The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-22
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
The fate of the peach crop in Monroe
county is still uncertain.
The FORSYTH Advertiser wants a branch
of the Young Mems Christian Association
established there.
The late freaze and unfavorable weather
have rendered the repanting of garden seed
necessary in Monre county.
There is a probability of the Rockmars
State, a weekly newspaper, being moved to
Adairsville. as every inducement is offered
by the citizens.
A young N. D.. of Adairsville, who is
Just beginning to walk in the practice
of medicine here, sports as a charm for his
watch chain human ear.
There is movement on foot among the
ladies of Macon. headed by Miss Carrie
Butts to present handsome silk flag to the
Macon Volunteers on their anniversary
April %.
The dry goods house of b. F. Bib, of
Adairsville was badly damaged the other
night by some burglar attempting an en-
trance through the front doors which were
splintered with some sharp instrument be-
sides having a wedge driven in between the
doors in order to prize them open.
At Atlanta Tuesday the subcommittee
to inquire into the cost and receive bids for
furnis ing the new capitol met, but moth
ing was done except to make memoran-
dunn of all the furniture needed in the third
floor in the way of outfits for committee
looms After adjournment they visited
the new capitol building.
On Saturday as Scott Parham was riding
along the road in some part of Hammock's
district, Crawford county, a horse which
was running at large attacked the one he
was riding, and in attempting to part them
Mr.. Parham was kicked on the face, receiv-
ing terrible blow. No bones were broken
but his face was terribly bruised.
Lucius Holt, the negro barber who got
into trouble in Greensboro, was lodged in
jail, and attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat, has been released from
confinement and is now in Athens, so far
recovered from his self-inficted wounds
that he is able to walk around. Its thought
that LucIus' rash act was only a shrewd
dodge to get out of Jail.
At Adairsville, Eli Blantan, was to be
carried before the Ordinary Tuesday to be
tried for lunacy. He attempted to kill his
wife Monday, and had it not been for the
presence of his brother, who took the stick
of wood fl ON him with which he made the
attempt, he would have killed her outright.
He has been demented for some time. His
home is in Texas. His mother lives at
Adairsville.
Maj. Lamar Cobb, the Treasurer of the
State University at Athens, has gone to
Atlanta to interview Gov. Gordon, and en-
deavor to secure the immediate payment of
the appropriation of SIS 900 for the Agri-
cultural College and station. So much of
it as is not expended by July will be de
Quoted from the allowance for next year,
and those interested are therefore anxious
to get the money as quickly as possible.
just as a passenger train was nearing Big
Shanty Monday two men seated in a buggy
drove furiously into the place. they were
wet and muddy and the horse was covered
with foam, as if all three had been having a
long trip in the rain. Dismounting the
men hitched the horse and after asking the
name of the place purchased ticKetsfor At
lanta. In few minutes the train arrived,
and without giving any Instructions about
the horse and buggy the men got on board
and were soon moving toward Atlanta.
In the lower end of Washington county
two brothers, Henry and Purify Holmes,
have for some years been conducting a
large turpentine business together, and in
an effort to dissolve and settle the firms
business, they disagreed and resorted to
blows. In the fight Henry, the smaller
brother, shot Purify in the left side with a
shotgun loaded with buckshot. A heavy
silver watch caught part of the load, and
it is claimed this saved his life The wound
is regarded as serious, but not necessarily
fatal.
Freeman Brooks, young farmer of
Wilkinson county, was killed on Monday
night about $50 o'clock. Mr.. Brooks and
several others were cutting old sap trees ON
the plantation of c. S. johnson, in the
Bethel district of the county, to prevent the
spread of flames to the woods. While rest
ing after cutting down tree a young man
who was cutting one near by saug out to
him to look out or the tree would fall on
him. The warning came too late, and
before he could move away the tree fell on
him, crushing his head and limbs. He died
instantly. MIR. Brooks was about % years
of age.
At Adairsville, as Mr.. Waldrip was re-
turning home, Monday night about 6
O'Clock, when near the new Methodist
church, which is in the heart of town, some
one rushed from the darkness, knocked Mr.
Waldrip down and plunged knife into his
left side. Fortunately, pocket in his coat
was full of letters and a heavy memo
randum book besides, which saved his life,
doubtless, as his top and under clothing
were cut through, and the thrust penetrated
the papers and book in his pocket. The
grudge of the assassin is not known by Mr..
Waldrip, as he is unaware of an enemy
and he never carries any money about his
person. a
Abraham Gibson, of Baker county, was
arrested day or two ago upon an old war
rant issued bv his wife charging him with
desertion and kidnapping one of the children.
1t seems that Gibson and his wife separated
some years ago. The former went to where
his wife was living and carried Off one OF
the children. She became very angry and
had him arrested. getting back the boy. He
escaped from confinement and since then the
wife, firing of caring for the child, was
anxious for him to take it back again, and
upon his refusal to do 50 issued the warrants
for him which, after three years, were
served Monday, when Gibson made his ap-
pearance i'll Albany. He is so angry with
his wife for taking his boy away from him,
and then changing her mind and trying To
force him to take him back again, that he
swears he will die before he will take him
back, and thus the matter stands
An old negro woman named Mis- ouri
Jones, of Macon had a son who was sent
TO the penitentiary from Baldwin county
for forgery, when he was only 10 years
old. Next October that sentence would
have expired. As he grew older
he learned how to write, and his letters
from the convict camp came often He hat
gone from her baby, and she was looking
forward to October when he would return
to her big grown man. Last Saturday
a week ago, while blasting near Bremen
on the Georgia Pacific railroad, at Capt. j
w. McCue's camp. Jesse Brooks. the con