The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-04
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBORS.
Georgia..

DR.. Louis u. OrWe, VI Allaulai 10 iePofteo
sick beyond recovery.
~WhiLaeId County ls about to have cheese
factory, and q New York capitalist to run 1t.
Brunswick Is about to have new sabre
club, which will be named the Gordon Club.
General Bradley 7. johnson and wife are
ln Savannah en- route for Florida.
The State University at Athens has opened
with about two hundred and fifty students.
-Dougherly County has loat two of lts most
respected citizens within two weeks, Messrs.
Alexander Ramsey and A. n. Jones
"A negro YVES burnt TO death In Washing
ton County, o few days ago, while In
drunken Ct.
The Savannah postofflce clerks are not
happy. Their pay has been reduced TO make
up the stipend OF an intruder.
-Lucius Paine, q resi- leHt of Marietta, was
thrown from runaway horse and Killed on
Friday last.
P. Rivers, died at MS residence IN cave
john W. Wilcox, OF Jacksonville, Telfair
County, during recent f1t OF mental aoerra-
lion, struck O colored man, named Eph Will
cox, with handspike aud killed him.
columbus has built, since the war, four
bridges, FIVE warehouses, five cotton factories,
planning mile, iron WORKS, 1ounorle8, Work
shops and plough factories.
Tine el6cLlOU VI oOuu ~ NoAeoh
10 The United States Senate Ia said to give
much satisfaction In Washington, and the
Georgia papers are we'll pleased thereat.
One span OF railroad bridge near Resaca
was washed away last Thursday lew min.
utes alter heavily loaded freight train mad
passed over It,
Tie residence oil Major W. ]. Wllllford, In
Cartersville, was destroyed by fire on the
night OF the 25th OF January. The family
barely escaped alive. the major DESCENDED GEL
burning stairway with daughter IN his arms.
The Savannah topers and It hard 10 scrape
along. Every time one oil them gets drunk ne
ia fnsd len dollars and costs or TWO weeks 10
The house of correction. They are crying for
reduction of The tariff.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
has been forced Into bankruptcy by the mold
ers of The first mortgage bonds Oh t9e old Aia- Ia
bama and Tennessee River Railroad, ana MI.
L. Lanier has been appointed receiver.
The City Council OF Savannah, at lts last
meeting, passed resolution TO send Two DEL
pgates to The Georgia Stale Agricultural Com
yention. which meets In Augusta on the lltn
Instant, and the mayor accordingly appointed
Aldermpn Arnold and Wetter.
AT Fort Valley on Wednesday last man
named Williamson, hallng from Colllersvllie'
Tennessee, was arrested on charge OF de-
coying away contracted labor. His trial was
commenced on Thursday, but had not been
concluded at last accounLe.
Savannah Is soon TO have conclave or
Lodge OF the Heplasophs or Seven Wise Men,
o society having lis handspring IN New Or-
leans, and embracing In its principles the
broad grouncs of Wisdom, truth and DeneVo-
leGcr.
The truck farmers around Savannah are
apprehepsye of backward vegetable crops
this season. All the early crops were Ellled
nv recent frosIs. They did hope to sell green
meas early in March, but they nave concluded
to put of picking until April.
Business is dull just now In Savannah.
Monument Square. In the most fashlonaole
part OF The city, was crowded with gentlemen
on Saturday, assembled 10 witness an lol'
promptu fight between two ~ unframed, igno, e
miniOus baTn.yard cocks. The people were
happy though.
EI man was found dead with bis throat
cut in the road, about twelve and quarter
miles from Washington, wilkes County. There
were marks of struggle IN the roed. DE
was known to have money on nis person; put
when found, only eighty cents was IN nis
pocket. =, aonor-
nah,s oldest and most estimable citizens, Mr..
,Jobn T. Rowland, at the advanced age Oh
seyenty.six years. Mr.. Rowland had been ID
business in Savannah for ever hall century,
and the Oldest merchant In the city. He was
a native of New York.
The newly elected mayor and aldermen OF
Savannah were sworn into ONCE on thursday
last. They found some things discouraglng.
The police force had not been paid on ,t l0f
three months. So the mayor eXerted nlmse,I
and borrowed money enough 10 pay eac9
policeman one months salary. Best ne coula
DO.
-Goyernor Hart says that there is not o
dollar 10 the treasury.
MIR. Allen, of Escambls County, killed seven
hears recently near the Alabama llne.
Jacksonville has Typographical union at
st Augustine wants circulating library,
n randinp.roorn and detailing society,". 80,
The Grand Lodge a. F. n. OF Florida Will
hold its annual meeting at Jacksonville on
'ne "a t't concert and festival In aid of the Tala-
hassee Presbyterian Church, given last week,
Melted $375.
the st. Johns Railway, is rapidly recover
Ing from bis injuries received a ie" weeks
since.
-Mr. Fletcher Henderson, of Tampa, bro
tber of Hon. j. A. Henderson, died at nls
brothers. place, near Tampa, after brief Ill
ness, on the 2sLh ult.
ID. L. Chaney, native of New London,
Conn.,, paymaster's clerk on the unltea Ststes
mentor Terror, died at Key West on the l4th
North Carolina.
Arrangements are being made to establish
q boot ami sboe factory at Elizabeth City.
-Newbern ls to have SHADOW Ball, that
is The dancers are to wear ghostly disguises.
Mr.. Whitted, we'll known tobacconlst OF
Hllsboro', has failed, his insolvency pelne
about fifty thousand dollars. ,r.
The Tnkaq COMPANY, near FayetteVllle,