
tried on FRIDAY in Justice court at Jackson
vile for stealing corn and committed to
Jail at NcRae. The officers having him in
charge stopped with a farmer on the route
to spend the night, and the negro was found
Saturday morning about thirty yards from
the house dead. with a bullet hole through
bis bead The coroner's inquest failed to de-
velop any facts in regard 10 the cause OF
his death, or by whom he was killed The
matter will receive further investigation.
W. NJ Kirbo, who lives on the Chatta-
hoochee river few miles above Florence,
hes sent to Judge Watts Of C)vingUon an
Indian relic, of which the j idge is very
proud. 1t is a piece of pottery or a water
vessel, the handle Of which represents the
gracefully curved neck of a swan, with
head and bill and eyes most perfectly
carved. Mr.. Kirbo thinks the village Of
Oconee at Banks landing was small com
pared to the Indian settlement on his place,
which bears the evidence of being a very
large encampment or city, that was proba-
bly, headquarters for several tribes. Relics
of the extinct race lie scattered around in
great abundance.
There was in Macon Monday an old gen
tleman from Monroe county named Law
renee Hammond. He has three brothers,
aged Il years, who are triplets. All four of
these brothers ex0ect to be together at the
state fair in October next Lawrence
Hammond is "a years old, and has Just I'M
dergone, for the past few weeks very pain
full surgical treatment. Several years ago
he was kicked over the brow by an amin Il,
and some weeks ago he placed himself under
the care of DR.. r. d. Cotter of Macon. The
doctor had 10 make a considerable opening
In the outer plate of the SKULL and remove a
lot of dead bone. The old man has stood
the painful treatment with remarkable
fortitude, and went back home about we'll
In the Atlanta police court Monday a
curious case came up. Charley Ash, col
ored man, was srrbigued on the charge of
gaming. He plead guilty to the charge,
but his testimony was overbalanced by the
evidence of Richard Wright, Alvin Speer
and Miles Worthy, all of whom swore point
blank that Ash was not guilty of the charge.
whereupon the case was dismissed, the testi-
mony of three men standing against one
The three negroes who testified TO Ash's
innocence were bound over on the charge
of perjury. Ash was the first of sixteen
negroes who were arrested on Sunday
morning while engaged in little game OF
draw poker. Judge Anderson says he will
take them alphabetically and, as he has
tried Ash, will next day try William Brown,
and so on, until the sixteen have been tried.
At Talbotton, Saturday night, during a
negro school concert at the opera house,
girl about ~ years old was standing by a
window behind the scenes adjusting her
first hustle. One Of the dudes near her
modestly compllmented the effect produced
by that article Of apparel, and the damsel,
flirting around so as to bring that part Of
her costume into better view, fell against
the window blinds. which were not fast
ened, and toppled over, falling to the
ground, a distance of 25 feet. The actors
rushed from behind the scenes for the door,
expecting TO find their companion man
gled corpse. The audience thought the
house was on fire, and quite panic ensued
Neither the girl nor the hustle suffered any
damage, except a slight bruise on the girls
lip. She fell on her head.
At Macon Capt Simpson, Of the street
force, is doing some very rapid work in this
vicinity Of the new government building.
After having the street car track moved
out Of the way, he turned his attention to