The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22

On sunday afternoon the people OF EaSb
Point, village six miles from Atlanta,
we're shocked from stroke Of lightning,
the like Of which had never been export
enced by any of them before. About dusk
gray cloud hung over the town. There
bad been no lightning, no thunder. nor any
indication of an electric storm. Suddenly
a fash and a crash came simultaneously
and people rushed from their houses with
blanched faces. The danger was passed
but the brief experience was terrible.
There had been an electric shower. The
lightning had separated into twenty or
more bolts and struck as many places in
radius of quarter Of mile. The air
was filed with the odor of birthstone, and
a copper-colOred cloud h0ated northward
from the city. A wind mill was struck
and damaged; the grass on a lawn was
burned up. a window in a house was shat
tered and the carpet in a bedroom scOrched;
COW was killed; a tree split open, and a
telegraph operator knocked from his chair.
The most wonderful thing about the electric
shower was the rolling Of great balls of fire
up the railroad tracks. the small masses
went bouncing and cracking along the rails
to the terror Of the citizens.
AT East Point, near Atlanta there is a
base ball crank who is working on patent
ball tosser, or pitcher. with which he ex-
poets to revOlutionize the national game.
His name is Quellman and he is an ex-
professional bali player. Base ball is the
greatest game on earth,n he says, but
there is one great objection to it and that is
the power Of the umpire. His calling of
balls and strikes allows him to give the
game TO either nine when the teams are we'll
matched. Now, my patent will do away
with this Objectionable feature. 1t is a pro-
pelllng machine which will allow the man
who stands in the box to throw every
ball straight over the plate He can ele-
vate or lower it 50 as to throw a ball any
where between the knee and the waist. The
velocity Of the ball can be regulated, and
the team with the hest catcher can throw
the swiftest bail. Only three balls will be
thrown over the plate, and the batter must
strike or run. OF course there will be more
balls batted, but this will only require more
sklltul playing in the field. The game will
not then 60 to the nine whose pitcher can
the most befuddle the umpire. My bail
tosser will create a sensation III base ball
circles, and expect to mako big money
out OF it."
AT DouglasvilIe, Friday, DIR. John G. w.
Brown and DR.. j. T. Gilmer, both of Car
roll county, were arrested on indictments
by the grand jury, charging them with the
murder of female patient. The case is
an unusual one, and on account of the prom
siderable excitement in both Carroll and
Douglas counties. The grand jury indicted
the TWO doctors day before yesterday. The
evidence before the grand jury brought out
the following story: Some time in April
last Mrs. Cosby Ayres. the wife of re-
spectacle farmer who lives in Douglas
county, eight or nine miles from Douglas
vile, WIS confined, and Dr. Brown wa
called III. DR.. Brown sent for DIR. j. I. Gil
a u,
the mother and child, and from what a ser
want stated to Mr.. Ayres an investigation
was made. A post-mortem examination
was held and the indictments for murder
followed. A parallel case has never been
known in Georgia before. DR.. Brown is
about 30 years of age, and lives in Carroll
county on farm. DR.. Gilmer is 40 years
Of age, and resides at Villa RIGA, in Carroll
county. Soon after being arrested DR..
Brown gave a bond for $1,000 and was re-
leased DR.. Gilmer is still in the custody of
the sheriff
The builders scaffold around the walls
of Michael Bros. new store at Athens gave
way Friday and fell with a crash TO the
ground. Ed Jones received an ugly cash
IN the head and a cut in his arm near the
wrist. Seab Smith had a bad wound on
the head and painful cash on his thigh
Henry Irwin was cut in tie head by a nail
and it bled freely. He also received a
slight cut on one of his feet Willie Row
land was knocked senselesS aud lay across "a
pile of lumber a long time before ne was
able to speak. He received a very bad
bruisa in his side, ana it is thought that he
isiaternally injured very seriously. His head
was also bruised considerably and his hand
slightly cut. Yill Baker was pretty badly
smashed by the tinbers, bat was able to
walk, and IL IS thought te will not suffer
much from the fan. Mr.. James, one of the
white men, was slightly wounded but will
be over it soon. There were ten men on the
scatfold at the time IL fell, but only five of
them were anyways badly injured. Burt
Hill jumped from the falling mass and
saved himself from injury. Coleman
Parker swung to the poles of the frame
work and thus escaped falling. The cause
of the accident was the breaking of one of
the planks that supported the frame work
Upon it rested the floor of the platform,
and when it broke all that end of the scat
fold fell.
Ben Duggers' dreams are now attracting
the attention of the Blue Ridge Post. In
1884 he was candidate for tue Legislature
His opponents were j. r. Chastain, young
est son Of the lere Hon. E. w. Chastain,
James K. Dickey, H. ii. Galloway and
Charles Waters. Excitement went to a
I,
Digger was accused of selling out to Cand-
Ter in the congressional race just preceding
Two years before Digger had taken the
stump in self-defenSe, and did 1t to his
friends satisfaction. the night before the
legislative election Digger dreamed OF going
to the legislature, and when he got there was
confronted by four big rattle-snakes. He
took his gun from his shoulder and killed
three of them at the first shot The other
still showed fight. He reloaded and triei
to shoot the fourth one, but his gun refused
to fire. He awoke and predicted that the
election would result in tie between him
self and Chastaiu. When the returns came
in it was tie sure enough. A new election
was ordered The election between Digger
and Chastain took place Dec. 8. Dug
ger went to Rock Greek on the election day
On his return he stayed all night with W.
L. Nanzant. Here he dreamed of going
| down the river on his gray with his riffs
on his shoulder. Across the river he espied
the huge diamond rattleSnake which he had
tried to shoot before. He tried to shoot il.
The snake reared his head looking as ven
omous as possible. His gun fired, and the
rattlesnake turned out to be a man, and
with brains shot out, fell into the river and
| fioAted off. He awoke and told Nanzaat his
dream, and said that he had beaten Caas-
tain. When he and Nanzant got e
Morganton the returns were all In and
showed Digger to be the representative by
| 81 majority.
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