The morning news., 1889-03-15

10 the Georgia Weekly Press Association,
VII, n that association visited Gainesville,
ave are all democrats, now Capt. II. W.
Newman Of Canton, who was there as
guest of the association, writes that this
statement is likely TO do Mrs Longstreet
great injustice. Capt Newman incloses in
his letter a copy OF the proceedings OF that
meeting of the association in which the
following paragraph. the only one relating
to the occurrence, appears: Mrs. Long
street, in whose eyes tears had gathered as
she listened to the eloquent words of the gal
liant orator, grasped him firmly by the
hand and said fervently: l am so glad to
inset my people. My only regret is that
my husband Is not here to hear your words.
know how they would touch his heart. ,"
The people Of Dawson, and especially the
negroes, were considerab bly, wrought up
Tuesday over the probably fatal and very
mysterious assault on Reese Plowden
(colored). He was seen at a late hour Mon
day night in company with Mac Hender-
son, both drinking, and presumably out on
ga milling lark, as Reese had just been
paid off and was in the habit
of passing his evenings in that
way. He was discovered early Tuesday
morning near Mercer's warehouse, insensi-
BILE and terribly beaten and cut. His money
was gone and his pockets turned, showing
that whoever did tine work had an eye to
condition Wednesday, and either cannot or
would not tell who assaulted him. The ne
groes think it is the work Of Jack the Rip
per, and are badly frightened. Mac
Henderson and negro woman by the name
Of Fannie Clay have been arrested and
jailed on suspicion.
DR.. Osborne, a medicine man of the
Yellowstone Kit stripe. has had a checkered
career in Augusta for two days past. He
m "A in narr
four horses and negro in rich Oriental
costume, who attracted a crowd about the
carriage by playing guitar and harmonica
at the same time The crowd was increased
and made very noisy and demonstrative by
| DR.. Osborne's throwing out handfuls of
| silver coin for them to scramble for. This
| promptly resulted in the doctors arrest for
disturbing the peace. He was fined $25 and
costs by Recorder Dunbar Wednesday.
| Wednesday he had come down from a four
finland to a one-horse gurney, and after
using the vehicle for several hours, DISPUTED
with the driver about the pay. Henry
| North, who is interested in the management
Of the cab line; told the driver not to let
| him go until be had paid The doctor then
made some offensive speech to Mr.. North,
and the latter knocked him down.
Washington Chronicle: Some interesting
facts can be CLEANED from the old records Of
the town and county. The ordinary is
very obligiug in these matters, and when he
comes across a record that he thinks would
| be Of interest, he imme lately hands it over
! to us to transcribe such parts as we think
| proper. We have before us the census of
| the town about the year 1880. 1t gives
the heads of the families, the num-
Der in the family and the num-
Der of slaves. AT that time the popula-
ton of Washington consisted of 1,117
people-5os whites and 600 blacks. We
have barely doubled fifty years later, in
| 1880, but at the present rate of increase,
| we can show a much better record in tie
| next twenty years than we have IN the last
fifty. OF the heads of the families living
in Washington in 1890, Mrs. Caroline E.
Wiley and James Wingie'd had the largest
| families, each being composed OF twelve
members. NJ. Adam Alexander had the
greatest number of slaves in town, having
| thirty-nlne negroes.
Sandersville Mercury: The grand jury
indicted Joseph Cook for the murder of
Prosser on Oct. II last. There was no eve
witness to the encounter, and Mr.. Cooks
statement was about as follows: There were
some hard feelings between the two men.
Cook was in his wagon and met ProsSer,
who bantered him for fight. Upon Cook
telling him that he did not want to fight,
| Prosser advanced uDon him with a
knife and said: "Well, - you,
do" Prosser then struck at him with
the knife, whereupon he showed
him off and shot him twice. ProsSer came
back and they chnched When Cook
turned him loose he fell on his back and
said. ''I will never bother YOU again" After
making his statement he turned to the jury,
showing them the scar below thu left ia v
bone. The wound was attended to by DR..
Allen, VINO says it penetrated one inch deep.
He also says he didn't know he was cut
until after he had left Prosser. After re-
naming in the room about two hours the
jury returned We dict of acquittal.