The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-05


Maybrick a Grand Daughter of a
Distinguished Citizen of Warren
County-A Building Boom ct Fiber
ton.
GEORGIA.
The serious illness of Hon. Ebert Feagan
of Fort. Valley is giving his friends much
concern. He had a relapse Thursday, and
Is very sick man. Mr.. Feagan has long
been one of the most prominent men Of
that section.
Tom Fever, freedman upon the planta-
ton of DIR. Pinkston, near Jones mill,
Meriwether county, tied his cow out to
Craze last Sunday morning, and when he
went in the afternoon found that she had
become entangled in the rope and broken
her neck.
The ore raisers and shippers of the Polk
county section held a meeting Saturday at
sPhilpot's hall to take measures for the ad-
vancement of their common interests.
Representatives from nearly all the leading
mining companies of the section were in
attendance.
Ellen, 13-year-old daughter Of ]. D.
Massey, farmer living in Hart county,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. She was returning from the cotton
patch and had hoe on her shoulder. Her
body was not disfgured. the skin no. even
being broken.
Ed Hack of Glasscock county has re-
Gently become partially paralyzed on one
side Mr.. Hack was shot in Augusta about
ten or fifteen years ago by Mr. DAntig-
nae. The ball has never been taken from
his body, which, the doctors say, caused the
stroke of paralysis.
The Gate City Oil Company, through
their representative in Madison, R. III
Campbell, purchased few days since a lot
opposite Carbine's mill, on the Georgia
railroad, 100000 feet, paying $500, on
which they intend erecting large brick
building, to cost 81, 900 or $1,000 and to be
begun in thirty days.
G. b. Cochran of near Flint, says he
started to neighbours one day last week,
and while on his way he discovered q small
sized whirlwind a short distance in his
plantation. He stopped and watched its
course for some considerable length of time
and when it struck a line of rail fencing,
the rails went flying high up in the air like
straws. Several panels of fence were torn
down.
Considerable excitement was caused at
Fairburn about 10 o'clock Saturday night
by an alarm Of fire, which proceeded from
the county jail. A negro prisoner named
JEFF johnson, who is in for assault with iu-
tent to murder his wife, had set fire to the
bedding in his cell, and but for the prompt
action and heroic efforts of Sheriff j. l..
Camp and James Sans, himself and two
other negroes would probably have been
roasted alive.
Col William H. Bromberry of Mitchell
county is dead. He was born March Is,
1914. in Greenville, S. c., and was the last
survivor of the family of ten children,
being rs years old last March. His father,
co J. De-
in the ship Marshal Ney as O cabin boy
when the French feet came to assist the
American colonies in the revolutionary
war. He drifted to Philadelphia, where be
married, and then came south and settled
at Greenville, S. c., and carried on the
business of a carriage builder. On the death
of the father in 1882 the son came to Monroe
Walton county, Georgia, then just settling,
and bought home and was one of the first
settlers. In 1857 he removed to his planta
tion in Green county, near Penfield, where
he has since resided.
The following letter has been received by
the postmaster of Calhoun from DR.. II. L.
Flake of Louisville, KY: while attend
ing the decoration to-day of the confederat,
graves in Cave Hill cemetery, l founc
among the number of confederate soldier,
buried there one Elizabeth TENNIS, who
masked herself and fought under the con
federate flag, and died here Oct /, 1867
and the inscription on the stone was that
she was born in Calhoun, Ga, died at the
age of % years, and her last words were
Bury me with my people These few lines
may be relief to some of her dear relatives
il you will be so kind as to make inquiry
or have same published in some of your
Georgia papers. And if any further par.
ticulars are required, write me, and will
give them with pleasure"
good deal of building and repairing
will be done at ElDerton this summer.
James Webb. George McLanahan and Jep
Campbell have formed a copartnership.
and will this summer erect one of the
largest ginning establishments in Eastern
Georgia. They have secured the lot back
OF I. d. Thornton's, have made arrange
ments for their outfit, and will have the gin
ready for this years cotton crop. The
walls Of the new brick academy are going
up, and it is proposed to have it ready for
occupancy by next session. Gardner. Arnold
q Co. say their two-story brick store will be
ready by Aug, l, when the stores they are
now in will be immediately torn down and
appropriate buildings erected. James
Mcintosh viii begin the erection of a mod
ern brick stable where his stable now
stands The old wooden buildings which
he purchased from S. S. Prewer several
months ago will be demolished, and in their
stead erected a two-story brick structure.
The new $4,000 Methodist church will be
completed and services held within it in
less than six weeks.
Warrenton Clipper: Even our Oldest
citizens win doubtless be surprised to know
k4at Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the niece of
Jefferson Davis, who is now on trial in
London on the charge of poisoning her
husband, is the granddaughter of Daniel
Chandler, native of Warren county and
one of the most distinguished men that the
county ever produced. He graduated at
the State University in 1926, and began the
practice of law in Warrenton, and made q
reputation for himself while representing
Warren county in the legislature. In
1885 he delivered the address at Athens
which caused the founding of Wesleyan.
the first female college in the world to
grant a diploma to graduates. Daniel
Chandler married the sister of John A.
Campbell. justice of the United States
supreme court and afterward member of
Jefferson Davis cabinet. In 1886 he re-
moved to Mobile, Ala, where he began the
practice of law with his brother-in-law
John Campbell The firm soon secured a
large practice and both members became
very wealthy. Though one Of the foremost
men of his day, there are few, even in his
native county, who remember Daniel Chan
der now.
A correspondent of the Gainesville Ad-
terttser relates the following incident con-
nected with the early history Of Habersham