Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-29
J. H. EsTILL, PROPRIETOR.

Albany NeiCS aud advertiser: 1T does not
seem to be generally known that under the new
census apportionment Dougherty county will
lose one representative in the Legislature
Under the constitution twenty six counties are
entitled to two representatives each OF these
Talbot. Macon, Newton, Dougherty and Stew
art will have to give way to Hall. Pike, ,DeKalb
Putnam and Walton. IL the census returns
prove correct.
Augusta EUening Netrs: Work on opening
and ceepeniDg the channel of the Savannah
river is progressing rapidly at a point three
miles above the canal locks or about ten miles
above Augusta. Dynamite is being II ed in
the blasting, and IL is proving very effectual
and its execution is ssurprisinglg rapid The same
style OF blasting IL being operated as that en-
ployee az Hell Gate, in New York harbor and
1t is something new in this section"
The Montezuma Weekly says: MANY curl
osites have from time to time been shown u.s.
but thai brought into our sanctum last Wednes-
day BY Mr. j. B. Easterlin surpassed them an
This was q fish Of the sucker kind, about foot
long, but the peculiarity about il was that it
was devoid OF even the appearance of a
mouth. It was caught in fish basket by a
neighbOring fisherman How this Door fellow
managed to get along so wen. We can't see
Won't some naturalist explain it,"
Hsrtwell Sun: ''aIr John P Lee of FORSYTH
county. IS certainly model farmer. His farm
embraces only one hundred acres, and on it he
planted corn, cotton. OATS wheat. barley rye
etc. his small grain crop amounted to five
hundred bushels, and only about fourteen
acres were SOWn. On0 acre yielded one hun
dred and ten bushels of cats. After cutting
and feeding his stock on oats for six weeks
before threshing, he harve ted two hundred
and eighty-fiye bushels of shelIed oats, He
made plenty OF forage for his stock. He plants
twenty acres in cotton, and makes a bale to the
| acre.
Hartwell Sun. "Hon. jefferson Holland
hands US the following list of his neighbors be
tween the ages of IS and 80. in five miles of
him. We publishit just to show how long peo
pie live as a general thing in Hart county
| There are no old women on the list They out
number the men however: From so to 90-Jos
| Jackson. b. d. Parker, NJ. A. Fraoks, Samuel
Craft. NJ Robertson, NJ Ussery, S. White John
| Baker. VI. Whitworth-g. From 20 to rs
| Jacob Parker, w. r. Poole. @. S. Webb NJ
| JohrsOn John Linder A Cornog s. c. Fisher
| Colbert Prewit. J. A. Burgess, A. o. Finch. j.
/ NJ Bruce. Sam Byrum, John Jordan, J. p
/ Glover. I. King-l5. Between 65 and sU--J.
Baily, j. II. Parker, R. K. Walters, Bowman
! Shirley, Abraham Shirley, j. II. Chapaler. A
! hammond. George Ledbetter, j. Holland II.
| Coldwell, DR.. F. M. Payne, W. H. Prewitt h
Carnes. l.. Gable, Elijah Walters, John Wat.
son. Z. Hoyt. Sam. Carnes, John Moorehead,
/ Joe. Maret-20. Grand total-44"
From an esteemed correspondent of Cnllo-
/ den, Monroe county, we have the following;
I'VE are having severe drought in this vicinity
Early corn will be a failure even with rain
now. Late corn, where it has been worked,
/ will make with rain now. Cotton is looking
| well for the season. Wheat and oats has been
| harvested in our neigh hborhood, and has turned
out very well, though small crops were sown
| last fall; spring oats is failure. There was a
| foul murcer committed few miles below
/ here, in Crawford county, last Tuesday, upon
/ g negro named Bill johnson by John Thomas
! Hamlin, a white man. 1t Is said he did the
dee1 for three dollars and sixty cents that the
negro had about his person. They were at work
| together on Mr.. VanHorn's place. When Mr..
( Horn missed the negro from the field. he asked
/ HamIin where he was; he staten that he had
/ left and he didn't know Next day the body
i was found creek close by stripped naked.
4 and upon examination his skull was broken,
\ apparently with club that was found near by
/ his track, and Hamln was follower back to
/ where they were at work the day before.
| Hamlin left after being asked about the
/ ne ro's absence. The officers are after him.
Hamlin was just grown and of good family.