The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-22

Post-Appeal Case.
GEORGIA.
Marion Sanders, who was shot at Martin
last week, is slowly improving, and hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
Under the management of Capt. l. H.
Adams, the Putnam Rifles are making
rapid and substantial progress in drilling.
F. A. Richardson, editor-in-chief of the
Macon Telegraph, is spoken of as one of
the delegates at large to the st. Louis Con-
vention.
The new Arc and Incandescent Electric
Light Company of Macon is getting ready
to begin operations, and will try to be able
TO furnish lights in about two months.
At Albany, Friday, Pearl Sneed little
negro girl, drank tumbler of potash water,
and is in terrible condition. Her face
and lips are horribly swollen, and the skin
is peeling OFF from her hands.
At GAINESVILLE, at the last meeting of
Council, the license to sell whisky was fixed
at $1,000. This amounts to prohibition.
The sale OF rice beer, cider and several other
alleged local option drinks was also stopped.
A couple of Mormons, or Latter Day
Saints" as they call themselves, are at work
near Matthews While a few people at
tended their meetings, more through Gu
riosity than anything else, they have failed
TO make any converts or even favorable
impression.
Edward Elder, a clothing merchant Of
GAINESVILLE, was closed by the Sheriff
Thursday. His assets and liabilities are not
yet made public. The immediate cause of
the failure was the foreclosure of mort
gage for 5000 held by the GAINESVILLE
Savings Bank.
The Milledgeville subscribers or stock
holders of the Atlanta, Atlantic and Great
Western Railway and Navigation Com
pany, better known as the FRY railroad"
will meet at the court house next Tuesday,
Immediately after the adjournment of the
Democratic meeting.
Dol Gammage, who works in one of the
big saw mills at DeSoto, on the Americus,
Preston and Lumpkin railroad, had the
misfortune to have his hand terribly mutt
lated by the saws day or two ago. Two
or three fingers had to be amputated, and
his hand Was otherwise badly cut up
The Putnam County Fair Association
permanently organized last Tuesday and is
now hard at work taking up subscriptions
for erecting the necessary buildings and
fencing the grounds The President, Vice
President and directors were authorized 10
solicit subscriptions for the above purposes
AT jefferson, Friday, John Suddeth a
farmer, met with painful and almost fatal
accident. His mule was frightened by a
baby carriage and ran away. He was
thrown from his wagon and had his head
badly cut and left arm broken. His wounds
were treated by DR.. Pendergrass, and is
now considered out of danger.
Mrs. S. A. Holley, now a resident of
Augusta, has relic in the shape of pair
of scissors that her father used in cutting
President Washington a suit of clothes as
he was entering upon his first Presidential
term. They are queer looking scissors from
those that are used at the present day They
will be exhibited at the Augusta EXPOSE
tion.
The stockholders of Atlanta's new pro-
hibition weekly have selected Col William
G. Scruggs, ex-Minister to Bogota, as editor
in-chief, Col. r. T. Dow as soliciting agent,
and Col I. K. Hanberry as business man
ager. The first issue of the paper will ap-
pear May s, and it will have no connection
with Evangelist Small's side show. 1t is the
intention of the stockholders to make it
strictly non-partisan.
At Hamilton, Friday was entirely con-
sumed in hearing the murder case of Elijah
Goodman. Several weeks ago Marsh and
Goodman were in a room together and
Goodman shot Marsh with shotgun. The
entire load entered the leg near the thigh
bone, shattering the bone The boy died in
a few hours. The friends of Goodman
claim it was an accident. The jury re-
turned verdict of guilty of involuntary
manslaughter
Col. c. J. Jenkins, who was selected as
one of the alternates at large by the Repub-
llcan State Convention has declined Col.
Jenkins arrived on the scene of the conveu-
ton just as the vote for alternates was being
taken, and he became thoroughly disguised
with the manner in which he was elected
He gives it as his opinion that his party
must undergo thorough change in its com
position before it will ever amount TO any
thing in the South.
On Sunday afternoon last William Brown.
of Reed Greek, went to Hartwell for a phy-
stefan. He returned after nightfall. Just
before crossing the creek near the Risner
place he saw, by moonlight, two mon ap-
preaching through the woods When they
arrived near enough one of them raised q
gun and fired at him, filling the side of his
face with load of shot He did not recog-
nize the parties, and thinks they must have
mistaken him for some one else, as he had
done nothing to excite the enmity of any
one. 1t is feared that one of his ewes is
Duined.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Judge Hine.
in his charge to the grand jury,
spoke of the grand future awaiting
the patient, the law-abiding good citizens
of the South, and scarcely had his eoausnce
died away before a large bald eagle was
seen to soar around the suburbs of our
town. Mr.. Sammy Cowart, irrespective Of
his eagleship being emblematic of our ma
ton, took a shot at him, which resulted in
bringing him from his lofty perch to the
ground. He measured five feet from tip to
tip of his wings.
At Atlanta Friday, after five years of
litigation, the old Fost-Appedl case was de-
cided by the Supreme Court in favor Of
Marcellus f. Thornton. Mr. Thornton
owned the Post-Appedl and sold it to John
i. Conley. Fraud in the sale was charged,
and Mr.. Conley resisted payment on that
ground. A few months ago Mr. Thornton
obtained Judgment in Fulton Superior
Court for $1,000 against Mr.. Conlev, and
the Supreme Court has now affirmed the
judgment. Col. Thornton now resides at
Jellico, Tenn, where he has coal interests
The Dougherty county bridge across the
Kinchafoonee creek, which was rendered
impossible by the recent freshet, has been
repaired and transit resumed over it. While
communication was cut Off between Albany
and the country north of it, the farmers who
were dependent upon town for their supplies
would drive their wagons to the edge Of the
swollen creek, while the warehousemen
would have the required goods hauled there.
a distance of two miles, and then carried by
hand over the railroad bridge over the
stream, which remained intact though
threatened by the rising waters.
At Rome, Friday, the Georgia Medical