The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-27
GEORGIA.

Fort Valley Leader: w. H. Culpepper.
+. Mitchell county farmer, sold a carload
q - bone-raised hogs in Atlanta recently,
q tar which he received $77S.S0. There were
q 1OS hogs in the lot
Several thousand cigars bearing the
n counterfeit revenue stamps of the Ian
caster Pa) factory, No. 3,741, have been
+ fonnd In Americas by Deputy Internal
Revenue Collector Richardson.
few days ago a man named Simmons
MARRIED Miss Eta Flanders at Sanders
vile and the young couple went to Au-
ansta where he had said he was in busl-
Il rs There he deserted her and the police
had to secure for her transportation back
10 her home
Fl The barn of Mr. G. X. Robertson, who
lives mile and a half from LAGRANGE.
vas struck by lightning Monday afternoon
81 about o'clock and was totally destroy
81 81 The barn has in it about fifty bales
u If hay and about twenty-five bushels of
II corn. besides other provender.
q Dublin real estate is stu very active
n if not booming, as evidenced by num-
s her of large transactions made recently
the last being the purchase of several
s residences and stores from Mr.. William
81 pritchett by Mr.. ]. D. Smith The price
q paid was $4,000, which is considered quite
bargain.
81 The damage suit in Henry Superior
s. Court, which was brought Jointly against
n the counties of Henry, Rockdale and New
a ton, by Mr.. Bob Lane, a blind man, for
Il injuries alleged to have been received by
II him by falling off the bridge at Peach
a stone Shoals some time in the spring of
81 1898. was dismissed by the court, on Mon
day last, for want of prosecution.
The judges of Georgia are swapping
B about this week. Judge Littlejohn of the
southwestern circuit is holding court in
Thomas county for Judge W. N. Spence
q Of the Albany circuit Judge Spence Is
holding court in Marion county for Judge
81 Littejohu, who had promised to hold there
q for Judge Butt: Judge Butt is presiding
Il in Dooly county for Judge Littlejohn.
Rev. c. H. Hyde of Cordele, Ga, who
# has been called to and accepted the pas
s tOrate of the Presbyterian Church in Cuth-
q bert, arrived in Cuthbert Saturday and
= began his new work Sunday. He will be
a formally installed pastor Wednesday
Macon Presbytery. Fort Gaines, Dawson
and Smithville Presbyterian Churches are
also in this group.
4 DR.. R. A. Hutchinson of Helena was re-
Gently adjudged lunatic and ordered sent
10 the asylum. On the statement after
. ward from some of the jury and other peo-
pie that he was all right Ordinary Lane did
not insist on sending him to Milledgeville
a telegram from the Ordinary of Oconee
county. said he was there and insane
Judge Lane ordered him sent to the asy-
3 lum from there, which has been done.
Green Ross, a negro man, about so years
old, was knocked off the trestle over Ell
A kins creek, two miles north of Zebulon,
4 and instantly killed Monday night by> the
Down passenger train on the Atlanta and
florida road He was picked up and
brought to Zebulon and left in the depot
curve in the road at the trestle pre-
g vented the engineer from seeing him in
lime 10 stop the train before striking him.
Berry Wright, the negro who has been
confined in the Fulton county Jail for
lour years on a charge of contempt of
8 court was released Monday. A hearing
Z on special petition was granted by
+
al the end of the hearing Judge Lumpkn
announced that he would release Berry
from the custody of the law, and allow
nm TO CO. but that If at any time il ap-
peared that he was using the money which
rs claimed he has, he is to be appre-
Aehoed by the officers and reimprisoned.
d Cofdete Hornet: 1t is often that Wild
'''ng operations are pursued openly, but
'''e unusual case of Willie Barker of Dray-
ION furnishes a rare exception to the gem
eiaI rule. Mr.. Barker, however, is entitled
10 immunity from revenue charges. since
ne deals exclusively in wild cats of the
maj variety. He is a farmer who lives
uo"h on Flint river. and as a side issue
ne makes a business of trapping the real,
IeIoclous wild cats of the woods. Mr.
S24Ker was in Cordele yesterday Offering
or SAFE one of his captives, which he
brought securely Gagged. He said that he
nou caught number of the beasts recent
~, which he succeeded in selling to people
""o bought them merely as curosities.