The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


Mount Vernon-A Fight over a Wn
at Newnan-something Out Of the
Common In GRANDMOTHER.
GEORGIA
Rev. ". A. Swift, ST., of Elberton diet
Tuesday.
A military company has been organized
at Newman.
The new Friendship Baptist church a
Metcalfe was dedic- ted yesterday.
A movement is on foot for the erectio,
of a new academy building at Gibson.
Within the past two months Capt. J. T
Clancy of Macon has lost his wife and tw,
children by death.
Alfred Oliver of Elberton has just hac
enlarged growths removed from his throat
TO prevent catarrh.
At Montezuma Mr.. Minor has donated
the plat Of ground just beyond + c. Nc
Evoy's residence for city park.
The census of 1850 gave Hartwell a popu
lation of 420. This census it is over 500
nearly double. The white population is
about 635
Dr. J. D. Walker Of Gainesville leaves for
Berlin, Germany, where be gees to perfect
himself in his speciality, gyn@col gy. He
will be absent about two years.
Henry Woodson, the negro assaulted by
Steve Windsor at Americas, is in a pre-
carious condition. The preliminary trial
of Woodson has been postponed, owing to
this fact.
L. .. G. Lamar, one Of the justices Of the
supreme court of the United States, arrived
at Eatonton Saturday. He is accompanied
by his wife, They went TO EatontOn to
visit Mrs Sarah Ward. who is quite sick
At the Little river bridge at Eatonton a
DO no tagf
Thompson fell from the first deck, dis
tance of twenty-five feet, and was bruised
considerably by the fall. The bruises are
painful, but not likely to prove fatal
negro boy named jackson, who was
working in Mr.. Lancaster's store at Eaton
ton, was stabbed with a knife by a blind
boy named Griggs. The knife entered the
neck Just above the collar bone and severed
one branch of the large vein of the neck.
jackson will recover. Griggs Is in jail.
The trustees of the Eatonton academy
have elected w. c. Wright principal,
Rev A. J. Beck first assistant, F. c. Brancn
second assistant; Mrs. Annie Nlsbet, prin-
cipal of the primary department.; Miss Lena
GuttenDerger, mu lc instructreSs, and Miss
Minnie McAfee of Atlanta instructress in
art and French.
N. B. Cosby of Elberton. who has been
suffering from blood poisoning caused by
a splinter he ran into his finger some time
ago, is again on the streets. 1t was at one
time feared his hand would have to be am-
putated but that danger has been averted,
and he is in a fair way Of recovery if no
untoward accident happens.
Near Stanfordville, Putnam county,
Henry Moreland (colored), without provo
cation, stabbed Gov. Dickey, another
colored man, five times, inficting four
wounds in the back and one in the breast
The wounded man is in a critical condition
and may die. The assailant was arrested,
taken before Justice Odom, and was by him
released from custody on SIS bond.
The children of G. W. Meadows of Harri-
son have four living great-graudmothers
and two living grandmothers. The youngest
greatgrandmother Is rs, while the oldest is
92 the youngest grandmother is 55 and the
oldest is IS. There Is a popularity con-
nected with the eventful life of these Oldest
grandmothers, and that is that each one of
them has had her right arm broken. The
ladies are all widows.
Near Eatonton, few days ago, a negro
named Abe Monday had the misfortune to
lose his dwelling house by fire aud four out
houses. One Of the houses contained about
twenty bushels of corn another house 200
pounds of meat, and in a third was con-
fined five hogs, all of which were burned
with the houses, The fire is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary. The
fire occurred during the day, and in the alb
sence OF the owner.
Last Thursday as the Wrightsville and
Teunllle freight pulled out for Dublin a
negro thought he would play joke on the
switchman by holding him back until the
train had SO far gone that it would be i'm
possible for him to overtake it. The prank
player accomplished his intention, and the
train sailed off without a switchman. The
tables were soon turned, however, and the
city marshal was in hot pursuit of the little
Joker, but he escaped.
Newman Herald and Advertisers. On
Monday afternoon last, in the Fourth dis
trict lightning struck a large tree standing
midway between w. L. Crowder's gin
house and cotton press. The current de-
Elected from the tree, and. striking the iron
screw, set fire TO the wooden framework of
the press. The flames were making rapid
Roadway when discovered, but by prompt
and active work were extinguished before
much damage had been done.
Gibson Enterprise. A painful accident
befell young Roger Vaughn, lad of Is or
IA years, on j. f. Hannah's place, near
Wrens, on the A, q. and s. railroad last
Saturday. In company with Oscar King.
young Vaughn went out cunning, and. Ia
crossing log, his gun accidentally struck
against some object and discharged itself,
iutiicting a painful wound through the
heshy part of the neck, barely escaping the
jugular vein. The lad is doing as we'll as
could be expected under the circumstances.
Newman Herald and Advertiser: In the
matter of T. N. Bingham, propounder of
the will of the late A. w. Bingham, and n.
j. Bingham, caveator, which has been
pending in the ordinary's court for two or
three months past, Judge Persons has dis
missed the proceedings to probate the will,
on the ground that the executor named in
the testament is u nonresident and had no
authority to offer the will for probate The
propounder's counsel announced that they
would appeal the case to the superior court.
In the matter Of years support applied for
by testator's widow, the commissioners ap-
pointed by the ordinary have set apart
$1,000
Mt. Vernon Monitor. Our friends down
about Apple have had a little excite
ment A certain tcolored) citizen of North
Carolina, who had left that good old state
in consequence Of an impending gallows
several years ago, made his appearance il
that neighborhood last Thursday Though
going under an assumed name it happened
that there were a number of the bands
there VINO knew him. This fact, in connec-
ton with heavy reward that was out for
him, caused his arrest by a party #
whites. But before they had rightly
secured him, he made a dash and
escaped, not, however, without two balls
from the pistol of one of his captors pierre
ing him, one in the shoulder and one in the