The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-11


see Murderer, but are Mistaken
The Victims of the Ellaville Railroad
Accident
GEORGIA
An opera house is to be built at Way
cross.
Georgia's plurality for Cleveland will be
nearer $4,000 than $4,000.
Several of Carrollton's mercantile houses
were draped in bunting election day.
Williams Bros, grocers of cambridge,
have failed for something like 81, 900. though
with assets ample to cover all their iabli-
ties
On Alex McCoy's place, on Buckeye, in
Laurens county, on Tuesday last, Bunk
Norman was peppered with small shot By
a white ma ,.
Gov-elect F. P. Fleming and party, of
Florida, came up to brownsville on the
passenger train from Monticello Wednes-
day, en- route east.
Hon. C. F. Crisp is very proud of his
vote of last Tuesday. Two years ago he
only received something over |, 200 as a vote
of the district, but this time his majority
will be 5000.
Messrs Hawkes. and Blalock are out of
the race for solicitor general OF the South
western judicial circuit. Col c. b. Hudson,
the present incumbent, is now the only
candidate for the position.
A. K. Clark, who purchased last winter,
a half interest in the Americas ice works
from Mr.. Bye, has sold his interest to Bias
com Myrick and W. G. Gray The firm is
now Sims, Myrick & Gray.
The BOYS of Blakely were ready with
their cannon and fireworks to celebrate a
democratic victory, but the bad news from
New York cast damper over their spirits,
and not solitary gun was fired,
There has been a wonderful decrease in
crime in Macon county during the present
year. Last year the sheriff made over sixty
arrests for various crimes, and up to date
this year there has been only eighteen.
The Central hotel, at Rome, after a short
career under Capt. w. T. Dozier, has been
closed. The largest bills against the hotel
were held by Thomas Fahy and M. g. Nc
Donald. There are also several other cred
itors.
On half acre of average land, Fletcher
Edwards of Hart couaty made 800 pounds
seed cotton with the rows six feet wide
Used l75 pounds OF guano. On one-fourth
of an acre he made 22l7 bushels of corn
This is good farming.
Hon. F. B. Hodges of Hartwell says he
has been sowing wheat for twenty years,
and has never failed to reap fair harvest
for the amount planted. Carefully
selected seed, thorough soaking in blue
stone, and proper cultivation, are the secrets
of his success.
The steamer LaureYs, which left her
wharf at Dublin, Tuesday morning, bound
for Mount Vernon, struck a snag and was
sunk near Ring Jaw, about ten miles below
Dublin, on the same day. The steame- was
loaded with brick, which were TO be used in
the erection of Montgomery county's Jail.
Since there is complaint by the people of
the lower part of Oglethorpe county that
the Lexington Terminal cuts up their road
to Crawford, the citizens of Crawford are
contemplating opening a new road from
that place to intersect with the Lexington
and Elberton road few miles out of Lex
ington.
Tuesday was regular sale day at Ogle-
thorpe, and a great deal of property
changed hands. The Jordan place was sold
to Mrs. Z. Joiner at 81 $50 The Reynolds
place was bid in at 81, $40 by B. f. Martin.
I old Miles Taylor place on Whitewater
creek was sold to G. E. Ogburn of Butler
for $40
At Elberton business combination has
been formed between I. NJ. Swift, w. NJ.
Wilcox and B. B. Braswell Messrs. Will
cox & Braswell will close out their present
business by Jan. /, when the new firm of
Swift, Wilcox a. Braswell will commence
business at the stand now occupied by
Swift Bros.
Porter Stocks of Atlanta received a note
warning him to leave the city on accounted
an interest he took in an effort to find
negro republican who fired pistol shot in
the streets. The note bore the names of
several leading negro republicans. 1t de-
velops that they did not sign 1t, and the
whole affair is probably hoax.
Nathan Stawart UOunp man
20 years OF age, and one of the B. V. g. f.
Victims had his left arm amputated in Ella
vile on Wednesday. His arm was broken
in two places. At last accounts he was not
doing very well, but was not dangerously
i'll. Mostly all of the parties that we're in
jured by the run-off, are improving, no
Others have died, and all are now out of
danger.
A homicide occurred at Temperance on
Saturday nignt last, in which Boss Fletcher
lcolored) was the victim, meeting his death
at the hands of a sable brother, Oliver Will
cox. The murder was the result of an old
feud OF some years standing, having its
origin in some family quarrel, and was &C
complished by the aid of a trusty shotgun
filled with buckshot. The murderer fed to
the swamp, and is at large.
While large crowd was assembled about
a light on the square at jefferson last Tues
NoJ hAShe ASJOlSilAS over lie tl6cUlOn re-
turns, man with several sets of pillow gear
hanging about him, rushed through the
darkness in the direction of the crowd hal
loolng Whoa causlng general stampede.
Large ones ran over the small ones, sober
ones over the drunken ones, until the sup
posed runaway horse had been stopped.
At Albany, Margaret Mitchell went to
the house of another negro woman named
Nettie Rhodes, on Thursday night, and
calling her to the door, attacked her with
knife. She cut of a piece of Nettie's nose
and cut cash in each cheek and another
across her upper lip in less time than it
takes to tell about it. Nettie's wounds are
not dangerous but are very painful and
will dishgure her face for bfe. Margaret
was arrested.
Montezuma Record: An effort is to be
made to incorporate Barrowville and Nit
chellville in the northwestern part of Macon
county. Unless there is a town TO incor-
porate we do not see how it can be incor-
pora ted 1t is said that the object is to sell
whisky, and that it bodies no good to the
community where these proposed towns are
10 be located. The farmers in the neigh
borhood are very much opposed to it and
will do all in their power TO prevent it.
At Gainesville Friday night Jack Hemp
hill (colored). was arrested for attempting
an outrage on a white girl of IL years, and
placed in the lookup. A crowd gathered
and started to lynch him. The marshal
beat the crowd to the lookup, took
the r,risonar and epirifad him avay Tn