The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.


Rge Suits Refused at Macon Satur-
day-No Will Left BY the Wealthy
Mr.. Coleman OF Macon.
GEORGIA.
Greensboro has a rooster that climbs q
tree by using his spurs as a telegraph line
man uses his leg spikes in ascending a tele-
graph pole.
Tom Williams is worrying the life out of
the Mt. Vernon jailer, he being incarcer-
Rted there. Every morning when the Jaller
goes to the cell the lock is off. Williams il
thought to be a professional lock breaker.
The Pearl Heard mines, near Union
Point, have stopped worked for awhile on
account of the water. They will put in
large pumps and an engine as soon as
they can get them, and then will push the
work.
Gus Asbury sends the Greensboro Herald
Journal a iointed snake, and although
dead, the pieces join together all right. He
SAYS it fell TO pieces before he struck it, and
if he had not killed it it would have put it
self together again.
A Cairo colored man narrowly escaped
being bitten by a rattlesnake. He fired his
gun at the reptile and it kicked him in the
Ochlocknee river. He could not swim, but
was pulled out by passing teamster. The
snake escaped deatn.
Ellis Gothard, about % years old, was
drowned in Flint river, near the mouth Of
White Oak creek, near Greenville, last Sat
urday afternoon. He had gone into the
water to battle and it is thought was seized
with cramp at once.
Sugar, a little 6-year-old negro, son Of
Freeman Dowdell, Of the Twenty-eighth
district, Sumter county, living on Capt. C.
w. Felder's place, while fooling with his
fathers pistol last Sunday discharged the
weapon, the ball taking effect in vital
point and killing him instantly.
Henry jackson. a colored man who does
detective work sometimes, reported TO one
of the magistrates of ValdOsta a day or two
ago that colored man had got white
man from Valdosta into game of "52" and
won 500 from him. 1t is said that detect
ives have been put on the case, but they
have not turned up anything" yet.
Eddie Cochran, son of the late James T.
Cochran, of Camilla, aged II years, had
been spending some time with his uncle, G..
c. Cochran of Flint, and, on last Saturday
morning, while out cunning, accidentally
shot himself through the left elbow joint,
managing the flesh and hard parts TO such
an extent as to require emputation Of the
arm.
The celebrated Hatcher case was called
at Dawson on Friday and a special jury
from the grand jury was struck to try
Hatchers for contempt of court, in that they
have, without sufficient reason, failed to
turn over to the receiver appointed by the
court all assets Of the firm. The verdict
of the jury sustained the charge of con-
tempt.
Last Friday Frank Kilgore of Monroe,
who at the time was running the mill en-
xyipn xHo eaigoA with nd 81 hos
been unable to speak work. Mr.. Kilgore
was as well thirty minutes before as he
ever felt, and while he had become over
heated, he had only taken two drinks Of
water The trouble is supposed to be
paralysis Of the vocal chords.
Like great many other wealthy men who
die, the late S. I. Coleman of Macon made no
will Whether he was opposed to making
a will, or did not realize the serious extent
of his last illness is not known to the writer.
Mr.. Coleman's estate is estimated TO be
worth anywhere from $4,000 to $500, 600.
He left wife and seven children. Mrs.
Coleman has been granted temporary let
tiers of administration. The wholesale dry
goods business will go on the same as usual.
Townsville Enterprise: 1t will be
sad news to railroad men through
out the Plant system TO learn that Capt.
Meynardie, the veteran railroad conductor,
is no more. He died at his home in Jack
sonville, Fla, yesterday morning at $50
O'Clock of bowel trouble. Way back into
the sixties Capt. Meynardie was the first
conductor that ever brought freight train
into Townsville, and no man in the SER
vice was better known and liked by all than
he was.
A stock company has been organized In
the town OF Franklin, Heard county. for
ha Of v,..hlfclvDrv
paper at that place. They have bought the
press and type Of the Senoia Sentinel.
which suspended few months ago. and
viii issue their first number under the name
of the Heard County Banner, on June II.
Col. T. B. Davis of Franklin, a leading
lawyer, and prominent in the politics of that
county, has been chosen editor Of the
Banner.
The little child of Mr.. Thorpe, in East
Macon, had a narrow escape from death
Friday morning at its fathers home. The
little one was playing in an upper hallway,
and succeeded in getting round loose from
the railing, crawled through the space, and
falling. struck the floor below. a distance
of nearly II feet. In the fall the child
struck the banister son a second flight,
bruising its head and cutting an ugly cash
on its nose. This, it seems, saved1he little
ones life, as it broke the force Of the fall.
George b. Vining some time ago did
newspaper work at Brunswick. Vining
left there and went to Atlanta where he
was connected for a while with the Surdau
Press, a journal issued by the American
Press Association. Recently he has been
engaged in reportorial work on the republi-
can evening paper in Chattanooga. Friday
he was shot in the fieshy part of his leg by
the accidental discharge of target rife.
which was carelesslv thrown against a
chair, the hammer striking round and dis
charging it. The wound is painful. but not
serious.
The Central railroad has reason to re-
member June l, at Macon. Counsel for
the Central had prayed for a new trial in
each of the following cases, in which a
virdict had been rendered for plaintiff: S.
J. Kent VS.. Central railroad, verdict for
$12, 600 damages. j. J. Ryals VS.. Central
railroad, verdict for S., 600. Martha Stirk VS..
Central railroad, verdict for 1000 Judge
dustin. at chambers, Saturday morning.
overruled the motion for a new trial iu each
case. The total amount is $27, 600 Defend
ants counsel will appeal the cases to the
supreme court.
The city court of Augusta is engaged on the
case Of D. A. Stamey of Habersham county.
who is suing the South Carolina railway
for 81, 800 damages in two courts-for
electing his son from a passenger train at
Bath, S. c., in December, 1SS7-also for the
freight hands on the freight train
frightening him. Stameyis son
was carrying live stock to Charleston, and.
as is the custom, was given free pass on a