The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-11
GEORGIA.

nesday for > cents a pound. only a few
bales Of dirty cotton have reached that
place as Yet.
Miss Annie Garrard of Columbus has
been appointed maid of honor to the
queen of the Macon carnival Miss Gar
rard has accepted the appointment.
Sheriff Rogers of Eastman, on Thursday,
received a message stating that Marshal
Lancaster Of Rhine had been shot. The
sheriff was asked to proceed 10 the place
with posse 10 arrest the party who had
done the shooting. The particulars have
not reached Eastman
The deadlock over the Office of city ply
stefan at Columbus was broken Wednes-
day afternoon by the election of DR.. F.
V. Schley The names of DR.. Schley and
DR.. Mason We're the only ones balloted
upon Wednesday, DR.. c. d. Wall with
drawing DR.. E. e. Mansfield Withdrew
some time ago.
A cutting ARRAY occurred at Lovett
Thursday afternoon, in which Brown
Brady was seriously knitted by Thomas
Hightower. Both parties are prominent
citizens and much regret is felt at the oc-
currence. Brady was cut in five places,
once on each hand, a fearful cash under
the throat, which just did Craze the jugu-
lar vein, and two other large gashes on
the face.
Daniel Bunkley of Brunswick, q sick
soldier, who had arrived from Porto Rico
on the OLDHAM, applied TO the mayor of
Hoboken, n. j., Thursday for help. Bunk
ley was taken sick shortly before the OBJ
dam sailed from Porto Rico, and received
his discharge When the OLDHAM arrived,
he discovered that he had lost his dis
charge papers, without which he could
not secure transportation home. The mayor
ordered transportation for Bunkley Thurs
day and is en- route to'his home in Bruins
wick at the expense of the city of Ho-
boken.
Americus Times-Recorder: James G.
Michigan, a former resident of Abbeville,
and who is now confined in Sumter coun-
tvs Jail upon the charge of wrecking or
robbing his bank in Abbevile, is building
castles that promise veritable bonanza.
He wants to purchase a refrigeratins
plant but no one seems to know where
he will place such an enterprise, as space
in the jail is limited. travelling man
from Philadelphia, representative of the
Frick company, arrived here Wednesday
night and inquired as to where Niche
gan could be found. 1t seems that Niche
gan has been corresponding with the
Prick company in regard to the purchase
of a plant At the postoffice the agent
was referred to Sheriff Macarthur. He call
ed on the sheriff and ascertained to his
disgust that the prospective ice plant pur-
chaser was a prisoner in Jail and with no
bright chances of liberation before him.
The Prick company agent fingered no
longer after he caught the smiles Of the
court house loungers, who had learned the
cause of his coming to Americas.
A young white baby about three weeks
old was found in the woods near the
Southern depot at Gainesville Tuesday
morning by a man named Sweatman. He
Immediately reported the matter TO Sheriff
Mundy, who Immediately set about to find
out TO whom ii belonged. The child was
carried to the house of Ed Shepard, near
by, TO be cared for until the matter could
be looked into. While the sheriff was at
the house a nicely dressed woman came
up and acknowledged, when questioned,
that the child was hers. 1t had been
wrapped up and left in the woods, the
woman claiming she had only gone up
town, about one mile distant, TO buy some
thing She refused to talk further then
and arrangements were made with Mr..
and Mrs. Shepard TO care for her and her
child until the County Commissioners
could be seen to care for her until she
wa sable to go home or wherever she
wanted to go. She was later visited by
some of the county officials. to whom she
told her story, after much hesitation. She
gave her name as Martha Ash and said
she was from Dahlonega. The man who
accomplished her ruin, she said, was ii
well-known young man of Dahlonega.
Augusta Chronicle: Doc Adams is
dead He died in Charleston. The negro
was well known in Augusta. He will be
especially remembered by those who were
here in the days of reconstruction when
carpet-baggers ran riot in Carolina. He
was prominent figure in the Hamburg
riot and at Enenton. In commenting on
his death the Charleston News and Courier
says: There viii be few tears shed in
Edgetield and Aiken counties when it is
known that Doe Adams is dead He was
buried yesterday, and with him carried to
the grave one of the most desperate rec
ords made by any negro during the DAYS of
reconstruction. Adams was a Georgia
negro, but was living in Hamburg s. c..
when the troubles that led 10 the Hamburg
and EHenton riots broke out He became
the header of black military company
and Inquired in both of these riots After
wards he kept the negroes of that section
in a constant state of ferment, and, avoid
ing all efforts to capture him, managed to
escape and make his way to Charleston
Since coming here he has held positions in
the custom house and elsewhere under Re
publican officials He has been compare
lively quiet since coming here, though still
identified with Republican politics. He was
" years old when he died"