The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-22
GEORGIA.

Fort Gaines now has telephone con-
nections with Abbeville and Dotham. Mr..
]. II. Hoskin's city lire will soon be com
p.eted.
Soma Hair. infant daughter Of Prof.
J. s Stewart. president Of the North
Georgia Agricultural College, died after q
brief Illness at Dahlonega Saturday.
DR.. J. r. sewen, proprietor of the
Whitesburg Paper Mills is preparing to
again operate the mills. They have been
shut down for several months. Wrap
ping paper is the chief product of these
mills, and a ready sale is found for it in
the market.
". ]. Shackleford. foreman Of the
Brunswick and Western, was badly crush
ed around the face and head between two
cars at Brunswick yesterday. He was
coupling them at the time. His injuries
are not necessarily fatal, though they are
very painful.
Mrs. Sarah Duggar, widow of the late
jackson Duggar, died Tuesday at the
home of her son, Charles NJ. Duggar, at
Pembroke. Mrs. Duggar was one of Bry-
ans Oldest women being nearly 81 years
old. She was inferred at Black Greek
cemetery yesterday.
D. r. Prescott Of Augusta, told friend
Monday who called to say good-by TO him,
that it was the last time he would see him.
During the afternoon Prescott took NOR
phine. He has been I'll for a long time.
He was detected when he took the poison,
and acknowledged IT, but said ne had NOT
taken enough morphine to hurt him.
Medical assistance was not called in UNI
til quite late at night, when he was car
ried TO the hospital. He was revived at
a. M, after a hard nights work. He Is
now thought to be out OF danger.
]. H Pittman of La Grange, while en-
joying the hospitality of Mr.. Emerson at
his picturesque summer home near Buck
port, Me-, was shown to him a flag cap
tured during the civil war from a Confed-
crate battalion by the Federals. II is
piece Of ornamental workmanship On
one side is wrought in large letters Jas
per Blues" on the other Victory or
Death" If any surviving member of the
Jasper Blues viii communicate with Mr..
Pittman he will give him Mr.. Emerson's
address, with the assurance that the flag
will be returned, in cordial feeling, to its
former owners.
p T. Smith shot and seriously wound
ed j. H. Hasty at Dawson Sunday night.
The shooting occurred at a neighbours
house near Dawson, where Hasty was SIT
ting up with the sick child of a friend.
Witnesses say Smith went to the house
where Hasty was, and called him out, and
after a few words began shooting him. in
ficting several serious wounds. Smith and
Hasty are both respectable white farm
ers, and the shooting was the result of
an old quarrel Smith is at large but
probably will give up and stand trial. DR..
Dean, the attending physician, says
Hasty's wound will not prove fatal.
week since Henry Solomons, choir
master of aristocratic st. PauTs Epsco-
pal Church al Augusta, filed suit for d.
vorce against his wife on the grounds that
she treated him cruelty. Monday applI-
cation by the defendant for temporary ali
mony, pending the suit, was heard and
Judge Galloway granted the wife s35 per
month. Solomons alleges that certain per-
sons are seeking to cast him from mis- 20
sition in the church and community. also
10 break up his business, he being a prom
inent piano and music dealer. The wife
alleges, in her answer, that Solomons
kicked her out of bed on a winter night
and compelled her to sleep on the floor
the rest of the time.
The marriage of Star Wynn and Miss
Irene Daughtry, which occurred here
Monday afternoon has produced a mild
sensation, mainly on account of the flavor
of romance with which it was dashed and
Ats being a semi-Gretna Green affair Mr.
Wynn Is the eldest son of Rev w M.
Wynn, pastor of the Jackson Methodist
Church, while the bride is the daughter
Of Capt. Leroy II. Daughtry, general man
eger of the jackson Mercantile Company.
The marriage occurred at the residence
OF Joseph Carmichael the father of the
groom officiating. All parties are now rec
onciled, and the happy couple are receiv-
ing forgiveness and congratulations.