The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-04
ITEMS In THREE STATES
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Third Attempt TO End His Life = A
! Desperate Burglar Lodged in Jail at
Griffin.
GEORGIA
. Superior court convenss at Quitman this
week
The Christian church building at Quit
Imam is nearly completed.
A trunk factory is to be established at
Brunswick at al early date
Seth Culpepper and 7. 7. Raines of
Dooly county died last week. ..
The Baptist church at Jackson will be
ready for occupancy in about two weeks.
Cards are out for the marriage to-mor-
row of DR.. 7. J. Kelly and Miss Kate
Davis, both of Tennille.
-Cordele wants wholesale hardware
house. wholesale grocery house. and a
wholesale dry goods house.
The Methodists of Cordele are preparing
for a festival for the purpose of raising
funds to aid in building a church edifce.
Prof. Hinton, principal of the boys pub
Bic school at Columbus, will take a special
course in mathematics at Johns Hopkins
university.
Thursday night some one entered the
store Of F. Johns at Sterling and burglar
lied 1t of $40 in money and several articles
of merchandise.
A B. Hand, a peripatetic piano tuner
who has rently spent some time in Han
cock county plying his trade, was indicted
by the last grand jury for heinous conduct.
AT Jesup last week in the case of the state
VS.. Lee Jordan, on the charge Of murder a
verdict OF guilty under tue second charge
was returned, sentencing him TO prison for
.life. -,
Two drunken cgarmakers, Roscoe Nor
ton and w. A. Dean, had a fight at Macon
Saturday, and Dean says his left side is
paralyzed and his left shoulder dislocated as
"a result.
The officials of the reformatory at
Rochester, N. Y, are not inclined TO pardon
Ira Head, the boy in whom several Macon
ties have interested themselves, as already
mentioned in the NEWS.
AS soon as the buildings for the furniture
factory and the foundry are erected at
Cordele, the belt line connecting the Savan-
nah, Americas and Montgomery and
Georgia Southern and Florida railroads will
be built.
There was not on an excursion train on
the Georgia Southern and Florida road a
few nights ago. The participants we're
white men and negroes, and whisky was
the cause of it. Pistols, knives and brass
knuckles were freely used. As usual the
whites routed the negroes. o.
Rev. A. B. Herring has resigned the
pastorate of the Christian churches in
Washington county. of which he has had
charge for the last four years. He will not
continue upon his ministerial duties for
awhile, as he has been suffering with an at-
lection of his eyes some time. s..
Macon Telegraph: A man about 40 years
of age, with chin whiskers, mustaehe and
thoughtful-looking eyes, was up before the
recorder Saturday morning, charged with
having been "drunk and down . There
was nothing to distinguish him from the
array of unfortunates around, except the
fact that he had once bean the editor OF an
influential newspaper. and was a successful
journalist. But whisky floored him. In
consideration of the fact that he had been
simply drunk and had not disturbed any,
body, he was given only one day in the city.
prison. ~
During terrific thunder storm that pre-
vailed at Cordele a few nights ago. a negro
cabin was struck by lightning. The. bolt
struck the roof ct the southwest corner
tearing away shingles and weather-board-
ing and completely demolishing the corner
post or studding, leaving an opening of
several inches from roof TO floor at that
corner of the house. A water bucket on
table standing few feet from the corner of
the room was torn to pieces and a negro
woman named Eliza Bryant was struck
senseless to sthe floor and the covering of
the bed and the woman's dress were set on
fire. She was saved, however
Bob Redding, notorious and desperate
negro burglar, was arrested at Griffin Friday
night. He has for years past been making
an annual tour through that section, rob-
bling every storehouse in the country that
was unprotected. On his person was found
two self-acting Smith & Wesson pistols and
f,Ny0 Hor.,
tiers, which prove that he has been impli-
Gated IN the recent robberies in Pike county.
Another negro named Ike Terrence was also
arrested, and on his person was found a
large package Of letters showing that he
was from North Carolina and purse con
tanning $50 So. He claims to be with a man
who was renovating feathers and said that
heddlng was only chance acquaintance.
The following is the speech of McIver.
the colored member from Liberty county.
on the dog law bill. He is anxious for il to
be printed: "Mr Speaker-It gives me
much pleasure, sir, to address an, able
speaker as thou art, expert in all customs
It gives me pleasure, say, sir, to address
you. L stand before YOU sir. as Pail
did before Agrippa, sir l was once for
the tax of dogs, but when found my,
constituents are against, | also turn
against it, sir. l am against the dog tax
sir, because the dog is the poor mans
property. II dog is vicious put the buck
shot to him, sir. What would some of the
poor country people do without 'Dossum
dogs A 'possum in a poor mans home is
like stall beef is TO you, sir. So / hope
that this honorable body will vote down the
dog tax, sir. When the yankees left MS we
had neither hoe nor an ak. If it had not
been for our good friends what would have
become Of uss Multum in parroxs .
Sheriff Davidson, of Blaclxshear. has
brought two negro murderers from Pierce
county and placed them in the county iail
at Brunswick for safe keeping. Their
names are John Freeman ard Jerry Moore.
John Freeman is charged With having
murdered Lee Sampson on October g The
circumstances Of the killing seem to indi-
cate that 1t was purely accidental Free
man will remain here until the next term
OF Pierce superior court, when
his trial will take place. Jerry
Moore has already been tried
and convicted Of manslaughter. The kill
ing occurred at festival near McDonald's
mill. The mill hands had all been paid off
and were celebrating the occasion with
drinking and dancing and shooting off fire.
arms. Jerry Moore was one of the number
engaged in the shooting, and, unfortunately
failed to raise his pistol above the heads of
ms companions, thus dealing out death to
henry Carr. Immediately after the killing