The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-29

sparks. and extinguished them as fast as
they fell The houses consumed were the
property of Wiley Hood, and little insur-
ance was carried upon them. His loss viii
be 500. Mr.. Weatherly's loss will be about
| 81 900. On his stock he carried an insur-
ance Of $3.50.
The meeting Of the committee on build
ing Of the Confederate Veterans ASCOT
alton, which was called by Judge W. L.
| Calhoun, chairman Of the committee, was
attended at Atlanta, Saturday, by Judge
Calhoun. Messrs. Kiser. Inman and Bruce,
and Dr. Fox. The absent members were
Mr.. Wright Capt. Howell and Gen. Cook.
The meeting was held TO open the bids made
bv contractors to erect the hon Five
bids were opened, and the amounts we're so
nearly alike that the committee decided not
! to consider them until this morning The
postponement was made in order that the
committee might obtain certain information
| which will be useful TO them in awarding
the contract.
| Waycross Reporter: Thursday night
several drummers were sitting around the
| fire at the Grand Central hotel cracking
| jokes and telling funny stories, and four
other gentlemen were INDUCING in quiet
game OF whist at the center table. Sud
denly the main entrance door swung open
and voice, in o nin0us tones. rang through
the room d hallway: PUT thy house in
order, for thou shalt surely die" The door
shut to with bang, and the speaker disap-
peared as sudde ly as no had appeared. He
was the Rev Miller Willis, the man who
made himself SO conspicu Gus here during
the holiness meetings by his timely, curt
and often funny sayings. He was leaning
upon his same long staff that he always
carries.
Waycross Reporter. The Sunday trains
must go, says the Rev. Richard c. Bran
lett, an itinerant minister OF the Methodist
Episcopal church, north, who has been in
Waycross for the past six months, fruit
lessly endeavoring to organize church of
his denomination. A couple of Sundays
ago Mr.. Bramlett appeared on the platform
OF the union depot, just as the morning
trains were rolling in from Brunswick,
Savannah and Jacksonville, and began to
exhort upon the evils of Sunday trains He
advised the employees of the railway and
express companies to go on a strike, rather
than work on the Sabbath. He succeeded
IN gathering quite crowd of curious lis
teners about him, but did not accomplish
any results In the line of his argument.
Miss Joe Nathens, who is connected with
Kaiser Bros store at Brunswick, received
telegram Saturday announcing the death
OF her sister. Mrs Kenan of Atlanta. Miss
Nathans opened The envelope and began to
read. As she proceeded a deathly pallor
came over her face, she began to
weaken, and was soon falling to the
floor in a faint, overcome by the
terrible and unexpected news which
the message conveyed. Those who were
near by saw her as she began to fall. aud
rushed to her, catching her efore she came
in contact with the floor Cold water and
other remedies were applied, but to no avail,
SO carriage was called and the unconscious
young lady was carried TO her boarding
house, where abe is now resting easy. Miss
Nathans had heard of her sisters illness.
but did not consider it anything serious,
and the sudden shock was too much for
her.
Saturday, the engine bringing King g.
Franklin's circus to Columbus was wrecked
three miles from Union Springs The
trackmen had taken up about 800 feet Of
stringers and were replacing them with
crossties, and had not put their signal flag
far enough back to enable the engineer to
stop before reaching the end of the rails
The engine went through bridge into q
gully about twelve feet deep. The fireman
and conductor jumped and escaped injury
The engineer, Ii. Curran, stuck to his engine.
DE received several bruises, and is thought
TO be internally injured. He had q very
narrow escape from being crushed to death,
and his engine fell into the gully and turned
partly over, the tender, fortunately for him.
falling alongside instead of Oh top the
engine. The front trucks of one Of the
circus cars was off the track beyond this
no damage was sustained by the circus peo-
pie or their property.
John Hughes came to Habersham county
about twenty years ago. Soon after, he
married Melvina Stewart, the widow of
Lacy Stewart, who was morally wounded
on the battlefield of Charlottesville, and soon
afterward died. Hughes got into a diff
Guilty in Rabun county, and warrant was
issued for his arrest, for which he skipped
the country. He was then lost sight of I'M
til December 25, 1886, when Jacobs shot
him in South Carolina, and on the 2Sth he
died. Thirteen years prior to the killing,
ne married South Carolina woman, and
lived with her till his death The South
Carolina widow sued Jacobs for damage,
and recovered $3.50 as administrator of the
estate of John Hughes. The Georgia widow
now came and filed her claim, and the case
was tried Def IRE probate judge. The Geor-
g1a widows counsel was q. l.. Galloway;
the South Carolina widows counsel was B.
M. Shewman. The Georgia widow makes
proof of the death of her first husband. and
legal marriage to Hughes. The South
Carolina woman was acting in good faith,
but it was a misfortune that she was living
with aDother woman's husband.
The East Rome town case, in many
respects the most famous in the legal
annals of Floyd county, has just been
settled. These are the terms of settlement:
The company retains 65 per cent of tue uu-
sold lands for the life interest, and the
Hamiltons get 35 per cent of the unsold
lands for the remainder interest Deeds
| are 20 be made and decree taken SO as TO
| vest the remainder interest in the 65 per
cent. of these lands in the company. and so
as to vest the life interest in the IS per cent.
| thereof In the Hamiltons The unsold lands
| amount to about 1876 acres, so the East Rome
company gets eighty eight acres and the
Hamiltons forty seven acres on this basis,
on an average. The capital stock of the
company, which is $50, 1000, remains the
same, AID is now backed by lightweight
acres Of average land. The stock is not
TO be divided, but forty seven avera ze
acres of IS per cent. in value is to be cut
off the track for the Hamiltons by fair
and equitable mode of partition agreed on
| by the parties. All controversies of every
kind that exist or might hereafter arise De-
tween the parties are finally ended, and
both parties are to make deeds to carry
the settlement into execution.
| An Apphng corresp Jndent writes as fol-
lows: REV. Daniel Marshall, the father 4
Georgia Baptists, was laid to rest in this
little village only few rods from where he
stood beneath the waving branches of an
oak tree and proclaimed the doctrine in TIA
He had preach ID all the way up the Savau-