The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIM NEWS OF rda TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

Scandal in White County-A Negro
Fatally Wounded Near Lexington
The Negroes Held For the Mobbs
Outrage Released.
GEORGIA.
William Murray of Worth county and
Hiss Bulah Pittman of Polk county were
married Monday.
AT Americas Tuesday negro snatched
$40 from one negro and a gun from another
and disappeared in the woods
Miss Berta Hardeman and George s.
Jones were married at the residence OF the
brides father. Col Isaac Hardeman. in
Vineville, suburb of Macon, last night
On account Of the illness of Judge Smith,
Taylor superior court has been postponed
until the fourth Monday in February.
There is but little probability of his re-
covery.
At Atlanta Monday night Bill Holmes, a
drunken negro, got into fight with Lizzie
Holmes, bis wife, and struck her in the
breast with the blunt side of an az, causing
internal hemorrhages which threaten TO put
an end to her.
At Atlanta Monday night Charles Huff
whacked Celia Wilbon over the head with
a Ratchet, fracturing her skull in three
places. The woman bears several other
severe wounds. and at the hospital is thought
TO be near dying Both assailant and vic
tim are negroes.
The First Baptist church of Athens has
called Rev. DIR. L. A. Gwaltney, an emf
nent divine of Rene. DR.. Gwaltney is
president of Shorter college, which position
he has filed for several years Its thought
he will accept the call, though a strong
effort will be made by the college to retain
him.
Near Lexington Sunday Munich Wheless
became involved in difficulty with a negro
named Willis Collins, and a few words were
passed. when a sharp report of a pistol
broke the stiffness Of the night, and Collins
fell to the floor with a groan. At last re-
ports he had no chance whatever of re-
covery.
Reldsville Journal. The delegates will
meet the first Monday in December to nom
mate county officers. OF course there is not
a man in the county who has the least idea
who will be nominated. Messrs. John N.
Rogers and r. n. Adamson are candidates
for sheriff. For the other offices no one has
announced as yet
At Atlanta, while the police patrol wagon
was on its way to tie stockade Monday
night to deliver half O dozen prisoners, it
was run into by an engine on the dummy
line and smashed Five of the prisoners
then ran away. The remaining one was
WOludu WnOn 10 DOiQ.
She was little hurt in the collision.
At Cuthbert Monday Randolph superior
court, Immediately after organizing, took
recess until the first Monday in December.
The reasons therefor were that there is
nothing before the court but what could
well be delayed until then; that the farmers
have lots of cotton open in the field and but
little labor to get it out with, and that it
would be convenience to them, and that
election day would engross attention.
DR.. Holmes Of Rome, who died in Arkan-
sas day or two ago, was the victim Of a
spiders bite. During last summer DR..
Holmes was bitten on one of his hands by
a small but poisonous spider. The wound
was at first considered insignificant, but
after awhile symptoms of phosmia, or blood
poisoning set in, and the sufferer went 80
the famous Arkansas springs in search Of
relief. The poison, however, had brought
about other complications in the system
H. F. Abercrombie, the young man about
20 years old who was tried and acquitted az
the March term of the Washington superior
court in 1889 Gu the charge Of robbing the
Wrightsville &lennille Railroad Company
at Tennille of 50, 100, is in deeper trouble
now than ever before. He is in the Birm-
ingham (Ala.l jail under two or three
serious charges-those of robbing the ex-
press Office at Millport, Ala, last year and
of robbing the postoffloe at Hot Springs,
Talladega county, Ala, this year.
The foreman employed by r. Fl. Copper
at his ore mines, near Taylorsville, went TO
Marietta Monday and identified the two
negroes in jail there as the ones whom he
discharged on Wednesday about noon.
The charge of numbering Miss Mobbs, near
Sti esboro, on Wednesday morniag. no
longer rests upon them. an alibi being
established The negroes were set at liberty
at once. The affair is still one of profound
mystery, though it is claimed that some
startling Developments will soon be made
lagrange Graphic: JEFF Hart. a we'll
known and highly respected citizen of
1roup Factory, met an untimely death on
Wednesday last. 1t seems that he was
blasting in the bottom of a we'll Just
after blast he went down in the we'll TO
examine the rock. but discovering that foul
gas was at the bottom, he sigma ed to be
pulled up. When he had reached within
eight or ten feet Of the top of the we'll the
gas overcame him, when he loosened his
hold Of the rope and tumbled headforemost
to the bottom of the well, fracturing his
skull on the rocks at the bottom, and
meeting almost instant death.
Lagrange Graphic: On Tuesday last
Mr.. II. G. Towns. of this county, came
very near losing his life at WhitfieId's
crossing. He drove up to the crossing lust
as long freight train was pulling out, and
as the last box passed him he drove on
across the track. Just as he got on the
track beyond he was horr fled to see another
train before unnoticed backing down on
him. He struck his mules and Jumped
from the wagon just as the train struck it,
thus saving his life, but the train made
Hndling wood of his wagon, and came very
near getting his mules. Pieces Of the wagon
we're scattered along the track for 100
yards.
A. Huntington, street commissioner of
Cedartown, was very painfully if not per-
manently injured by an explosion of dyna-
mite Monday. Early in the morning Mr..
Huntington had placed dynamite car
fridge under a stump in new street being
opened up, for the purpose Of blowing 1t
up, but the cartridge failed to explode
Some hours afterward Mr.. Huntington took
out the cartridge and threw the dynamite
into the fire, thinking that it had all burned
up. He then threw the cap into the fire and
1T exploded, and the conclusion caused the
dynamite, a small quantity of which had
not yet burned, to explode, throwing the
ashes and hot cinders into Mr.. Huntington's
lace with great violence, severely burning
his face, especially upon the left side.
About two months ago, a man who gave
his name as Charles Jolly, and a girl, sup
posed TO be about twelve years old, settled
eight or nine miles west of Cleveland in
White county. He said the child was his
daughter. Last Friday morning the family