The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

! Euchalee, settlement. Jones. because
| Smith objected TO his dancing with a girl,
l whipped cut a knife and cut him in sew
! oral places, one stab above the hip sever
| ing an artery. Jones left and the kill
! ing was gradually forgotten, until the wife
| OF the murdered man went on an excur-
| sion to Chattanooga last summer and met
| the man Who did the killing. The negro
! had never gone further than CHATTANOOGA.
! lie had tuilt himself up financially. in
| me restaurant business, and was leader
/ win influence among A large negro set
| 10 mat city. He engaged able counsel
/ aid fought the case hard.
Augusta Morning News: Col. d. b. Dyer
has another suit on his hands. 1t is
/ brought by Macauley & Co. dry goods
| merchants, for goods bought by Mrs Over
| and charged to the colonel, which he re-
| FUSED TO nay for when the bill was pre-
sented. The papers were filed Friday.
Inc amount IS not known, but 10 will foot
| up to a considerable sum The story of
| the case is as follows: About the time he
instituted divorce proceedings Col Dyer
| TOOK occasion TO call on a number of dry
goods merchants notifying them that he
| would not be responsible for the debts of
ms wife. In other words, If she made any
| purchases from them they would have to
| look TO her for the money. Macauley &
Co, being new firm, he neglected 10
notify them. II SO happened that this
firm went into business when the fall and
winter trade opened up. Mrs. Dyer made
All her winter purchases from them. She
being the wife of the president of the
electrtc railway company, who is also
| largely interested in the Turpin Hill Land
! Company, thought of course there would
~ no troupIe IN correcting the money.
SUI the gentlemen were disappointed.
| When the bill was rendered he refused to
settle it. Hence the suit.
Valdosta Times: The coroners jury.
which investigated the death of the child
| which was thought to have been killed
by its mother in Echols county last week,
returned verdict to the effect that the
child was frozen to death The facts
printed in the Times last week. were sub
stanually correct, except that the chiid's
| death was not caused by a blow from it's
| mother. The woman, Lizzie Chapman,
attempted to whip the youngster and II
ran toward the swamp, The mother fol-
| lowed H. ana the little one continued to
dodge about in an effort to eVade her.
The woman returned to the house and
in a little while went back toward the
pond to try and get the child. The child
saw her coming and ran again. A thirj
attempt was made TO get the child nome
and then, according to the evidence be-
tore the jury, the mother went to neigh
| bors and asked them to care for the child
| II 1t should come to them during the night.
| The night that followed was the coolest
| of the year and the next morning the body
| Of the child was found floating i'll
| the pond-dead. When the fun story Of
| the death of the child was given to the
| coroner's jury, the woman was released
| from custody and allowed TO return to her
home.
Valdosta Times: sergt. A. c. Rogers of
Troop A., Ohio National Guard, who re-
sides in Cleveland forwarded on Thurs
day last to Mrs. Ella NJ. Norton of Bos-
ton, Ga, little package which will be
received by her with uncommon pleasure
The package contained a pair of silver
| spurs which have a somewhat interesting
history, extending back TO the DAYS be-
| fore the war of the rebellion. 1t was in
one of the closing battles of that war that
Kentucky union solder removed the
| spurs from the boots of a dead Confeder-
ate cavalryman. Charles S. Rogers and
j. G.. Rogers, brothers, We're officers in the
| Kentucky regiment to which the soldier
| belonged, and sometimes after the close of
| the hosulities the spurs were presented
TO the wife of the latter. They bore the
| somewhat lengthy Inscription: awarded
| TO Private Benjamin W. Grovenstine by
| the commissioned officers of the Effingham
Hussars for skill at the head and ring,
| determined TO ascertain, if possible the
| address of some surviving relative of the
original owner of the spurs. The search
| was long and difficult one but finally
| ne ascertained that Mrs. Norton was a
| daughter of Benjamin Grovenstine The
| unexpected fact came out that Grovenstine
never served in the Confederate army. He
! resided in Georgia, and during Sherman's
| famous march his military outfit as an
| officer in the Ettingham Hussars, includ-
ing the spurs, was carried Off by federaIs
How the spurs came to be worn suisse
quently by the confederate soldier has not
been ascertained. Probably they again
became the spoils of war and fell into the
possession of the confederates by force of
arms.
Atlanta Constitution: Harry Burns of
Macon, who is now in Detroit Mich.
writes that he has found in the possess
H., Fourteenth Michigan infantry. a
sword bearing the following inscription
on on the BLADE: Presented td1t to sergt. keenan,
is the confederate coat of arms the let
ters &C. s. and near the hilt is the fol-
sword nv I fo.tt
Witherspoon, who took il from the body
of Lieut.. Ross, who was killed on Aug
z, 1864, in one of the battles around Al
lanta. on that occasion thirty-seven
Georgia soldiers were captured by the
Fourteenth Michigan volunteers, under
command OF Lieut.. Witherspoon, and
among them Lieut. Ross, who was NOR
tally wounded. Before he died he re-
quested Lieut. Witherspoon to send some
young girl TO addresses given, saying he
was engaged to the young lady Lieut..
Mitherspoon complied with the request.
He describes Lieut.. Ross as a very hand
some man. Lieut.. Witherspoon now de-
sires TO return the sword TO Sergt Kenan.
his heirs, to the relatives of Lieut.. Ross,
or TO whoever is entitled to IT, IL Is de,
scribed as a beautiful blade of fine work
manship and i'm leather scabbard Lieut.
.NMNitherspoon Is the plumbing inspector of
avenue, west. AZ present il is not known
here who Sergt keenan, was. 1t is Thought
the name may have been Keenan, Viii
lam Redding Ross was a lieutenant In tbo
SlNty-slNth Georgia, and was Killed In one
OF the battles around Atlanta. He was a
brother of Mr.. Edgar A. Ross OF Macon.
FLORIDA.
Alex Daniels, colored aged 100 wears
died Thursday night near Weloka.
II. II. Lowery, negro. struck with n
turpentne ak and probably mortallv
wounded =. y. 2sllsmy, another negro
in the employment OF d. NJ. Flynn g. 20
at Phoenix Friday. The fight occurred
over a trivial matter.
The Florida Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union is called TO convene a.
Pensacola, March 5-S This viii he the
fourteenth annual convention OF the or
ganization, Miss c. s. Burnett of Ohio
one of the national organizers, will be
present.
On Wednesday. Senior Hidalgo, a we'll
known Havana banker ana Senior CAS-
trico, also OF Havana, went to Fort Meade
from Tampa TO see about growing tobac-
co. They are still there and are very
much pleased with and greatly surprised
at the tobacco grown. They VIII probably