The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-06

Tn, News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs.

4 Negro Shot By His Son-in-law in
Lowndes County.
GEORGIA.
There are now in port at Darien load
,,.- With timber and lumber II vessels.
THE state Agricultural Society win
hold its regular semi-annual convention
al stone Mountain on Tuesday.
The Empire Mills Company has dis
rosed Of its Irwin county plant TO the
Wlvcross and Abbeville railroad
The Kimbrough Book Company of Crit
I'm nave sold out their stock to Deane &
Tuf and will discontinue business.
The drug firm of w. H Harris & Co.,
Of Midwife, lRve closed out their entire
stock to H. J lamar Il Son OF Macon.
Tom Watson will address a third par
~ meeting at 9udian Springs on August
II The East Tennessee will give one
fare rate.
few DAYS since Tom Ed Brown,
while tearing down an out house on r. e.
Hudgen's place at ElbertoD, had the good
fortune to find $40 in gold.
Mavor John T. Oglesby, of McDonough,
left Thursday for Valentine, Nebraska,
where he goes to fill the place assigned
him bv the government, as receiver of
Indian freights at that place. He carries
his two little boys with him.
The rolored firemen's tournament for
the State will be held in Macon next
tuesday and about fifteen companies will
participate. 1t is estimated that not less
imam 10 600 negroes will be in attendance
Some of the prizes are very handsome
Z one dollar bill raised to a ten is what
Can't. A. F. Austin, teller at the National
Exchange Bank of Augusta, surprised
Il hvrv, Il l.,
of bills as il was handed in for de
nosft. Friday Mr. Frank finds himself
$500 out. the fraud having been passed on
his wife while she was away from home.
Augusta's window smasher was out
again this morning just before day
crushing window glasses. He smashed
OncOf the handsome and expensive French
plate glasses in Mr.. George J. FargOs
new and unoccupied residence on the cor
uer of Lincoln and Broad streets. He
also went out to the corner of Marbury and
D'Autignac streets and broke the glass
door of A. earn S store. The police are
irving hard to catch the culprit.
IN response to call from r. L. Nc
Whorter, of Greene county, a reunion of
the McWhorter family was held at Lex
ington. Thursday. This is a very large
family and has Representatives in all sec
tiOns Of the state. There were about one
hundred present The reunion took place
at Shaking Rock, near Lexington, in the
bic grove where a most delightful day
was spent One of the leading spirits in
the reunion was Judge Hamilton Nc
Whorter of Lexington.
Mrs Anna Mcpherson, of St. Peters
burg, Fla, arrived at Atlanta Friday on
her way home from the worlds fair.
hehad in her hand a satchel containing
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Chicago for $500, $45 in cash, a lady's
gold watch and a ticket over the East
Tennessee railroad to her home She sat
down and placed this satChel on the seat
beside her In few minutes she was
called to the door TO give some directions
about the transfer of her baggage, and
left the satcba on the seat. She return
ed an instantMter to find it gone The
police are trying to find it for her.
P w Rockmore, the boss" of one of
the rooms at the Swifts mill, at Column
bus was the victim of a frightful acct
dent Thursday morning. There is a piece
Of machinery in the room over which Mr.
RockmOre has charge, called the "beater,"
which takes the cotton and beats il into
myIiads of tilmy flakes, and faround this
"beater" he was working In attempt
ing to adjust the device, his left arm was
caught under the striker, and literally
beaten into jelly. Suffering the great
est agony, he was placed in a hack andre
moved to DR. Grimes office, where an am
putatiOn was made just below the Shout
der Mr. Rockmore is 45 years of age.
certain section of Monroe county
seems to be fated A few months ago a
cyclone passed q few miles south of For
syth, demOlishing houses and injuring
property generally. Just after those in
iured rallied from this disaster another
one came in the form of a hail storm
Some of the crops were completely de-
stroYed The cotton and corn in some
places, which had attained a good growth,
was so beaten up that it was plowed up
and new crop was planted. Strange to
relate, this week the same region was
visited by another terrible hail storm,
and the young crop just now beginning to
grow was again wiped out and destroyed
Some Of the farmers are left in a helpless
condition, without any prospect what
ever for a crop.
Blakely News Last Saturday after
noon while Messrs. j. G. and j. r. Hubs
peth We're standing inside the new brick
storehouse which Mr.. d. w. James has
IN process Of erection on Main street, a
negro workman on the ground outside the
building began pitching brick to another
negro who was standing on the scaffold-
ING, or unfinished wall, ten or twelve feet
above One of the brick went a little ont
OF the catcher's reach, passed over and
cropped on the head of Mr.. J. G. Hubs
peth, knocking him senseless 1t glanced
OF and struck Mr.. j. r. Hudspeth over
the right eye, producing painful, though
not serious wound. MIR. j. c. Hudspeth
re@aineu consciousness while on the sur
gicdl table Of DR.. Doster some little time
after ne was struck
liFrtNrpl1 C1Ir,. A co1,iCv1c 6ifio1,I ~ no
CURED out at Jennings brickyard on
thursday j. NJ. Jenkins superintended
Iae Stacking of the brick, and son OF
thomas G. Johnson not doing to please
Nun he laid hold of the lad to correct
nm The Doyawent to his father ana toll
nm inat Jenkins had abused him by
S1ikmg and choking him. johnson be-
came violently enraged, and arming him
s'Ii with piece of AK handle about two
lt'J long Went to where Jenkins was at
WORK and struck him on the back of the
Aeao, telling him to the ground and stun
I!hg him, and continued belabOrinE Jen-
hilS until the hands interferGd and forced
Johnson to desist The wound on Jenkins
5"ad was quite an ugly one, though not
numerous and he received several pain
~. bruises and coutusiOns on his body.
go"lson was arrested and brought before
1'lre Goss and bound over
Fa'dosta Times: Tom Robinson, col
OIt' was shot near Hahira Saturday
[ieroon by his son-in-law, George
|Iteh- The latter is desperate charac-
&C. S,i dAl has driven his wife from home
.'t look refuge with her father and there
tNa husband came with a double barrel