The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-26
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,,,xS of THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

loo Pardee to Wed-Residence
p,rned Neur yaldosta~Twenty
,rmed Men Band Together in Cof-
zoe county to Fight Against Co
an. TO war--;nnUient White
Tromp soundly Thrashed by Hus-
hand of woman He Tried to Bull
dOse.
GEORGIA.
The condition of Conductor w. H. Sloan
Of Macon is improved. and there Is hope of
his recovery. His skull was not fractur
Cd as at first supposed.
Ernest E. West, late professor of science
IN the Boys High School of Atlanta, has
been appointed lieutenant in the United
states navy, and has received orders to re-
mort TO Washington at once.
The engagement is formally announced
Of Mrs. saIie Cunningham Wells of At
lanta and Judge Don A. Pardee of the
United States Court of Appeals. The we'd
ding will occur in ATLANTA in June
Rallying once more to the defense of
their homes as in the days of 1861, 100 Con-
federate veterans met at the court house
at columbus Saturday night and enrolled
their names as members of home guard.
monument is being erected in Rose
Hin cemetery at Macon to the memory of
w. A. Wolihin, grand secretary of the
grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
of Georgia. The memorial is being erected
by the Masons.
It is probable that the Board of Public
School Education. of Bibb county will or
der retaking of the census Of the school
children in the city of Macon and county
of Bibb The census was taken a few
weeks ago, but it fell so far short of the
calculations and expectations of the board
that the board is of the opinion that
mistake has been made in the count in
some way.
very destructive cyclone passed six
miles southeast of Townsville Saturday
which laid TIMBER, houses, fencing and,
in fact everything in its path fiat. Every
house on the Futch plantation was blown
down and everything on ]. c. Beverly's
place. except his residence, was destroyed
one negro was killed and two Others were
badly hurt on the latter place. The dam
age on several other plantations was con-
Siderable.
The residence of DIR. Newton Mcleod
prominent farmer living nine miles below
Valdosta, was burned Friday. together
with his smokehouse, stables and other
outhouses. The fire originated in the
smokehouse, and got under good Roadway
before it was discovered. Mr.. Mcleod was
absent from home at the time, and very
little was saved from the burning build
ings. The residence was a new one. There
was no insurance.
Willacoochee, in Coffee county, has
band of men about ten miles north of it
that are well equipped, not far war, but
for staying at home. They have twenty
rifles of the most approved pattern, lib
eral supply of ammunition and they do not
propose to either go or be carried TO Cuba,
and 1t would be an unhealthy locality for
enrolling officer. They say that Coffee
county is good enough for them and they
intend to stay with it,
Atlanta Constitution: A Georgia negro
was once convicted of. a murderAin novel
and unexpected manner. A friend of his
had been found dead in the woods, with
his right arm chopped off by an AK the
dismembered arm not being found with
the body. He was exonerated by cor
oner's jury, but some young men in the
neighborhood, knowing certain supersti-
tons of his, visited his house late one night
and called his name in hollow tones:
Ephraiml Ephraiml Rise en- heah de
deadw who dat?" called a weak and
wavering voice within. "The sperrit err
Benjamin. said the voice without Il
come ter AK you whar my arm is. IIcan't
res in my grave till l fin my arm!' go
long fun heah!" walled the negro from
within. 81 amt got yo' .armi burnt 1t
up in de firel" That answer settled the
question in his guilt.
At Triton Saturday white tramp enter
ed the back door of E. III Murnahan's
residence, closing the door after him, and
asked Mrs. Murnshan for something to
eat. She replied that Nshe had nothing
cooked, when the tramp advanced to the
wall, where Mr. Murnahans revolver was
hanging, took It down and told her ii she
did not supply him with food he would
blow her brains out There is no guess
ing what would have been the result had
not Wilson & Bridges delivery man come
10 the door at that moment with some
groceries that had been ordered. Inc
tramp saw the newcomer and f1ed,l but
the boy ran and told Mr.. Murnahan, who
followed the tramp and caught him Just
as he was crossing the railroad tracks.
lie did not turn the culprit over to the
authorities but that tramp will neither
81, nor lie down comfortably for several
days and he is not as handsome as ne
once was.