The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22

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valuable Property st Athens-A
Doctor Missing From Eontezuna.
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vile lie -avs haLF 20 his taxes In Augusta
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The Sraz5 Ivy q Cla-Se county has re
tcrned 9 t--e cl-A taa7EilE ana accusing
VII Ea-I1zrt with tie seduction OF Miss
Annie Moore BY persuasive promises OF mar
nage-
Atthe last session OF the great council Of
Red Men OF Georgia u was decided 10 lold
the next session Of that body at Cumberland
Island. There IS some talk OF changing the
place Of meeting,
Jesse Corley. the young man who was sen
tsuCed on FRIDAY 70 be hanged In Aiken. =.
G was once resident Of Augusta. He is a
VentriloQuist His powers IN that line are
quite extraordinary.
Some time during the coming year the ca
pacitv OF the Sibley Mil at Augusta. viii be
greatly increased. There is room for 80 ad-
Gitional looms, and 5000 additional splndles
without one cents outlay for building.
A protective arrangement has been built
around the gates which let IN the water that
runs the Shamrock mill near the aqueducts
at Augusta. 1t will be recalled that this was
the place where the Lamar-Connolly fatal &C
cldent occurred.
AS is well known D. B. Woodruff, Of Macon.
has held the highest Offices in the order OF
Knights OF Pythias. He is past supreme
chancellor. II has been ruuor6d that AF-
Woodruff had Withdrawn from the order
The rumor proves to have been unfounded.
Darlen Timber Gazette: Our shipments OF
timber have been little backward this sea
son. owing to the scarcity Of tonnage. but 1t
promises to be quite lively in the ne1ghbor-
hood Of the Sapelo landing grounds during
the next few months. There is good deal or
timber in Darien to be shipped.
The Legislative race in Floyd county is grad
ually warming up, and assuming definite pro
portions since Maj. r. u. Fouche, Capt. John
Moses Wright and c. w. Underwood, have
been announced for candidates, subject to the
democratic primary, which meets in May.
The cotton factory at Cordele will begin OPP
erations next week. L. G. AYerett, the man
ager Of the Cordele Manufacturing Company,
has received enough orders to warrant him
in starting up the factory he says that
nearly all the old hands are coming back to
work in the factory, and he hopes by the end
Of the first week to have full force at work.
Councilman NJ M. WEIGH. of the second
ward OF Atlanta, who is chairman OF the com
mittee on public buildings and grounds, and
member of the park commission, and of the
relief committee, has proposed an interest
ing provision in behalf of the poorer classes
IN the city. His plan is TO stock the old water
works lake with fish and have them distribu-
I'd a pf the pitV through
agency of the Atlanta Charitable Association
Darien Timber Gazette: Quite an accident
occurred on the Darien Short Line near Ores
cent, on Friday morning OF last week which
resulted in Philip Scott, colored. getting his
arm badly mashed, and Jim Guest, also col
ored, losing o leg. The train jumped the
track and the two men getting frightened fell
from the car lust in time to get in the way of
the heavy timber. Those who remained on
the train were not hurt. DR., Clark was tele-
graphed for and went out at once to care for
the injured. On arriving there he found it
necessary to amputate SCOTS arm and
Guests leg.
Montezuma Record DR.. J. W. Davis who
has been living here several months is miss
ing. The last seen or heard of him was last
Friday. DR.. Davis has been drinking quite
heavily for some time past and while under
the influence Of whisky went to Oglethorpe
last Thursday, and we are told by one OF Ogle-
thorpes citizens that during the day he was
seen rowing up and down the banks Of the
creek in a seemingly insane condition, and
was afterwards found in the creek almost
drowned and was carried to the hotel, where
he remained during the night, but left the
next day and has not been seen since.
Cooper Bennett. a young man who arrived
ct Columbus about three months ago from
Alexandria City, Ala, was arrested
Friday on the charge Of larceny after trust by
his employer, J. D. Hendrix. Mr.. Hendrix
is a locomotive engineer, and trusted Ben
nett with the management of his Grocery
business. Wednesday afternoon Mr.. Hen
driv Aigrnpnrad
about $500, but did not have him arrested,
simply telling him he would have TO refund
the shortage. Early Friday morning the
store and contents were burned. They were
fully insured, but Bennett was placed under
arrest, as above stated. He belongs to an
excellent family.
Blakeley News: On Wednesday Eph
Windsor ST, who lives three miles west of
Jr. He ftagellated too much, and his mother
in-law appearing upon the scene, commanded
the peace. Eph, Sr did not obey the com
mand, but Corbett-ltke knocked his mother
in-law out. At this stage of the game his
daughter interferred, only to be given the
same as the motherin-law. This caused his
eldest son to take a hand, who, with
pocket-knife proceeded to carve Eph, Sr., in
eleven places. That not stopping the Tight
the son laid the old man out with fence rail
DR.. Dostor rendered all necessary surgical
aid, and all is quiet at Castle Windsor
Lafayette Messenger: Wash Lowrey has
his sawmill in Waterville district, below
Sims mill. Among his aXmen was Thomas
Cameron, who boarded with his blind brother,
Valentine. Tom had not been at work for
some days and Mr.. Lowrey sent down to his
brothers TO get him. He had not been there
since Monday OF last week, and when il was
found that he had not been at the mill search
was made for him by Mr. Lowrey and
Charley Phillips. In the woods they
came across CHASTITY sight. Hang
ing upon a bush were Cameron S
dinner bucket and coat. Near by was a large
nine that had been felled Close nv the
stump was Cameron's decaying body the
head about of, the face and lower Jaw and
the arms torn OF by the hogs. His forehead
was crushed in. The cause of his death was
plain. On the pine forty or fifty feet from
the ground was large limb six inches in
diameter and extending out ten or twelve
feet. AS the pine fell, this limb struck a tall
oak, that bent and il broke of the limb. That
threwit back on Cameron, killing him IN
stantly.
Americas Times Recorder: J. W Wheatlev
special commissioner for the defunct Ameri-
Gus Investment Company, sold before the
court house Thursday, seven parcels of city
property, the same that, by recent decision
OF the court was severed from the assets of
the Investment company and made subject TO
certain bonds issued thereon. The property
sold consists OF house and lot on College
street. known as the old Green place; a lot on
Church street, formerly owned by A. H. eli
yer; the old Fed Lowry lot on COker street:
q vacant lot on Cocker street; lot corner OF
Spring and Church streets and known as the
Murphey properly; small lot on Dudley
street and an unimproved lot on
rear OF the Lawn property. All OF
the property was bought in by the