The morning news., 1888-07-29

ago three other white convicts asked to be
! al 0 Hed to stay with Nann, as they said for
| the purpose OF playing cards. They may
| have taken the bottle to Nann's cell. 1t is
/ thought they intended TO use acid in cutting
the irol bars. Vaun bitterly denied all
/ knowledge of the acid.
/ Thursday night a little after O'Clock
! George Sheppard, wife and child went to
1 bed, at taeir homo in East Macon, but in "A
/ little while Mr. Sheppard was awakened by
ii harp pain in his left leg When he trle
/ to wake up he found one Of the timbers of
! the r,of across his face. An investigation
1 proved that the house had been struck by
lightning during the storm that was raging
al the time. He tried to wake up his wife,
only to find her dead His little boy who
had laid down at the foot of the bed was
also dead. Mrs Sheppard's neck was
! broke , while the rest of the body was not
bruised in the least.
In the library at Athens are files of many
OF the leading dailieS running away back
toward the first II the century They are
bound but show the effects OF moth and
Mt. There IS the National HteHj9enccr,
the great whig organ, published in Wash
ingtou, d. =. II runs back 20 lSUj-to
lS4D. TDere is the Banner Of the C0asfiflt-
fioa, published in New York. The weekly
Georgian, Savannah, 1S20-50. The Savan-
ll'tu 1tfbHtI t'HH, Itbt-lNpJ, 1 no " ffSNtH1-
ton (Gd) NeirS, 1872. The messenger, Ma
con. ihe Chronicle, Augusta, l196-lS30.
The ConStitltioHdlist, Augusta. These old
papers contain many curious things oi now
ancient and forgotten lore"
At Wathins,ille Jim Woods and VIII
Durham each had a narrow escape from
being killed a few days ago. Woods was
hauling stock to the saw mill AMI in swing
ing a log the chains broke wnilo he was
swinging in mid air on the end of the lever,
which by its sudden jork threw him several
feet his head striking the end of the log,
hurting it considerably, besides severely
spraining two of his fingers and brusing
him otherwise very baily. Durham was
engaged in the same business, but at diff
feroat place and for a different purpose
He was managing his log with hand stick
whom it got the advantage of him in some
way, causing the stick to fly round hitting
him on the head and inhicting painful
wound.
II the university at Athens is a queer Old
manuscript record of half a century ago,
1880 40. Il is hebdomadal record kept by
tue late William l.. Mitchell, the then sec
rotary of the faculty. Discipline was then
enforced by fines, and it is a rec I'd of de-
linquents and fines imposed. For absence
from prayers first time fine of ~ cents
vas imposed, second time p cents, third
time 80 ceuts Absence from church or
recitations were atoncd by similar fines
Tardy, half price. Absence from room 80
cants-if at night out in town 81. In the
record appear the names of the Cobbs,
Thoma,es, Ncsbits, Rutherfords, Crawford,
Holt, LeConte, Lumpkin, Hamilton, Phin-
Ivy, Reese. Linton, Yancey, Barlow, etc
Most of these show clear records
A colored woman on the place of Judge
Charles Harris, near Macon, gave birth to
n monstrosity Thursday. Two children
we're attached together at the breast bone,
flcing each other, a veritabe pair of
Siamese twins. From the breast up they
were two perfectly formed human beings.
Each had a h ad covered with hair, per
feet face, with eyes, nose, ears, mouth and
every part and feature OF the Countenance
Each hattwo arms and abdomen They had
three legs, two legs being perfectly natural
and the third leg seemed to be
joined at the left hip of one and
the right hip of the other. This third
was only natural from the knee down. On
the foot of this leg were eight toes in row
and ninth toe on top of the foot. The third
leg rested fiat against the body, There were
double hip joints There seems TO have
been only one heart, and the child in whose
breast ii was situated lived about one hour
The second child lived four and half
hours, and while it hreathe1 the heart in
the dead child continued to beat, and it did
not cease to beat until the child ceased to
breathe. They opened their eyes when
born and one of them cried a little DIR.
Rush Brown attended the woman in her
trouble, and after the children ceased to
live took the bodies to the city. They were
on exhibition at Goodwin & Small's drug
store, and later on at Lamar, Rankin g.
Barnes. 1t is the intention to put the
bodies in alcohol, that they may be pre-
served.