The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-02

Medicine for Rheumatism Taken
Internally Causes the Death of a
Citizen of GYvinnett COunty-A Ne
gro Under Arrest for FeIOniOus
Assault on "A Woman Near BnxIcy.
Brick Yards Near Macon Closed on
Account of an Increase in Freight
Rates.
GEORGIA.
The annual meeting of the Womans
Foreign Missionary Society OF the La
Grange district viii be held in Newman
on july 10, II and IS
Owing to the carelessness Of a wardman
Saturday the new government building at
Augusta has been damaged by rain TO the
extent of several thousand dollars.
IN fight which occurred on L. W. Wal
tons plantation, near Madison Saturday
night. Bob MaXey was horribly cut by
two other negroes, Jim Shakespeare and
Bob Moreland. The latter is in jail.
The firm of Hutcheson q Roberts OF
Senoia was lately dissolved by the death
of Col. Arthur Hutchinson. a new firm
has been organized. composed OF j. +.
Arnall, T. 5. Roberts, W. l.. Carlton ana
J. r. Walker, who will continue the bust
ness under the name Of Arnall, Roberts
& Co.
Zach BLANCHARD. an old citizen of Bay
Creek district. in Gwinnett county, met
sudden and violent death recently. lie had
been under treatment Of a physician for
rhumatism, who left medicine for him TO
rub on his hips and to take internally The
old man made mistake and TOOK a dose
from the vial which he had been using 20
rub on his hip. In few hours he was
dead. having been literally burnt up.
negro boy. IS years old. named VIII
lams, recently went to the house Of Mrs
Alice Moody, four miles north OF BaXley
and entered her room at night. lie seized
her, but she frightened him of. He went
TO a neighboring turpentine farm and Sc
n..f.1 f7unH
ing he returned to Mrs MoOdy's and again
entered her room and struck her on the
head with turpenune hack or some
thing of that kind. The blow made Sc
rious wound. Williams is under arrest.
In the United States court at Macon
Saturday the Cordele GuanO Company
filed it's application to the suit OF Temp
kins Oliver * Co. of Charlotte, n. G. In
December 1884, Tompkins, Oliver a Co.
brought suit against the guano company
TO foreclose their mortgage held to secure
a debt for machinery purchased. The
guano company claims set-on in that
the machinery was not as guaranteed, and
because of this the company lost 500
pounds of sulphuric acid in a collapse of
the plant Repliants further contend that
the mortgage was not given by the proper
authority, which fact was known TO the
interventors at the time they accepted 1t.
G. c.. Stratton has closed his brick yards
near Macon for an definite period. Two
hundred ana fifty men were thrown out OF
work. 1t is said that the trouble grew out
OF an increase IN freig'nI rates on the AIeOT-
gia Southern. The Georgia Southern has
been In the habit of making concessions TO
Macon brick shippers and dealers in other
heavy freights in order to allow Macon
merchants and dealers to compete with
other points for the South Georgia and
Florida trade. These concessions were be-
lieved by the Southern railroad people TO
be in violation of the rules of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association, and
on this account a protest was made and
the rates were ordered restored. 1t Is be
n0Ved "a pnnlnrOfnisl reached a
early date. as some OF the Macon yards
have been shipping as many as nifty TO one
hundred cars of bricks month.
They had lively times with an alligator
near Perry, in Houston county, recently.
1t was a monster saurlan, measuring elev-
en- feet three inches in length, and weigh
ing S25 pounds. His 'gatorship was caught
with a rope. fixed by boy. The rope was
fixed in an ordinary draw loop and placed
where IL was known the gator crossed the
dam going out of the pond He passed
nearly through before the loop was drawn
close enough to hold him. The rope held
only one hind leg and his tail, and the
strength of the gator drew it down to the
size of an ordinary Irvine. The combined
strength of four men was necessary to pull
the hugh catch up on the dam, and mule
was necessary to carry him to the mill
house Saturday morning the skin was
taken off and the tail-said TO be edible
was carried off in triumph by colored
citizen, and alligator steak was plentiful
in that neighborhood Saturday and Sun
day.
In speaking of the progress of Dawson,
The News of that city says that Dawson
was laid off in 1856 and has grown from
q struggling village to a city with stately
brick churches, a magnificent court house.
handsome business blocks and hundreds of
coy residences-the homes of an intelli-
gent people, few of them rich, but most of
them in easy circumstances. Among the
pioneers of that section is Mr. George KEEL
ley, who settled there in 1913. Mr.. Kelley,
who lives near Dawson, is now 81 years of
age. In 1878, when Gen. Andrew Jackson
with his mounted Tennesseans was on the
march to Florida, he passed within
a mile of where Dawson now stands, and
until few years ago traces existed in the
little village of Chickasawhatche where
he and his men camped for the night
-Chickasawhatchee is an Indian name
and means Observation-Disclosures >" and
the place. one among the first settled in
the county, was a health resort for the
planters In the early days. A Mr.. Kilpat-
rick who was a soldier under Gen. Jack
son died near Dawson a few years ago
aged more than 100 years. About six miles
from Dawson, near the old homestead of
Mr.. Martin Harp, a bloody battle was
fought with the Indians in July, 1886. The
Indians, in their retreat southwark, burn
ed house near where the village of Dover
now stands. The roadbed of the Columbus
Southern railroad is built on an old Indian
TRAIN fhatAled from Columbus to Albany.
The trail is almost an air line, and proves
the instinct of the red man to be-, in some
respects, superior to the acquired knOwl-
edge Of the pale faces"