The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-14

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he has been afflicted with cancer, so what
! he said must be considered as only a very
remarkable coincidence-or is there COM
munion of spiritsl
Master Willie White Wilson, the 5-year-
old son Of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Wilson of
Luthersville enjoys the unique distinction,
and perhaps the only one of the kind ever
recorded in the history eff America, concern
ing a child of his age, of having six grand
mothers and three grandtathers still living
On the day he was born six grandmothers
and four grandfathers greeted him on his
entrance into this world. One OF the grand
fathers present on that day, Oswell
Albright Of Lee county, Alabama, has
since died Following is the record of the
six old lady grandmothers: Mrs. Wilson's
parents are living. Her mothers mother is
living. This gives Willie two grandmothers
on the maternal side. Mrs Wilson's fathers
mother is living, which gives Willie third
grandmother on the maternal side. Mr..
Wilson'S parents are living. His mothers
mother is living. This gives little Willie
two grandmothers on tue paternal side.
Mr.. Wilson's fathers mother is living,
which gives Willie three grandmothers on
the paternal side His three living grand
fathers are Frank HUMPHREYS of Meriwether
county, A. W. n. Wilson and w. H. Al
bright of Luthersvile.
Last Thursday morning Messrs. Jim
Willis, Lisbon Averitt aud DIR. WIN Stan
differ, of Blakely, got together their thirteen
hounds and started on a cat hunt Before
getting out Of the corporate limits of
Blakely, they jumped an enormous one in
the jungle just east of Cuthbert street The
music of so many dogs all in full cry was
exciting indeed and brought out to the
edge OF the swamp many of the citizens of
the town. After an urls hot chase in a
circle OF not more than a mile in circum-
ference, his catship struck out in a south
erly direction. This shut ont all the MIN
rods except DIR. Standifer, Messrs.
Averitt, Willis, Sam Howard and DR..
Howard. These resolved to follow the dogs
and stay with them. This was o'clock in
the morning At 12 o'clock they had
traversed tiger head, )" beaver ruin" the
Cole fields, Stuckey's lands, and were up to
their knees in mud and water in Dry creek
swamp. At O'Clock in the afternoon they
were, dogs and all, worn and jaded, well
out toward Arlington on cold trail. At
O'Clock. after run of not less than fifteen
miles, they caught the cat not 200 yards
from where they jumped him.
A strange investigation was held at Car
rollton Mo day before Justice Mersell, on a
warrant charging a highly respected ply
stefan and his wife with poisoning young
man who boarded with the family. The
prosecutor testified that shortly after sup
per last Friday night he went up town aud
began to feel strangely about the brain. He
went back to his room, and, thinking he
was poisoned, chewed up some tobacco and
swallowed the juice, and in short while
began vomiting, and got some relief. He
then went to sleep aud woke up feeling
like he might have the blind stag
gers. He sat up all night, never letting
the doctor know ANYTHING about his condi-
ton. Next morning he reported t. anoth r
physician, telling MIN Of his experience the
past niglt, and about eating the tobacco,
and that he believed that he had been
poisoned. The doctor told him he had evil
IDENTIFY poisoned himself by swallowing the
tobacco juice. The young man swore out
warrant and had the landlord and lady ar
rested. Their release from custody was the
result, as the young man could not testify
to the administration of poison by the
defendants, or to any motive they could
have had in SO doing. 1t is feared that the
young man is verglng on insanity
Last Thursday drummer for an Atlanta
firm, at Umadilla, Dooly county, stepped
into a store to sell some goods. Just then
a man approached from the rear with
pistol in his hand, swearing that he was
going to have gore. The young drumm
commenced praying, orally, that he could
get out of a scrape, when he heard a voics
behind him, like a lion at bay, replyi lg
to the challenge in front. A pile
of boxes stood near, and the drummer
stepped in between them. The belligerents
both with pistols in hand-met in front
Of him. They swore, shook their pistols in
each others faces, tore off their coats and
made the atmosphere smell sulphuric with
profanity and hellish compliments, and the
young drummer nearly took an oath
to be an evangelist ever after, if the
good Lord would get him out of
it. At last one of the fellows walked
TO the front, laid down his pistol, pulled off
his coat, and everlastingly went for the
other man with profane eplthets. 1t seems
that he was so full of vituperation and pro-
family that the other man thought ne was
too good to dabble in man SO lost to good
breeding and sense, and left. The drummer,
TOO, got away from an atmosphere filled
with sulphuric oaths, and escaped to Ameri-
Gus, whore he has been fasting and praying
ever since.
At Atlanta, Tuesday, the corridors in the
custom house and the United States court
room were crowded with men and BOYS,
white and black, charged with various vio-
lations of the revenue laws. Their garb
and manner showed them to be in the main
from the mountains. Some were cheerful
and some gloomy. Some were old offenders
and faced the situation with stoid lndiffer-
ence, while others we're making their first
appearance before the court. Some OF the
men and boys were ignorant, simple
minded and ragged, and when
they stood up to receive their sem
fences we're objects Of pity. One batch,
numbering between twenty and thirty
prisoners, pleaded guilty to the CHARGES
made against them, and made all sorts of
statements TO induce Judge Newman TO let
them off light, and he did so, except in the
case of three or four men who had been re
failing whisky in the neighborhood of
Dahlonega, and furnishing it to the students
at the branch college there. These offenders
were sentenced to four months imprison-
ment and 500 fine. In one case man and
his l4-year-old son pleaded guilty TO work
ing in a distillery. The judge lectured the
father for making his son violate the law,
and sentenced him to two months imprison-
ment-one for himself and one for the boy
letting the boy go home.
Miss Laura Haygood, formerly of At
lanta, but now in China engaged in mis-
sionary work, has written to relatives
about the great Chinese riot of last month
The letter is dated Shanghai, Feb. s, 1889,
and the following extract is permitted TO
be published: 81 send you this note lest ru-
mors of a serious riot which occurred this
week at Ching Kiang NAV reach you and
occasion anxiety. CHING Kiang is an open
port on the Yang-tse, about 100 miles west
northwest of Shanghai. There is foreign
CONGESTION there and difficulty between
an Indian policeman employed by the
foreign municipal council and some China