The morning news., 1892-12-20

Another Gun he Thought Was Not
Loaded-A Suit for Defamation of
Character-A Colored State Fair at
Gainesville.
GEORGIA.
John stokeley of Crawford has made a
deed OF trust of all his property in ORle-
thorpe county to Capt. j. J. c. MoMahan
of Athens, for the purpose OF winding up
bis business.
The man who was killed by Brunswick
and Western switch engine No. at Bruns-
wick Friday afternoon is now believed to
have been Camp Meyers, timberman liv-
ing near Jamaica. The dead man was at
hrst supposed TO be John B. Owens.
Alb Wilkins Of Oglethorpe county has
silk quilt just finished by Mrs. Ann Mer-
ritt of Gainesville. Mrs Merritt is S. years
of age and is the mother of thirteen chill
dren. The quilt is beautiful and some of
the silk in it was raised by the lady who
made the quih. :.
On r. H. Hunts place, four miles from
Macon, a week ago Sunday, while fooling
with gun that was thought TO be not
loaded, john Taylor shot his brother Job,
with heavy charge OF birdshot. The
wound was not thought to be dangerous.
but on Saturday last the negro died.
While the most Of the farmers Of Stewart
county have disposed of nearly all their
the bulk Of their crop. for which they may
get fair price. In the Pleasant Valley
community there are a good many bales OF
cotton stored away for higher prices.
A. R. Callahan, a contractor of Colum-
bus, has fled a suit in Muscogee super or
court against DR.. w. 7. Pool, dentist, for
&25, 900. Callahan built house for Pool
and there was some trouble about the settle
ment resulting in lawsuit. Callahan won
the suit and DR.. Pool charged Mr.. Callahan
with committing perjury in order to gain
the suit Callahan was honorably acquitted,
ana now sues Pool for SIS, 600 for damaging
his character.
W. j. sCarlton's store at Kings Ferry
was broken open q night or two ago, his
safe was blown open and the following val
uables taken out: One certificate (No.
IL $40 of indebtedness on Central Railroad
of Georgia for $500. One certificate (NO.
31,072 of Central railroad stock for $500.
One draft NO. 4.S20D on Eppinger & Rus
sell, New York, given by j. Mizell &
Three notes for SIS; currency $50. Total
$I,S59 SO.
Griffin Call: An empty cartridge shell, one
negro in the spirit land and another in Jail
That tells the story of fatal shooting scrape
IN Cabin district, near the Stillwell place,
Saturday evening. And all about a dog it
seems. SATURDAY., about night, the constable
Lockhart and turned him over TO the sheriff
for shooting Eliza WigEins. At the same
time he handed the sheriff q note from Dr.
T. ]. Mitchell, stating the ball had punct-
ured Virgins abdomen, and that he would
die from the wound. Il seems no one wit
messed the shooting aud Lockhart had
claimed it was an accident, but on the way
to jail he admitted that he and Wiggins
had had 9 difficulty about dog, and that he
shot him.
At Aikenton Saturday 7. j. Turk, notary
public for the district, shot Edgar Poe twice
with bird shot. The wounds are not con-
sidered dangerous, Gs they are only flesh
wounds in the thigh. The difficulty started
at Wynn's store, about two miles from town,
at Justice court. and after the adjourn
ment MIR. Turk left for his home, and MIR.
Poe, with two negro men, followed him.
There he called him out and commenced to
abuse him, using all manner of vile epithets
before Turks wife and children Turk or
dered him TO leave, and also told the two
negroes who came with Poe 20 take him of,
which, it seems. so enranged Poe that he
told the negroes to bring his gun. Turk
ran into the house and got his own gun,
which he Immediately began to use with
the result stated above. Poe was under the
influence OF whisky, or the trouble would
not have occurred.
Macon Telegraph: George Fleetwood
is negro employed by the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad to watch the
crossing and raise and lower the gate at
the entrance to Central City park, aud un-
less the road officials have no regard for
human life and limb and are ready TO pay
out money for heavy damage suits, they
would do well TO remove him at once.
Thursday afternoon Alderman r. II.
Smith sent his children out to ride, accom-
panied by the nurse and driver. In order
20 give the children a pleasant ride the
II l.
Just as he was crossing the railroad
near the entrance the negro gatekeeper
loWered the gate, catching the vehicle and
occupants in between its two long arms,
remarking to the driver as he did 30 that
he had been waiting to get hold of him for
long time. The driver. seeing an ap-
preaching engine realized the situation
and sprihging from the vehicle he raised
the arm OF the gate and led the horses from
on the track just as the train went whizziuQ
by. When the driver reported the occur
renee to Mr.. Smith he had the negro sum-
moned before the recorder, who fined him
$40 and committed him 20 the city court
under bond of $50. The road paid the fine.
Rome Tribune: The Walker Count,t
Messenger informs us that ''on Wednesday
Of this week the four days public debate be-
tween the Campbellites and Missionary
Baptists opened at the new CAmpbellite
church in Mutton Hollow, four miles be-
AOW Alpluc. rev. hr. DLnlbn OF tennessee,
prominent Baptist preacher, will partici-
pate.n This is about forty years behind the
times. Away back In the sos, in the
palmy days of Graves and Brownlow, relig-
ious discussions were the order OF the day.
Those who are old enough will remember
the sulphurous odor Of those debates, and
with some there Is even yet a lingering
sense OF the pain and bitterness which they
sugendered. We have heard of instances
where whole communities were set on edge,
and the peace OF homes was disturbed and
natural affection almost destroyed by the
religious partisanship which these discuss
sions engendered. Father and son were
turned against each other and brother and
sister belonging to different churches could
see nothing but damnation for each other
Very rarely have such things occurred
within the last two decades. The world,
especially our part Of it, has had trouble
enough without this kind, and this excres-
cence Of the past has been thrown off.
FLORIDA.
Mrs. Clyde Huddleston of Barlow acci-
dentally discharged the load Of Flobert
rifle In her foot Monday noon. She was
playing with the gun when 1t went OFF.