The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-05

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80 years old, he is the father Of fourteen
children, thirteen Of whom are living.
Hereafter the clerk OF the board OF COM
missioners Of Fulton county VIII receive
salary of $500 a year. Since Aprll last
the salary has been 81, 500. The 500 In
crease was made Wednesday at the meeting
of the commissioners Hon. John 1.
| Cooper, who has filed the Office for tie past
twenty-one years, was the unanimous choice
Of the board.
Mrs. Lizzie Brown Of Barnwell, s. c.,
passed through Augusta Thursday for At
lanta, where she will seek refuge in hos
pitaL She has been helpless for i've years
with rheumatism. spending day and night
| in a chair. She is under the impression
that she is going there to visit = wealthy
/ cousin, who does not know Of her coming,
aud whom she intends TO surprise. She IS
60 years old.
At Louisville a well-digger. named Bill
| Small, while digging a well for William
! Little, came to quicksand about sixty feet
| from the top. The whole curbing Of the
well uroke in, and covered him up, and
Mashed him to death. This all happened
last Friday afternoon. Men fastened q
rope around his neck, and pulled his head
| of. Tney finally got him out Wednesday
morning, very much decomposed-
At Swainsboro in August last joe Lewis
had his road cart stolen, and Judge q. :.
| Rcuntree bad new set Of buggy harness
stolen at the same time. On last Saturday
night A. A. Moon lost good saddle. be
suspected a young man of stealing his
saddle, and followed the suspect and found
the saddle in his possession. After being
put in jail the young man admitted that he
had taken Mr.. Lewis rOad-cart and Judge
| Rountree's harness. He was tried for all
| the offanses in the county court, and was
con to fha .haf he
without being allowed to pay out.
Three designs were received at the capitol
| Wednesday from the Alvinum Fresco Com
pany, showing the different styles of dccora-
tlans which could be used in ornament <
the new capitol The designs were made
| from photographs taken from different
points in the capitol halls. These were
enlarged to such a size as would show the
minutest details of the frescoing. One
design shows how the capitol would appear
in rome color with harmonious borders. The
| othertwo represented the walls aud ceilings
frescoed in contrasting colors 1t is prob
| able that some time will elapse before the
| legislature appropriates the money neces-
sary to make the alterations,
A P. Daniels, of Epson county, was
| Thursday brought before Commissioner
Erwin, at Macon, charged with having shot
at an officer. Daniels had been wanted for
until Deputy Raley started out Wednesday.
His trip was a successful one, and Daniels
came in without resistance. Deputy Mar
shal Brown was passing Daniels home on
| the night of Sept %, when Daniels
fired at him. The deputy returned the shot
aud several more were exchanged. Daniels
| admitted that he fired the first shot, but
claimed that he thought he was shooting at
an owl. His owl story did him but little
1 tha mig i'm,
over to the United States court under $500
bail, which he furnished.
In Bib superior court at Macon Wednes-
day. Bacon d Rutherford, as attorneys for
| George X. Horne, filed q suit against the
city Of Macon for so, 600 damages, alleging
| that at the state fair at the park in 1888,
while standing in the grand stand watching
the races, a large brace of the building fell
out Of place, struck him on the head, and
injured him so severely that he was con-
| fined to bed for three weeks He further
alleges that the blow has impaired his men,
| DRY and weakened his retentive faculties to
such an extent that he fears he is ruined for
| life. At the time of the accid mt he was
making $1,000 per year. He alleges that
the brace was insecurity fastened, and fell
by reason of the negligence and careless
ness Of the city of Macon.
Jesup Sentinel: Jim Day, colored brake
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railway, was killed and cut to pieces last
Friday morning. IL is supposed he was
knocked down by the East Tennessee, Vir.
ginia and Georgia railroad bridge over the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway,
as his cap was found there, and there
was also blood found in places along the
track from where his cap was to where his
body was found, mile or more from the
| bridge. 1t is supposed that after being
knocked down by the bridge, while he was
on the top of the car, that he was carried
this far before he was hsken from the car
He had only been a brakeman about two
months. He formerly blazed trees OF
woods for Dale, Dixon g. Co., and was
considered good reliable man.
A. o. Lyndon, one of Athens most reli-
able and prominent citizens, tells the fol
lowing good one on an old Baptist minister
he once knew, and avows that everything
is true: He knew two Baptist preachers
who had churches near each other, and ve
were not very friendly, One night one o.
the preachers had dream. He dreamt
that his church had turned into Wagon
and all the members were in it, and that h.
had changed to horse and was pullin,
them. But the thing which hurt was tina
the driver was the other preacher, and ht
used the whip rather freely on his brother
} The old man awoke from the dream, but h,
never preached ag ain. Moreover, ne neve
again went inside the church where h
} formerly exhorted. He firmly believes
} that if he did so he would turn to hors
and the other Baptist minister would be hi
driver.
, ,e The old locomotive "General' will 500
be pulling log train from Dublin to En-
pare 1t was the old "Generaln whic
} figured in "Anderson's raid,n which ha
been published scores of times, brie
, sketch of which is as follows: One day, il
1858, train from Atlanta stopped at Bi
Shanty. This engine was attached to il
While the conductor and all the train nee
4 were inside eating, Capt Anderson,
q federal officer, with several men, boarde
8 the engine, detached it from the train, an
ran off with it towards Chattanooga. Capt
: Anderson's intention was to tear up th
: track and burn all the bridges on th
Western and Atlantic road between Atlant
. and Chattan ooga, so as to deprive the Tel
) nessee confederates of communication wit
/ Atlanta. After a run Of about forty mile
' the fuel gave out. About ten miles furthe
tue steam gave out, and as the conductor
Capt. Fuller, was close upon the party wit
> another engine, Capt Anderson and b
men took to the woods. All but three wei
captured and taken to Atlanta aud hange
! as spies. Anderson was among the number
: That was twenty-six years ago, and tn
a engine has been il use at times ever sine
!, although it has been several times REPAIRED
il At Atlanta Beermann & Silverman, tn,