Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-25
Genrgia ATairs.

Georgia Affairs.
p,rrifBy is TO visit Rome and play one night.
o-.r,pe- wants him to play Hamlet" an
49, The Merchant Of Venice" while he
t.~saf has selected The Fools Revenge"
--r. .-ba Young actor finds himself beset with
complications.
.yas the Atlanta correspondent of the
s,.,r7brs Efyuirsr-Sun. writes that it is hint
s+rtba-citv that Wilson & C1. want to give
o,ttair Macon and Brunswick purchase be-
..-sa tie courts have decided that the Rail-
-,sl Commission was constitutional. The cor
-ss75a lent hardly tLiaks. however, that Dick
vr.lB will allow matter Of that sort to stand
lths way.
Tho Albany 4frertiser thinks that If man
vii rlaus a good vegetable garden and take
care Of his much COW he viii be independent
al summer.
Outhe one hunfred and fortg-ninth anniser-
ssryof General Washington 5 birth the Ameri-
Gus Smt-r E publican entered upon its twen-
O. eighth year.
The Amsrcus RspablicGH says Ike Jones,
coored. living on the place Of w. D. Loper,
three miles east Of Americus found his six
months old child dead in the bed on Friday last.
His supposed thst it was smothered to death
On Wednesday morning last Rev. W. H.
Reese. Of Augusta, pastor of Silver Run Bap-
list Church, awoke and remarked to his wife
that he would get up for breakfast. After
saying this he fell back and died without a
gr5an. Heart disease.
Seven iron furnaces near Rome consider that
city their headquarters.
The body Of infant was found in box in
the rear Of the Rock Mill, near the freight de-
pot in Macon on Wednesday. The Coroner's
jury decided that il was OF white parentage,
and that the cause OF its death was unknown.
Macon has been selected as the place for
holding the next State Fair.
The Marietta Journal mentions the sad case
q Mr. Thomas Hardy, who lives near that
city. A cancer made its appearance on the
big toe Of his left foot. He had the toe cut
Of, but the cancer reappeared, and now the
foot viii have to be amputated He is an
honest, hard working man, with a wife and
I've children.
In the section OF country about Tn, mson a
majority OF the farmers have hardly begun
work as jet. The weather has been so very
unfavoTable that many have yet to SOW their
small grain, while preparations for corn and
cotton land ara far behind. But. says the
NtD49ie Journal they are having some
good weathern0w, and arc putting in regular
hallaluiah Ecks'F
5he coming spring has already thrown its
ll1lrnees around The Cumming Clarion which
s-ss- Inc blue birds have appeared TO herald
lAr approach OF spring Tiny blades of grass
are peeplng above the brown earth. and the
ohds Oh Tie forest trees are swelling with the
ts,ence Of renewed vigor- Soon the resurrsc-
lol OF the h0Rers viii take place and nature /
VIII triumph IN the eternity Of youth
Amerieus Sumter Republican: JEFF Collins,
= negro, who killed Charley BlaekmOn, in
ntllry county. three or four years ago, was
eap.lrci by the Chief % Police in Columbus
% % Monday; and Samuel TisOn, who killed
emanuel WImbush Ia Schley county was re-
ys45{ captured in Tuskegee, Ala, and is now
61-I 3 S- loI eehyety- On Tuesday, Sheriff Thos
D 2. -4eFs OF Schey, left for Atlanta to get the |
t14uslLl5n from the Gov rnor necessary to I
eIlAs the prisoner from that State and will I
I Ls,-fn va Columbus aud get Collins We sup
f ~ w. 1l@i-h n term OF Schley Superior Court
Wi sel'ie Inc fate Of these mUrderers."
Ihe Augusta Nelrs says that the editor OF the
~1--eus ~ hailiief was In Augusta last week, and
80 nome % say that on Wednesday night
= 81 ll1ul latel man was Observed holding him
s5I up oy means OF lamp post on a prounf-
- fs- ms lamp post had on it mail |
- anu lne man had apparently stood there |
tlf some time. A reporter had occasion 70 !
~ - .le man, sn1 remarked: Hello there. |
.AA- lhe matters' We'll" said the man
L-llle-put i've cents in the box here half an !
