The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGRAPHS.

Liberty Within the Next Few
Weeks-The shooting of a Negro nj
Social Circle Alleged 20 Have Been
an InexcusabIe Crime.
GEORGIA.
The Brunswick cyclist are talking up a
local race meet for July T.
J. H. Bass has been reelected by the
grand jury commissioner OF Muscogee
county
of Atlanta. died day or two ago He
was a brave confederate soldier.
The building OF the long distance tele-
phone line from Columbus and Atlanta
has been begun. Il viii be completed by
the 18th inst.
John Y. Tarver one Of Augustus oldest
and most highly respected citizen, is eN-
tremely Ill at his home on Campbell street.
His condition is critical
People are passing through Helena fire.
quently looking for locations for farms.
etc. Business prospects are beginning 10
look much brighter in that vicinity.
A Brahma hen belonging to A.Brumstead
of Atlanta has laid an egg SIX inches
around the smallest part and nine inches
around the largest. II weighed eight
ounces.
The mother of Jesse Dickens OF Augusta.
who killed Scharnitzeky. has gone To At
1anta 10 present petition to Gov. Akin
son for the pardon OF her son. Dickens
was sentenced to eight years in the peni-
Tentiary.
Congressman Livingston left Atlanta
Monday for Washington and New York.
lie will probably sail for Venezuela some
time in the near future and spend several
weeks among the people of that country
He has received number Of very pressing
invitations from the leading citizens Of
that country.
"A fatal accident with an old gun oc-
CURED on S. L. Brooks place near Wash
ington Thursday, that resulted in the death
of a negro boy about years old. Win
B11ug
foOling with the gun when IL went of and
shot the little negro In the side, inficting
a wound from which the child died in
few hours.
Messrs. Grace & Jones have fled a suit
for $4,000 in the United States court at
Macon in behalf of Miss Margaret Meal
pin of East Macon, who was seriously in
jured by a fall from one of the Central
trains last March while trying 20 leave the
car at the depot IN Macon. Her condition
Is said TO be critical and her death is eN-
pected at almost any time.
A bill charging Mrs. i. A. Jones, troll
ley conductors wife. with fraud, was re-
turned by the United States grand jury at
Atlanta Monday. afternoon. Mrs. Jones
received letters from South Georgia peo-
pie Offering 10 buy Mrs. Jack Jones cypress
trees. Mrs. +. a. Jones sold these trees,
rived considerable revenue.
a movement has been inauCurated to
establish The Historical Society Of Wash
ington County" and with that purpose in
view all descendants of old settlers are
earnestly requested to meet at the court
house in Sandersville on the first Tuesday
in July, at which time a nucleus will be
formed and plans adopted for the preserva-
ton of records Of interest TO the present
and future generations.
An important case was thrown out of
court before Judge Westmoreland al At
lanta Monday on an order to nonsuit 1t
was the case of Mrs. Hughes OF Union
county against the Neal Loan and Banking
Company. Mrs. Hughes sued for the re-
covery Of 200. She claimed that a pen
sion certificate for this amount was cashed
by the bank, her name being forged to IL
and on this ground she asked that the
bank be made to refund the money. 1t
was shown by the bank that the money
knew OF the collection and received a part
OF the money. At this Judge Westmore-
land passed an order non-suiting the case.
Edwin Harcourt, the actor convict. is
once more in sight Of liberty. His dis
charge papers We're made out by the prin-
cipal keeper of the penitentiary Monday
and VIII be forwarded to Chattahoochee
prick camp without delay. In a week OF
two Harcourt Will be free. Harcourt has
been an inmate of the Chattahoochee con-
vict camp since June 20 last year. He was
brought up from Columbus at that time
and placed in the stockade by the river
The story of Harcourt's trouble is a ia
company of players and liked the town
lie decided to stay there and became the
friend Of a number of prominent young
men of the city. He met a number of
ladies of excellent social standing and by
his dashing manners became popular in
society. In some way he became possessed
of the diamonds of a popular young lady
and disappeared He was caught in Mem
phis, carried back to Columbus, tried and
given one year The affair created big
sensation at the time.
At Atlanta Saturday afternoon Judge
Lumpkin passed on an important case in
volVing the title of the Brown block which
Is valued at something like $4,000 1t is
the block Of buildings opposite the union
passenger depot. Some time before his
DEATH Hon. Joseph r. Brown made a deed
of this property to his children, reserving
a life interest himself. He never delivered
the deed, but had it recorded and locked
up in his safe. After his death il was
asking that the deed be set aside. It was
alleged that IL was no deed as it had never
been delivered. Saturday afternoon Judge
Lumpkin passed his order in the case in
which ne refused to set the deed aside. 1t
was maintain by the executors that the
deed left the property to the children so
they could viii il away at any time, but
they could not sell it or transfer it dur
Ing their lives. They wanted the deed an
nulled so that they could dispose of the
property as they thought best, but this is
just what Judge Lumpkin refused to do
About three years ago a young man by
the name of Thomas j. Bush entered a
train standing at the station at Griffin
and stole some candy, books, etc, from the
newsboy. He was arrested, tried and
convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of
SO, or serve six months in the chaingang
custody O few days and allow him to get
the money from home to pay his fine and
he was placed in Jail. A few days after.
he escaped from Jail and has not been
heard of since, until last Saturday he APP
piled to the keeper of the GAINESVILLE tank
for a quart of whisky. When the whisky
was delivered Bush was required to re-
ceipt for the same, which established his
identity to the marshal of GAINESVILLE
who at once arrested him and will receive
the SO reward offered by the county com
missioners Bush has been carried TO
Griffin and will be placed up
on the changing at once He
is hardly 20 years old and was
mere youth when he committed the
crime.
Monroe News: The shooting of Tom
Wright, eolored, by William Hartridge
while, at Social Circle last Saturday
night, was one of the most serious crimes
that has ever occurred in this county
Hartridge is professional fisherman and
spends more or less of his leisure time
about Social Circle. Saturday night about
s o'clock he visited that part of the town
called Negro Row" where a number OF
colOred people live. While there or al he
passed through that uQarter he was shot
at by some party He went up into tho
town swearing vengeance, and securing a
buggy drove out to Mr.. John Upshaw'e
plantation, where Tom Wright. the man he
apf cd of hax ebo OF hi