The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

fOID In Pan AGEh No.
A Negro Child Drowned While Cross
ing a Stream Ia Clarke County-A
Boy Fatally Injured by a Train Neal
villa Rica-A PeepinG Tom Badly
Punished at the Augusta Opers
House.
Editor Wrench has sold out the Dalton
Argus. He was at time a partner in the
newspaper business Of Henry WatterSon.
He has been in journalism all his life.
Manuel Williams, the 17-year old son Of
a widow living near Villa RicA, was
knocked or the track by the Georgia Pa
eihe freight three miles west Of Villa Rica
Monday and will die. Williams started
across the track TO save his mule, which
was grazing near by, and was caught by
the pilot Of the engine.
Barney Foreman, a wealthy farmer of
Slverton, over in Aiken county, South
Carolina, was walking in the woods about q
mile from home Monday when no suddenly
tainted. fell to the ground and expired. Mr..
Foreman was 90 years old and he leaves a
wife and six children. He was well known
in Northeastern Georgia.
Andrew Zsluer died Monday at his resi-
dence near Forsyth. Mr.. 'Zellner was "a
years of age, and was one of the most prom
tnant and highly respected citizens Of Mon
roe county and in bis death Monroe loses
one of her best and truest citizens. Mr..
Zellner has over 200 descendants and was
well known all over the state.
A "Peeping Tom" named Clifton came
90 grief at the opera house at Augusta
Monday night. During the second act he
was discovered attempting, IT is said, to open
one OF the windows OF the ladies' dressing
room opening on Greene street. Dan Sui
Ivan, the scene shifter, went out, and, with
a large stick, set upon Clifton in the most
unmercifuI manner inhicting some painful
wounds in the face. The parties were
placed under arrest though released ON
their own reoognizancs. and the case
came up 10 the recorders court on Tues
day.
Sunday q negro man and his wife left
Athens to visit relatives near Cherochee
Corner between Athens and Lexington.
Just before getting TO the house where they
intended TO spend the day, they found the
creek very much swollen from the recent
rains, and concluded to leave the horse on
one side Of the creek and walk over on a
foot log. A little negro girl seeing her rela-
tives on the opposite side Of the creek,
started Co walk the log to meet them, but
before she had gone half across her foot
slipped and she went headlong into the
water and was drowned
Augusta Herald: A few years since a
paper in a city not thousand miles from
Augusta went up the spout. A bright
young man In the town thought he saw an
opening 20 make fame and fortune and
tried to get a capitalist to go In with him.
buy the outfit and run it. The moneyed
man was wary, however, and refused TO put
his funds in, saying that IL was too risky.
well, sir, l don't see that am any worse
off than you" said the other; you put
your money and | my time and brains"
That's ell right rejoined the capitalist,
''but IL the thing fails again my property
will be put up and sold, but your brains
won't, for they wouldn't bring - cent"
Mrs. Pinkey V. Jones, the wife Of the
at Atlanta few days ago, has entered a
She states that she was married 5wo years
ago. and that for quite while after the
nuptials we're celebrated she and her
husband lived happily together. But, sub
sequently, he commenced 20 mistreas her,
and, going from bad TO worse, he frequently
accompanied his harsh words with brutal
violence. lie tried. she says, to extort
money from her parents, and failed TO sup
port her by his own industry or means
They owned no property, and had but one
child by their marriage, the little boy that
was carried of by his father last week. The
child Is DOW in the possession OF its mother,
Mr.. Jones having restored IL during tho
afternoon Of the day on which the kidnap-
ing occurred He alleged that his motive
in stealing the child was TO win back the
alienated affections OF his wife.