-'-l ago lEd this car amt started yet"
Ala5I1g 10 the high prices which the Burke
@ t--u4 farmers Fay for guano, the Waynes-
uofO Herald SAYS. I'VE heard NOT Ione, sincs
80. ~ u tAe snreTdest men OF our county saw
80 -. eur county was poorer than it had been
rsi;- 80 leHIS. We believe il. No people whose
- -es s = dlt, and whose credit rests upon
-. -. @ -at. tnat their lands must be pawued TO
=. suaA9 can be Said to be PROSPEROUS The |
h. ie-,,--5 - of me DEPENDENCY Of the farmer by
~ ~ lu-lods rates Cf interest and usury eats nm
i ~ s.alce OF the land, and the guano trade
iIiu0ls interest"
81 lCovngtoH Star: 'On last Sunday ss an mn
sllolsn freight train On the Georqyia Railroad
i'r3tSS ta5Ss.9g CoyingtOn at full speed, the cab
'-tl- tAe track when opposi e the guapo
GO .v-.,-s's below the depot, snd ran on the
over on t-iLe ~ 'Le upper switch, a distance of
ana 80 80 huuufed yards, tearing up the track
80 y !, y aens the r6ils when il again riphted
- a. Ge We end Of the switch and went on IT'S
~ al Hsht, without throwing of any Of the
acriiarSA 80, OF stopping the train Such an
years" o' OScur Sgain IN dozen
s-. W ne subject Of the extension of the North
~ .l railroad TO Knoxville, the Athens Ban
eas,s-!sE- : 4l IS very evident that il the North
sBcs -- - = ever completed 10 Knoxville assist
of srbs--5s' " oe h4d outside Of Athens The city
r. -.4sAS ana the citizens of Athens cannot az
-, -. own means. raise money enor1eb ~ COM
must - S'LhectlOn with Knoxville. Help
4 Co. IE uel' taen, from some other source:
or cT1S,1-.o l1--a. .o1 must be made with some road
vbos.-i any that is able to do the work and
- - interest it is TO do il Have anv stems
A e5r,leee -Llsee 70 form any such Combinations
subisr = tSs f 70 confer with other roads On the
Has tbst ofn y, esttfn connections was appointed.
Io'D Inlttee ever done anythingf" II
last v-eI ISoi.i1eT: a rare suit was brought,
OseaoiN' a. 4. before Justice Thomas G. Havs of |
sS-lA district. Oconee counf,- fSr ths s,,,s, ~
The Matte me suit came about in tins way:
feuosDf d "hOm We will call a., sent BY de-
scriptionl =: ny ~ e dollars 10 pay a church sub
The subscriI1fi,.o alAhce TO be returned to A.
the Cha. 'ptI9n was paid; but A. claimed that
Cents isse which h. returned to him WAS fffty
denied 49, Ian an II ought to have been, This b.
Hays deeI5sSO d-- ~ 20 law they went Chief Justice
upon rIsI-,iss ID favor Of the defendant; where
Jury lTI1L5.l'lI TLl'lII alleged error, and demanded a
found -. fsae Jury tried the case, and likewise
case viii eeIenQant with costs of suit The
Court probably not go to the Supreme
cone eoe-Sn .I-slsgraph: Macon is destined to be-
hum o1 tsIeat manufacturing city- Soon the
and H. ~ y wheels viii he head on All sides
eomnobIrtiaasslee OF spindle and loom become as
Besides i5o 81 as the blowing of the wind.
ding a "a City, swelling our revenne ana sd-
not e1nSiifssIllleF fsleFal importance Of Macen. and
Crutehae75l pg p5ng the enterprise of the
% the H,sl5 Brothers. to be established
We heard ut St. Paurs church lot
Church s1S ~ oe oe erected between st. PanI's
stand re, SO The Vineville station We nnSer. %
land, and A. otiations are being made for the
srection os g Z ( near day viii be c0mmenres me
haesp aS O5 building that viii H.. 1ri.s s
our gresfsst source Of wealth. The dawn of
aud Ia the I',am commercial prosperity 4 upon us
Population S-ae ;rol1 ol the new day can De seen
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