The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
PIE NEWS on TIE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

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of Her Bigamist Husband-Haf a
Century OF Married Life ct Rome-A
knife With a Eistory "A Murder
Brought to Light.
]. Marion Estes Of Columbus died Satur-
day.
John R Dilan is q candidate for coroner
of Glynn county.
II is estimated that the petit jury during
the last session of court cost Glynn county
$500.
The first quarterly conference for the
Sumner circuit will be held at Sumner on
the first Sunday in March.
A new militia district has been created in
Dooly county, the l466th. This makes
1,4e6 justices of the peace doing business in
Georgia
Rev. Marshall Merit, q prominent col
ored divine and extensive farmer, died at
his home in East Dougherty county day
or two ago.
Several officials of the order of railway
fracklayers were in Americus Saturday in
vestigating the displacement of one Of their
members recently made.
The laboring people Of Brunswick are in
dignant because the man who has the con-
tract for putting down the city's new sys-
TEN OF sewerage has imported 100 Italians
from the north to do the work.
The house and kitchen on John NJ. Hoods
place, few miles below Sparta were de-
stroyed by fire last week. The house was
occupied by Mrs. Harrison, who recently
moved in from Washington county. Very
little of the contents of tho buildings was
saved.
Mrs. Amanda Daniel, the aged mother of
DIR. j. r. Daniel and Col. w. II. Daniel,
was severely burned about the face and
bust at Franklin q few days ago She had
been suffering severely with cold, and, be-
coming restless IN the night, she arose early
aud made fire. She tainted and fell into
the fire, but was rescued by her daughter.
Rome Tribune: Saturday, Ordinary
johnson showed a Tribune reporter the re-
cord OF the first marriage in Floyd county.
The license was issued by p. w. Hemphill,
clerk of Of the court Of ordinary, and was
granted to Daniel Majors and Mary Ann
Johnson. The ceremony was performed by
j. Hemphill, justice Of the inferior court.
The license was issued In 1884.
Rome Tribune: On March 90, 1910, a
license OF marriage was granted to Hiram
Everett and Sarah A. Reece, and the cere-
mony was performed by Jefferson A. Minis,
justice Of the peace, on the following day.
The young couple then took possession of a
cosy little home at Everett Springs where
they have lived ever since. They have had
sixteen children born to them, eight bows
and eight girls, but have lost three Of each.
They have occupied the same apartments
In thatchouse for the past fifty-one years.
Rome Tribune: In Ordinary Johnston's
office there is knife with history. 1t is
homemade affair. and was manufactured
from a bayonet's point and has piece of
hickory wood as a handle. With this knife
man named Atkins killed his brother-in-
law, man named Lowery, during the
winter of 1865. The murder took place on
what is now Broad street, before an old
store that stood just where Eve a. Cox's
shoe store Is. The murderer was arrested
and carried to Gainesville for safe keep
ing, but he escaped and has never been
heard of since.
Toccoa Nei0s: The other morning bride
and groom came up from Hartwell and
boarded a Richmond and Danville train.
They were accompanied by the father OF
the groom, Mr. Ayers, who carried a gun
and glanced keenly around as though he
might be called on to shoot some one. J. w
Price was standing beside the railroad track
and Mr. Glymph, who is stopping in Toe
Goa, stepped up and handed him a paper
requesting him to give it to the bride
it was an order for gold ring. Price car
ried the order to the lady. who took the
ring from her finger, handed it TO him, and
he brought it to Mr.. Glymph. 1t appears
the bride was the divorced wife of Mr..
Glymph, and the ring was probably his
wedding gift to her. The train moved of
taking the married pair away nobody was
shot, and ]. W. Price is probably the frs,
man to take wedding ring away from the
finger of a bride.
Mrs. Florida Richardson, white woman
has just left Brunswick for Columbia, s. c.,
in hot haste. Last week her husband told
hnr hn vua .oli pd sud- O. I'll
bia on business. Wednesday she was dust
ing the niantlepiece in her room and dis.
covered letter and telegram behind Q
small picture, which revealed to her the
TACT that her husband of few months wa:
bigamist. The following is the letter and
telegram: Columbia, s. c., Jan. 2, 1891
My Dear Husband: Your long absence
is unexplainable. Jennie and Ralph call
papa" daily, and the little darlings ask
me, when will papa come home
mammaW Your letters about cominp
home are becoming monotonous, and wish
you would say when you surely will come
SO that may answer the children's ques-
tions. Your present received. 1t is dar'
Ling, or, as my friends say, daisy. Such
bats are becoming fashionable here now.
Good-by. Jennie and Ralph send kisses.
Also accept lots from your lSving wife
Viola" The telegram read as follows
Columbia, s. c.. Jan. IS, 1S9l.-Ralph
RICHARDSON, Augusta, Ga: Jennie and
Ralph are very i'll. Come at once. Viola
Richardson"
Albany Advertiser: On Dec. 25 last two
Early county negroes, John Moody and Ed
Hughes by names, left Hilton, where they
had been living, to 60 TO Florence, Ga.
near Columbus. They were to go via Chat.
tahoochee steamer. In q week or two after
their departure from Hilton Moody re-
turned. but he could give no satisfactory
account of the whereabouts Of Hughes, and
told several conflicting stories about where
they had parted. A few days ago the badly
decomposed remains Of negro boy wal
found on the banks Of the river
near Hutchinson's Landing, which
proved TO be all that was left Of
Ed Hughes. Hughes was known to have
left Hilton with So, which, with his hat and
shoes, were gone from his body. I'm
mediately upon the discovery of Hughes
body Moody was arrested, and in the house
where he lived was found the hat and shoe.
of the dead boy. With this discovery anc
the conflicting statements which he hac
made against him. Moody then made
clean breast of the whole business and con
fessed that he had murdered Hughes for hi
hat and shoes and the So which be had i.
his pocket. The murderer was taken K
Blakely, where preliminary trial was held
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