The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA


During the week there was shipped from
the port of Darlen, coastwise and foreign,
2,645,24S feet of timber and lumber valued
at $2S,124.
"a policeman of Macon claims that the
negro washerv oman of that city rent the
clothes of their white patrons between the
time they take them to wash and their re-
turn.
A new postoffice has been created in
Douglas county. 1t is near the Cobb line
and is called Sunshine Postmaster Ham
mond is the first man to hand out mail
there.
Morgan county has one woman whose
husband fought in the war of 1872 She
is Mrs Serem Cochran, wife of Ban
lister Cochran She Is 80 years old and
draws a pension from Uncle Sam.
While Walker Brooks was telling trees
and splitting timbers near Danielsville a
day or two ago, a tree which had been
cut and lodged fell Unexpectedly, striking
him on the head and shoulder and serious
ly wounding him.
Having been legislated out of the post
of clerk to the commissioner of public
WOfkS, OlaT&HCe N1OOIS has uGtGi W
run for the Office of commissioner of
public works of Atlanta against Capt. D..
G. Wylie, the present commissioner
A Pike county farmer. R. w. Hale. has
has realized the value of diversified crops
on a farm by his experience during the
year Just closed. He made forty-six bales
of cotton and sold it for less than it
cost him TO produce it. On the other
hand, Mr. Hale has a young orchard of
forty-six acres of fruit trees. Only ten
acres were old enough to bear any fruit
last season, but nevertheless fruit men
paid him $1,000 cash to let them ship what
they wanted from the orchard. When
they got through distiller gave Mr.. Hale
two barrels of brandy for what fruit was
left. After this the hogs had a feast
on the balance.
The past week has been devoted in the
Superior Court of HARRISON county to the
trial of w. A. Goldin, commonly known as
Due" Goldin. who is charged with as
sault upon Mrs. ]. J. Pope. Some years ago
the defendBt served a term as sheriff of
the county, and he is a brother of ex-Sen-
ator w. F. Godin, of the Thlrty-eighth
district. j. j. Pope, the husband IF the
lady upon whom the assault is charged to
have been committed, is q prominent cti-
has served a term as representative in the
legislature At the time of the alleged as
sault Mr.. Pope, and the defendant were
running on the populist ticket, the first as
a candidate for the Legislature and the
other as a candidate for sheriff Their
wives are first cousins and they were sup
posed to be close political and personal
friends. The testimony for the state was 10
the effect that the defendant went TO Mr..
Pope's house, on Sept. II, 1896, during the
latters absence and spent the night, and
that during that night the assault was
made. The defendant introduced no evil
dence but in his statement to the jury he
claimed that no force was used and that
what he did was with the consent Of Mrs.
Pope and by pre-arrangement with her.
Bainbrldge Democrat: "a story has
reached here to the effect that on Monday
the 16-year-old daughter of Jim Alday of
the lower part of this county went to the
spring for water, situated 200 yards from
her fathers house, and, on reaching there,
was accosted by three negro men, who
asked her name and who she was. Upon
being informed that she was Jim Alday's
child, said: "Well, you, we are
going to burn you up and seizing her,
two of them held her while the third fred
her clothing all around the bottom of her
skirts, and then liberated her and told her
TO run. Screaming for life, she ran like q
deer to her fathers door, but when she
reached there every stitch OF clothing had
burned from her body, and she was horri-
bly, burned all over; and by this time tie
unfortunate creature Is probably dead