The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-20

aEtrous E1re-A Gcrfthcate ot his
charge in bankruptcy Issued in
1926 in the Possession of n Lady of
Madison.
GEORGIA.
At Macon Wednesday JEFF Johnson was
sentenced to nine years IN the Ohio pen
iJentiary for cOuuterieiung. Jesse Nc
Card was acquitted
Postmasters have been appointed as
follows; r. IT. Butler vice F. A. Butler
resigned. BOXwood. Wilkinson county. r.
+ Byrd. vice ". n. Iun, resigned, Rural,
Taylor county.
The recent grand jury voted TO put In
operation in Dooly county the general
road law. providing for a road tax OF 81
and an ad valorem tax 10 work the roads
of the county
Mrs. Sims has entered suit in the su-
periOr court for divorce from her hus-
band. DR.. ]. i. Sims, a prominent ply
stefan Of Columbus. Mrs. Sims has also
applied for alimOny. and the hearing Of
the application is set for to-day.
John Paine. a laborer OF Atlanta, was
cutting wood a. a small station on the
Southern road Wednesday afternoon, when
the AK slipped and cut OF several toes.
Paine is in a serious condition. and il is
feared that lockjaw may develop.
Robert ]. Harris the 15-year-old BROTHER
Of Arthur 5. Harris. Of NaldOSta, left nome
suddenly and Unexpectedly about m01th
ago, and has not been heard OF since,
though many efforts nave been made 10
John S. McKown. head clerk Of the Cen
trial railroad freight office al Atlanta, was
assaulted Tuesday night in JonesDoro
while on his way 70 his home. He was
Knocked insensihle with a coupling pin
and his watch and SAD were taken away
from him.
In 1852 a man named William Turner,
then living at Anderson, 5. c., was ac-
cused Of fTauduiently selling twenty bales
OF cotton belonging to II. II. Prince 4
Co, and appropriating The proceeds A
man supposed TO be Turner is now under
arrest at Social Circle
Lawrenceville will soon have a three
story. forty-roOm brick hotel, 10 be erect
ed by NJ. Z. Ewing. W. Il; Brown has
been getting everything in shape 10 build
a two-story brick hotel where the old
Globe hotel now stands, and II Is likely
that he will build this summer.
A. Gutman's place of business al Crit
fin was closed Wednesday upon a distress
warrant for rent. Mr.. Gutman has been
absent in New York for three months
past and has fallen behind on his rents,
which has caused his trouble. The amount
due is not large, being less than 500.
During the storm Monday night the
lightning struck the wires near the ware
house at Toombsboro, burning out the
wires and setting FIRE 20 the wood work
of the warehouse window. A disastrous
fire was avoided by the vigilance OF Capt
Brannan. conductor on the night pas
senger train from Atlanta. who in pass
ing that point al 1880 a. m. with the aid
of the train crew put out the rapidly
spreading flames.
Wednesday afternoon the Baldwin Blues
and the cadets Of the Middle Georgia
Military and Agricultural College at Mil
ledgeVilie had a rifle contest out near
the Central railroad bridge The range
was 200 and 800 yards. Twelve men from
each company were chosen 10 shoot.
Among them was Lieut.. Walls, of the
Baldwin Blues, who made such fine rec
ord at the encampment. The score was
425 10 $50 in favor Of the cadets. The ca
diets have been practicing for several
months
AS is well known. the late John T.
Waterman was the private secretary Of
Speaker Crisp at a yearly salary OF S2,100
Though Mr.. Crisp is no longer speaker
Mr.. Waterman was still drawing this sal
airy as secretary and would have been
paid IL until the converting Of the new
congress. when republican speaker Will
be elected, and, OF course a republican
secretary appointed. Now that Mr.. Wa
terman Is dead, the question is, viii his
family receive the salary that he would
have been paid had he lived until the
next cOngress2
Mrs. NJ. L. Silcox, Of Madison possesses
a written certificate of discharge I'm bank
rupty granted to Daniel SilcoX, her hus-
bands ancestor dated Dec. q, 1926 The
commissioners in bankruptcy We're Joseph
i5mith, John Francis Cunning, Henry
Davis, John Lenton Simmons and PEREZ
val Bays. King George ~. was then in
the seventh year of his reign, and the
certificate is addressed to the lord high
chancellor of Great Britain. 1t is on
parchment 27x28 inches and written with
pen in very attractive lettering Daniel
Silcox is described as "A wooden draper
and chapman of Road Somerset, county
Clothier, Ireland"
At Americas, while the storm was at
its hight during the early hours of
Wednesday morning, an ornamental brick
chimney extending fifteen feet above
the roof of Col. S. H. Hawkins resi-
dence was blown over. The solid column
of brick and mortar crashed through
the roof like shell from a cannon. IT
struck the room usually occupied by s
pened to be sleeping in a room on the
first floor. The bed was crushed into
splnters, hundreds of loose brick falling
upon it. The plasterng overhead in
the room directly beneath was knocked
down, falling upon the beds of other
members of the family and frightening
them greatly
Cedartown Standard; Right where Polk
corners with HARRISON and Paulding coun-
ties, directly south of Rockmart valu-
able piece of mineral property is now in
process OF development. And a couple of
engaged in the movement. The gentlemen
are George II. Clark, of Cedartown, and
Mai NJ. T. Singleton, of Rockmart, two
talented and experienced mineralogists
and the property Is a magnificent bed
of iron pyrites. Nine test shafts have
developing a regular vein of pyrites
eight feet in width. The property also
embraces a fine deposit Of high grade
non ore, running 81 per cent. iron The
iron pyrites Is valuable from the fact
that 1t is the material from which sui
phruic acid is manufactured, and the
manufacture of this acid is a very i'm
portant and profitable industry. The
property comprises 1900 acres.