The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-01

The News Of The Two States Told
in Paragraphs.

Peculiar Condolences in the Life o
the Late J. P. Miner Of Grimn-Ths
Supreme Courts Decision in tn,
AGREE Land Case-A Negro Boy OF
Macon Claims to Have Been Kid
naped and Held as a Slave.
GEORGIA.
s A Brunswick neeroNyeighing 100 pounds
ate a watermelon weighing 40 pounds ait
BY himself last week The negro was
either to eat the whole melon or pay fOI
it in case of his failure to DO So. He dis
posed of it without amy trouble and asked
for more.
A new $50 bicycle belonging to
John ID. Moscly was stolen from the
front yerauda Of j. II. SImmOu' s residence
at Toccoa Thursday night No clue 10
the thief has been found. Descriptions
have been sent 10 all towns on the Rich
mouj and Danyille and ElbertOn Airline.
it was "a safety, pneumatic tire, No 90, 7G6.
Mr. M0seiy has offered 50 reward for the
missing wheel and thief.
The accounts of ex-United States Mar
shal Buck for the last quarter he was in
Office were mailed on July 10. But they
have never reached Washington. Just
what became Of the accounts is not
known, but the presumption is that they
1t has now been over two weeks since
they were mailed, and the search for the
papers has been given up as worse than
useless The accounts Of Chef Deputy
Mitchell were also in the packet. Satur-
day he was busy duplicating the accounts
and had nearly finished the work Col
Buck left for Washington yesterday, but
whether he goes in connection with his
accounts he did not say. He viii be gone
fp ~ ks4 D mr. his nd
will visit the worlds fair while he is
away on his vacation. Mrs. Buck win
accompany him
The supreme court has rendered its de
cisioR in the AGREE land lot case and by
that decision DOugherty county is richer
to the extent of $4,000 or
more. The case attracted considerable
attention The facts are briefly these:
In 1854 the legislature, by special act
transferred land lot No. Ala, the one on
which the town of AGREE was afterwards
built, from Worth'to Dougherty county
In some wav this has been overlooked,
and persons living on the land have paid
taxes in Worth county. Last year Col
S. j. Jones, representing DOughertY cOun-
ty, filed an injunction TO stop any further
payment of taxes to Worths collector
AT the hearing Judge Bower granted the
injunction but as before stated his hold
ing was appealed from. OF course the
opinion delivered Wednesday settles the
matter The lot is a very valuable one as
il includes. besides the town of AGREE, the
depot and nearly a mile Of the track Of
the B. & w. railroad
Jonathan p. Miner. of Newman. was
buried at Griffin Friday Mr.. Miller was
70 years old; leaves five children and
numbers of friends to mourn his death
He was a resident of Griffin for thirty
years, and was at one time a leading mer-
chant Of that town. There is quite
connected with his life and
history that perhaps has no equal in all
this country. Mr.. Miner was married
five times, having two children by each
of his wives; one of each is yet living and
one of each died in childhood, and lies
buried by its mother. The first row on
his lot is noticeable by all who visit the
as the first monument marks
the resting place Of his first wife, while
by her IS a small tombstone marking the
last resting place of her last or second
child; then the second wife and next to
her the second child, and so on through
y the fifth wife and her second child
Five wives and five children with each
child next to its mother.
Macon Evening News: KIDNAPPED.
stolen from home, taken to a strange
lltftAI eilltA maui ~ WDAh lIOll udN1lEIb Jill
dark under penalty of the lash, this is
the fearful fate which George Sheppard
experienced and is experiencing now after
q happy intermission of a few DAYS His
story is fun of interest and makes an i'm
portant chapter in the criminal annals of
Bibb county. George was an industrious
young coon, employed by the Macon
butchers to drive cows to thepen and help
kill them. Two years ago he mysterious
Ipa rod
him III every direction. The river was
dragged and the woods all around Macon
secured, but George failed to
turn up, and no clue came as to his
His mother gave
him up, and the general opinion was that
he was murdered. For two years moth
ing was heard from him. But one night
last week the people on Fourth street
We're aroused from their midnight slum-
bers by loud screams and yells. 1t was
soon found that George had returned and
his mother was making merry II was
dar,' said the old woman to the News.
Il was dar, JUS a snorin' away, en- de
fust thing I knowed somethin' came to
do An knocked. Who datP SEE I. Den
somebody say; Hits me, ma Use
George. I done come back Den l speaks
up an say, 'G'way from dar, niggah,
George done been dead two years am /
huoN you an Nun. bub SOlueGD1n' Keep
Per tellm' me TO pun dat do open an
when I did, 10 an hehold, dere was my
boy shO nuif, but he was nightly disfig-
ured." The woman is named Adeline Shep-
pard and the story she gives is borne
out by facts. George, it
seems, was enticed to go
with man to his farm about ten miles
from Macon. Here a white man named
Jenkins took charge of him He was
whipped and made to do all kinds of hard
work. At night he was locked up and
during the day he was watched by the
other hands Last week the boy escaped
and found his way back home. And now
comes mysterious part of affairs Fri
day morning Sheppard was down on the
river road, where, according to the ac-
counts given by his companions, a man sud
denly came before him, and at the point
of pistol made him get in a wagon. He
then drove away, and nothing has been
heard from George since. Whether he
was carried back TO the same place is UNI
certain; that his abductor is the same
man who had him before is positive.
Saturday Adeline swore out a warrant
against jenkins for kidnapping, and he
will be arrested to-day
FLORIDA.
There will be a bigpotato crop 2 altered
this year in Nolusia county.
The Volusia county commissioners meet
the first Monday in August as "a board of
equalization.