The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-27


Man Badly Hurt by Being Thrown
from Wagon.
GEORGIA.
DR.. ]. G. Culpepper of Thomasyille mas
bought the beautiful residence ana nouns Oh
DR.. Reid, one Of the most desirable places
in Thomasville.
News has been received at Cuthbert an
nouncing the death Ct Col. James L. rev
ellen at the home of his daughter, IN Eu-
faula. Ala. Col. Flewellen has been for
some time quite feeble, both in body and
mind, and his death was no surprise.
7 Troupe Whitehead, highly esteemed
and respected citizen of Warrenton, died
Saturday For some time past his family
had entertained no hope Of his recovery.
MIR. Whitehead was for many years citi-
zen of Burke county, but OF late has re-
sided with his son, Col. James Whitehead,
a prominent lawyer of Warrenton.
There is a cow in Bronwood which goes
TO the back doors of the stores each morn
ing and eats all the waste paper that is
swept out by the clerks. On Sunday morn
ing she goes to Mr. Johnson's shop, tears Off
the show bills, and eats until her hunger is
appeased to safety. She is not Jersey,
but a useful, valuable and economical
cow.
Charles Rose. of Atlanta, who was
charged with killing his wife, and who was
arrested for stealing the Richmond and
Danville railway pay train, and sentenced
TO fifteen years in the Dale coal mines, is
now in Southern California. Capt. Mercer,
of the Atlanta police force, claims that
Bose made q full confession concerning
both crimes.
Warren Law was shot and killed by a
Mr. Carroll on w. B. Watts place. about
twelve or thirteen miles north Of Cochran,
70 -,i..,,. r.
Watts as manager on his place, and this
man Law went to the pace and was dis
turbing the hands, trying to run them off
the place The killing was on Watts place,
in Twiggs county, near the line Of Pulaski
county.
Jude Maddox has decided that the pro-
hibition law, under which Polk county has
been dry since May |, 1892 was null and
void, and has been so from the beginning
Polk county people have rested confidently
in the belief that their day of struggling
and fighting with the liquor traffic was
over, and are rudely aroused from their
fancied security by this decision Of Judge
Maddox.
Monday, while driving delivery wagon
on Capt. oil place, a short street near the
new capitol at Atlanta, the seat to the
vehicle slipped, and A. NJ. Turner was
thrown out Of the vehicle. The seat went
sharp iron corner of the seat with such
force as to break the cheekbone and drive
it in upon the eYeball. Physicians stated
that they think the eyeball will have to be
taken out.
At Atlanta Messrs. Watson and James
have secured all the stock of the Chautau-
qua and offer to settle all its debts at so
cents on the dollar. All the creditors, it is
believed, are willing to accept, except the
Lumbar yyhOSa claim il
for $3.50. This will probably put an end
to the Chautauqua. Judge Clarke will hear
the bill fled by Ellis & Gray next week,
and a consent order will be taken and the
property sold.
At Cumming court adjourned Friday
with a pretty clean docket. The new judge
and solicitor dispatch business very fast.
The grand jury found twenty-seven true
bills. The judge fined all the road COM
missoners SIS each for not working the
roads according to law. The grand jury
recommended the office of county commits
sioner to be abolished, and requested the
senator and representative to do all in their
power toward having this done.
Some time ago Wash Brooks of Ogle-
thorpe county placed poison in several
secluded places about his dwelling in order
TO exterming the rat tribe that was giving
him no little trouble. Saturday last his
lutte 2-year-old boy accidentally found one
of the biscuits upon which the poison had
been placed, and was munching away upon
it when discovered by Mr. Brooks. They
were alarmed at first, but fortunately he
had not eaten enough of it to affect him.
Saturday evening there came very near
being serious accident at Wilcox's siding,
one and a half miles from Lumber CITY.
G. f. Stilson, former engineer of the
Amoskeag Lumber Company, owns and
runs small saw mill there and from the
main line of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad he has a switch that
runs 10 his mill, from which he does all of
his loading. A freight train Jumped the
switch and left the main line, running right
INTO the mill before the engineer could stop
it. great deal of damage was done to
the machinery of the mill, but no lives lost
or parties injured.
An anonymous letter has been written
from Chipley to the head of the pension
bureau at Atlanta to the effect that the
doctors and county officers and confederate
soldiers have entered into a combination TO
defraud the government. TIE suspicion of
the authorship of the letter rests on young
physician who was neglected in the examina-
tion of the wounds aud has done this for re-
venge. A large number of recent appli-
cants from Harris county has been returned
and an investigation is being made. DIR. j.
o. Hunt has gore to Atlanta to look up the
letter and identify. if possible the hand
writing. The most prominent citizens of
Hamilton are highly indignant, and feel
like riding the slsnderer on a rail-
Dawson Journal: Old Willis Ingram was
over to see US one day last week. Mr.. In
gram is one of our oldest inhabitants hay-
ing moved to this section in 1882, and has
lived around in short distance OF where he
now resides for the past ffty-seven years.
He came from Bib county here and says
he has been where Macon now stands before
there was any town there. He says his
father helped to build Fort Hawkins at
Macon and was qusrtermaster under Gen.
Jackson. He tod us the settlements here
were few and far between at the time he
moved here. They hauled their cotton t.
Macon on wagons, and went to mill at Fort
Gaines. Mr.. Ingram says he was in
the Indian war OF 1886 and thinks he is
entitled to pension. He is about 50 years
old now, and to us the talk Of the olden
times was very pleasant.
r. A. Morgan was in Brentwood Friday,
and said that on Thursday he missed two
yearlings which had been turned into a
Held on Mossey creek swamp. One of the
heifers was Jersey, highly prized by Mr.
Morgan, and he at once went in search of
them. In the edge Of the swamp he found
one Of them dead, and a portion of the
hind quarters gone, the bones crushed. as il
torn asunder by some huge wild anirnal.
The Other he found near by with