The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-21

is as sprightly, physically and intellectually,
as many persons of half her age. She is a
lady u the old school, and still stands
among us as bright example of those good
| old DAYS when thrift, unaffected piety and
treless indust y characterized the lives OF
| the mothers of the land. She is the mother
/ Of thirteen children, grandmother Of eighty,
| and great grandmother Of about seventy
children, most of whom are living, and
almost without exception are an honor To
her i ! her Old age.
Franklin NstoS: Postmaster L. T. Lane is
not considered joker, but furnished the
BOYS some good III yesterday. For severa
dIys turtle cate ing has Neen the ex ite-
ment. Disguised with his luck Mr.. Lane
took 1i- basket from the river, and assisted
| b. his son was Juggling it across the square.
| At oucc the impressio prevailed hat ii
/ contained a huge turtle, and from every
/ quarter Of the square citizens fOcked 10
| view it. Imagine the chagril Of the crowd
when it was disc ivered that the oily con-
/ tents Of the basket was a catfish Of the ex-
/ teude length of three inches.
| At Alta ia, Saturday, the mounted force
| drove about twenty-five COWS ana cllyss To
| the pound, where they were locked up.
| Soon after the gate had been closed upon
them the owner Appeared upon the scene
ard CLAIMED his cattle. 4 case was made
against ~ n Of allowing cattle 10 run al
large on the streets IL appears that tie
ca tie were being driven 10 the outskirts OF
! the city by negro boy, who was wanted
! by the police TO answer the charge of s.
| or ,erly conduct. When the boy saw the
officers coming he took to his heels. and by
his going the cattle we're lett without a
guard The boy is still at large.
| Judge Lumpkin viii hear on Aug IS
an Injunction case between the Georgia
and COvington aud Macon railroads. II is
cl lined by the former company that it do
mated certain land 10 the city of Athens for
a street. aud tnat the city has now granted
| to the nov road a right of way over tae
| street contrary to the contract. the Geor-
gia seeks TO restrain the city and the Gov
iIgton and Macon from using the street for
ALL purpose Julge Hutchins is dis
qualified, and so the matter has been re-
ierred 10 Judge Lump&in. Owing to the
courts in hi, oAn circuit. he could not set
an earlier day than Aug. 25 for hearing and
deciding this Inn ortant matter.
The Cnrtersville Courdnt says that in
nelg boring town few yelrs 20 promi-
nent am worldly citiZcl was leaving the
place me morning, accompanied by his
wife, for hi, farm. Stepping into a small
shop kept by a respectable German and bis
vii he asked for a glass of beer. The
fparing Il id vas quickly set before him,
and he fumble1 about IN his vest pocket for
small change, and finding none, he was
Obliged to inform the shopkeeper he had
.eIt his money at home. The good old Ger
man, with nonchalence that bespoke his
feeling quietly responded: 'Vell, curnel,
;at is all 81 riat, | most say already any
more; | no loose um, | shust trink um my
sellefn
Griffin Sun: F. w. Word of Memphis,
Team, was in our city Thursday, who came
to visit the grave OF his father, Capt Word
Of Words famous battery. This young
man scarcely remembers MS father, who
donned tne gray, left home, wife and little
ores, never to return, at the first call to
arms. After all the years this son comes
here TO drop tear and a fl ,wer over the
last resting place of his brave dead father,
who, upon his dying bed, commended the
wife and the babies to the guardianship of
one VINO has promised to care for the widow
and be father t. the fatherless. Capt
Word was wounded around Atlanta died
among us. and his body is buried ON the
Tennessee square Ia our city cemetery.
Judge NJ. Gormley, ordinary of Ran
dolph oonnty, is 80 years old and
is remarkably well preserved in
mind and body In Nay, 1866, he
first assumed tine duties Of the ordinary's
office, and for twenty-two years in Success
sion has held that position, notwithstanding
strong opposition against him at every
election. HIS health and faithfulness are
shown from the fact that in the twenty two
years of service, he has never missed single
court day arising from the ordinary's office
The county has never needed a board OF
citizens to manage and control her revenues,
for the judge has managed it In a most salts
factory manner. When he first went into
Office he found the county $4,000 i'll debt,
with bad roads, no Jail Of importance, a
poor court house and no pauper farm. Now
everything is in good condition.
AT Flovilla one night last week, negro
employed by white man at that place,
committed terrible outrage on a 10-year-
old daughter of his employer. He was af'
terward frightened by tho child's mother,
but he returned for supper, when the
mother came in with a shotgun and told
him that the slightest move would be sig
nal for his death. So he sat there
for several hours until the wom-
ans husband came home, all
the while being watched by the armed
woman. The father arrived at 10 o'clock,
but the wife continued guard until he went
off aud got number OF neighbors to help
guard him to Jail The neighbors were 50
indignant that they were going to attempt
to lynch him, but Sheriff Beauchamp got
wind of it and carried the prisoner to At
lanta for safe keeping. The outrage oc-
CURED at shutdown, and the mother held
him for several hours.
Frierson Chandler, a very quiet farmer
who lives two miles from Blakely on the
Fort Gaines road, was shot and killed Fri
day night by ID. Z. Mcdonald. Mcdonald
and his son either met, or were in waiting
for Chandler, about a mile from town. near
tho formers residence, and when he was re-
turning from the mill, after dark, going
home, the assassin fred four shots, one OF
which took effect and proved fatal. Mr.
Chandler was in a one-horse wagon at the
time, and his faithful animal carried him
on to the home of his father-in-lHw, Joab
Mills. McDonald's son, aged IA or Is years,
testified TO his father committing the dee /,
and Sheriff Black brought the boy to tow
and put him in Jail. His father escaped and
is at large. ID. p. Mcdonald is free
will" Baptist preacher in good standing
with his denomination up TO "a few months
ago. when some damaging reports were put
in circulation against him by Chandler
The former left and remained in Texas
some time, came back, stood his church
trial, the charges were withdrawn, and the
murder is the sequence.
Macon Sunday Times: Not SO very long
ago the body of an ex-Maconite, rich anu
Unknown, was shipped in a coffin from
| the north, where he died. The coffin was
enclosed in Il handsome lakewood square
| box, lined with zinc, and on arrival he - at
the cemetery, IT was found that the box
was too large to get into the grave, so the
coffin was taken and lowered in5o tho silent
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