The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-10

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A Negro Forger Busy at Dawson.
GEORGIA.
The democratic convention Of the Eleventh
senatorial district met at Dawson yesterday
and nominated Col. j. b. Bussey OF Cuthbert
The county commissioners Of Talbot county
have let the contract Tor building the new
bridge over Flint river TO William Bryan for
g 1876.
The hat and overcoat thief are again on the
rampage in Americas. Three residences on
Church street were visited q night OF two ago
while the owners were at supper. and num-
Der OF hats and coats stolen
The nation least represented in Georgia is
the Japanese, there being only one OF these
slant-eyed foreigners among US. The German
and Irish have the most people in Georgia
while the fiery Frenchmen come next with
BOG,
On Aug % local option election is to be
held in Walton county. The three-mile law
drove all the bars from the country into the
towns. Walton has always been one OF the
"wettest" counties in Georgia, but now IL is
one OF the dryest.
Hon. Ben e. Russell met Col Query in
joint debate at Morgan. Calhoun county,
through WaycrOss Wednesday on his return
to Washington, having been notified that he
would probably be needed there soon.
William Moody Of Dawson took an over
dose OF morphine sunday morning and died
Sunday night after lingering through the
day. His parents think that he untntentton-
ally took an overdose Of 1t during the. night
while suffering with neuralgia, OF which he
had frequent and severe attacks
Miss Essie Wall, young lady OF Rome, sui
fered serious and possibly fatal accident
Monday. She has been visiting relatives near
Tecumseh, Ala, and while out riding was
thrown from horse. Her collar bone and
arm were broken. and she sustained other in
juries, which all are afraid will prove fatal.
There will be a democratic rally in Sweat's
district, Ware county, at the old mill belong
ing TO Mrs. Pate Lee, on Aug. % A barbecue
will be an interesting feature OF the occasion.
The principal speakers will be Judge NJ L.
Mershon, Hon. William A. Mcdonald, Hon.
William G. Brantley and Hon. Leon A Viii
son.
Judge Max Meyerhardt OF Rome is at work
on a book on Masonry 1t will be called The
Book OF the Lodge" ana will deal with mat
tiers of Importance relative to Masonic work.
1t win contain lectures on various degrees,
burial services, for laying corner stones,
services for dedicating lodges, ETC.; also Ma
sonic laws and briefs.
Augusta Is a great place for girls, as the
census claarly shows. While there are 1000
more men than women In the state, In Au-
Rusta the females outnumber the males by
the same amount. The girls needn't be un-
easy about getting married as there are 10 900
men and 1900 women, giving each girl
15-17 OF a man. which is a great deal more Of
man than half the married women have.
The Baptist revival at Dawson closed sun
day with an additional membership of TWEEN
ty-three souls. On Thursday night when
MISS Minnie LOU, WHO Is DelOV6Q Oy all VINO
know her, was about given out to die by her
skilled physician, this vast audience of Chris
tians united at the church as one man and all
went down in PRAYER that she might be spared
yet little longer to her aged and loving
parents. That night she suddenly changed
for the better, and she is able TO sit up,
The train from Cuthbert to Fort Gaines
was wrecked two and a half miles from Cuth-
bert Monday afternoon, the passenger and
baggage cars and one freight box car leaving
the track. No one was seriously hurt, though
o. A. Berry was slightly bruised. he wreck
occurred ABOUT the same place where the one
Of last Friday occurred, when the baggage
car and five cars Of me ons were dera led
The wrecking train came in and cleared away
the debris. The wreck was caused by the
rails spreading.
Vienna Progress: On Saturday, July %, the
wife OF J. II. Holmes, a tenant on the farm Of
John h. Hogsett and James Hogsett son OF
John 7. Hogsett. got into row over a mess
OF cabbage and beans that Mrs, Holmes had
picked from garden that both claimed. Mr..
Hogsett secured a stick and beat her up con
sideraoly, leaving great bruises on her arms
and shoulders. warrant was sworn out
against him and he was arrested, He had
committal trial Saturday and was bound over
to superior court under bond.
Dawson News: The continual rains through
out this part of the state have begun to affect
the cotton, and the complaint that the plant
is shedding its fruit is universal. A good
deal of rust is also reported. Where the rust
is bad the cotton is opening very rapidly, and
already considerable picking is being done.
w llllb nearly cNCTN DObN now mas more OF less
open cotton, cotton picking generally will not
begin for ten days or two weeks yet. Two
weeks from now, however we shall expect to
see the tieeey staple uegiu to roll into market
Rome Tribune: john Perkins son Of Capt.
John Perkins. was brought to the city on
cot, which was placed ia one-horse wagon
Monday night about 30 o'clock. Mr.. Per-
kins was suffering very much from a painful
gun shot wound in the right arm, DR.. Henry
Battey and DR.. f.. A. Wynn dressed the
wound, and found the arm badly torn up both
above and below the elbow. He suffered in
tenSely while the operation was being per
formed. Mr.. Perkins ana George Freeman
have been camping out up the river for
several days and yesterday afternoon when
Perkins started to take down a gun from
rack, it fell to the ground and was
discharged. 1t was loaded heavily with buck
shot, and struck Perkins in the arm. The
wound was cared Tor as well as possible then,
and the man was brought 10 the city. 1t will
ooniine him TO his room for several days.
Dawson News; DR.. Johnson OF Macon
wants S99 from Randolph county for medical
attention 20 sam Smelling, the notorious ne
gro murderer while the latter was confined
In the Blob county jail, and has en- ployed
Messrs. Hoyl Parks the well-known Daw-
son lawyers. to collect il. When smelling was
arrested and placed in Jail at Cuth ert there
was considerable talk Of lynchiug him, and
he was removed to the jail at Macon
for safe keeping. That was in 1870,
and there he renamed until a short
time before his execution. The petition
filed by Messrs. Hoyl q Parks In the once of
lAb tlfl n Vi Au6 huA tllOi at NuLn itTt al
leges that during smelling $ confinement in the
Bib county prison he was the victim OF yari-
Gus and divers diseases that required the az
tention OF skilled physician and that ne
was visited by Or. Johnson three times for
intermittent fever, three times for remittent
fever, ten tunes for typhoid fever, four times
for catarrhal fever three times FOR constino
tion, three times for grip, and one time for
the purpose OF eXtriCating Duckshot that the
prisoner received while irving TO escape ar
rest For these visits the doctor wants ~
each and SlT for extrioating the buckshot
making n total OF $50. IL is further alleged
that demand was made OF the Randolph
county authorities in due form for the amount
and that payment was refused.
Dawson News: Mai. b. II. Hoods name
has cen forged TO orders for SiC0 or more on
the merchants Of Dawson. And the forgef
has been apprehended and is in Jail. Mai
Hood works great many ne rOes in cutting
crossties, and his orders on the merchants of
Dawson have been recognized as a good cir
culating medium. He gives "a great many OF
them 10 his hands, and IL is one of his en-
ployes who is now in trouble for initiating his
signature. saturday night negro by the
name OF John overly presented an order al
goods and another at McLain Bros. for 4 3 in
the order called for cash aroused sus-
ders we're not filled. Mai. Hood was
notified. and as soon as he saw
the orders he pronounced them forgeries.
Several negroes we're arrested, but it was not
until Sunday morning that the right one was
found q nroynd IN "a hp a