The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-11

on the CaptOrs-YounR Atlanta
Mans Alleged Death From Habit
uaI Cigarette Smokfng-BOnes,
pipes, skulls and other Indian
Relics Dug Up in Georgia.
GEORGIA
on Monday, Sept %. the citizens OF Gov
ington VIII vote on the question Of issuing
$4,000 of bonds for the purpose ot erecting
new school building for that city.
J. C.. Williams of the Augusta Herald
played la big luck Saturday night. He
had been trading with big shoe house.
and walked in with his keys and one OF
them opened the hex containing the last
prize-nve silver dollars. he Is now s.
ahead.
w. Pemberton, cOlored, Of Augusta. is
the lieutenant Of a cOlOred juvenile mill
tary company While drilling them on the
asphalt W. Penn, also cOlored, spit IN their
faces and cursed the lieutenant. when he
interfered Then the latter sasned his
head with wooden gun. For this the re-
corder this morning fined Eemoerton 80
and costs.
From Whigham. Decatur county, there
have been forwarded 70 the Atlanta expo
sitiou a great variety Of articles to be
placed in THE Plant system and state
buildings. Among them are wines, BRAN
dies, preserves, varieties OF tobacco, cats,
rye. rice, wheat, corn. syrup, clays Of diff
ierent sorts, kaOlin, OOlitic limestone, eN-
htbits Of timber and Of various valuable
minerals not mentioned among the fore
going.
Much excitement was created in Augusta
Saturday ny the announcement that bred
Henderson, colored, had assaulted little
mulatto child only S years OF age. The
rumOr proved TO be true. for ia short
while Policeman Wise had arrested the
fend and sent him TO jail in the patrol
wagon. The girl, whose name is Bryant,
lives on Mil street near Broad, with her
parents. She is In horrible condition and
has suffered terribly.
Fsn.-svrs+,-, ef.r. Teha I.arv, ards drill, Ia-
longing TO Mr.. John l.. King Of Downs dis
tIict, were destroyed by fire on Thursday
last Mr.. King had a considerable guam
THY Of hay and fodder stored in his barn,
which was ull destroyed. The fire occur
TED about noon, but it is not known how
II originated. though IL Is said to have been
by spontaneous combustion. The loss is
from 800 TO $40 and falls heavily upon Mr..
King, as he had no insurance.
Covington Star: A negro man named
Jack solomon was run over by an east
bound freight train OF the Georgia railroad
on Wednesday night and terribly man
gled. We learn IL is not certainly known
whether ne was killed by the cars or not,
bat the whole train must have passed over
his body. He had been to Rutledge during
Wednesday, and had walked back. He
was recognized as a man vino had been at
work for Mr. HARRISON at Social Circle
but was stranger ia that place. His re-
mains We're ordered buried by the coroner
at the county's expense.
The Floyd County Veterans Association
has completed the plans for the trip across
the country to Chickamauga Forty mem
beers have signed the agreement to so by
wagon. They will be under command of
Capt. A. b. S. Mosey, adjutant OF the as
ISOLATION, and Will leave Rome on the 10th
and march TO the ford of the ChattQoga
river the first day. and will 20 into camp
as in old times. The next day they will
march TO Rocky Springs IN Walker coun-
~, and camp within four miles of the
Chickamauga battlefield the second night
There they Will leave their teams while
they are attending the exercises on dedica-
ton day
Augusta Herald: Some time since, after
heavy rain, a gully was washed at the
back door of Mr.. Bates store. which
stands near the Savannah river at Stony
blum. In this wash w. i. Smith, the
agent, found portions of the remains of
two Indian skeletons, an Indian pipe and
piece of stone jar. One Of the skulls
wRs almost entire, but was cracked in
being dug out. These bones have evil
IDENTIFY lain there for years, all the animal
matter has disappeared from them and
they crumSle almost at touch. Mr..
Smith is IN correspondence with several
persons interested in antiquities with a
view to disposing of the relies.
The tool house Of the Georgia Mining
and Beauxite Company at Adairsville was
burned last Friday night. 1t was also used
as a. warehouse for powder and dynamite.
1t was very fortuna te that the company
only had two kegs of powder and one box
OF dynamite on hand, as the sleeping
apartments are near where the Toulouse
was located The explosion was terrific.
II required heroic work 10 save the mules.
horses and wagons from being destroyed
by the flames The report of the explo-
sion was heard for miles. The loss is con-
Siderable, but cannot be learned, neither
can il be ascertained IL any insurance was
carried. No one was seriously hurt.
Further particulars of the killing of
VIII Totten by Parson Tucker. near Cedar
Bluff, have been received at Rome. The
boys were both young, Totten being thir-
teen and Tucker fifteen. They had had a
quarrel the day before and Tucker and
his brother had started down to the Chat
tooga river bottoms after load OF wood.
On the way they met Totten, who began
to abuse Tucker and dared him to get out
of the wagon. He jumped out and his
brother and another boy drove on. He at
tackled Totten, who plunged knife into
his body. He fell IN the road and died be-
fore his brother could get back to the
spot fuckers youth prevented his ar
rest for the bloody deed.
Constable John Currie, of Burch's dis
trict, near Dublin, shot negro Saturday
named Ned Brown. Currie had a warrant
against the negro for assault and battery
and had been on the lookout for him
some two months. Yesterday morning the
officers vigilance was rewarded by, seeing
Brown near Dexter The officer approach
ed the negro and told him to consider him
self under arrest. Instead of that. Brown
TOOK 10 ms heels and ran toward branch
the officer in hot pursuit. When the con
stable was getting close on the heels oil
the fugitive the latter turned around as
II to shoot, when Currie shot him in the
right side just under the shoulder, goine
entirely through the body, making a NOR
tai wound.
About II o'clock Sunday night the in
mates of Mr.. Jesse Cupeppers residence
at Columbus were startled by a small vol.
ley of rocks thrown against the house, ai1d
unusual noises about the yard A few
minutes after, Mrs. Culpepper, who was in
her mothers room, went to close the win
dow blinds and as she lent forward out
of the window two big black hands were
put forward from the darkness, one seizine
her hair and the fingers of the Other
clutching the flesh of her cheek The
negro attempted to pull the lady out of tht
window, but did not succeed, though he
pulled out some Of her hair and bruised
her cheek. As soon as released Mrs Cul
pepper started to her husbands room, bu
tainted before reaching it Mr. Culpeppel
fired at what he supposed to be the negro
but WITHOUT effect. The case has createt
q sensation and the officers are busy try
ing 10 locate the negro hend.
}. A Mullarky of Atlanta time keeDe-
in the machinery hall for the exposition
company. died very suddenly at the Met
ropolitan hotel last Saturday afternoon
The cause of his death was heart trouble
said TO have been brought on from tn,
habtUal smoking of cigarettes Only /
day or two previous TO his death tn,
young man, who was "a years of age hat
been warned by DIR. Huzza to keep yer,
Fl1ear sole of