The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02

wounds viii prove fatal
DIR. Selkirk, of Aurora, H., writes the
manager of the Tallapoosa Land Company,
under date of March PSI, that he has the
Sanitarium business practically settled, and
| can say with almost absolute certainty that
1t will he quilt, aud that operations will be
! gin within the next six weeks. About April
| 10 he will arrive, with other parties inter
ested, to close up the details and proceed
with the work of building This is TO be
| handsome building, costing from $4,000 to
$50 900, according to the plans adopted.
John Altman son of A. A. Altman and
who was living near Trion, on d. f. All
| goods place, was shot on Thursday OF last
week under singular circumstances. He
was showing his father, who had called in,
| a self-acting revolver, which he wished to
sell. His father took it in his hands, ignor-
| ant Of its dangerous nature. As he touched
| the trigger it did its work and fired, the ball
! striking his son Just in front of the ear.
The jaw-bone was shattered and the tenn
poral artery cut He had bled about gal
lon before DR.. Rudicil reached him and
| stayed the hemOrrhage. He was uncon-
scious until next day but is now improving
and bids fair to recover.
Rev. T. C. Tucker, of Lafayette, was
among those who witnessned the destruc-
ton of the big bridge at IIion last Monday.
The bridge had stood about fifteen years.
A heavy mass of slabs from the saw mill
above was carried down the stream. The
water was within about eighteen
inches of the bridge when the raft
struck it: The mass reached about four
feet up on the bridge. 1t struck it
IN the center and crushed it like an egg
shell, and turned the fragments loose on the
raging waters. In addition to the loss of
the bridge, the partly framed railroad
bridge at Triou was swept away. The con
tractor puts his loss at 40, 900 feet of lumber.
During the severe drouth in 1886, f.
Flemister, who lived a mile and half north
of Tunnel Hill, had stubble field on which
was fine growth of young clover. The
stubble caught fire from a spark left by
passing train, and the fire swept over the
field. TO all appearances the clover was de-
Stroyed, root and branch. Suit was brought
at once against the railroad and damages
recovered. But as time passed on Mr.. Elem
lister was astonshed to find that the clover
inst cad of being killed was all the more
vigorous from having been swept by fire.
As soon as Mr.. Flemister discovered that
he had not been damaged, the money was
promptly returned to the railroad company.
AT the last battle of Coal Harbor the
Confederates were in the trenches for a
week. They fought in the day and built
works at night A private in Cabells
Battalion of Artillery, who had been on
the sick list, had drawn great prize,
sixty days furlough Before leaving he
came into the trenches TO tell his friends
goodbye. intoxicated with the thought of
soon being with his loved ones 10 said he
would take last look at the Yankees and
rose up and looked over the breastworks.
1t was fatal act. A ball from the rife of
a sharp shooter pierced his brain, and the
brave young heart was stlled in death. 1t
was one of wars sad tragedies Rev. j. j.
Galloway, of Lafayette, stool near him
as he fell.
Athens Bonner Waterman. The Early
Birds" theatrical troupe that gave a rather
loose performance in this city Thursday
night disguised tho passengers on the up
train this evening by the manner IN which
some of the female members of the compa
ny kissed, fOndied and caressed a little black
negro that accompanied them. The women,
whenever the train stopped at n station,
would take this little moke into their arms
rub their faces against his, and treat him as
lovingly and affectionately as if he were
white cherub. Our people can endure such
performances as were given by the early
Birds" but they will draw a line on such
disgusting social equality-scenes as were
enacted on the train. The passengers were
completely nauseated.
When the measure TO return to the States
the amounts collected under the direct tax
act of 1861 comes before the House of
Representatives, at Washington for con
sideratior, it having already passed
the Senate, it is the intention of
Hon. John D. Stewart to support an
amendment, which will be offered thereto,
directing that the money collected as tax
on cotton shall be returned to the States
whose citizens paid it, In this proposition
Georgia has larger pecuniary interest than
any other State, rs her people paid as a tax
on cotton, the sum of $ll, 1891 ,094 9S. Ala
bama comes next with SIC, 1885, 072 10. Mr..
Stewart says that the coustitutionallty of
the laws imposing this tax has never been
decided by the Supreme Court of the United
States, and hence remains an open question:
but one which, to his mind and in the light
of common sense, needs but to be stated in
order to be seen.
May 4, 1864 in one of the fights which
followed Grants crossing the Rapidan,
Pegram's brigade was driven back, and the
Confederate line broken, the brigade to
which the Sixtieth Georgia belonged was
called on TO re-establish it; the impetuosity
of their charge carried them right III the
midst of the enemy: it was the work of tbut
moment to disarm them and start them
to the rear. Col. w. b. Jones, of the Six
tieth Georgia, who was short of limb and
had some weight to carry, did not make
quite as good time as some of the boys.
just as he was pushing in, a dlSarmed Yam
kee picked up gun, which had been thrown
down, and fired at him at close range, the
shot took effect but did not prove fatal, for
the ball striking rib was detected. 1t came
out on the opposite side of the body fourteen
inches from where it entered, but the shot
proved fatal to the Yankee, and it was his
last act of treachery, for Andy McKenny,
now of Walker county, furloughed him on
the stop.
The measure under consideration by the
| United States Seuate's Judiciary Committee
| TO provide fixed Salaries for the officials of
the United States Courts, instead.ss cot fees
! and commissions, as at present and which
is urged by. Senator Morgou, makes the
| following provision for Georgia: District
! Attorney for the Northern district, 81 600:
! Southern district, 50, 800 district attorneys
| in the two Alabama districts, a 900.
| United States Marshal in Georgia.
$4,000; in Alabama, $500. This
schedule represents reduction of
emo! uments in the northern Georgia dis
! trict, and an increase in the southern, as
can be seen from the following statement of
the earnings for the last year: The gross
| emoluments OF the district attorney for the
| northern district amounted to IS, Cos out of
which there were paid, as Office expenses,
81, 100 %; leaving aS net emouments So,
! 454 TO- In the southern district the district
attorney received $500 81. The Marshal