The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

soon had him sufficiently revived to be able
TO ride 70 the hotel He left on the O'Clock
train that night for his home.
A singular accident happened to Henry
Epps OF Sparta. on Monday, while on the
point Of threshing John Lewis oats. One
Of the hands connected with the separator
took pistol out Of his pocket and laid il on
| a shelf near by. Epps thinking il looked
ike pistol that was lost at the burning OF
! Rollers mill, picked 1t up and began to ex-
/ anime il. He cooked it and was letting
| down the hammer-the muZzle pointed To-
ward the ground-When the weapon went
I off, Feeling q sudden pain in the region of
| one OF his eyes, he supposed that a part of
the cap from the pistol had entered it.
! Growing painful, he went to DR.. Burt, who
examined the wound, and cut out piece Of
the pistol bullet from under the eyer,
rather, from the under part Of the eye, IN
which it was imbedded.
It seems that Wilkes comfy must furnish
a witness for bhs famous trial now going on
at Perry. On Thursday J. D. Clarke, a
special deputy Of Houston comfy, reached
w Washington in search Of a negro woman
named Scilla Darden. whom he found and
summoned as a witness for the defense.
They left for Perry Friday. The woman
knows Jack DuBOse, who, it is said, con-
v.
She heard him say certain things which
will be introduced in order to show cause
for continuance. JACK DuBose halls from
Wilkes county, and confesses to having
committed every crime he hears Of. He
deals particularly in murders, and they
heard Of him away down in Macon. Jack
now out of the way.
w. A. Camp, through his attorneys,
Cox & Reid and Broyles s. Broyles, fled q
creditors bill in the superior court at
Atlanta Friday against the Farmers I'm
provement and Savings Association for
$4,000. Mr.. Camp entered into an agree
melt, so the bill states, with w. r. Ham
mond, A. ID. Adair and w. A Hemphill
| the committee acting for the association tC
| secure the purchase of 20, 900 shares Of stock
in the association. He was to receive q
| cents on each share, and besides this was &c
| be paid s., 900 if he had raised 10000 shares
by Jan. l, 1890, and s., 900 more If he had
| raised 10, 900 shares more by July /, 1890
| In TIE meantime, while he has been en-
gagged in getting farmers throughout the
| south TO subscribe for shares, the association
assigned, leaving him no security for the
money he had already made. He therefore
sues for $4,000 commissions and money
owed him by the association.
Thursday w. T. Davidson of Augusta re-
ceived a letter from his wife, who left q
short time ago to spend the summer at her
old home IN Pennsylvania. Last Saturday,
while the floods were at their worst in that
state, Mrs Davidson, with her little boy,
was passenger on train of the Phlladel
| phia and Erie railroad, and at o point not
| more than fifty miles from Johnstown and
ia the same range of mountains. The train
| was brought TO a standstill by the sudden
| rise of small river which
skirted the track. All along the
engineer was very careful, and his
train moved slowly, occasionally encounter
| ing Instructions of logs which mad floated
on to the track, but which were readily
| removed. At ono point as the train was
| delayed, the conductor called out for his
passengers to get out and go up the hillside
to a safe place on the wagon road. There
| was great commotion and much alarm
among the passengers. The water was rising
| over the track very rapidly and the con
| ductor was afraid to move his train Most,
| II not all the passengers, over 100, got out
and ran up to the dirt road. Mrs. Davidson,
| having her baby and encountered with bag
| gage, did not go, and con-
cluded to wait until the last moment.
The water by this time had risen
| to the car steps and was getting higher
each minute. Just as she had arranged
| everything to get out with her baby and
| what hand baggage she could carry, tue
water began suddenly to fall and in a few
minutes was clear of the track A dam be-
low had broken and let the great raging
mass pass off. The train was DELAYED six.
teen hours between points. They could get
| no information from front or rear on ac-
| count of the telegraph wires being down
| and, as above stated, the greater portion oil
the track being under water, the train pro,
ceeded like snail until at II o'clock that
night they reached station but the land
lord had gone to bed, thinking the train
would not arrive that night.