The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-10
GEORGIA.

I'm Wilkes county a few days ago Mr..
r C. Sale married Mrs. Woodie Sale The
bride is the widow of the groom's son.
MINER. former jeweler of Calhoun,
who left his creditors so unceremonious-
" Inst fall. now occupies a cell in the jail
at Calhoun.
Unknown parties entered the residence
of Ur. w. B. Vaughn, at Paramount, Sun
J3y night. and after chloroforming him Sc
cured $795 in cash.
Henry Rolf is now under arrest at Cal
houn for disposing of some funds belong
inc ia The fire company of that place. He
j. out on bond and his friends hope to
clear him.
Mai. William J. Kendricb, at present
member of the board of police commission
,rs is rumored 10 be a candidate for chief
of police, or the superintendent OF ponce
of Atlanta, if the change of office is made
by the City Council.
Al the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. NJ. Free, six miles above Col
o9ut MIR. T.. c. Newell was united in mar
rage to Miss Johnnie Free, on Sunday,
i March g. Mr. Newell is a young man OF
\ sterling qualities and Miss Free is the ac-
comphshed daughter of Mr.. Louis Free.
H3wknsville Dispatch and News: Mr..
l. Bowen. one of Dodge county's sub
stantial citizens and farmers, living at
4 Inglewood. came up on the steamer Little
william Thursday evening, and while here
visited a barber shop for the first time in
thirty years and got a hair cut and shave.
washington Chronicle: A negro named
Bolton Willis, went around town on sun
dav selling fresh" oysters at the remark
able low price of ten cents quart. The
doctors had to follow along in his tracks
that night, and by strenuous efforts they
managed to prevent decrease in our col
ored population
on our last trip down the Chattahoo-
chez. the steamboat Hires ran into a tree
between Eufaula and Columbus. The night
was so dark that the pilot couldn't get
his bearings. A sudden crash was the first
warning that he was near the bank. Half
Of the cabin was entirely torn away but
the pilot escaped without injury.
There was a fall of snow at Mt Vernon
Monday afternoon and a cold wave swept
over the place Slight damage to the fruit
crop is feared. The Oconee river has over
flowed its banks again and the farmers
cannot prepare all of their land for The
planting season, owing to the miry ground
caused from so much recent rain.
A negro soldier, who is spending his fur
Tough at Forsyth, which Is his old home,
shot another negro, John Wesley Davis,
at that place Monday. He claims that it
was accidental and made no effort to es-
cape, Davis friends wanted to take the
soldier away from the officers, as they
were furious about the affair. 1t is thought
Davis is dangerously wounded
John w. Rogers, a wealthy Cobb coun-
" farmer, who resides four miles from
Marietta, was robbed of $500 in cash Sat
urday night. He had that amount in
crisp bills in his pocketbook when he re-
tired Sunday morning when he got up
his money was gone. There is no clue,
but the officers are endeaVoring to locate
The missing money.
The fight that is being made by the trus-
tees of Lucy Cobb institute at Athens
against the payment of state and county
taxes promises to be vigorously waged
on the part of the friends of the schools.
The last step taken in the case was an
the western circuit by the trustees of the
school against tho tax collector of Clarke
county to prevent his collecting the large
amount of taxes which are claimed to be
que to the state and county by the school,
The application for injunction Will be ar
gued before Judge Russell April 4.
Another owner of visionary land in Geor-
s'a has been discovered in party In New
York city who writes Secretary of State
Cook that he holds title to 1900 acres of
arabic property in Montgomery county,
ana will in the near future come TO Geor-
sla Tor the express purpose of walking in
70 his inheritance. Up to the present time
ute has been presented off and on for
something over 100000 acres of land In
ms county of Montgomery, while only a
seventh of that amount actually lies in
'.e county. II has been known for years
mat the fraudulent grants of land made
~ 10y during the administrat ton of Gov
Matthew's, did little credit to the record
V- mat governors administration, but the
a"Iu and apparently endless extent Of
tle fraud has only been begun to be re-
H'Ized within the last few years