The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-09-17
GEORGIA.

The local of the Chronicle has
seen a cotton stalk grown in Co
lumbia county, upon which there
were 500 cotton bOlls.
The Savannah Republican is
groaning over the operations of
the river thieves, who carry off the
very hawsers which moor the YES
sells to the docks.
The Dalton Citizen says there
are 100000 bushels Of wheat still
unsold in Gordon county. The
corn crop of the county is twice
as large as any year since the war.
In Augusta, an Ice Manufacture
ing Company was organized re-
Gently.
The wheat crop this year is said
to be the finest ever harvested in
Georgia.
1t is estimated that the cotton
crop of Georgia this year will ex-
coed 100000 bales.
The Gainesville Express of the
25th quotes wheat at 81 for red,
and 81 10 for white. Over 3d.
bushels has been shipped from
that place, and it was coming in
freely.
The new Augusta bank is or
gained. A grand mule race is to
take place during the Augusta
fair.
On the LIST instant, rates on cot
ton from Columbus to Savannah.
were fixed at 50 cents per hundred;
to New York, Baltimore and Phil
adelphia, $1.55; and to Boston
S1.70.
j. d. Simms and A. j. Smith,
of COweta county, have been NOM
mated for the lower House of the
Legislature by the Democrats.
For the month of August, there
were 81 deaths in Savannah.
The Bainbridge Sun announces
the death OF b. G. Scott, II. T..
Weathers and Moses Singleton,
all highly respected citizens OF
Decatur county.
The Savannah News tells of a
negro man IN that city who is in
the habit, every day, of carrying
a load of 30 whole brick at a time,
on his head, up a ladder to the top
OF a third story building.
The population of Savannah is
reported by the census takers to
be 2S,245. The News thinks it
may be safely set down at 10000.
Number OF white voters in Pike
county, 95S; increase over 1869,
So; number of acres of improved
land, 1876, 800; value of improved
land, Sl,O26,l6 increase from
1869, S249, 4S4.
Fighting seems to be epidemic
in Atlanta.
Mr.. JAS. Crane, living II miles
from Savannah, was murdered in
his own house, on the Bird, by John
Smith, who shot him through the
heart.
Having got off its big drunk,
Columbus has gone to fighting as
a pastime. The Sun says fights
east of the business streets take
place almost every hour of the
day and night.
The Columbus cotton receipts
for the commercial year footed up
G7,262 bales; shipped, %, 577;stOck
on hand 1855.
Col. Josiah Newton, one of the
oldest and most respected citizens
of Athens, died recently. With
one exception, he was the oldest
inhabitant of that town.
Henry earlier, of Rome, was
shot and instantly killed by his
brother-in-law, Camille LeHardy,
on the 9TH.
ID. +. Wilcox, assignee, of Co
lumbus, gives notice that on the
first OF November he will make
final distribution to the bill-hold-
ers of the Bank OF Columbus.
Mrs. Eleanor Howard, resi-
dent of Columbus since its infancy,
died there recently, aged ~ years.
She leaves several great grand
children.
The eOastwise exports from Sa-
yannah for May amounted to So
30, O66; for June, S1,0S0, 404; for
July, 81, 154,Sl9.
There was arecent great revival
of religion iii Payne'S Chapel, At
lanta. About IS persons were
converted and joined the Church.
Great crowds were unable to gain
admission to the Church.
The Sun says plenty of corn and
to spare, has been made by most
OF the farmers in that section it
has met lately. Some old cotton.