The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07


| things topsy turvy just on the track.
jackson Argus: The once noted Indian
4 chief Mc[uto-h, who was the promi cent
figure in the last treaty with the Greek In
dams n. Indian Spr ng in 1925, was buried
! on his farm in Carroll county near the spot
where he was murdered by his own people.
His grave is without even e headstone to
tell the passers-by who sleeps beneath the
brilrs and bushes that are now growing
| over the illus,rious dead. We think that
| when the Indian Spring reserve is sold, the
state should appropriate enough TO at least
mark his grave with something to perpetu-
ate his memory.
! On Tuesday little son Of John Miner,
who lives near Concord, in Pike county,
was returning home from Griffin, where he
had sold some cotton. A negro man, War
rea Mitchell, got in the WAGON to ride with
! him. and proposed to swap pccketbooks
! The little boy foolishly took out his pocket
hook and showed it 10 the negro. The negro
| man snat he'd the pOcketbo0k from the boy,
! jumoed out of the wagon and ran. ne
was captured near Williamson and tried
| Wednesday before Judge Beeks, when he
was found guilty and sentenced TO twelve
months on the chain-gang.
J. w. Davis of Rome took trip to At
! lanta to see James Whit comb Riley Mr.
| Davis said to a reporter; ~ knew jim RILEY
| years ago in Anderson, Ind, whe 4 he wasn't
near so famous as he is now. Then he was
| a sign writer but queer sort of fellow to
depend on. jim never marked out his let
ters, but put them on by his eye, and the
| prettiest you ever saw. But he was quite
bibul1us in those days, and would often
| leave q job half finished to 60 off o
weeks tear. He's quit that, though, now,
| and is as sober as a parsOn: doesn't touch
drop Yes, ] must see Jim Riley one more"
Talbotton NelC Era: l. may not b. gen
| oil hot Of fHal~nttApfs hast
| white citizens was at one time q slave. 1t
| il true. however, and the gentleman to
| whom we refer was not only a slave, but
was actually sold by one man to another.
| Capt. Barnard Curley, when a boy, was
apprenticed to a tailor for seven years.
When three years of the time had expired
| his master was elected to office, and having
no further need for Capt. Curley he sold
the remaining four years of the captains
| time to another tailor. The captain talks
| very freely about the time when he was
slave.
DR.. J. L. O'Neal, of Talbotton, relates
that not long since he heard a colored
divine preach from the text; "Be We as
| wise as serpents and as harmless as doves"
The doctor, thinking the text rather dseo
one, watched with interest the manner in
which the colored brother propounded it.
The exordium IS an index to the sermon.
well, hredderin, in order that we may all
know what we are talkin' about, | Will jes
drap de word s9rDint and say snakes. You
has all seen q snake when he didn't want 10
hear nothing He jes puts one ear right
down on de ground and sticks he tail in de
odier,"
Robert Mckinney, a well-to-do farmer
living about two miles northwest of Kings
ton, was instantly killed Wednesday after
noon bv the south bound Western and A.
lantic passenger train. From what could
be learned Mr.. Mckinney was lying down
on the railroad track, about two miles
above Kin gston, with his head toward the
approaching train. The engineer saw the
man lying upon the track, bat not until it
was to late to stop. The point of the en-
CINE hit the mans skull, crushing it badly
and knocking him off of the track lifeless.
AS soon as he could, the engineer stopped
the train, aud the remains were picked up
and carried to Kingston, where they were
turned over to the railroad agent He leaves
a large family.
On Tuesday evening DR.. J. C. Malone,
a dentist, who arrived at Cord IN about
three months ago, Ginning to be from Ala
bama. went to the house of s. j. Denuard,
and Mr.. Dennard being away a. the time.
he in some way iusulted Mrs. Denpard
about her pistol that she kept in the house
for protection, and as soon as Mr.. Dennard
met him they had few words, and there
was pr badly one or two blows passed
whereupon DIR. Malone drew his pistol and
snapped at Dennard five times Meanwhile
Mr.. Deniard was doing his best to shoot,
but mis- pistol would not revolye. If either
OF the pistols had fired there would have
been certain death. Both men displayed
considerable game Malone was under the
influence of whisky.
John Mathews, a 15-year-old negro, and
Deck Gunnels, an 1S-year-old white bov,
living on the place of DR.. Hart, near Friend
ship, got into dispute in the absence OF the
proprietor, Friday night, about who was
boss at that time. Gunnels had
BEEN left in charge of tho place
and ordered Mathews to do some
chores about the premises, whel the latter
pompously ordered the other to perform the
duty. One word brought on another until
Glnnels said be would thrash Mathews He
picked up board and told Gunnels that he
would be there and that Gun Gels himself
would receive the thrashing. Gunnels got
a whiffletree and they went at it. He killed
the negro by a well directed blow on the
snauk and lit out A coroner'S Inquest
stated that he was killed by Dick Gunrels.
Young Gunnels is now out of sight and the
negro is under the ground.
L. II. French, proprietor of Howes New
| London Circus, seems to be regular John
| l.. Sullivan. a disturbance occurred among
some of the employees of the circus near the
| bbDl III ~u4Iihslu AciOU, az tOiuinDuo, pdOE-
day night Mr.. French took part in the
| fray and came out with flying colors. Sew
eral OF the circus men felt the force of his
| blows. The one who seemed most aggricved
| printed his name with q rubber stamp on a
reporters note book thus: ''Peter Rogers
| Boss Canvasser." This was abont all thag
could be obt lined from the ''boss cau-
| vasser.n He declined to enter into the par
ticulars Of the difficulty, but wrote down
| the reporters name on his note book for
future reference. Later in the afternoon
1t was understood that the matter would be
! settled without The aid of the law, although
| il was stated that one OF the parties that
suffered from Mr.. French's blows had been
before the grand jury.
jackson Argus: One day last week Judge
Carmichael was walking over his farm,
near Towaliga, aud while going through a
| pine thicket, he came upon a plat Of
| ground from which every tree had been
| pulled up by the roots The trees ranged
from small bushes to trees 6 inches in
diameter and 80 feet high, and were thirty
in number The Judge and his companion,
| Mr. Adams, were very mucl astonished, as
| there had been no storm or other causes TO
uproot the trees, and only the tracks OF two
mon visible. The trees, to all appearance,
had been actually pulled from tue ground
by the hands of those two men, as one tree
showed that they had failed to tear it from