The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-30

f'ull his foot cut of his shoe, and then a
negro, after some minutes work, succeeded
IN removing the shoe from the place where
1t was tightly wedged.
Mr.. Weston Leach and Biiah Gravett, a
little boy about IL years old, while walking
the treetle one-half mile from Flowery
Branch, were killed by the north-bound
passenger train Thursday. They were
coming to town and walked the trestle,
which is 30 feet high and 205 feet long, and
about midway the train overlook them,
knocking the man off and killing him in
stantly, and carrying the body OF the boy
along tho cross-ties, mutilatipg him almost
beyond recognition. Mr.. Leach leaves a
wife and three children almost destitute
The accident was unavoidable, as the train
was coming down grade and around a
curve
Douglasville Star: Weihave recently seen
by the courtesy Of Editor Price Of the Ners
copy OF the Marietta SENT " eeIiv Ado
cate, dated May Z 1851. II contains mes
sage from President Davis to the confeder-
ate congress, showing the state of affairs at
the timo between the two governments.
This was before the boiDbardment of Fort
Sumter, while the confederate commission
ers were Regulating at Washington. The
paper contains references to ina persons
who afterward made themselves famous on
9he field OF battle, ana is full of interest as
showing how the situation WINS viewed from
southern standpoint at the time.
There has heen almost an epidemic OF
shooting scrapes in Pulaski county in the
last few weeks. Within the past month six
men have been shot in that county, and five
of them in about the same part OF TIC body
in the chest. One was shot i'll the bowels
and died in Hawsinsville Tnursday.-O. r.
Willis whJ Was seriously shot b. Sam Rob-
ert on, II recovering Last Monday even
ing w. B. Watts and his son, John, met
| w. ]. Sanders in the road near Cochran.
when an alIercation took place, in which
Sanders was shot through the breast and
his 10-year-old son IN the face.-Thursday
night a negro man, Tom Carpenter, while
III a game Of cards at Cochran, was shot
through the lungs by bis brother. Alcohol
seems to be doing the work here more
effectually than whisky ever did.
AT Atlanta, Friday, an old veteran of the
Mexican and confederate wars was insulted.
With these men insult is always followed
with blow. Busna Vista aud Manassas
do not rerInit them to swallow insult T.is
particular veteran had hired a man TX
repair the sidewalk in front of his home OF
Marietta street. In some alteration the
man applied to the veteran an epithet which
no man hears without feeling the tenpera
tnre Of his blood rise, and the veteran
| ruck him. Although he is more than *
| years of age, he has the vigor of 40, and
| when the man who was struck picked
| himself up he telt as if he had been struck
| by light ling. A policeman was at hand
| and arrested the iusulter, and marched
| him Off. The arm which did the striking
| has eighteen leaden bullets in it.
| DIR. J. w. Mitchell of Hamilton, reached
| Columbus Thursday night on his way home
| from Talbotton, where he went to attend a
| family reunion at his wife'S fathers, al
| Pleasant Hill, on Christmas day. He re
| lated to a reporter the sad circumstances oil
| the death of his father-iil-law, A w. Pat
| rick, Monday evening. Mr.. Patrick hao
| for long time suffered with heart trouble
| After inviting all his children to meet lin
| again in a family reunion he took buggy
AID met them, each one, at the train. He
| told his wife before leaving that he would
meet them this tine and it would be the
| last, for he felt that his end was near. Or
| his way home, with DR. Mitchells wife in
| the buggy with him, he was suddenly
striker With heart disease and diei in
stantly. The reunion was thus turned into
| a sad funeral
| Rev. A. r. Callaways house. at LaGrange
was bhrglarioasly entered Wednesday
night about IL O'Clock. The family Lad
retired, but, as is their custom, had left the
| lamp burning. The thief entered Mr. Cal
la sy's room, which is diagonally across
| the hall from that of his wife, blew out the
| light ard rified bis pocket of knife. He
then entered the other apartment, but the
noise awakened Mrs. Galloway and Miss
| Watts. who was with hec. When ne per-
ceived that he was discovered, he precipi-
| lately fed Mr.. Galloway had been arouse,.
| in the meantime. and met the bafilel
| burglar in the hall, who eluded him and,
rushing through the sitting room, where,
| in his haste, he overturned jar OF milk,
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was given and several Of the neighbors
| came to the rescue, but too late to do any
good. The thief was evidently q large
negro.
Mrs. Anna James publishes the following
| in the Douglasville Star: ''As II is being
| circulated throughout the county that my
brother, j. G. Maxwell, deserted tbs COZ.
| federate army and joined the Federals and
| fought the south, done to injure him in his
race for clerk of the superior COURT, deem
| ii due him and all of us to make state
| rnent of the facts in the case: J. @. Max
well volunteered in the early part of The
war in Capt. MagouirR's company, fhirtiett
Georgia regiment, -a@d made a good anC
| faithful soldier. He was captured in thu
battle of Peac4t tree creek, near Atlanta, or
July 20, 1864 He was carried to prison al
Chicago, ILL.,, and remained there ninC
months. The prison was infested witt
| there. The United States govern
| ment gave the prisoners a chance to volun
| teer and form regiment to fight the In
dians, and on March rs, 1865, my brotherd
volunteered and went out of prison, jus.
| thirteen days before the surrender. He
served eighteen months on the northwestern
| frontier, in which service lie lost one Of his
eyes. He came homo and found myself
and my three younger brothers without any
means of support. He went to work anC
kept the family together, and raised hi
| brothers to manhood. In short, he was
father to all of us. For this statement OF
facts refer you, or the ones that have cir
cuJsted this falsehcod, TO Capts. Bowen ano
Msgouirk, Lieut.. Wellington, and any Of
our neighbors."
On Sunday there arrived in Atlantl two
old people from Tallapoosa, Mr.. Moore and
his wife. They were poor but bad managed
TO scrapo up enough money TO buy ticket
to Atlanta and back. They came for the
purpose Of visiting some relatives in the
country. Thursday they walked back &c
the city, and after getting on the railroad
began inquiring the way TO the depot. They
met q young man who told, them that hg
wanted to take care OF tben. He said he
was a railroad man, and told them 10 give
| him the money and be would get their
| tickets for them. Mrs. Moore gave him
every cent she had, "a, and then pointing
F! TO platform near by, the young man tod
| the two old people ID wait there for him.
| They sat shivering upon the platform fol-
hours, waiting for the return of the young