The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-13

MIS- Nc kee for Murder-A printers
Hand Crushed.
GEORGIA.
Douglasville wants a bank
Littleton Petty Of Covington died q few
days ago.
President Bass hsa decided not 10 re-leas.
Wesleyan Female College at Macon.
Mscon's fund for securing the state mill
tary encampment now amounts to g., $50
Night schools will not be established Al
Macon at present, owing to lack Of funds.
A 81, o0s confederate bond IN a store win,
dow OF Townsville attracts the attention
of northern visitors.
Glen Mozely Of Austell is the father of
nineteen children. He is 7S years old. The
youngest child was born three weeks ago.
Thomas Finch, aged ~ years. and Misl
Addie Chamoley, aged IS years. were mar.
ried in Calhoun last week by Rev. B. ii.
Pack
r. T. Gibson, ssorekespsr and gaugsr of
Talbot county, VINO has been very i'll in
Macon, Is recovering, ana will soon be at
duty again.
lodge Of Knights Of Honor was or
ganized at Lithonia last Wednesday night
by Past Grand Dictator Steve R johnson
OF Atlanta
Matte Chapman, daughter Of Samuel
Chapman OF Hinesville, was burned 70 death
few days ago. She had been playing
around fire in field.
John Dunn, who was lately appointed
storekeeper and gauger by the United
States government, has been assigned to
duty In Wilkinson county.
President George R. McRee Of the Geor-
gia Melon Growers Association has called a
meeting Of the melon growers of Georgia at
Albany on Wednesday, Feb. IS
The rebate on tobacco in store in Macon
on Jan. last will amount to between sc, 900
and 81 200. This, at the rate Of cents Der
pound, represents q considerable amount of
the weed in store.
The wife Of Turner Robinson, the negro
who murdered his child and threw her
body in pond near Albany, has been ar
rested ON warrant charging her with cont
plicity in the crime.
At Adairsville Monday night the so-called
Klu klux" caught Charlie Giliahead
tcoloredl, who had made himself obnoxious
by cursing and being impudent to white
people, and thrashed him soundly.
There is one gentleman In Newman who
evidently does not consider marriage a fail
ure. he was married about ten years ago.
and on each Christmas morning since he
has presented the minister who ofilciated at
the ceremony with $40 gold piece.
Walter Conway is printer in the ems
ploy of j. K. Gardner Of Athens He was
feeding the job press Tuesday, when his
right hand was caught between tie two
faces of the press, and all the fingers were
SO badly mashed that amputatlon will have
to follow.
Mrs. Ora Mckee, the fair prisoner Of
Rome, is still in Floyd county jail By the
advice of her attorney, Judge Branham.
she now refuses to see any one except her
relatives and few or her intimate friends
Her trial, on q charge Of murder by poison
ing, has boon set for the first Monday in
March.
A cyclone .one hundred yards wide
passed near Trenton Monday afternoon
from west 70 east, sweeping everything in
its path. MIR. 3. b. Austin's barn and
house were completely demolished. Mr..
Austin was sick and unable to get out Of
bed, shelter being erected over his bed by
neighbors
AT Hinesyille Saturday john A. Stewart
white, charged with the killing OF Sambo
jackson tcolsred) by hitting him with a
brick, underwent preliminary examina-
ton before Justice F. NJ Hughes and was
bound over to the May term OF the superior
court, IN the sum of 81 900, for manslauph.
ter. Stewart gave bond and is now at Ip-
erty.
At Augusta Wednesday Coroner Picouet
was called upon TO hold an inquest over
willis Tomlin, a four-months-old white
baby, found dead in bed between mother
and father this Esorning, at 1876 Grace
street The father and mother were both
confined to bed with measles, and with four
children all huddled up together in two
small rooms. 1t is horrible case of desti-
tuition. The infant died from congestion of
the lungs
The Dublin People calls the attention OF
Agricultural Commissioner Nesbitt to the
tea plants growing in the front yard of
Richard A. Odom at Condor, Laurens
county. Mr. Odom got the plants from the
United States department OF sgriculrure.
and set them out in 1880. Though they
have had little care or protection, they
yield an abundance of leaves. supplying
Mr; odoms family with beverage of ex-
cellent quality.
financial loss from the fire which occurred
on his place in Efhngham county q few
days ago. His barns, stables. cotton house
and one or more buggies and harness, all
his farming implements, 800 bushels OF corn,
eight bales of cotton and several small
buildings around his lot were DESTROYED.
The fire is supposed to have been the work
OF an incendiary. Mr.. Foy estimates his
loss at 81, 900.
Fourteen days ago Rufus Gray ana Bawn
Wilkes started from Tweed to Darien with
large raft of timber. Generally from
this point the hands make the trip in eight
days, providing no accident occur s.
Messrs Gray and Wilkes are now seven
days behind time, and it is feared something
wrong has befallen them. 1t is conjectured
that. having sold their timber, they may
have left Darien and been wayiaid and
robbed. All kinds of rumors are afioat.
During the performance Of the fifth act
OF the 1.-TWO Orphans Tuesday night at
the Academy of Music at Macon a colore d
woman in the gallery caused a sensation by
dropping from her seat as il dead 1t was
during the dueliHg scene, and the woman
became SO wrought up with excitement that
she Tell into dead faint. She was carried
into the ticket room and efforts were made
TO restore her to consciousness. When she
revived she had several convulsions. but
was finally able to get up and walk to a
hack, in which she was taken to her home
on the hill.
Bailey Banner: On Friday night last q
man. Wheeler by name, while sleeping in
the woods near Surrency, had his head split
nearly open by falling tree. 1t seems
that he and companion had lain down
and gone to sleep near where some brush
had been burning. During the night q tree
which had caught burned down and struck
one OF them before he had time to get away.
A freight train brought him up to Baxley,
where DIR. Weaver sewed up and dressed
the wound, which was terrible cash six
or seven inches in lan~tb apa ~