The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-27

to His Old Home in Georgia-Ed
Stokes After Picture Owned By 6
Maconite.
GEORGIA.
J. B. Toomer's addition 20 bis hotel at
Athens is going up rapidly.
w. P. Mcclure, a large knitting mill ma
chine manufacturer of Philadelphia, IS
working to have q knitting mill established
at Augusta.
Will Yarbrough of Athens was badly
bitten on the hand few days ago by a
wild pig. and his hand is badly swollen ano
he is suffering terribly from the bite.
Bibb republicans will have bot contest
over the election of delegates 70 the state
convention that will send delegates 10 the
national convention. Certain OF the colored
population will try to elect only negroes TO
the state convention and will make an effort
TO have only negroes as delegates to the
presidential convention at Minneapolis.
The sinking fund commission OF Augusta
has been abolished. The commissioners
met at the mayors Office Wednesday, and
after turning their books and money over
to the city declared their offices void. The
property turned over to the city was $4.500
in money and fence bonds of $500 each that
were Cancelled by the sinking fund in May,
1891.
Monday was the anniversary Of Bishop
BeckwIth's death. With those who knew
and loved the noble and brilliant divine it
awakened ssd and tender memories. Some
of his devoted friends visited his grave In
Oakland cemetery at Atlanta Monday and
covered it with beautiful flowers. A hand
some floral offering was sent up from the
family in Savannah.
The coroner's jury empaneled 10 investi-
gate the circumstances attending the kill
ing of John Clarke colored) by Ben Phelps
(coloredl which occurred in Jones county,
night or two ago, returned q verdict of
murder in the first degree. The killing took
place at a frolic and 1t Is understood that a
woman was the cause Of the affair. A re-
ward of SIS has been offered for the capture
of Phelps.
There was a wreck on the Rome and De-
cstur railroad, just beyond Coosa station,
Tuesday. The train which was in the trouble
was mixed one, composed Of freight and
passenger cars. Three freight cars were de-
rallied and pretty badly torn up. The pas-
senger coaches. which were at the rear OF
the train. were not in the wreck, but the
passengers had to desert them and go into
Rome on coal cars, which were loaded with
limestone. There were seven ladies among
the passengers. Three of the ladies bravely
got on the engine and rode INTO town on the
iron horse.
At negro frolic at Aaron Preston's
q
cold-blooded murder was committed by the
killing of Wilson Walker by Joe Thomas
Walker was dancing with a woman, which
incensed Thomas. Thomas sent his friend,
Tom Marks, into the house to bring Walker
out. Walker replied that he would go as
soon as the set was over, which he did,
Marks taking him by the arm, and walking
about twenty steps from the house, to where
Joe Thomas stood waiting. On Walker and
Marks coming up. arm IN arm, Thomas
fired his pistol at Walker. the ball striking
the heart. Walker turned aud ran in the
house and turned to get on a bed and fell
dead. Thomas was arrested, but made his
escape.
Mrs. Dixie Haygood Embry Abbott OF
Macon, after travelling all over the United
States and Canada, is now in London,
where the handsome electric curiosity, now
popularity known as 1.-THE Little Georgia
Wonder" is astonishing the people Of Lon
don. The New York World hos a cable
from London which states that Mrs Abbott
is giving exhibitions at the Alhambra and
that nothing on the London stage has ever
captured the popular interest as does she,
The London papers have given columns to
her expert occult experiments and viciously
quarrel over the alleged phenomena. 1t Is
reported that she gets 81 900 for each per-
formance. Every night some stalwart
Ruardsmen Is on the stage to test her
strength, and even the renowned "Chaw-
lie" Mitchell has been unable to overcome
her.
A certain Macon gentleman has q big
lascivious picture. 1t is life size 1t was
bought across the waters and Ia the work Of
one OF Europe's finest artists. Ed Stokes
saw the picture when the Maconite bad it In
New York and he greatly admired it and
wished to buy it, but the Maconite did not
care to sell at that time. He desires though
now to sell 1t and is in correspondence with
Ed Stokes on the subject. The price asked
is $4,000. Stokes says times are dull at
present and offers only $4,000. The Maconite
is not disposed to sell at that figure. but at
Stokes invitation the Maconite may send
the picture to New York to be hanged on
the walls of Stokes palatial bar at the Hoff-
man house in the expectation that some rich
oonnoisseur may fancy the picture and buy
1t at 81, 800 Once the picture adorns Stokes
bar, he will not care to part with it but pay
the sum asked rather than let it go.
Last fall. one of Cobb county's farmers
concluded that he could do better In Ala
bama, and he shipped his goods by railroad
boxed his dog and semi him to the new
home beyond Sand mountain, over 10C
miles from there. The Cobb county farmer
had not been domiciled in his new home
long before sickness came into his family
and everything looked gloomy. When his
family got well he concluded old Georgia
was good enough for him, and be put his
family on the train and moved back tc
Cobb. He left his dog. however. The dog
missed his master, whined and ran around
the house for several days and then disap-
peared. What was the Cobb county gentle.
mans surprise one day to see his dog oomt
running up to him at his home, little
worse for hunger, but in pretty good bodily
trim. He had made the trip from
Alabama, back to Georgia, guided by in
stinot alone.
Washington Chronicle: Abuse of the rail
roads is a very popular thing In these days
We take pleasure in recording an act of the
Georgia railroad which shows great liber
atty and accommodation to Washington
and Wilkes county. Lately break &C
CURED in some part Of the compress ma
chinery which stopped COMPRISING
until the repair is made, which will b
as soon as possible. The compressed cottoi
has its volume of bulk reduced just one hal
and the railroads consequently need to sem
twice as many cars for uncompressed as fo
the compressed cotton, and il
consequence the freight of th
former is twice as great. When the breal
occurred R. o. Barksdale was mucl
concerned about this increased expense H
thought he would see if he could do some
thing TO remedy the trouble, 80 he wrote G
Col Dorsey in Augusta and made the re
quest that the railroad authorities woul
not charge increased freight for uncom