The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-17

! -'~~Ns v ~ SAalld anu JbJi Eld ldIiiO 5etA
senger depot, and had one foot cut off ha
MED, through her counsel, a bill of damage
against the road for $40, 900. The case vii
| be heard at next term of the Superior
Court
The movement toward improving thu
Methodist church at Washington is being
pushed forward very vigorously. 1t is in
tended TO add two rooms 70 the rear of thu
church, for the Bible and infant classes, tC
move the organ to the rear of the pulpit
and make other very desirable i'm rove
ments.
The notorious burglar who committed the
robberies daring the present week at Zebu
lon and Creswell has been captured He Is
a short, dark featured individual, seeming
! ly about % years of age, and gives his name
as Charles Reid, of New York. He and q
negro we're captured Wednesday night al
Puckett's station by Dr. James Couch.
Dublin town has been bonded for 81, 900
! which is to be used in the building of two
school buildings. one for the whites and one
| for the blacks. The negroes are to receive
one-third of this money, while they only
! pay IS taxes, and in addition the Town
| Council has voted them one-third of the
money arising from the liquor license.
In the northeastern part of Forsyth coun-
| ty last Saturday evening, Cephus Harde-
man stuck his brot er. DR.. Hardeman
on the head with a Scantiing fracturing his
skull. The blow is likely to prove fatal.
There had been some trouble between the
brothers for some time, which terminated
in themquarrel. Cephus has left for parts
unknown.
1t is reported that the Jones Bros, whose
heavy failure, in Camilla, created such n
sensation last fall, have written from Can
ada, where they went, offering to liquidate
THAR ind fofitn a4D Nl,a1 n11
is impossible to know, at this stage. what
the creditors will do, but it is reasonable to
say that the unsecured debts will be set
tied on that basis.
DR.. Tucker cut out needle about two
inches long from the side of 2-year-old
child of Mrs. OVERLY at Brunswick Thurs
day. How the needle got there its mother
does not know The child complained of
pain in its side for several days but Mrs
OVERLY could not trace the cause Of the
trouble. She finally took the child to DR..
Tucker with the above result.
Col. J. B. Warthen, one of Washington
countys, Ca, most prominent citizens, was
married on Tuesday last in New York city
TO Miss Anna Spinola, sister of Gen. F. B.
Spinola, prominent politician and mem
Der Of Congress from New York. After
visiting the Sub-Tropical Exposition in
Florida, they will return to the ColoneIs
beautiful home near Barlow. Ga.
Some two weeks ago. at a negro festival
rear cambridge, Charles jackson brutallv
assaulted Oscar Williams and severely
stabbed him in the neck. The negro lin
gered until Wednesday, when ne died. A
Coronor's inquest was held by r. r. Ter
rell, Justice of the Peace. The verdict was
murder. The slayer is in Jail. The facts
elected show that the knitting OF his victim
was unjuStifiable.
C. f. Evans, of Beauford, who was ar
rested at Athens few days ago on the
charge of stealing blackboard, received a
telegram from Gwinnett county Thursday
stating that the grand jury had found no
indictment against him, but had placed on
the bill malicious prosecution" This puts
Mr. Simmons in q rather bad fix, and it is
thought that he will probably have to meet
a suit for damages.
w. II. Alderman, of Brunswick, the
would-be suicide, was in about the same
condition Thursday morning as he was
Wednesday. The brother of Mrs. Alderman
arrived from Savannah Thursday The
wounded man is receiving every attention
and most careful nursing, but his recovery
is doubtful. The ball has not yet been ex-
tracted. and although the doctor has done
considerable probing he is unable 10 locate it.
Capt. w. C. Davis, of Perry owns two
remarkably precocious setter puppies. Last
Thursday morning Capt. Davis went out to
the wood pile, followed by the two puppies.
He gave splinter of wood to each puppy,
and they followed him to his room with the
splinters in their mouths Friday morning
a scratching noise attracted the Captains
attention, and when he opened the door the
puppies came into the room, each with a
splinter of wood in his mouth.
At Greensborough Thursday, Judge
Jenkins passed sentence of death upon
George McDutfie, n negro preacher. who
shot and killed William Cheney. colored
last fall William Cheney went to a
church with neg o woman, who McDutfie,
although married man, fancied himself.
After the services Cheney started for his
home, and when near McDutfi els home he
was shot through his left side, and died
shortly after he was conveyed home. The
ha nglng will take place May Il.
Hon. Emory Speer has declined to deliver
the alumni address of the unworthy COM
mencement at Athens, aud also has declined
the invitation to make the annual address
before the Phi Gamma Few literary socie-
ties at the Emory commencement next
June. 1t is understood that the time and
duty he owes to the public as the Judge is
the cause of these destinations. The Judge
has accepted Wesleyan's invitation. Since
Macon is his home, and his children are at
school there, there was no chance for him
to back out.
The first cedars ever brought to North
east Georgia came from Charleston, s. c..
and were brought and set out by the grand
father of Maj. Pruitt, of the Athens
Banner Wdtchmdn The birds soon scat
tered their berries in every direction, and
from this beginning the cedar has spread
over twenty-five or thirty counties in
upper Georgia. The original trees brought
from Charleston we're three in number and
are still standing at the old Pruitt home
stead in Banks county. These trees are
now of an enormous size.
Several days ago Max Baum, of Rome.
who is connected with the Rome Gas Com
pany, received papers ordering his return TO
the German army. In the German army
Mr.. Baum was member of the artillery
lie served with distinction, and received a
gold medal for best craftsmanship at a CON
test in 1881. He is % years of age, and has
been III the United States four and half
years. Mr.. Baum had his arm broken
some time ago, and says that such dis
ability prevents him from re-enterng the
army. He has sent a physicians certificate
of the fact of his arm having been broken
TO the German Consul General at New York
city, and when he receives a reply will
know whether he will be compelled TO 60.
At a meeting of tine Brunswick Rhemen
Thursday the matter of n state of encamp-
ment was brought up Capt. James Posteil
of st. Simons, offered to donate a ten acre
LOT on the island If arranuarp could "a,