The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-22

wives interest in Crawford, who, born and
I bred slave, amassed q competent FOL tune
/ in few years after he was freed
Atlanta Constitution: What raw day
Wed eslay was How it blew and bit and
chilled and stung us-and how bleak last
night was with its roaring and wishing
and icy winds! You remember! Well, on
yesterday lit lie girl, hugging thin shawl
! about her shoulders, her bare legs literally
! blue with cold, rang the door bell OF COM
| Portable residence her shivering lips
came plea for money to buy coal for her
mother, who was sick. Tue money was
| furnished and an Investigation made. In
| n iserable hut, through which the icy wind
blew and whistled-huddled over the fire
place sat a woman-old as your mother or
ours, sick and half starving. She had
| crawlei from her bed, wrapped the single
Quilt about her stricken body, stuck her
bare feet in the handful OF ashes that still
held some of the warmth of the fire. There
she sat, fighting against freezing, sick and
desperate, rubbing the fast-coollng ashes
over her poor old feet
A young LADY in Meriwether county has
| adopted novel wav 20 raise funds where
with to build church. she does not claim
origin lily for the method Of calculation,
but as applied TO church building IL is decid-
| edly new. She wrote letter No. l TO
| friend, asking him to write two duplicate
| copies of this letter numbering them 2. To
| send back 20 her the letter No. /, enclosing
her cents in stamps, and to write asking
| his TWO friends to whom the letters No. ,
were addressed to do the same thing. Eacl
one of them to write two letters duplicate
of No 2, mum bering them 8, and forward
ing them 10 two other friends requesting
them 70 send her &c Is AID to write her
more letters, raising the nunber each time
until the number Of issues had reached
twenty. Then the last issue, letters No. 20
10 be returned with our cents each. II this
chain is carried olt and each one send 4
cents she win raise Sal 1913 40, and the let
tiers will have reached over 100000
persons.
A Mr.. Wall, representing a northern
picture-enlarging house, is in troub in
Athens Some time slnce he visited Athens
and secured many orders for pictures whica
be was 70 deliver about this time. Among
his patrons was Mrs. Weir, wife of our
sheriff, who had given him picture Of her
hush nd to eniarge, and return e4rly that
she might give to her husband as a Ch ~ist-
mas present. One day last weak Mr.. Wall
went to deliver the picture, but it was such
a wretched botch that his wife refused to
accept il, and so told him, but he re-
piled that she must not blame him,
but the people for whom he was working
The discussion was kept up in tlis straI
for some time. when Mrs. Weir told him
that she would not take the picture on &C
count Of its iInperfectiOns, and to show him
that it was not lack of money that kept
her from taking the picture, went to her
pocketbook and taking theref ON two five
dollar bills, showed them to him, and by
some means he got his hands on the money,
said good money" aud walked out Of the
honse The sheriff was notified Of the fac,
a warrant was issued, and Mr.. Wall ar
rested, tried and bound over under $50
bond.
Five white men and two negroes are in
HARRISON county Jail for the murder of
Adam Golden, a negro, aud three white
women are being guarded at their houses for
participation in the same crime. l the
neighbornood there lived Miss Jennie Mad
dox, who was regarded as eing bad char
acter. As a consequence she incurred the
enmity of the women around, aud some OF
their husbands and sons joined in wit
them. On Monday night a masked mob
surrounded the NJ addox residence and be-
gan stoning it, breaking in windows, ETC.
Adam Golden, a harmless and well
respected colored man, went over and re-
monstrated. De of the men, named
| Reeves, said "Let US kill the rascal ="
| Golden got the better Of Reeves in the tus-
sic and threw him. Two men then pulled
Golden off. and, striking him on the hea
with fence rail, Drained him. The men
then gathered around and discharged their
pistols into the dead body of the old man.
They kicked the corpse around and inflicted
other indignitios. Those now in jail for the
otfense are Bill Reeves, Bud Head, William
Ayers, Joe Sanford and man named An
dersQn The wife and two daughters Of
Anderson are al-o in custody.
Among the first settlers of Brooks county
were Frank Rountree and Lawrence
Folsom. II has come down through them
to their descendan that when they first
| settled there coffee was known. Yea 5
aftsrward someone brought it and offered
it for sale 1t was supposed to be an eat
| able. and not drinkable, so it was cooked
the same as we cook beans, but proved
| failure, of course, and it was some time
| before the natives ascertained how to make
| the now universal beverage In those days
| the Indians were plentiful and would visit
Mrs Folsom's in droves She was in c,n-
slant dread of them, but treated
them kindly. One of their peculiar
| tiles was to shake hands GA entering
d on leaving house. This was very
trying to Mrs. Folsom, and she would have
| gladly dispensed with this ceremony. Their
visits would always be on business, and
they would prefer barter 70 cash. Honey
| was one OF the articles they traded most
with. This they would bring in, tied in
| convenient I5ugtnS OF Dear enJrallS, ana eX-
change it for tackaligo Dread and walka-
pickle (cow milk. The milk was given
them in a large tin pan, a d the bread
would be broken into it. Then the group
would seat themselves around it, and with
one spoon devour it. They would use only
| o spoon, nor would az individual eat but
me spoonful at a time. passing the spoon
promptly TO the next Indian.
| W. NJ. Barker is a school teacher. He is
"a years old, bachelor, and he left Atlanta
last night on the 1850 Atlanta and West
Point train, with his hands ironed and tied
| together aud his legs shackled. r. K.
| Mccain, a bailiff from Elmore county,
| Ala, went with him. A little more than
u year ago Barker was visiting his aged
| father, a well-to-do farmer in Elmore
county. One night Barker mysteriously
disappeared and $1,000 in gold and silver
| from the old mans safe disappeared at the
some time. The old man, Isaiah Barker,
| Immediately swore out a warrant a alnst
his son, and sent descrip'iv circulars all
| over the country, but the son, himself gray
headed and old enoug TO he a grandfa her.
| could nowhere be found 1t seems that
| Isaiah Barker was of thrifty deposition and
| half the amount stolen represented tn
savings and scrapngs of years. The othe
half, or about 81, 800, was the price paid q
| few days before for a plantation. The old
| nan kept his money in a ickety iron safe
and the school teacher knew it. That was
over year ago The search was finally
given up. T old man began again at the
foot of the ladder, aud two months ago be