The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-23

Presented to n Georgia COnfeder
ate by Gen. John c. Breckenridge
Train RObber BohunnOn Film
FInmmed out of $40 by Negro Ia
Tried to Bribe to HeIp Him Es'
cape.
GEORGIA.
Columbus will probably take a quartet
million of the new government bonds
Many of her citizens have subscribed fol
the issue.
NJ. S. Carter, brakeman on the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, was run over
by a freight train. Monday at Vinng
station and had both legs and his left arm
crushed off and horribly mangled. He died
few hours later
Several steam barges are to be built al
Columbus for the Chattahoochee river for
service in low water. The Independent
Navigation Company and the Georgia and
Florida Navigation Company are building
two of them jointly. These are independ-
ent lines Capt Hires is TO build another
one. II is said that w. c. Baradley and
NJ. w. Kelly, prominent wholesale gro
GERS, may build another one.
The people Of Hogansville can now mail
their letters on postal cars if they desire
to do so. The order issued by the super
intendent of the railway mail service at
Washington that no mail be taken on
trains has been revoked Thus an official
end is put TO the Hogansville postoftice
trouble Whether or not the boycott
against the negro postmaster. ]. II. LOftn,
will be resumed is not known.
The pool Of the steamboat lines, which
has existed on the Chattahoochee river for
many years, has practically come to an
end, and in all probability the formal dis
solution of the alliance will be soon an
nounced The pool was composed of sew
eral of the strongest and most powerful
steamboat lines on the river against which
independent lines have on numerous occa-
sions gone down in defeat. The pooling
arrangement was perfected by several of
the leading lines many years ago, the diff
ferent companies making a combination
which it was hard TO meet. The pool fix
ed rates and adjusted matters on the river
generally. From time 10 time independ-
ent lines sprang up. and although some
made money the majority were not brill
iantly successful.
Atlanta Constitution: Train Robber
Bohannon, who was convicted as being the
ringleader of Dalton's gang of highway
men, mace q DOlu attempt idSC week TO eS-
cape from the Rattlesnake mine of the Cole
City convict camp, where he is serving the
sentence imposed by the court at his trial
several months ago. Bohannon, firing of
his convict life in the underground mine
paid a negro SO to haul him out in the
hand coal car. Bohannon arranged, as
he thought, with the negro to conceal him
self in the bottom of the car, with coal
heaped about him. The trip from the
mine was to be made in the afternoon
when the car was carried out for the
night The negro car pusher was instruc-
ted to wait for an opportunity when War
den Duke Brown and Dog Trainer Hart
line were away from the camp. Last
week the negro, whom Bohannon thought
he had bribed reported to Bohannon that
the opportunity had come. At the same
time the negro reported the scheme to the
convict officials. Bohannon secreted him
self in the coal car. but when it reached
the mouth of the mine Bohannon was sur
prised to find that he had been betrayed
and that Warden Brook and the guards
were there to arrest him and take him
back into the mine. The negro kept the
SO and that is what it cost Bohannon to
take a moments look on the rugged seen
cry at the entrance to the picturesque
mine.
Atlanta Journal: Mr.. E. D. Graham,
who is here as attorney in the contested
election case before the Secretary of
State, carries an interesting historical SOU
venir in the shape of a gold watch pre-
seEted to his grandfather Seaborn Hall,
by Gen. John c. Breckinridge. When
President jefferson Davis Judah P. Ben
iamin and John C. Breckenridge were fu-
gitives at the close of the civil war, they
made their way through Middle Georgia
toward the Gull. Jefferson Davis was
captured, but Breckenridge and Benjamin
made their escape. Gen. Breckenridge
found in Irwin county an old friend whom
he had met at political conventions and
was Hospitality entertained and hidden
from his pursuers for a week by Col Sea-
born Hall. AT the end of that time Gen,
Breckenridge asked his host to conduct
him TO the Gulf in order that he might es-
cape from the country Mr.. Hall did so
and Gen. Breckenridge offered him $500 in
gold for the service. Mr.. Hall refused
the gold, saying: II did it not for money,
but because 1 am your friend" Then Gen.
Breckenridge pulled out his gold watch
and handed 1t TO his host saying: keep
this as token of my gratitude and affec-
ton" This watch remained in posses
sion of MIR. Hall till he died. and was be-
queathed TO his grandson, Mr.. r. D. Ora
ham. A few days ago, when Mai. Gen.
Joseph Breckenridge, a cousin of John c.
Breckenridge, was travelling South TO join
the army at Tampa, Mr.. Graham boarded
the train, showed him the watch and told
the story of its presentation to his grand
father. Gen. Breckenridge received Mr.
Graham very cordially and heard the
story with much interest