The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-04

to prosecute Murray to the full extent Of
the law.
]. T. Spivey threw Eatonton into excite
ment Friday by third sttempt 70 end his
life. Mr.. Spivey married the belle Of the
town about two years ago. A few morn
| lngs ago he went 70 his room, carrying his
razor with hun. prepared the bed for
dying man. and placed basin by the bed
/ to catch the blood to follow Mr. Spivey
took his razor and tried TO sever his hand
from the arm, holding tho arm over the
basin. The cut bled freely, but death did
not come as quick as he desired,
and he arose, after bleeding for
i few minutes, aud crossed the
room, the'dripping blood marking his way,
and got his revolver from his bureau
drawer. He returned TO his bed and, after
| lying down, shot himself, as he thought. in
| the heart; but, being weak from the loss of
blood from the cut, his hand quivered and
the ball ranged along RIB and lodged in
the back. Mr.. Spivey is certainly lucky
man. He had drunk two bottles Of lauda-
mum twice and did not succeed in ending
his life. His wife is a noble woman, and
has the. syJnpthy Of the town and COM
| munity.
One day last week freight train On the
| Georgia road neared Greensboro in hurry
One of the cars in the train was loaded
/ with western horses billed to Orangeburg
| S. c., via Augusta. just above Greensboro
a big horse began kicking, and, by dipt of
perseverance, rather than design, succeeded
in battering down the door, He couldn't
| utilize the advantage, being battered, but
there was a little mare aboard which had
| chewed a rope in two, and now
| ronmed about at her own sweet will.
She walked to the open door, looked
lingeringly back at the other animals,
and deliberately jumped out. The train
was moving along at rapid rate, but the,
| mare was on her feet again in a moment
and Immediately sprang between the rails
and followed as fast as practicable. When
| the train reached Greensboro the open door
was discovered and one of the horses
missed. People were just beginning to sur
mise as to what had happened, when the
little mare hove in sight, coming down the
track at spanking gallop Without the
slightest hesitation she trotted up to the car
door, whickered, was helped In and the
train proceeded to Augusta.
Macon Telegraph: In response TO a tele-
graphic order from Americas. q we'll known
Macon hardware establishment shipped
Saturday morning sixtYfour Winchester
rifles and 1000 cartridges TO that place. The
telegram containing the order stated that
race troubles were anticipated, and that the
rifles might be needed for protection A
gentleman connected with the above uen-
toned hardware store was seen by Tele-
graph man. This shipment of rifles to
Americas is nothing unusual" said
he. Our house alone has sold
| 500 Winchester rifles for the
| same purpose within the last sixty
days, and know that other houses have
been selling them in large numbers, too.
Clubs Of fifteen and twenty have been
formed in most of the smaller towns Of the
Saaa I'D taxy ,NrIU Ill e.
| member We had an order for a lot of
rifles from Milledgeville yesterday, and the
day before an inquiry for the cost OF fifty
pistols came from Smithvile. All these
orders are from white men, although the
order from Smithyille for pistols is thought
by some to come from negroes. Nothing
more has been heard from Smithville. I
suppose we have had orders for 800 pistols
during the last two months although the
rifles are far in the lead. "
Trude Shine, negro boy 1G years old,
attempted TO wreck the freight train en- the
'Wrightsville and Tennille railroad last
Thursday morning. The Tennille Enter.
pfiSe says: Engineer Cole, in charge of
the freight, ran very cautiously after leav-
ing Wrightsville for fear of running into
the passenger, and just as he rounded
curve, below Donaldson, he saw an iron rail \
on the track He blew brakes, reversed his
0uRluo duQ Juulpoh Olls Inc ITOub WAccLs OI
the engine passed over the rail safely, but
the tender jumped the track, and almost
Immediately the engine stopped, without
further damage being done. Conductor
Sid Nelson was on the engine at the time,
and he jumped of. as soon as he could and
followed some fresh tracks in the ground to
negroes, house, about twenty-five yards
from the track. As he got near the house
he saw a negro boy run out toward the
woods. Mr. Nelson gave chase and soon
overlook the boy, and, leveling pistol at
him, ordered him to stop. which was done.
Mr.. Nelson then took him to the
train. He was CARRIED to Dublin,
where q warrant was issued for
him and he was placed in the county
Jail at that place.. The boy confessed ali,
and said it was not the only time he had
tried to ditch trains on the Wrightsyille
and Tennille railroad He had put ties ard
rails on the track two or three times, but
they were always seen by the engiueers be-
fore any damage was done. When asked
why he did this he said: "Just for the fun
of the thing" He said the reason he ran
from the house was because he was afraid
"de biler would buSs" when the engine
jumped the track.