The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-19
GEORGIA.

Freeman Of Macon, died in that city a
day or two ago.
One of Sumter's prosperous farmers.
VINO has been holding portion of his
| cotton crop for better prices, sold $50
/ Dales Thursday AT about ~ cents, the
/ lohB-eNpeted advance having failed to ma
| teridliZe.
1t is reported that among the recent ar
rivals at Fitzgerald, the new colony town.
is a man and wife. who walked 100 miles
from their former home. having no money
TO pay rare but grit to get there.
Matte DAILY. a girl II or Is years old,
Of Atlanta, is missing, and Charles Boer.
walter Smith and Claude Patterson are in
vowed IN a charge of kidnapping brought
| by the girls father. She is supposed to
nave expected to marry Smith when she
left home.
Hon. Joe Mansfield of Mcintosh county
is busy getting up a petition for the par
don of Ella Fasen, a negro woman serv-
ing a life sentence in the penitentiary,
having been convicted as accessory to
a murder committed al Darien about
six years ago.
Prof L. T. f. Arnar Of Brook station,
in Coweta county, was attacked Thursday
night by two brothers named Moon and
seriously, II not fatally, hurt The diff
Guilty arose out of a sheriff's sale of some
property belonging to the Moons and bid
IN by Prof. Arnal. No arrests have yet
been made.
Gov Atkinson has received the first copy
of the acts of the last session of the
legislature. They are just coming from
| the hands of the state printer, George w
Harrison. Under the law a copy is to be
furnished without cost to each ordinary
in the state, to each court clerk. to each
sheriff, to each justice Of the peace and
to each notary public.
Sumner correspondence Morning News:
d. c. Stricklin has sold his stock of
merchandise at this place to G. w Har
rlngton of Brunswick.-Petitions are in
circulation all over this county asking the
ordinary to call an election for the purpose
OF moving the county seat of Worth from
Isabella to some point on the Brunswick
and Western railroad.
A tragedy occurred at a party given by
some young men eight miles from Conyers
Wednesday night, Logan Bradford, one
of the guests, shot John Eckels and killed
him instantly. Both men were drinking
and We're the best OF friends The muir
dered man was married and had one child.
The murderer is a young unmarried man
20 years of age. He is in jail.
At Americas Friday the jury In the
case of the Loan Mercantile and Stock
Association of the Marion County Farm
ers' Alliance VS.. Littleton & Lamar, rem
dered a verdict for the plaintiff in the
sum of $3.50, principal and interest. The
case arose over a Shipment OF 0TIY-IVVO
bales of cotton by the plaintiffs to Messrs
Littleton & Lamar, which the latter deny
having received.
In the Academy Of Music at Macon Wed
nesday afternoon was a lady who has
lived in Macon fifty years. She has never
seen performance at the Academy OF
| Music until Wednesday afternoon. This
| lady is not relgiously opposed to thea
| tiers, nor is she without means to pay her
way into every show that comes along;
Il NO to rrva#f =
nesday afternoon.
H. c. Ayers, a citizen of HARRISON coun-
| ty has a remarkable history for this dav
and time. He has never bought a pound
| of meat or lard, or a bushel of corn He
| wears altogether homemade clothes, new
| life Although living within two miles of
! the railroad, he has never ridden on a car
in his life. Mr.. Ayers is the father of
| thirteen children, eleven of whom are Hv-
ing and at home with him.
The jury in the city court at Rome
Thursday rendered a verdict granting
81, 800 to the plaintiff in the case of Mrs.
Eliza Daugherty. VS.. the Kelley Insti-
! tute, A. B. Mcdonald, manager Mrs
| Daugherty placed her son, c. L. Daugh-
erty, in the institute for treatment last
| year, and he died suddenly. The suit was
| flied for $4,000 damages, alleging mis-
| treatment. Mr.. Mcdonald filed suit for
$4,000 some time ago for injury to char
acter.
A. F. Pickett, a jeweler of Atlanta, is
financially embarrassed, and has sold out
his stock after making a number of mort
! cages upon it to different creditors. The
mortgages, it is said, cover about all the
assets of the merchant, who has given up
all he owns to satisfy his creditors His
liabilities are not stated, but it is assert
ed that there are other claims against
him, amounting to about $40 600, which are
unsecured 1t may be that there will be
fight made in the courts and an effort
made to set the mortgages aside.
Brunswick correspondent Morning News:
Since the mysterious assault was made on
Mr.. A. H. Leavy, several nights ago. an
account of which has been published in
the Morning News, efforts have been made
to discover the guilty party. Mr. Leavy
last night was approached by a well
known young man who stated that he
made the assault under misapprehension
He intended his attack. he said, for anoth-
er man. The wrong man had been attack
for help. Under the circumstances efforts
to locate and punish Mr. Leavy's assail-
ants have been stopped.
Walker Coker, son of Rev. w. NJ. Coker
of Gainesville, had the sight of one of his
eyes totally destroyed last week. He was
endeavoring to move tire on a wagon
wheel using a hammer and cold chisel
When he struck the chisel a blow a piece
of steel was broken off and struck tho eye
squarely in the sight. During the holidays
Walker was kindling a fire and had a horn
of powder swung around his neck at the
time, and by some means the stopper fell
out, pouring a quantity OF powder on the
hearth which ignited and burned his face
and nose fearfully. He had just fairly re-
covered from that accident when the other
occurred.
Washington correspondence Morning
News: Henry Woody. a negro, who was
in the neighborhood of 100 years of age.
died here last week.-Mrs.. John G. Stevens
of Atlanta, who was en- route to Wash
ington last week, was badly injured by a
rock thrown through the car window at
Robson, on the Georgia railroad. Mrs.
Stevens has been here several days I'M
der reatment.-Seventeen thousand five
hundred bales of cotton have been shipped
from this point this season.-E. Y. Hill
r. d. Galloway and Levi Galloway will
make the race for the legislature in Wilkes
county this year.
The directors of the Ailledgeville Oil
Company are suing the stockholders. The
oil company. under former management,
did not prove a paying investment. Sew
eral local business men lost heavily in the
final collapse of the corporation. The d.
rectors allege that the stockholders vot-
ed IN 1892 $50 per capita to indemnify them