The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLL
IN PARAGRAPHS,
Capture OF q Negro Who Shot Anothe.
IN Dodge County a Few Weeks Agt
Dates OF the Dodge County Fair
Merchant OF Culloden Shoots &
Negro-Narrow Escape from Drown
ing In Bibb County.
GEORGIA
The state fair at Macon will oDen il
twenty-nine days. The Augusta Exposi
lion opens on the same day.
The managers of the Dodge County Fair
Association are rapidly perfecting al
arrangements for an exhibit on Oct. S,
and 10.
The new bridge at Cooks, in Heard
county, was displaced by the high water in
New river, and is now scattered about oven
the neighboring bottoms. The timbers had
been placed ia position merely and not
fastened. Mr.. Wood will necessarily sus
tain considerable loss
At Atlanta. Saturday,J S. Pembcrton, A.
D. Murphy, j, Z. Ma yti9ld AMI Z. H. Blood
worth filed petition asking TO be incorpo-
rated under the name of the Pemberton
Medicine Company, the ca lital stock of
which the members desire to he $50, 900
The object of the company is the manufact
ire of patent medicines.
John Andrews, merchant in Culloden,
had a difficulty with Cornelius White, a
colored carpenter, which arose over a dis
pute concerning a debt, and resulted in
White getting shot in the rigHt thigh while
advancing on Andrews witt an opel knife
and Ratchet. White is a resident of Barnes
vile. VIII ties wound is lot thought to be
serious.
Franklin NeiDs. We very much regret
the necessity that compels us to send out
half sheet this week, but when our readers
consider our affection of mothers death,
and the duty since Of watching a very sick
sister, the only remaining immediate rela-
tive, we feel assured that they will be
abundantly satisfied
Sam Clay, the negro who shot James
Sasser, another negro, a few weeks ago in
Dodge county, was arrested Saturday by
party of turpentine distillars, headed by
David Williams. Cly has been south of
the Ocmulgee at work since the shooting
until Saturday, when he returned and was
arrested. Sasser said something that Clay
took exception to, and waylaid him as he
passed, driving a team, and shot him with
bird shot from a double-barreled gun
Sasser is recovering.
Henry Whitaker of Franklin is unlucky
in getting shot. Only few days ago he
accidentally shot himself in the leg, and on
Monday last he was accidentally shot by
his brother in the arm. Brit Whitaker
went out into the north commons to shoot
squirrel and Saying what he thought to be
one, fired Ii was the arm of younger
brother, who had climbed the tree in search
Of muscadines. Neither knew the other
was about Several shot were picked from
the flesh of the arm and one from the neck.
On Thursday evening last F. B. Tharpe,
who has farm between Swift branch and
Doggy creek, in Bib county, fearing the
water would rise and overflow his corn.
concluded he would take a team and haul
some of it away. With q two-mule wagon
and two negroes, he started for the field,
but on reaching Doggy branch, found the
stream very much swollen. Not to be out
done, he plunged into the stream and had
gone but a short distance when mules,
wagon and those in the wagon began to
float, and in a short time the body Of the
wagon, with its occupants, Mr.. Tharpe and
two negro men, were floating off in one di-
rection and the mules and Wagon in
another. By almost superhuman efforts a
landing was made, anu the men not only
escaped watery grave. but succeeded in
saving the mules.
Since the following was printed in the
West Point Alliance of Sunday, Rev.
Sharp has died: The local editor Of this
paper perhaps feels keener sense of sorrow
over the suffering that Is spread over the
doomed city Of jacksonville than any other
citizen of Yves Point. Rev. J. K. Sharp,
his brother-in-law, Mrs. S arp his sister,
and Miss Lucia, their dau liter, are now
sufferers from the dead disease Mr.
Sharpis pastor of the First Methodist churca
at Jacksonville, and from the first has
stood by the sick, refusing to seek place Of
safety. His wife stood by him, willing to
share the fate of her husband They triel |
70 send their daughtrr Lucia away, but
strict quarantine regulatio IS caused her re
turn to her home, where her father, mother
and herself are now suffering with the
dread disease. We appreciate the many
of sympathy from friends who
have heard of the affection of our dear
ones, and can assure them tn we will
ever remembe" such friends and keep for
them place i'll warm heart"