The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-12

aFurlouEh-Murder at Demorest-A
Negro Reading Club of Rome at
Which Members of Both Sexes Met
in Nude Condition Broken UP.
GEORGIA.
The democrats OF Jonesboro have invited
the Hon A O. Bacon and Col. Allen ID. Cand-
s e. to address a mass meeting there on July
Miss Nellie Spivey. aged II. and Bob Hun,
aged II, were secretly married on sunday
night at the residence Of Rev. A +. Lee on
Bush street at Atlanta.
The name Of the postofice about seven
miles north Of Vienna, heretofore known as
the FullingtOn pOstOfiice, has been changed 10
Pinehurst TO correspond with the name Of the
town.
Bulk meat has advanced two cents pound
in Americas since Saturday, retailing ycster-
day at l2l cents. This is an advance Of
cents within the past week and the end may
not be yet
The concern in Chicago that made a bid OF
l0e for SIP OOGOf city Of Mlledgeyille bonds
failed TO respond. Arrangements are being
made for the bonds to be taken by the NIL
ledgeville Banking Company and number Of
citizens.
Joe English, who shot and killed Roe
Waldrup at Demorest on July 4, is safely
locked up in GAINESVILLE Jail. He was cap
tured at Sunset Sunday bY Ben Martin, in
the Blue Ridge mountains, three miles from
Unicoy Gap.
The Hon Robert Newt Twitty will in all
probability. be the nominee Of the third party
for congress in the Ninth district. The con
test Law between him and eX-ConRressman
Winn for a long time, bat IL seems now that
e. MIR. Twltty Will be the man whom Carter Tate
will defeat.
Two strike sympathizers attempted to
wreck switch engine which was taking the
Richmond ana Danyille. a train made up Of
Pullman cars. at Atlanta Monday night. Just
as the engine reached the switch they threw
il open, running the engine and one Pullman
on. 1t took an hours work to get the train
back on the track. The men, though IN
armed, escaped.
An interesting wedding which occurred al
Atlanta last week has just been made
known. The contracting parties were
Mrs. Mary a. Burk, aged co years,
the widow OF Timothy Burk q very
wealthy man, and Patrick O'Donnell,
well known young man aged %. The groom
will give rece ptiOn tomorrow night to the
Hibernian Rifles. of which organization he Is
q member, and after the aiIalr the happy cou-
pie Will leave for Saratoga.
Harper Hamilton ana Nose Wright of
Rome went out 10 Chulio district in Floyd
county, SATURDAYS to entertain a crowd with
some democratic doctrine. As a result they
were entertained somewhat themselves 1t
happened that there were more populists
than democrats in the crowd that greeted
them. and they preCipitated quite a discus
sion The democratic orators came out ahead
In this, but as they were hitching up their
team to come to town a halfdrunken third
partyite made break and yelled for Nose
Wright IN kill them, he cried He was
stopped and the orators drove TO the city.
pistol that was lying under the seat in their
buggy was stolen.
DR.. J. B. Roberts. ex-postmaster at Sanders
vile. was put back in the Bbb county iail
Monday. phirty days ago Judge Speer al
lowed DR. Roberts his freedom for thirty DAYS
in order that he might go 10 Sandersville and
attend his wife Who was critically III DIT
Roberts was required to give bond in the sum
OF IS 90 that he would return to Macon at the
nn1F
jail to serve the sentence OF twelve
months that was imposed on hin. hy
the court The thirty days expired Monday,
and true to his promise and his bond, DR..
Roberts reported to the court and was re-
turned to jail. The thirty days freedom that
was allowed him in order to go to Sanders
vile will not be deducted from his sentence.
He had been in jail eleven days when allowed
TO 20 to SandersVille. IL is a concident that
DR.. Roberts thirty days Of freedom expired
on the day that Messrs. James H. BlOunt and
J. w. Preston returned from Washington
with the glad tidings that President Cleve-
land had relieved Dr.. Roberts Of the two
years sentence in the penitentiary.
The only man in the Georgia penitentiary
who has drawn pension is j W. Bailey. Last
year while busy at his work issuing pension
warrants, Capt. Tip Harrison was surprised
by the sudden appearance Of a tall erect dig
nihed-looking man in convict stripes, who
b came as he said TO get the money paid him
by the state as his pension for wounds re.
aelved IN the war, dis papers were all right
81 his story was soon told. At his home In Gil
Iner county, in 1891, he had killed a man lie
stoutly maintained that it was in self defense,
but his lawyers were not able to impress the
jury with this fact. and he was convicted. lie
was an Old soldier and had been wounded in
both arms; in one OF them so badly that
about SIX inches Of the bone had to be re-
moved. The Judge In sentencing him took
into nsIderatton these facts and the circum-
stances of The killing and let him down with
the light sentence OF five years. This year
when the pension applications were sent in
laf rs 1a
funds had all been exhausted before It was
received. He had, however. filed some time
before a petition for pardon, and Monday the
governor signed the document which gives
him his freedom. Bailey is an old man over
Oh years Of age, and his wounds have been
troubling him so that his health is now broken
and the physicians at the peuitentiary camp
say he cannot live long.
Deputy Sheriff Mcconnell and Policeman
Horace Copeland OF Rome had a rather
strange and exciting experience a few lys
ago. AND by their work the most UNIQUE
reading club IN existence was broken IN
The onicers had received notification of some
deyiltry conduct by negroes about mile be,
yond North Rome and went out to investi-
gate. From little cabin they heard strange
noises cOming-shouts and wells ana groahs
and some loud eShorting They entered and
found about twenty-five negro men and
women grouped around "a big, burly fellow
weighing not less than 225 pounds He was
talking at the top OF his voice, and waving his
hands frantically. while the others were in
all sorts of positions and giving out allsorts
OF sounds. The strangest feature. how
ever, was the fact that the leader
was entirely Invested of wearing
apparel, and nearly every mem
Der present was in the same Adam and Eve
costume. Only one or two were clothed in any
thing more substantial than atmosphere As
soon as the officers appeared the leader made
dash at them. and il was only after des
perate struggle that they succeeded in pin
Rlng him down. lie was eventually clothed
and carried to jail No sooner was he locked
up than he again took of his clothing and he
gan preaching. II seems that he is known as
prophet Goodman to his followers He is
undoubtedly crazy and will be sent to the
asylum at Milledgevtlle The day after his
arrest another negro appeared in front of the
jail and demanded that his father in the
church be released. Raymond Mcconnell
son OF the deputy sheriff, had a tough fight
with him, but showed splendid nerve and
pluck, and finally locked him up.
FLORIDA.
There are still about $50 men working on
the Royal Polnciana at Palm Beach Lake
Worth