The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-13

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! "Wednesday.
TIE tax returns Of Franklin county make
! the following showing: Numher Of acres Of
Z land 100, 10, value 81 ,O45, 0.i5; va.ue OF
! town property, So, 997: value II money
/ notes, etc. S2l7 SIS: merchandise Of ali
kinds, $4,000: household and kitchen fur
I nIture. SS234I Watcdes and jewelry.
S3,704; horses, mules and al other stock,
I S<J1, 3ol; plantation tools, etc, $500;
cotton and corn for April l, 81, AZ; saw
mills, gus. engines, etc. SS3.9 Aggre-
gate val-e IF all property, q, 81, ~. Num-
Der Of polls 2,l3j, lawyers 6, dent sts !,
/ doctors -. The iucreass Of taxable prop
erty this year IS SOS, 52S
/ Griffin escaped a conhagration Weines-
( d4v morning only BY hard work on the part
! OF the nremen- At 2:5D O'clOc6 nre was
| discovered in the restaurant Of Wilson
| lcoloredl, just in the rear Of Hartweli a.
/ Malone's grocery and I. ). Mchee's har-
7 ness store. Tie building was wooden
structure and burned Ike finder. The
| Methodist church was IN imminent danger,
IS was the store of Hartwell & Malone, the
! latter catching fire several times during the
/ fight. The store, another wooden building,
thirty feet distant from the restaurant occu-
| pied by Tom King ,coloredJ, was also de-
sroyed, with its entire contents There
was no insurance on any Of the stocks, but
W. +. George, who owned the buildings,
had some insurance on them. The houses
were a complete loss and the entire insur-
ance viii be due on them
At Atlanta night before last drunken
white man wandered into j. R. Kings
yard, and without knowing what he was
dong walked up T. one of the windows
and tried TO enter the house. Mr.. King
thought ne was burglar and fired at him.
The balls missed their mark, but one of
them entered the leg of Bud Howard, a
young negro man. who was passing by at
the time. The drunken man was sobered
BY the occurrence and left for his home.
The negro was taken TO his home. The
wound was a painful, but not necessarily
fatal one. and the negro is resting easily to-
day. A case of drunk and dsorderly co =
duct was made against the man who ell
| tered the yard. He was 50 drunk that he
did not know anything about the events Of
the night
Sheriff McLain of Cobb county had two
warrants for John Andrews tcolored) for
assault aud battery and for selling whisky.
He went out near the T. Stephens farm to
arrest Andrews, accompanied by Constable
George Sanges, Miller Walker and John
Franklin. The negro on discovering the
officers attempted TO escape and ran into
Charles Northcutt's house, at the Brown
| place on the Cherokee road. He darted
through the room where Mrs Northcutt
D.
and frightening Mrs Northcutt very badly
| Miller Walker ran into the house and col
ided with the negro, and grasped him by
! the arm. The ! egrO had u knife IN his
| hand and told Mr.. Walker to turn him
| loose or he would cut lin. A scuffis ensued,
and She if McLain came up in time and
| grabbed the negro's arm and kept him from
| stabbing Walker The negro resisted ar
rest very stubbornly, aud it required the
| four men to handcuff HIM and take hum to
| tJwn-
News reached Griffin Thurs lay of the
| killing of Monroe Ponder, a negro, on r.
| f. Coles place near the city, Wednesday
mOnlng, as the hands on the farm were go
| ing to PICK cotton, all met at the ginhouse
on the place. Among the plckers was Gra-
| ham Hunt, (Rhite,l and Monroe Ponder,
| tcoloredl. Ponder, it seems, had been talking
| about Hunt IN a manner not compliment
airy to him, and when Hunt asked him
about 1t, he received a very impu-
dent answer. He repeated his
| question, with the remark that it was a
lie that the negro had told At this the
negro seized the steelyards. used for weigh
| ing cotton, and advanced on him, where
upon he drew pistol and fired five shots,
| each one taking effect Several of his COM
| panions ran at the first fire, and one OF
them came to Griffi ], whore warrant was
| issued for the arrest of Hunt, but it
was useless TO serve it, as the coroler, who
was Immediately summoned, impaneled a
| jury, which returned verdict Of lustifable
| homicide.
Dalton Citizen: A young Daltonian who
| atJen led camp meeting in Walker county
last Sunday unintentionally got into quite
| a serious fracas with three obstinate deni-
zens on that county. He was accompanied
| 10y young lady, and it seems that on de-
| parting Tor home she toun1 that her wrap
| mad been left at the camp ground. This of
| course necessitated a return to secure it,
and upon approaching the grounds again
! the young man drove his team into por-
| ton OF the grove which he supposed was
| free to all TO hitch it until he should come
back. On coming to a halt, however,
| he was surprised 10 see three men
walk IN and lay hands upon his horses
| reins. One of them, IN quite a threaten
| ing manner, told him that he was trespass-
| ing on forbidden ground, whereupou he
! politely apoligized for his error, and en-
deavored to turn his team into the highway
| again. But the men kent a tight hold
upon the reins and refused to let the vehicle
| proceed. The gentleman en- offered to
make any amends necessary, even to the
| paving of a fine, but still be was not per-
mitted to move on. This, of course highly
incensed him, and a war of words ensued
in the midst of which the Daltonian, who is
! quite an annette youth, and mas an arm
whose muscular development will compare
| favorably with Su livan's, sprang from the
buggy and knocked two Of his offenders
down. This brought on quite fracas, and
| though the Daltonlan punished the tlree
quite severely, they dubbed in and finally
disabled him by blow on the head from {
fence rail. BY this time others had gath.
cred on the scene aud Interfered, bringing
the fight to a close. The parties were takeI
before magis rate, and the young lady
who had beea terrified witness of the af
fair, was sent home under the escort of d
friend. The three men proved to be mar
shals, but what they could have meant by
OBTAINING the traveller when he had offeret
to make amends. is rather strange, to sa,
the least. The affair will probably oonsti
tute a court case.
| FLORIDA.
Paradise has a band of hope NUMBERING
thirty six mem bers.
Farmers about Lawtey are making biz
preparations for strawberry planting.
A school-house for colored pupils is il
process of construction at Fairbanks.
The teachers of Pasco county will NEE
in an institute at Dade City GA Sept 16, II
and Is.
There are nearly 200 children in the pub
; lie schools at Kissimmee. and an etIicien