The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12

! aint bin a DOOM off nuthin fur Mos
hav teeched skule in this hear staitt 10 yeel
andd nivyer hadd no trubble yit. teech
Spelyn and engiys Grammor andd sum
tins i teech Rthmutik andd laton gram
nor andd gograty too. Whut kan YOU pa
a FUSS klas kompitant man ennyhow.
Wud want hit all kash az / am a guide
han with the ak wish tn pa mi Board
a cuttiu off Kord wood ov a saturday, piles
ansir at Wunst. J potts.
Bids on the paving bonds to be issued by
Macon were opened Tuesday afternoon.
The issue will be $4,000, bearing AZ per
cent interest. The bidding was spirited
and for the small interest was considered
by the council remarkable f. D. Shep-
herd q Co of New York were the pur-
chasers, the price paid being l0l,5S, or with
Tms ar s oo%s me Fo as by ct Fa a
Philadelphia, 1885 Campel, Wilde & Co..
indianapolis, l0l %: Esterbrook & Co.,
Boston dump bid, sl33, 1850; John Black
l0lla; J. O, Culpepper, Moultrie, Ga, bid
on $4,000, l02; +. Beekman Underhil Jr.,
l0l l-l6; y. W. Haines. New York dump
bid 1892 Ol7; J; T., FISHER & Son. Bati-
more dump bid, $13l, 495.
Welborn Mitchell, a lad Of fourteen,
shot and killed his father, Ike Mitchell
Thursday afternoon OF last week about
dark. His father lived on the Woodward
place, few miles from Vienna. 1t seems
tudl the boy lnOuRnL everybody ndQ gone
from home. He had his fathers gun, in
tending TO go hunting. He spied a drove
OF blackbirds directly in front of the
house, and when the drove arose he fired
both barrels of the gun, which was loaded
with buckshot. He heard something fail
in the house. He went Immediately to
investigate. When he looked In the open
door he saw his father lying on the floor
with his head in the fire. The boy went
Immediately for his mother In short
time she was at her husbands side and
flgH d i'm ~ Of 49,
that eleven buckshot had entered his right
shoulder from behind and another load
mad gone through the wall up near the
caves. The boy has been placed in Jail
Il is thought by some that he is the
tool OF conspiracy.
Leesburg correspondence Macon Tele-
graph; The death of Willis Warren, the
noted eolored preacher of Lee county,
which occurred Wednesday night, re-
moves unique character. He was known
as the most influential preacher of his
race. He had three churches in the ag-
gregate said to enroll a membership of
1900, one of which the Jordan Grove
church on the place of Col. l.. A. Jordan,
claimed as high as 1900 members. He is
said to have been great help to the
farmers in the troublous times after the
war If negro was inclined to act the
fool and cut up, Willis would be sent for,
and very often gave the offender a severe
thfashing after a prayer for his soul. on
one occasion, il is said, he corraled sixty
nine negro women who thought them
selves too good to help their husbands,
and gave them all a severe whipping, af-
ter which all went on splendidly. His
power through religious zeal was almost
unlimited, and he was known far and wide
as "PaDpy Willis" He is said to have
had several thousand dollars in cash be-
sides great deal OF personally, and the
title to the church property. He appoint
ed his own successor to the pulpits he left
vacant. There are tales that each one of
his ten thousand members was required
10 pay him a busehl of corn and a couple
of bundles of fodder on salary, but this is
not verified