The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-11

Whitehall street crossing, at Atlanta, sew
eral months ago, has purchased another
pair Of shoe wearers, and is now walking
about again. The doctor carries a pair Of
crutches-Only as ornaments, however
The feet are made Of rubber and have legs
T. them the same as pair Of boots. The
doctor pulls them on as he would a pair Oh
boots, and then makes them tight by straps
which fasten around his body. The casual
| observer would not know that the doctor
has rubber feet instead of the old time fell
lows.
| In December a man brought a sack full of
| live rabbits to Hartwell, and in emptying
the sack in Benson's store Two Of them es-
capped. Two weeks thereafter, while a crowd
was in the store, one of the rabbits was
started and caught in the store A few
nights ago Henry Dendy, who was sleeping
in the store, was awakened by n noise like
some one walking softly. Henry, thinking
it was burglar, reached for his revolver
and cooked it ready for action, when he dis
covered the midnight prowler was rabbit
Mr.. Dendy would like to know what the
rabbits have been living on.
The recent discovery Of large rich phos-
phate bed five miles from Knoxville, which
has been purchased by a stock company
composed Of one man in Atlanta, and one
at Fayetteville, and one at Culloden, and
two others, has had a surprising effect
The property was purchased less than thirty
days since at 81 80 per acre, and now it has
jumped up into the hundreds, and the
owners wil,not price stock at all. The
Rich Hill is a strange freak of nature. The
shells and bones, as we'll as other curiosities
that can be gathered in and around the
hill, are wonderful, aud exist in unlimited
quantities 1t now seems strange that no
one ever thought before Of its wonderful
value.
At Atlanta Wednesday morning early,
between IL and l o'clock, a little boy
named PETIT Knox was shot on Haynes
street by an unknown party. 1t seems that
he, in company with a number of little
boys and girls, was returning from party
on Haynes street. There are parts of the
street where the gaslights are far between
and the shadows heavy. AS the crowd
were going through one of these places a
pistol shot was heard, and little Petit Knox,
in the rear of the party, cried out that he
was shot Examination showed that he
was shot through the leg below the knee,
and unable to walk home A hack was
called and he was carried me, where the
wound was dressed. The wound is a pain
full, though not a serious one There is no
clew whatever as to who did the shooting
Last Saturday VIII Wallace of Harris
county stole s97 from A. NJ. Eady & Co. of
West Point, pocketed the money for two
bales of cotton which he sold for a negro,
hired a horse and buggy and fled He re-
turned to Harris county, and going to the
residence of Richard Bazemore stole his
daughter and started out in search of the
nearest magistrate. The buggy broke
down, however, and Wallace took the
young lady to the house of the nearest
neghbor and left for Hamilton under the
pretense of going for a marriage license.
tie has not been seen seen since, and it is
learned that, in addition to his other crimes
he has forsaken n wife and children in Lee
county, Ala. Wallace is the man who was
published as having stolen money in La
Grange, and who is supposed to be in At
lanta.
Bozeman Taylor, the man who killed Dr.
j. P. Robson and seriously wounded Rich
ard Cone, in Washington county some time
ago, has given himself up to the sheriff of
Baldwin county, and now languishes in
Baldwln's jail. 1t is understood that Tav-
Tor will be kept there until the time of his
trial IN Washington county superior court,
probably to protect him from mob violence
Taylor asserts that the killing was in self
defense. He states that Robson and Cone
had been TO bis house several times to see
him, and in each case he was bitterly abused
by them. Some years ago Taylor's action
at campmeeting was OF a very disgracsful
nature. Re was then tried and would have
been convicted but for the testimony of Dr.
Robson declaring him insane. II is very
probable that this plea will be entered for
him IN the case of murder.
The case of Nathan Douglass, charged
with the murder of Flora Ann Harris, and
Edmond Harris, her step-father, charged
with being accessory TO the murder, comes
up in the superior court at Augusta next
week. About two months ago the com
Ehnnlyn1 kry
rible killing Of a defenseless negro
woman in Summerville while
quietly eating her evening meal. The
murder was a eold-booded one The shades
of night had just settled around the lonely
little cottage in which resided an aged
negro woman, a little girl of about 10 years
and Flora Ann Harris The trio were
quietly eating their evening meal when the
window was violently pulled open and the
muzzle of shotgun was thrust in. A deaf
enlng report followed and Flora Ann Harris
fell TO the floor mortally wounded.
Monday evening Clay Driver of Spalding
county was going TO Griffin on a lame horse
from his plantation west of town. when
about 3 o'clock. four or five miles from
town, he was accosted from an apparently
empty wagon that was approaching He
stopped and found lying in the bottom of
the wagon 2. +. Horton who lives about
eNfLNb AAAlfS NcSb Ol town.. Horton pre-
5ented a terrible appearance, and his face
was bloody from blow that seemed at first
10 have punched out his right eye, but was
found TO have fallen just above the eve.
He said that somebody had struck him in tie
woods just outside of town, beyond r.. F.
McWilliams' place; but he was SO confused
from the blow that he could not tell whether
t was white mau or a negro VINO had hit
him, or whether he had been robbed or not.
Horton is a sober and Industrious farmer.
On next Monday the vote Of Georgia will
be cast for Cleveland and Thurman for
President and Vice President of the United
States. On that day the twelve electors
chosen by majority of 60, 600 democrats
1t the Presiden ial election held last No
vember, will meet at the capital in Atlanta
Tor that purpose. The electoral votes for
President and Vice President will be
counted in accordance with the new law
his year, which was approved by President
Cleveland on Feb. 3, 1883. Under this law
the Presidential electors will assemble in
heir respective states next Monday and
proceed to vote for President aud Vice
President. The result OF that vote will be
declared on the second Wednesday in Feb
lrary at joint session Of the Senate and
House called 20 receive and canvass the
votes Of the electors, and TO officially de-
Hare the names Of the President and Vice
President.
About three years ago, John Wright, an
aged citizen of the ninth district Of Pike
county, lost his sight. He was unable 70
wee anything. and oculists whom he CON
suited agreed in the opinion that there was