The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-23

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near Ogeechee, testing new moving ma
chine, when Spencer jenkins. an old negro
man, who is employed by Col Barns went
/ out 10 see the sight. 1t was working IN
l some tall pea vines, and Spencer, getting
/ too near the machine, one OF the knives
/ struck his leg just above the ankle and cut
the foot en- irely Off, leaving it connected by
only small strip Of flesh and skin. Dts;
| Perkins, Johnston aud Mathews were called
in and amputated the limb higher up, but 1t
is thought that he cannot recover. Spencer
| has been faithful and honest man. and all
regret this unfortunate accident to him.
William Pool, a young white man from
the rural districts. stole the lunch basket
| out of the wagon of an industrious old
farmer at Macon a few days ago He was
arrested, tried in the county court, and
paid fine Of $40 This happened few
weeks ago, and Pool swore vengeance upon
| Cooks wagon yard, it being the place IN
which he got the costly dinner. Wednesday
he went TO town, loaded up with tanglefoot,
and by night was IN good trim to go on the
| war path. He slipped into the wagon yard
and tackled ducking wagon cover, Sitting
it into threads with bis knife. Then he cut
to giblets a set of harness, and was In the
act of cutting mules throat, when some
one appeared. He made an attempt to
escape, but was neatly bagged, and it is
very likely he will have a chance TO let out
| the remainder of his wrath on the dusky
| diamonds in the convict camps.
| The commercial club of Macon, which
formerly occupied its handsome new
quarters Saturday night over the Exchange
banl starts with paid-in membership of
| eighty-four names, comprising many OF the
very best men in Macon. The initiation
fee Is $50. 1t is the expectation Of the club
to increase the membership to 100, which
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and beautify the clubs rooms. There are
twelve rooms opening into each other.
Each room is exquisitely papered, carpeted
| and furnished. There are billiard rooms,
reading rooms, parlors, dining rooms,
smoking rooms, etc. All Of these are on
the second floor of the building. On the
third floor is a large and handsome ball
room, and adjoining is a fine banquet hall.
1t is the intention of the club to give ladies'
receptions at stated periods, and it will en-
tertaiq visiting delegations Of prominent
men from other cities
l.. w. James, who said that he was assist
ant postmaster Of Salt Springs. and also
marshal of the town, went to the station
house at Atlanta Monday night, and said
that SIS IS had been taken from his inside
vest pocket by Sitting the pocket while he
was in the jam at the races. Sixty dollars
was lis own, and 1T was in gold and con-
tanned in a small old fashioned money-pouch
The sos So was not his own, but was found
in gripsack that he borrowed of John
Erwin, of Erwin a. Gloer, at Salt
Springs He said that after borrowing
the gripsack he found an envelope in it, and
on looking into the contents he found that
it was cash which he supposed Mr.. Erwin
had neglected to remove. He showed it to
his wife and placed the envelope in his in
side vest pocket for safe keeping. Accord
ing TO his statement, he did not discover the
loss of the money until after he had been in
the jam at the races and got on the train to
come TO the city. Then he started to run
his hand into his outside vest pocket and
ran it into the slit in his vest
Recently Senator Bartlett Of Macon in ..
PRODUCED in the Senate, and had it passed,
a bill to empower the mayor and council of
the city of Macon to levy and collect a
larger amount of licen &c tax than is now
| allowed by law, namely, $4,000. The in
tention of the hill is not to increase the in
dividual rate of license tax, but that the
city be allowed to collect as much as $780,
900 license tax per annum, If necessary.
Under the present law the city is not al
lowed to collect over $50, 600, by which
rule, when that sum is collected,
| person who has not paid license could not
| be compelled to pay it. The, pur-
| pose of the new proposed law is to make
every man doing business in the city pay a
| license tax. His plan, it is said, will have
the tendency to reduce the license tax. The
bill reads: That the mayor and council of
the city of Macon shall have the power to
levy and collect from licenses aud business
taxes the sum of at least $780, 900 annually,
or such other sum as they may deem neces.
sary, and for other purposes. There is
some complaint that the words "at least" in
the bill do not make the meaning of the
bill very clear. Representative Huff
has addressed a letter to the board
of trade Of Macon stating that
he was opposed to the bill,
and submitted his views at length. The
board met Monday afternoon and adopted
the following resolution: Resolved, That
in the opinion of the Macon BOARD of Trade
the question of license taxes should be left
to the discretion Of the mayor and council,
and we are in favor of amending the
present law TO that effect" A copy of the
resolution will be- sent to Bibb's representa-
tives in the legislature.
From reports that reached Valdosta Mon
day, there is trouble in the lower end of the
| county-the Georgia negroes on the one
side and unknown white men i'll disguise
| on the other. The white men are known
as the FLORIDA Regulators" and it seems
that their Liver Regulator" is q reversal
| "a D0AOAC anu ALOcE OIydbVlll6
| is some ten or twelve miles from Valdosta,
in the extreme southern portion of Lowndes
| county, and within two or three miles of
the state line Ciyatville district has a
majority Of colored citizens, three or four
| TO one AS is usually the case in such in
stances some of the worst class Of negroes
are always making themselves obnoxious
| and oH6nsive. A negro Of this stripe had
some trouble with an old gentleman named
Roebuck,s and the negro knocked Mr..
Roebpek down. The violence of the as
sault, together with the old gentleman's
age, came near resulting in his death. A
night or two after this, the negro was
severely whipped by disguised men, sup
| posed to be white. This made the colored
population exceedingly wrathy, and
threats, counter threats, warnings to leave,
etcs have been numerous as a conseq uence.
AiFthis occurred some weeks ago. One of
the Interest denouncers of the "Florida
Regulators" was a negro named Nelson
JONES' He came to Valdosta and purchased
| a1Winchester. Then he went home and
issued his proclamation. 1t is said that be
| mounted a goods box in the little town OF
Ciyatville, and offered 500 reward for the
| "----- to come to see him, y
and regulate him. Last Saturday
night, so report goes the regu-
lators went for their money and Jones
meat. just how it occurred, and what did
occur, seems involved in doubt. There are
many different rumors, but all agree on
one thing, Jones paid his reward with