The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-01

ara StaOS q Mayor on account OF the
Punishment of His SOMA Negro
Murders Child Ee Had Sired by His
Own Daughter.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. O'Neill of Washington, who mad the
misfortune to break her arm last week, is
fast improving.
Charles Cox, steward of the fishing smack
Minnie of Brunswick, fell overheard Tues
day night and was drowned.
Prof. Addison W. Lynch, late Of Waynes-
boro, was elected president of the jackson
institute at Jackson by the board of direct
ors last Saturday.
A house at Wrightsville, owned by James
Outlaw and occupied by Mallnda Johns n,
a colored washerwomau, was burned with
its contents day or two ago.
Bob Searles, a white man, who was in Jail
in LincOlnton, ran over the Jailer and
escaped on Friday night. He was being
held for crime committed in Texas, and
an officer was on his way here after MIN.
Jasper Williams, a negro blacksmith, aged
about AZ years, living at Upatoie, a small
town on the Southwestern railroad, eighteen
miles from Columbus, is under arrest
charged with numbering child to which
his daughter, aged Is years, gave birth as
the result OF criminal intimacy with him.
A negro drayrnan while driving
dray heavily loaded with
merchandise at Macon We'd
nesday, lost his balance and fell off and the
dray passed directly over his neck. Strange
to say it was not broken, but the negro's
injuries are serious. He was taken to a
physician, but it is not thought his in uries
will result fatally.
Fort Valley Enterprise: The Macon
Telegraph, in speaking Of the visit of Justice
Lamar to his native county of Putnam
and sleeping in the room in which he was
born sixty years ago, says the old locust
tree under which he played when a little boy
is gone, but sprouts have grown out of the
old stump. This locust tree, hardy and
long lived as it was, must yield in point of
longevity to the cherry trees which Maj.
Jones says are now standing giants at
Monticello, where Thomas jefferson planted
them, and are likely to afford fruit for
generation or so to come.
At Jacksonville last Friday Prof Swan
son, Of the high school, took occasion to
correct son of R. E. Burt. Mr. Burt,
learning Of this, went tol SwansOn's home
and slapped him in the face. Swanson com
planned to the town authorities, and on
Saturday Burt was brought before Mayor
Howser. who required him to pay a small
fine, and also to give bond TO answer in the
superior court. Upon this Burt became
very much enraged, and struck the mayor
with an open knife, inficting an ugly
wound in his shoulder. Othe 8 interfered
and separated them. DR.. Thompson was
summoned, and dressed the wound. Burt
has not yet been arrested.
Fort Valley Enterprise: Last Wednes-
day red fox in the Willow lake settlement
concluded to quit his hiding place in the
thickets and jungles, and take the highway
unpursued. fearless Of man or dog. As
he passed the residence of L. f. Murph a
negro man attempted his capture. The fox
bit him several times, and passed on. He
called at S. H. Rumph's and created com
motion in the fowl yard. He
killed several ducks in short time,
and was himself killed by Mr.. Rumph with
gun. This strange conduct of an animal
by nature shy and Secretative "astonished
the natives" and some fears as to rabies
were entertained. There is probably no
other instance of the kind in this country,
80 full of foxes. Speaking of foxes, this
place was so Astounding in this species Of
valid varmints that Fort Valley was chris
tened Fox Valley, and by some mistake at
Washington city, owing to bad spelling,
fox was read fort" and this was re-
talned as the better appellation.
Albany Net0s and advertiser: M. B,
Hunter, the cementist. will hardly follow
his trade OF making smooth pathways for
other folks any more. Dame fortune has
smiled upon him and il he keeps his senses
about him, his own future pathway can be
made fairly smooth. Huater came to
Albany several months ago, and engaged in
making GENE t pavement for private
parties. He subseQue thy made a contract
with the city for pavements along the bust
ness fronts. His contract is unfinished, and
likely to remain so. Hunter has gone to
Pennsylvania to secure the signatures Of
certain persons living in that state.
which will put him in possession of q
snug fortune. Hunter was a union soldier
in Pennsylvania regiment, and in one OF
the battles OF the war was wounded in one
of his Leg. The wound entitled him to a
pension, but until recently he has been un-
able to get his claim recognized However.
assisted by pension attorney at the capital,
ne has been pegging away, and success has
finally crowned their efforts Hunter was
discharged in 1867, and the amount that he
will receive from the government will reach
very close to 5000, which has been piling
up since the day of his discharge.
The Athens Banner describes the Frank
lin county jail at Gainesville as a disgrace
to the state. In his account of it, after Civ
ing some particulars, correspondent of the
Banner says: 1.-The situation will have to
be pictured by you; it is too disgusting to
describe. On entering, the nauseating
effects Of the sight and odor were so over
towering as to stop some before going far
and preventing all from making a completes
investigation. 1t appeared to have received
no attention whatever since its erection,
and certainly not for years. No sanitary
arrangements seem to have been thought of.
and the prisoners were left TO their own de-
vices. What tortures of the damned must
have been suffered by the inmates of this
pens 1t is said that even water was denied
them, and their appeals for this inexpen-
sive and easily gotten necessity were so
piteous as to cause passers by who heard
them to stop their ears. And here were re-
Gently kept white woman, a white man, a
negro woman and seven negro men. Posi-
bly, some we're imprisoned for minor crimes,
but supposng all to be of the most heinous
kind, no worse torture than this could have
been administered during the horrible reign
OF the tnquisition. Further details could be
given, but out of respect for our readers we
refrain from going into particulars to
greater extent.
FLORIDA.
W. A. Carter is now editor Of the Tampa
Tribune.
G. A. Lotion has been promoted to de-
livery clerk of the postoffice.
The democratic primaries for Alachua