The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-15

and noble Georgia woman. will give life
and vitality 70 flowers of peace.
Columbus Enquirer SHn: News rsached
! the citv WEDNESDAY OF the tragic death Of
John Dean colOredl. Dean lived on Mrs
Mary Amos plantation, twelve miles north
Of the city. Tuesday afternoon John saw
| a large rat run across the door OF his house
He remarked 20 his son that he would get
his gun and shoot the rat Before he 90.
ready to shoot the rat had taken refuge
under the floor Of the house. John tore up
s plank and began poking the stock of the
gun under the house. The hammer came
IN contact with sill aud the gun was dis
| charged. The muZZle Of the gun was
/ against Johns breast, and the charge If
buckshOt tore through his body. The negro
| fell TO the floor and died instantly.
\ young man is travelling through the
state selling furniture polish. He claims
to be H II. Hill. and the son of Gen. A. P.
Hill He carries big gold-headed cane.
on the head of which is an inscription
stating that it was presented TO Il. H.
Hill by his friend, Jefferson Davis A
short time ago he was in Atlanta selling
polish, and clai ned that he was the son of
Gen. Hill, and that he had invented the
polish himself. He said that he had made
a col fortune of S125.0O0 out of it, and
that he was interested in a big mining en-
terprise out west which yielded him an in
come Of $4,000 year. The widow of the
general writes that the young man is not
her son, and that she knows nothing Of
him.
All the pictures which formerly hung on
the wall Of the Senate chamber and the
hall of representatives at the old capitol at
Atlanta have been transferred to the new
capitol. Some of the old pictures are very
valuable. They are now stored away in
some of the committee rooms on the top
floor Of the new capitol. A bill was intro
duced at the last legislature TO appropriate
$50 for the removal of the pictures, which
failed TO pass. The transfer was made for
50. 1t is expected that the next legislature
VIII appropriate sufficient money TO have
the pictures put in order aud rehuug Some
OF them are greatly in need of attention, and
until the necessary amount is provided the
pictures will remain as they now are-with
their faces TO the wall
Waycross Headlight: T. T. Thigpen of
this county narrowly escaped being muir
dered for his money recently. 1t appears
that negro man made an arrangement
with negro boy in the employ of Mr..
ThlgDen, in which the negro was to hide
himself around the corner of the house,
while the boy should go and tell the IN
suspecting victim that some one wanted
to see him This was done one
night recently, and the negro man remained
outside. The message was delivered, but as
luck would have it as Mr.. Thigpen started
out he picked up an ak, whereupon the
negro boy run out and halloed to his &C
complete to run, for Mr.. Thlgpen has got
an ak to kill you" and both negroes fed
into darkness, Mr.. Thigpen pursuing. The
negroes have have been pursued, but no
capture has been made up to this time.
At Atlanta Wednesday night fire broke
out under Allen s. Boylan's store. In the
same block, two doors below, is the dry
goods store of William Hentschel. Nobody
thought for moment that that store was
in the least affected, and not even Mr.. Heat
schel was aware Of the damage until he
opened his doors Thur sday morning. Then
it was found that the smoke had flied the
store and the goods, counters and show
cases had gone through regular sweating
process. They were stained and discolored
and sticky, pitchy substance like lamp
black had settled over everything in the
house, probably running several thousand
dollars worth Of dry goods, clothing and
fancy goods, as we'll as badly damaging
the counters aud show cases Mr.. Hent-
schel carries stock valued at $4,000. He
had s.. 200 insurance, and claims that he is
damaged at least two-thirds, or in the
neighborhood of $4,000.