The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-11

ia have formed beneficial organization,
to care for one another in sickness and
trouble.
The ladies of Atlanta have started
hospital known as the Kings Daughters
Hospital, and the donations were very
liberal by the citizens.
DR.. J. S. Wilson, citizen of Atlanta,
on Saturday evening attempted to pass
before a railroad train at Whitehall Street
crossing, but slipped and fell before the
locomotive. Both of his feet were cut
off
The surveyors started work on Monday
laying off the lands donated by the Car
telsville Land Company to the Carriers
willie Furnace Company. The elevations,
depressions, etc., will be taken, and the
furnace site laid off. Work will be be-
gun at once. 1t is said that a strong
company formed in Atlanta will shortly
begin the erection of rolling mill at
that point.
The annual national convention of the
Locomotive Brotherhood is to be held
this year at Atlanta, on September 10,
and it will be the endeavor of the organ
ization to make it as perfect in every
detail as possible; to this end they have
undertaken to publish complete history
of the association and its workings from
the first formation, together with por-
traits Of the grand officers.
A thief entered Governor Gordon's
mansion in Atlanta and stole therefrom
the governors gray coat and vest. In
the coat pockets were number of valu-
able papers addressed to Governor Cor
don," or General Gordon" and in
vest pocket was an old fashioned, key
winding, double-face gold watch. The
watch was handsomely chased and the
charm was fiat woven one.
A block of buildings, called Hells
Half Acre, in Brunswick, between Bay
street and OgleUhorpeo street, was con
demned by the City Council, and will be
RACED and burned after the occupants and
owners have enjoyed thirty days notice.
The block is inhabited by a horde Of
wretched squalid people, whose presence
and surroundings in that part of the city
was pronounced public nuisance by the
board of health.
Tennessee.
At GAINESVILLE, shops and stores of all
kinds were closed on Sunday by the au-
tholitics; even the ice factory was shut up
A 800, 600 company has been formed
with paid-up capital to erect 500-room
hotel at the Point On Lookout mountain
Chattanooga.
AT Sunbright, while bearing lumber
away from Weavers saw mill, Henry
Lyle slipped and fell against the saw,
which was in motion. His lower jaw
was entirely cut Off The saw teeth
reached his lungs
George Gaines, of Nashville, shot in
the liot at the tenth district polls, died
Sunday. While the votes were being
counted, some colored men outside rushed
in and attempted to take the ballot box
Forty or fifty shots were fred and three
men wounded before quiet was restored.
William Van Patton and r.. e. Brooks,
both Of Michigan, settled two years ago
near Cleveland, each buying farms in the
same neighborhood. Both were married
and had two children Three weeks ago,
by the agre ment Of all parties concerned,
the men traded wives. Everything has
been moving on pleasantly and agreeably
since the trade until Saturday, when Van
Patton visited Cleveland to consult a
lawyer in reference to resembling his for
mer action and trading back. Van Pat
tons wife is 50 well pleased with her new
husband that she refuses to return to her
former home Mrs. Brooks is also salts
fed with Van Patton and expresses a
willingness to remain with him.
While two boys, Jackson Moore and
John Harvey. of Memphis, aged about
seventeen Years, were hunting squirrels
across the river in Arkansas, they dis!
covered large rattesnakc coiled upon
rock apparently asleep. Moore said he
would capture the snake alive Hd
crept up to the deadly RATHER, and by "a
quick movement caught it firmly below
the head and held it at arms length in
triumph. Suddenly the snake cooled it.
self around the boys arm. He became
frightened and attempted to throw it off,
when the reptile struck him. lie then
fell in a swoon, while his friend fled for
assistance. The nearest house was two
miles distant, and when help arrived the
poor lad was past help and died in ag.
ouy.
Maryland.
Justice Harlan in the United States
Circuit Court at Baltimore on Tuesday,
granted new trial to b. Howard Ma
thews, ex-postofiice clerk, who is now
serving a tern 81 two years in the peni-
Tertiary for embezzling the contents Of
daco,r tottar TtItrn Harlun 1.etdar that