The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-14
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
News Of The Two States Told in Para
graphs.


Hardee Murder Trial Opened at Titus
ville-AdditionalP Particulars Concern
ing the Cyclone in Holmes County-A
Boy Kills Negro to Save His Father.
GEORGIA
Bishop c. X. Nelson will visit Dawson
to-day. and viii conduct services in the
Presbyterian church at night
The Benevolent order of Elks I'm Au-
gusta. has just completed its new club
rooms, which are said TO be magnificent
The Augusta Evening Chronicle IS as
bright and neWsy as 10 is possible 10 make
it. 1t is neatly printed and sure TO prove
a success.
The sale Of Harwood Seminary at Mari
eta was not approved by Judge Go5er.
and the property VIII have 10 be sold
again. The price at which il was bid on
seemed too low.
At Atlanta Wednesday Jessie Brown
Terry, better known as "Galatea, Sc
cured the first verdict in divorce proceed
ings against her husband. J. Lud Terry,
who once posed as a lawyer.
One Of the largest planters of Sumter
county said that he would not use a
pound of guano next year. He is going TO
retrench somewhere. and will use home
made fertilizer instead Of the commercial
article.
Z Bashinski. the saloonkeeper Of Macon,
whose license was forfeited by council,
was fined $50 in the superior court for sell
ling whisky on Sunday. This was for the
same offense as the one tried before Re
eorder Freeman, who fined Bashinski SlOO.
Hon. Jacob l.. Dart of Brunswick,
United States consul at Guadalupe has
been granted a leave Of absence from his
post for sixty days. Consul Dart VIII
come TO Brunswick, arriving in January.
He will spend the time Of his vacation
with his friends in that city.
The county commissioners have decided
10 act upon the suggestion of the grand
jury and build new jail at Dawson II
will be a modern structure, and viii be
located either on the southeast or south
west corner Of the court house square. 1t
is not thought that the new jail will cost
more than $4,000, If that much.
At Brunswick Tuesday night, after two
hours of elaboration, the jury brought in
a verdict in the case of the state VS.. Jack
Bell, alias Gus Williams, for murder. The
verdict was, I'VE, the jury, find the de-
PENDANT guilty Of involuntary manslaugh-
ter" and the killing Of Louis Burroughs
will therefore be avenged only by fine
or year in the chain-gang.
The doors of J. II. Cloptin, a colored mer-
chant and eX-postmaster at Hogansville,
were closed by Sheriff Henderson Wednes-
day on attachments issued principally for
local Indebtedness. Cloptin has skipped
for parts unknown. Cloptin is a farmer,
and the products Of his farm We're also
attached. He has been considered well-to-
do. but has become involved 10 the ex
tent that he will probably be entirely
broken up.
Brown Forester, baggage master on the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad, was
badly hurt Tuesday evening. When the
passenger train left at and was passing
the shops at Marietta Mr.. Forester went
up on top Of car to let off the brakes,
and on coming down on the side of the
car he was struck by a car standing on
the side track and was knocked off to the
ground. He was injured about the head,
face and body.
j. B. Bussey Of Cuthbert and state SEN
ator from the Eleventh district, has been
rendered the position OF private secreta-
ry by United States Senator-elect Bacon.
Mr.. Bussey has the matter under advise
ment and will come to 2 decision in few
days He was staunch friend and strong
supporter of Mai. Bacon in his senatorial
race. During the present session of the
legislature they were thrown more closely
together and their attachment strength
ened.
Louis Ford NcCord of Augusta died YES
terday morning at 105 o'clock. His death
is sudden, but not unexpected. For some
time he had been unwell but no fears Of a
fatal termination of his illness were enter
tanned until congestion of the brain set in
last week. He had been unconscious since
last Monday. Mr.. McCord was 32 years
of age and at one time was prominent in
business in Augusta, being associated
with his father u. McCord, in the whole
sale grocery business. They at one time
had one of the largest country trades in
the city.
For several weeks past on the Putney
place, at Hardaway a wholesale cotton
stealing business has been going on, as
many DIS nine DdlES OF COTTON having DcHn
stolen from Israel Flower, negro on the
Putney plantation. A few days ago the
officers at Albany were notified of the
frequent thefts, and they went to work at
once, as a result of which about s O'Clock
Wednesday night Sheriff F. G. Edwards
and Frank Goodwin arrested and lodged in
jail seven negroes-Haggar King, jim
Downing, Frank Watson, John Walton,
Dunk Drummer, Israel LunnOn and one
other whose name could not be learned.
The adjourned term of Dodge superior
court Is now in session at Eastman, pre-
sided over by Judge ]. ]. Hunt of Griffin,
who is trying some of Judge Smiths dis
qualified cases. The Empire Lumber Com
pany case was called up and an order
taken to sell the property to the highest
bidder Jan. 10, 1895, which will doubtless
be final sale. The case of the state VS..
Ebb johnson, charged with murder, is now
in progress, all motions for continuance
having been overruled. Johnson assassi-
mated William Curry at Chauncy in March,
1888. and was at large until August l.
when he was captured at Brunswick. 1t
will not take long to dispose of the case,
as there was dozen eye-witnesses to the
ASSASSINATION and there is not conflict in
their testimony.
Gov. Atkinson has offered a reward of
500 for the capture of Bob Brewer, the
leader of the Jesup riots in December,
1880. During the riot Assistant Marshal
Burnhill and Woods were killed and
William Woods badly wounded. Brewer
has since evaded the law. Brewer is well
known in Macon, and 1t was believed al
the time that Brewer went to that city
after the riot and that he was secluded by
a red-headed mulatto woman in Sandy
Bottom. 1t is thought by many that
Brewer has already left this earth Two
men were lynched who were thought to be
Brewer in Florida, one was lynched near
Columbia, S. c., and two negroes were
shot in the swamps of the Altamaha
They were all Bob Brewer, and still Gov
Atkinson has money to give to the mar
who will capture the real genuine Brewer
Augusta Chronicle; Judge Remsen
who came to Augusta from Lincoln coun
~, with unique proposition to settle the
Black-Watson election controversy, dit
not meet with anything like the reception
he may have anticipated. His proposition
TO the democrats to let Mr.. Watson hav,
the election, on the assurance that he be
leved Mr.. Watson would then resign ant
give up politics fell rather fiat. After ;
good deal of canvassing among the mer
chants, Judge Remsen found that his fde;
did not meet democratic approval by :
large majority, so he gave up the chas
and went home There were no democrat
who entertained for a moment the belle
that Mr.. Watson would ever consent him
self to such proposition, as the impracti
cabtlity Of it was so patent. After tn
first startling announcement was mad
there was very little said on the street
about the matter at all, and it was sum