The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07

Numbering His Wife-A Prosperous
Couple of Emanuel County Macon
Worked by sbarpers With a Fin de
sicle Change Trick The Tragic Death
Of Henry Faw.
GEORGIA
Cordele is TO have a library.
II is said that several Savannah gentle
men contemplate building iu Meldrlm al
an early date.
Friday night the residence of i. " sui
Ivan, postmaster a. CoNinglon, was
broken into and 500 of government funds
stolen.
j. W. Treadweu of Sparta lost hundreds
of bushels of turnips Dy the freeze. IL IS
thought that his Florida orange grove
was also destroyed.
earroIlron Times: The old court house
was 1put up by the sheriff for sale last
Thursday and not "a bid was received. II
Will stand for two years more ana VIII
likely be an issue in Carroll politics.
Waynesboro True Citizen: a colored
woman wife of Frank Naltower living
in the Goth district. died recently with hy-
drophobia. She. was bitten by mad dog
soufe weeks. ago. The little son of Mr..
John Palmer, of this county, was also BIT
ten by dog supposed TO be affected with
rabies He lives ia the 66th district also
As yet the ease has not developed hydro
phobia.
Four foreign vessels bound for Darien
70 load with saWu timber We're wrecked
in the recent storm on the English coast.
During the past month there was shipped
from Daren, coastwise and foreign, 6.uo1-
$50 feet of heWn and saWn timber. During
the month ending Dec. 30 there were meas
ured at the public boom In Darien $4,000
feet Of square, scab and sawn timber.
This does not include the saWu timber
and lumber which came I'm during the
month and was carried direct 10 the prl-
Vate booms.
Waynesboro True Citizen: George Car
butt, Esq, formerly resident OF ms
county but now of Summit, Emanuel
county is one Of those emigrants from
the old country Of long ago. who has been
a valuable citizen to Georgia as devel-
oper of her natural interest He came 10
Savannah in 1919 and since then has done
much in the great lumber business Of
Georgia that shows what energy and in
telligence can do. He is now 20 and Mrs.
Garbutt G5 years old. They have seven of
ten children living and forty-two grand
children. When he arrived in Georgia he
had the immense fortune of $25 safely
housed in his pocket. Since then he has
started his children In the world each
with 5000 and yet has a competency Tor
himself and his. faithful loving wife.
Augusta Evening Chronicle: The body
of Bailey Johnsons wife was examined
Friday afternoon, but no traces of foul
play were found. From witnesses who
testified at the inquest who had not tes-
tilted the day previous, IL was learned that
the old woman had been literally fright
ened to death. A root doctor" had visit
leu NeE ana tQlQ ntf SllE was ilii-t Win
lizards. This was the cause Of her ap-
prehension. and afterward of her death.
When the hoodoo doctor told her this she
Immediately took TO her bed. Then her
children. so witnesses said. began to ac-
cuse their father of having conjured the
old woman, and some of them proposed TO
move their mother from the house and
carry her to their home. This Is was that
brought about the fight that ended in the
death Of the son at the hands or the
father. The old man not believing that
there u for the removal OF
his wife, demonstrated with the children.
Bailey. the son, grew very angry, and
thereupon attacked the family. The old
man in defending his own life slew his son.
This testimony when divulged at the
inquest put an entirely different light on
the whole subject, and now Bailey john
son has been released from the Aiken
county iau. as a verdict Of killing in sell
defence was brought by the jury.
The election squabble in Clayton has
been temporarily settled by the candidates
agreeing that Jonesboro box should be
counted without the voting lists. At the
same time all the candidates have request
ed the eighteen managers In the county
TO meet at Jonesboro to-day and purse
all the boxes of any Illegal votes. Attei
the Jonesboro box was counted the face
of the returns showed that all the demo
Gratis had been elected except the sheriff
and the tax collector, who tied with tbs
populist. L. c. Hutchinson, the present
incumbent. and the democratic candidate
for sheriff, was defeated by his nephew
Joseph +. Brown, by majority of l.
votes. Mr.. Brown is a populist. Thu
rest of the democratic ticket was elected
as followSs For tax receiver, G. NJ. Cur
tbs Al majority; for county clerk, J, NJ
Mundy "a majority; for coroner, w. u
Daniel. "A ma jority; for surveyor, w. J
Lee, Al majority. Mr.. Hanes had no op
position for treasurer. d. NJ. RosSer anI
G. A. Miner, the latter populist, tied TO
tax collector. The total vote cast in tn
county was t53l. OF these So were pollet
in the country precincts and $50 in Jones
boro. The people here are still talking
,,1Tif nd ha Tran n Ifrfafs
to-day will be watched with considerahl
interest. The democrats claim that whel
the Illegal votes {i are thTow Nb out III
the populists believe that they viii cleo
their entire ticket
Macon Evening News. A brand new
kind of sharper has struck town. And /
is not one, but many, and they are feec
fns people fore and aft. The cases re
ported to the police were all conducted il
the same manner. A duped clerk, II
speaking of the way in which he was sold
said that early Friday night thiCkse
young man came in his store and aske
him to give him a SO bill IN exchange 10
silver, saving that he wanted to send tina
amount by letter TO his mother Tho cler
reached in his drawer for the money an
the young man handed him an enNelop
and asked him just to put the bill inside
He did so and handed the man the en-
Vslope taking handful of small change
Counting the money he found that tn
change was not correct. He told tn
stranger that he did not give him tn
right change and the reply from the pre-
cocious individual was that he had jus
had some changed across the street an
that the man had failed to give him tn
right change. He said he would step oU
and have the mistake corrected. but IN
clerk told him not to go of before givin
him back the $40 bill, whereupon tn
that contained ii over to him saving, Jus
hold this then tin I come back. and it Wi
save the trouble of unsealing the Ell
Velope." To this the clerk could not fin
any objection. The slick looking strange
stepped out of the door He never cam
back. The clerk waited long and patient
" for him to return with The correC
change but he never came back. II
waited until time to 80 home and as tn
stranger still had not returned, he Openc
the envelope to take out his bill but
was not there.
FLORIDA.