The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03


20 be made soon by the city OF Macon y
said President J. o. Waidell of the State
Agricultural Society Friday, releasing us
from that contract. Then our policy will
be 70 have the fair held alternately in
Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and Columbus
just before the state fair Of 1889 President
Northen endeavored to get the citizens of
MacOa 70 Cooperate with the Georgia Ag-
ricultural Society IL the management of
the stats fair, but nothing resulted from
the proposition. This movement nav be
revived a. ths annual meeting of the society
next year By 8 proposition from citizens of
| Macon 10 form a joint stock company. l.
/ is very probable. however, that an exposi-
ton company can succeed in Macon only
bY the management being exclusively in
] the hands OF citizens of Macon.
At Dahlonega Thursday, Mart Burns was
| arrested for the murder Of Nelson Beardel.
| II was believed that DEVELOPMENTS would be
made which would fix the crime on Burns,
Two of Bearden's sons went to the hou g Of
Burns step-nother two days age aud forced
| their way into her house. They discovered
blood on the floor which had been at
tempted 70 be removed by soap. Soap was
also disc 1vered on the murdered man. He
| was found $50 yards from the woma-'s
house. Burns had been guilty of illicit
relations With the woman before his fathers
marriage with her and had several
] klLleS LuTeaLrue4 DSdEQeuS lie.
| The last time Beardeu was seen
he was with Burns the morning of the
murder. There were tracks from where
| the body was fOu d TO and from the
woman's house. There were finger prints
on the dead mans legs and arms, showing
that he had been carried out. The woman
| had been in terror Of Burns since the muir
der, and has said that after the arrest she
would tell everything. She would not
/ all Gbn Enau AZ ha nOrnparfa
More Developments are expected. Bearden
was man OF high character, a Baptist
| deacon, and nobody believes that Burns
| jealousy, which was the motive of the muir
der, had any real foundation.
Augusta Chronicle: At Sparta Thurs
day John Chiefly, citizen of Hancock,
shot Sam Warren, a negro, in the bead,
and it is thought that the wound is fatal
King Il Frankhns circus exhibited az
Sparta, and negroes from all parts of the
country iocked there to see it After the
show was over the negroes proceeded as
usual 20 fill up with mean whisky. Sam
| Warren, the negro who was shot, was one
Of the most turbulent in the crowd,
During the afternoon he became in
volved in difficulty with Dave Silver. and
when in the act Of driving knife into the
latter's body, john Chiefly drew his pistol
and shot him. The ball passed through the
right ear into the head This affair seems
to have enraged the negroes Yesterday
| afternoon about $50, all more or less drunk,
boarded the fast train running between
Macon aud Camak. After filling the second
class car, a large contingent boarded the
| ladies' car, with whisky bottles and knives
protruding from their pockets There
were only five white passengers on
board and two of those were ladies
| of this city en- route home from the
state fair. The negroes were so turbulent
| that two OF the white male passengers
Frank Gray of the Atlanta Journal and
a representative of this paper, stationed
themselves near the ladies to afford what
ever protection might be necessary. A
| white man somewhat under the influence of
| liquor got aboard at Sparta, and when the
train was nearing Culverton he became in-
volved in difficulty with several of the
| negroes. Knives were drawn and for time
the widest excitement prevailed. The
| negroes rushed up and down tue
aisles displaying weapons and using
| most indecent language Com
ductor Ahern pushed through the
maddened mob and made a determined
effort to quell the disturbance. While thus
engaged he was literally covered with
knives. AT This critical period, however,
one OF tue white passengers went to the
conductors assistance, and by a game of
bluff the two silenced che riotous gang. The
ladies who were forced to witness the dis
graceful scene almost swooned from fright
and would have jumped from the moving
train had they not been restrained by the
gentlemen who eSsayed their protection.
FLORIDA.
Green Cove now has its Chautauqua
| circle
J. Driggers of Stanton has had returns
| from his first shipment Of oranges. He re-
ceived 81 so per oox,
A new company has been formed to be
known as the Tampa Saddlery Company"
successors to c. S. Eliot.
The LOOMS Company Of Fernandina has
Just closed a contract with a consumer for
200 tons Of Nassau plastering fiber.
The building being erected in Ybor City
by G. n Brigham, for use as steam Iaun-
dry, is rapidly nearing completion.
E. ii. Stearns Of Fruitland intends going
into the cattle business He speaks OF in
vesting in ZOO head Of 3-year-old heifers.
The pilots OF Fernandina have entered suit
Tor the recovery of the cotton held by
parties on Tiger creek, and which the pilot:
claim was taken from them.
J. T. Conoley, white peddler living in
Walton county, was Indicted, Thursday, by
the grand jury Of that county, then In ses
sion, for an assault with intent to murder
The phosphate works at Middleburg are
now working night and day. They have
employed q new force of hands, and are
anxious to secure more. They have an order
for $4,000 tons.
P. K. Yonge of Pensacola has accepted
the New York city management of the
Southern States Land and Timber Com
pany, and will shortly remove to that point
for permanent location.
Capt Kirk of Wildwood has about one
half an acre in sugar cane, and he SAYS he
will make at least 800 gallons of syrup
from this small patch. That is not less
than 1925 per acre, aud it costs but very
little to raise it.
The schooner Nettie arrived at Pensacola
Friday after being seven days out from st.
Andrews bay. The vessel was in the guilt
battling with severe head winds, and the
captain reports that it was the worst trip he
has ever made between those ports.
The Hard Rock Company at their meet
ing last Tuesday in Ocala failed to decide
on the purchase of the F. o. G. & T. COM
pany's lands at Inverness. These are valu-
able deposits, lying as they do, in the heart
of the progressive village Of Inverness.
Two of McDonald's gang of negroes work
ing at Mass tu trestle, near Fernandlna, had
a dispute Monday. which ended in one OF
them, Isaac James, drawing a revolver and
firing upon the other, Richard Finizie, re
sulting in slight wound in the thigh