The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-24


Quite romantic affair occurred between
some old colored people living at Morgan
ton recently. During slavery times. near
forty years ago, Lee Shepherd was married
| 20 Charity Brown, in North Carol ma
Charity was sold to Georgian and brought
to Fannin county shortly after they were
married. Lee was kept in North Carolina.
Some time after Charity was brought to
| Georgia she was again married TO Spencer
Adams She and Spencer lived together IN
peace until Lee came and cause1 some
trouble, but nothing serious, until Few
| days ago he eloped with Charity. All
of the negroes are over 20 years OF age.
Dr. J. W. Drake, formerly Of Columbus,
met tragic death in Birmingham late Sat
| urday night. He was with a party OF
friends at his room in the Lunsford hotel.
when by some means be fell out of the
! wi dow and, striking the projection over
the window below him, fell about sixty
feet down into the cellar. When found he
was unconscious, and an examination showed
1 that he was badly bruised aud mangled.
One arm and one leg were each broken in
four places and his skull crushed. be died
| about O'Clock Sunday morning. DF.
| Drake was a son-in-law Of Dr. J. J. Mason,
a prominent physician Of Columbus, but
sold out his business and moved TO Biz
mingham, where he held the position Of re-
| CelVtng ana ClbTk III luo Coh-
| trail railroad freight department.
| Rome Tribune: Charlie HarDer a youth
| Of II, who IS clerking at -Etna, had his
nerves shocked recently in a somewhat re-
| markable manner. The other day when he
1 went for the mail he found small package
| addressed to him. Thinking it was some
| remembrance from the folks in Rome, he
| opened it at once, when, to his horror and
| CONSERVATION, he discovered human ear.
Charlie is brave boy, but his courage for
s9Sk him for once, and he weakened
eir over at sight of the bloody Enclosure.
III The package was a note W lich read as
fpllo(YsS ~ VIII strike your town in a few
Days nd Skbect TO do some business with
y9ue AZ f9sS post this in conspicuous
place. J1ckA THE RIPPER" Charley sud
denly remembe ed that he had several
friends at a medical college, and when he
iHaparted this information TO his friends tue
mystery was solved.
AT Whitesburg, Monday, E. 8. Roberto
gin house, platform scales, scale house and
gIlsy with five or six bales of cotton belong
ing 100 customers, were burned. A south
vino and plenty Of help from citizens of
tho town saved w. G. Brannan's residence
and likely the entire town from burning.
1t is ndf known how the fire originated. T.
w. NcEdy, who was feeding the gin, saws
the lest ching he knew the whole inside of
the gan was ablaze. Clint Vaughn was in
the press packing cotton, and his two
smaller brothers. Chead and Arthur, who
had brought dinner for Clint and L. c. Dan
iel were in the gin house near the press.
Clint escaped with his hair singed, and
ears, neck and hands burned to q blister.
/. w. Mccoy burned himself pretty badly
by dashing through the flames and reScuing
Arthur and Chead Vaughn, after their
clothes aud nearly all the skin was burned
or them. Both died Tuesday from their
injuries The loss. including cotton
burned, will amount TO 81, 600, with no in
surance Mr.. Roberts thinks of starting I'D
again in a few days. Mrs g. D. Gloss
tainted under the excitement, but soon re-
covered.
The special order in tho lower house of
the State legislature Tuesday morning,
was substitute TO bill by Mr.. Crowder
OF Munroe, which provided that tax shall
DO levied aud collected on all notes. bonds.
mortgages, deeds and other contracts
executed as evidences of debts oras security
for the payment of money. The substitute
provided that the sitlts or permanent home
OF all notes, bonds, mortgages, deeds I'd
other contracts shall be the county where
the creditor resides, If he resides in the state,
and If not, then In the county wherein the
debtor resides. The object of the bill was
to get at nonresident money lenders The
bill was picnic for the lawyer members,
and the discussion brought out some fine
points Mr.. Rawls Of bingham offered a
substitute, requiring all plaintiffs in suits
on paper security to file an affidavit that
said securities were returned for taxes if
such security existed at the last tax return.
Mr.. Rawls made forcible speech in
favor of his amendment, showing only
about S32,000,00O of securities returned
for taxes in this state He thought
there was something rotten in Denmark. y
He was opposed to taxing money lenders
who lived out of the state, and letting the
Shylocks Of the state go free. He thought
if his substitute was adopted it would bring
into the treasury $50, 600 to $75, 900 in taxes
annually. Mr.. Rawls on request. withdrew
his substitute. The bill was put to a vote.
and was defeated by ayes 33, nays 40. Tne
author gave notice that he would move for
reconsideration.