The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-10
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
The News Of the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.

less Yellow Fever Scare at Lump
kin-A Negro at First Suspected OF
Wife Murder to Be Tried for Wife
Beating-The Placing of the South
ern Saw Manufacturing Company o,
East Point in the Hands Of a Receiver
Appears Hasty.
GEORGIA.
Stewart superior court will convene In
Lumpkin one week from next Monday-Oct
10
Hon. Jefferson Holland OF Shoal creek was
stricken with paralysis on last saturday morn
ing. His entire right side is affected and he
is speeches..
During the past month there was shipped
from, Darien, coastwise and foreign, ,7Os,-
1856 feet Of hewn and sawn timber and
lumber.
During the month ending on Sept. 30 there
was measured at public boom in Darien l.
O00000 feet Of square. scab and sawn tim ter.
This does not include the sawn timber and
lumber which came in during the month and
was carried direct to the private booms
Sheriff Smith Of Coffee county brought Jas.
Edwards, coored to Waycross Saturday and
placed him in Jail Edwards IS charged
with killing q man ia Madison parish, LouiSi-
ana, last May The Officials Of Madison
parish have been notified and the murderer
will lie carried to Louisiana for trial.
NJ. r. LeaVitt, night clerk at the Hotel La
nier at Macon, has resigned, and viii go to
New York to get some final instructions from
the New England Mortgage and Security
Company, whose manager he will be of "a 900
acres of farming land belonging to the com
pany lying In lwiggs contiguous to Adams
Park. This land was part OF the Tarver
estate, over which there has been bitter and
prolonged lawsuit The land will be divided
into farms ana rented out, and Mr.. Leayttt
will have charge Of the collection of rents
He will make headquarters at Adams Park.
Stock al supplies will be furnished to good
tenants The does the
town at Adams Park, but this belongs to
Mrs Hitchcock, the wife the WCll known
New Yorker, music dealer, etc. who recently
failed.
Dublin Post: Last Saturday afternoon at
w. l.. Powelrs, +. H. Pope was shot in the
stomach by j. A. Hardy with a 44-caliber
pistol, From information received, they had
previously mad a difnculty, which was re-
newed at that time, Pope was after Hardy
with knife following him around for some
time. Seeing he was about 10 be overtaken
Hardy went into his room and attempted to
close the door, when Pope proceeded 10 force
1t open. He was told by Hardy that he would
be shot but paid no attention to the warming
whereupon Hardy put his pistol In the narrow
opening of the door ahd shot with the above
result, Pope dying from the wound the next
afternoon. Popes remains were sent to his
home in North Carolina on Monday mornings
train. They were both young men. about %
years Of age, and had been good friends
Hardy surrendered himself to the officers
feeling that he was iustihable in the commits
sion OF the act,
Lumpkin independent: Last Monday Sher-
III Holder went out in the western part Of the
county and arrested "A negro man accused of
killing MS wife, having warrant for his ar
rest The woman had been buried about two
weeks. she had been sick about week be.
fore dying, and vomitcd clOts OF blood. Dur
ing the morning on the day she was taken
sick she and her husband were picking cotton
together. An alteration between them took
place and the man was seen to strike her
several times with stick, She went In day
or two on a visit to a relatives house took to
her bed, and died several DAYS afterward. At
ter her burial it began TO lie suspected that
the beating was the cause OF her death and
warrant was issued for the arrest of the man
The coroner summoned jury, with DR.. ]. w.
Patterson, TO 20 and eXhume the body and
have an autopsy made. The body was found
To be in an advanced stage of decomposition.
a careful examination was made by DR.. Pat
terson with the result that no positive egi-
denee OF violence on the body. either external
or internal, could be detected and yer 1ict
was rendered accordingly, The man s trial
took pla e Thursday, the result OF which was
TO release him on the charge OF murder but
he was bound over to the superior court to
answer to the offense of wife beating.
East Point Plowboy: On Wednesday there
was filed in Fulton superior court bill pray
ing receiver for the Southern Saw Manu-
featuring Co. Of East Point. The parties to
this bill were three unsecured creditors (as
under the law there must be three, whose
claims aggregated about $500. On July 1
this concern took stock and made a state
ment which showed the total assets OF the
concern and of the individual partners to be-
on very conservative estimate, s92 1922 Is,
and the total liabilities OF every character
both Of the firm and of its Individual mem
berS. were ascertained to be s2G,St2 a, leav-
ing the net assets at the handsome figure OF
S6.501l Yet for an Indebtedness of only
$500 1t Is sought to hand this concern over to a
receiver. he news of the application for this
receiver has been scattered broadcast over the
land ana the credit OF a concern worth s65
SfU.9l. over and above all liabiIitipE Of
sort and kind has been damaged to an ex tent
which may he ifreparable, because creditors
who hold only 1905 worth OF claims against IL
nave hled Dill for receiver in which inso
Vency is alleged. This is but another instance
IN which the law allowing receivers to be an
pointed Tor lnsolvent traders may be abused
ana misa ppled. In the present case some
body must have sworn most reckleSsly when
the Insolvency OF a concern worth over and
above all liabilities, $50 900 was verified bv
affidavit as a positive fact A law which Is
susceptible OF such d provision and abuse
should be wiped off the statute took without
the least possible delay.
Lumpl5in Independent: The whilom quiet
citizens OF Lumpkin were thrown into a fever
or excitement on last Tuesday evening by the
report being circulated that there were two
cases OF yellow lever IN box car at the depot
Just brought here from Richland, (Which
place mad hustled them oil on arrival II
spread like Wild Are and was on everybody s
Tongue. some persons even heard ii before
getting TO town, and avoided coming by the
SSNRNN h'NAiSIlLio III ING AFTERNOON llf. +. ID.
Patterson and Mr.. G. A. Surles went down to
look at the suspects. They were found in the
box car, as reported One Of them was living
down with slight fever the other man sri.
ting by him, not sick but emaciated and hun
CRY. Or. Patterson diagnosed their
condition and found the sick man with
mlid attack OF bilious fever the other
one suffering from no malady except starya-
ton One of them is an English sailor
wrecked of the South Carolina coast in the
great storm of Aug. a. The other is a tailor
from philadelphia. They we're both trying to
get TO savannah but were refused passage into
the city. The came back over the savannah
Amerlcus and Montgomery railway and stop
ping at Itlchland. the people got scared and
hustled them on to Lumpkin. They NAV be
professional tramps, but that is their story
Ihey showed that they came from no fever in
lected districts he sick man is now well.
ana both want work and food. They have
been comfortably provided for by some OF our
benevolent citizens. They are now making
tnelr way to Mobile to get employment.
Lumpkin Independent: 1t may not be gen
eraly known by people in this vicinity that
there is rocky region in Merlwether coun-
y near the Pine ana Oak mountain ridges,
that seems to be a favorite haunt of snakes in
that section, and the following terrible incl.
dent occurred in that locality; 1T was about
the middle OF May, and Mrs. Richard smith.
the VIE OF a farmer. had gone to the held
Win het husband, who was replanting corn
tnat hau ialled 10 come up regularly. While
tney were at work Mrs Smith wandered off
10 one side OF the field where there was a
lh-cket OF deWberry vines. While picking
the berries she stood upon pile of rocks thai
nad been picked up from the hed and thrown