The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-23
per.ons and rhings in Georgia.

Persons ana AblHSs IA NsSoA @Ao'
A wite's insult was quickly avenged
by the husband il Atlanta Monday al
teInoon. Pat Meehan shot and instant
lv killed Robert Mcbride. Both parties
reside at Newman Mcbride was presi-
dent OF the oil mill at Newman and had
large interests, and Meehan is drum
mer.
A crowd of 500 men assembled in the
street ia front OF Nunually's bakery IN
Atlanta Saturday. Some of the crowd
cot noisy and cries of eve must have
bread arose. There was demonstration
and Nunnally thought that the crowd
was Going attack his place. lie tele-
! phoned for the police. One man GIT on
! a fire plug and started to make a speech,
but somebody with level head invited
/ the would-be or ,tor across the street TO
take drink. The invitation was prompt
ly accepted and The speech was lost. The
police came along and dispersed the
crowd. There was not worklngman
among The leaders. Any one OF them
would get sick at hearing Of a JOB OF
| work.
"A death from remarkable cause oc-
Cured in Walker county the other day.
A lady who was riding to church reach
ed out her hand TO pluck sprig from a
| bush by the roadside and was bitten on
the finger by a katydid. Her hand and
arm soon began to inf me and swell,
and in few hours she died in great ag-
ony.
Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, of Columbus,
has just returned from New York, where
he has been in the interest of railroad
matters, and he gives the Enquirer-Sun a
wonderfully encouraging report. He
says there is going to be a wonderful
improvement in money and business
matters, and that very soon.
Judge H. D. D. Twiggs, who recent
ly removed from Augusta to Americas,
has been retained for the defense in the
celebrated Hinkle- WOrsham murder
case that is to come to trial at the APP
preaching November term of Sumter Su-
periOr Court.
A man has beer discovered in Macon
who has not had hair on his head for
eighteen years, having lost it during an
attack of typhoid fever. He bears the
appropriate name of Shine.
The farmers of Houston county have
boycotted Savannah Gotten buyers be-
cause they would not send any money
out of the city to pay for cotton shipped
from the interior.
There are fifteen colored lawyers n
Georgia
Judge Griggs- Solicitor Sheffield.
From the Blakely News.
Last Mon lay Governor Northen APP
pointed Hon. j. NJ. Gliggs, of Dawson,
Judge, and Hon H. G. Sheffield, of Ar
lington, solicitor-general Of the Pataula
circuit The cause of the vacancies and
the names of the other applicants to fill
them have already been mentioned in
our columns.
The people, as a whole, in this section
received the news of the appointments
with perfect satisfaction. To some it
brings more-great delight, and to others
lesS-uDfeigned personal disappointment,
These things viii be so, and for it there
is no remedy SO long as discomfort re-
mains an element of human nature.
| Both the gentlemen appointed are pop
ular, able lawyers, and though yet not
having reachedphe zenith OF life, are
recognized as leading lights on the legal
as we'll as the political forum.
| On their shoulders the mantle OF the
states weighues, responsibilities have
fallen--the wise. just, faithful and fear
| less administration of the law This is
not an easy task. That they will worth
lily and we'll discharge the duties thus
imposed upon then, no one doubts
None realizes more fully than they that
upon the preservation of the statue OF
PaI1as depends the safety of Troy.