The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-26

The News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs.


Atlanta - A Cowardly Attempt at
Murder at Hapeville.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta is soon to have another hand
some office building.
The funeral sermon Of DR.. C0lvin Par
ker, deceased, viii be preached at AmeY
church. miles north of WilacoOchce, on
the 3Oth inst. with Masonic rites.
1t is odd that every E.erchantiu Barnes
vile is a farmer This is good for the
farmer because the merchant can easily
put himself i'm the farmers place when it
comes settling time.
At Gainesville Monday, Marion Sanford,
colored who came near being lynched last
spring for assault with attempt 10 rape
was convicted and sentenced the full term
OF twenty years III prison.
p, NJ Leander was drowned in
the Elhjay river at Elliiay, at > -
O'Clock Saturday evening, while out with
a seininE party He could not swim, got
beyond his depth, and despite every eff
fort of his comrades he was drowned.
There was burglary in Macon late
Saturday night. Some one entered the
window of j Vans trunk establishment
and relieved the cash drawer Of its con
tents, which amounted to about $3.50
A
The building on Marietta street next to
the northeast corner of Broad and Ma
rietta and formerly owned by DR. Marvin.
will be torn down on August lst, and the
new one erected on the site. Some time
ago the place was bought by Boston CAPT
talists. represented by II. NJ Atkinson of
the Southern Banking and Trust com
pany. The building has a frontage of sin
ty feet and runs back to an alley seventy
five feet.
Recently Charley Smith related to the
Sparta IShmaclite a singular dream and
its more singular realization. During a re
cent fire a clock was stolen from burn
ing house The following night he
dreamed no was standing near negro
engaged in cutting wood, in q yard on
Adams street, and that, looking through
the open window OF the house, he saw the
clock standing on the mantelpiece. In
the morning he went to the house to in
vestigatc the matter. Finding the front
door locked. he went around to the rear
looked through the window, saw the
clock and recovered it, just as he had
dreamed.
Jacob johnson, white farm hand from
the eastern portion of Hancock county,
committed suicide in Sparta on last Sat
urday evening by swallowing about four
ounces of laudanum. He had been drink
ing heavily for about a week previous
and frequently expressed his determine
tion to end his existence, but no one re
garded his intentions to take his life as
serious, and little if any attention was
paid to his threat. The cduse which
prompted him to take his life was his
wife deserving him. From the facts
which can be gathered it seems that there
was another woman behind the whole af-
fair
The two women cOnvicts who were cap
tured in Augusta Friday night have es-
capped again. They are Rosa Lay, life
time convict from Rome, who committed
arson, and Susie Mitchell who got ten
years for shooting a man at Waycross.
They broke out of the pen at MattOxs
camp, in Ebert county, nearly a month
ago Shortly after, they were captured
Rt Clark's Hin, S. c., but got away from
the authorities there Then they went 10
Augusta, were discovered and Jailed
both are young and very shrewd Mon
day w. II. Mattox, owner of the camp
went to Augusta and took charge Of the
women. Later he left on the Z. K. & w
G. train with them bound for the camp
Yesterday morning Chief of Police Hood
was surprised to receive a telegram from
Mattox, dated Mount Carmel, S. c., say
ing the women had jumped from the car
window and escaped again.
The estate of the late c. c. Jones, of
Augusta, is valued at between $50, 600 and
SO 600, which does not include his large
library which is one of the most valuable
private libraries in the country He has
collected a wonderful assortment of rare
books OF all kinds, and some of them could
not be duplicated at any price. His col
lection of Indian curios is one of the finest,
If not the finest in this part Of the coun-
try. 1t is also learned that he was very
heavily insured in different companies He
had two policies, il is understood of Sl0,-
600 each, and one Of e, 600, besides the So =
600 he will get from the Royal Arcanum
There were only two items in the will,
the first being request that all of his
just debts be paid Immediately after his
death. The following is tho second item
In full: "ShOuld the sacred matter not
have been attended to before my death, |
hereby appropriate out and from my es-
tate the sum of $500 TO be expended by my
executor hereinafter named, in the
speedy erection of a monument above the
grave of my precions wife, Eva Bcrrien
Eve" In the third item he bequeathed
to his dear little granddaughter Eva Ber-
rien Carpenter the sum of $1,000.
The fourth states that he wishes
all of his property, real and personal to
be divided between his two children, Miss
Ruth Berrien Carpenter, and MIR. Charles
Edgeworth Jones, share and share alike.
In the fifth he appoints his son Mr..
Charles Edgeworth Jones sole executor OF
his estate, and in the sixth he permits
him to dispose of all or any of the proper
ty belonging to the estate at public or pri-
vate sale without having to obtain an or
der from the court In the sixth item he
also requests that his archaeological col
lection should not be divided but kept in,
tact
J,W. Hawkins, sheriff of Suwannee coun-
ty Florida, reached Atlanta Monday
with Barney White, the convicted slayer
of old man Larkin Nix, of Mitchell Coun-
", whom he turned over to the principal
keeper of the penltentiary. White es-
capped from jail while awaiting the result
of new trial about year ago, and has
since been at liberty. He was captured
by Hawkins in Lafayette county, at the
house of his brOther-in-law The crime
Of which he was convicted was a pecu-
iarly atrOciOus one. Nix had a dauCh-
ter who was being visited by G.. w Mize,
relative of White. The old man sus-
pected the visitor of evil intentions to-
ward his household He ordered him
away, au alteration followed.
and NIX shot him. White
and his friends then seized Nix.
pretending that they made the arrest
III order to turn him over to the
authorities. They started for town with
rope around the old man neck. by
which he was dragged until his captors
had ridden some distance, when they