The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-21

clothes for Jess next winter He is about
- years old.
On Saturday last in Summe-vil.e Hack
| Henly and a Mr. Enans vino has been en-
ployed by the TriOn Manufacturing Com
pany to lay brick, were engaged IN game
Of cards. Mr.. Henly won all the money
Mr.. Euans had, and then loaned him SIS
and won that Mr.. Enans then demanded
the money back, when Henly refused TO
give it up A quarrel ensuei aud Enans
began punching H5lly in the mouth with
an umbrella staff, when Hanly drew his
| knife and made at Enans and began to cut
him in the back. The cuts are about three
inches deep and, it Is feared, will prove
fatal. Enans is married man, about 81
| years old. He was taken on board the
tram and carried to Rome Immediately
after the cutting.
J. r. Whatleys jug is at the station house
at Atlanta again. This time the jug is
empty. As soon as Whatley served his last
| sentence out he went directly d tbs station
| house and got his brown jug. When it was
| handed him it was half full Of corn whisky.
! When he was found Saturday night, drunk.
he was hugging his jug, but it was empty.
| he was sent TO the stOckade NJ JndaY for
! fifteen days, and the empty brown Jug is
again under the station house keepers desk.
! " hatley left his fimIlyin Campbell county
| about three months ago for Atlanta. He
| bought the jug Of corn whisky ami started
| for home He has started over again four
times and is not there vet, But the jug is
empty at last and when his present sen
tence is finished lie may reach home.
Gainesville Eagle: We happened to be
standing near the corner of Messrs. Barnes,
! Evans q Co. S store with some o.her gentle
men last Saturday. when the street freight
car was passing with several kegs of
| powder aud box containing fifty pounds
Of dynamite. When Just opposite where
We were standing, the box fell of the car,
striking heavily on the iron rail, aud it was
also struck by one of the wheels, and
dragged several feet along the track before
! the car was stopped. Luckily for the large
crowd III the street and the adjacent build
ings the stuff did not explode, for had it,
it would have sent everything Whereabouts
to kingdom come. Some one remarked,
after 1t had become known what was in the
box, that there Is but little danger of
dynamite exploding when packed in saw
dIst, As fhat WAS. All this may be true,
but nor dHF'paFt we had rather be little
farther away when fifty pounds of the stuff
Is permitted to fall several feet onto a rail
road bar.
An Augusta Chronicle reporter witnessed
Monday one of the hardest fought battles
which has occurred i'll Augusta for many a
matched in every particular being of the
same size and armed with the same
weapons. The first round, was draw, both
receiving slight scratches. The second was
longer and more interesting, both combat
ants fighting desperately, and one having a
piece Of his ear taken off and one eye put
out. The third bout, which proved to be
the last, was the most exciting of ALL Each
of the by5tanders mad his favorite and was
hacking IF oh A 81,
first two or three passes it was evident that
the combatant who had lost one eye was
losing his strength. With one mighty effort
his opponent made a grab st his neck, fast
ening his sharp teeth into the flesh and sew
ering it with one bite. The fight occurred
on Ellis street, the principals being two i'm
mense rats which came up out of sewer
and joined battle in the open air before a
large audience.
A Brunswick negro named Walker pro-
fesSes to be hoodoo doctor. Ho carries in
his pocket sand of dark gray color and
little pieces Of decayed wood. This
sand he calls graveyard dust, taken from
the graves OF people, and the wood he has
named "cotfin wood, which he chips from
decayed collins When any of his flock
disobeys him he warns them that they will
be bewitched. Then he follows their foot
steps and when they step In soft sand and
handful of graveyard dust" from his
pocket, places it in a little vessel, which he
! calls the blessed urn and then with his
right hand he carefully takes pinch of
dirt from the print of his disobedient serv-
ants heel, ball and toe Of his foot AS he
| goes through this act he mutters strangely,
rolls his eyes around in a mysterious way,
rises and If his victim is in sight tells him
! that he has now got him in his power But
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has been "hoodoing" his wife because she
crossed him, and when he went home he
| carried a watermelon. Cutting it half in
! two he gave one half to his wife, Henrietta,
and took the other half himself. Henrietta
says she took three bites of the fruit when
Walker exclaimed, 1--WE got you now
there's graveyard dust in that melon, and
once fell down sick and thought she
would die, but rallied and with
| her son let into Walker and
knocked him out in one round. Officers
Lamb and Horton heard the racket and
arrested Walker. As they were CARRYING
him to Jail Henrietta was taken sick again
and began vomiting freely. She was at the
station house Saturday and declared that
| the graveyard dsSt, was in her throat aud
she belisyaf it would "shorelv" kin her,
| The negroes are much stirred up over the
affair." and are more afraid of Walker than
| eSetSti 1877 F. --l
| louisville NstoS and Farmer: In 1895 a
constitutional CONVENTION met In Louisville.
The sessioulasted three weeks, sand by this
| convention it was provided that Louisville
should be the seat of government. The first
! legislature met here in 1895 and elected
Jared Irwin governor The other governors
| serving at Louisville were James jackson
| Josiah TAFT all, Jr., and j Ohm Milledge; Mil
| ledge and Irwin each serving two terms
Not till 1873 was governor elected by the
| people. Gov. Troup served his second
term, being the first elected by a
popular vote. The first legislative assem-
bly, met in Savannah in l775. Soon after
Gov. Reynolds, at a beautiful situation on
the Ogeechee river about twelve miles from
| Savannah, laid Off 4 town which he called
Hardwicke. Here he was in favor of locat-
ing the capitol of Georgia. The capitol,
| however, was removed from Savannah to
| Augusta. During the revolutionary war,
to avoid the British, Heard's Fort, now
Washington, Wilkes county, was made the
temporary seat of the government The
| war over, 1t was moved back 20 Augusta
| thence to Louisville, AIlledgeville aud At
| lanta. Louisville was not, as some say, the
| first capitol of Georgia as a state Georgia
entered into the compact as one of the
Original thirteen in l179: Washington
was qualified as President April 80, of that
| year. Louisville became the capitol seven
years later. | have been reliably informed
that the armory stood on the ground now
occupied by the stores of Messrs. Gamble
and A N. Beach 81 Bro. The Louisville