The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-06

reared in jackson county. and served in the
war, at the slose of which he settlsd in
/ Florida He ID long since learned that
| his mother was dead, and she, who has
/ married again, and is now Mrs Nancy
| Smith. had long ago given up her son John
rs numbered with the dead. Sometime
slnce he met D.. Harris Of jackson county,
who informed him his mother was Ill
/ living and he set cut to see her. Mrs.
| Nancy Smith, Mr. Nichols mother, lives
five miles east of Jefferson, near Bataany
| church. The meeting of mother and son,
after both were for years given up for dead,
must have been joyful one.
Washington Chronicle: The negroes in
Lincoln county are at last waking up to
! their foolish right. They have been road
ing up on on socialism and communism, and
| after considering the var GUS systems or the
theorists Of England, France and Germany,
| they have concluded 10 stick u the Ameri-
can idea Of forty acres and a mule. They
have their weekly meetings, and the bust
ness Of dividing up and setting apart on
paper the property Of the white people
of Lincoln goes o. apaca. OF
course there is an occasional hitch
in the proceedings, and when
they came to divide up Newt Steven
sons rich Savannah river plantations, and
the Florence creek bottoms Of Huston
Glaze, the debate on these important details
waxed very warm. Very naturally there
were a great many claimants for the best
and most improved lands and fine young
mules. They have maps of the county
showing accurately the topography of the
country and the location Of the buildings,
and they have also a complete list Of tho
mules, their ages, colOrs and so forth. No
negroes whom we have heard of have ad
vanced so far as the negroes Of Lincoln.
Dr.. Amos Fox of Atlanta tells the fol-
lowing: Talking about deserters, let me
tell you little story about one that knew
OF during the war. He belonged 70 the
First Georgia regulars, and was good
soldier-had been IN lots of fights and
always bore himself like q man. Well, he
got tired Of his company, and one day he
left it and went into another. That don't
look much like desertion, does itl But it
was, and when the captain of this fellows
company discovered him in the Forty
second Georgia regiment, he reported the
fact to headquarters He was ordered
arrested and brought before a court martial,
and after trial was sentenced to be shot at
tue same time with two other deserters.
The fellows captain felt badly over the
turn affairs had taken, and sent a lot of
papers to the secretary of war
asking for clemency The secretary re-
piled in one Of the strongest letters
ever read. He said it was absolutely nee
essary to maintain discipline in the army,
and refused to interfere with the sentence.
He also reprimanded tie captain for at
tempting to interfere in such a case Well,
it 50 happened that the day set for the exc
cution was the day upon which this same
captain was on guard duty, and on his COM
mand devolved the duty of carrying out the
sentence. He tried to get out of it, but
couldn't and when the hour arrived the
troops were all drawn up in a hollow square
around the condemned men. They were all
sitting on their collins awaiting the mo-
ment when they were to be launched into
eternity. The moment had almost arrived,
when a messenger dashed up with an order
from President DAVIS setting the condemned
deserter at liberty