Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-19

bridge, he was Mortified to see the body of a
man floating in the river Being too badly
scared TO pick it up, he passed below and tied
20 the beDk, and then went to q cabin and
informed the occupants what he had seen A
party repaired to the river and recovered the
body, which proved to be that OF a well known
coiored man named Cuyler Pasco He lived in
that locality, and had been missing for over A
week IL is supposed that he started to his
timber in q small boat, which upset, and be-
ing unable to swim. was drowned. The body
wss at once buried
The Clinch county CORRESPONDENT Of the
Waycross Reporter writes that paper: "An
old ne gro man near Stockton. In this county,
has set out sey eral hundred orange trees He
has gone among the pine trees and set out his
grove. his plan ia to clear up a space twelve
Teet square and plant tree then twelve feet
from there clear up another twelve feet square
and plant again This is done among the green
pines. He leaves them growing as a protec-
ton TO the trees. Our colored friend is
pioneer IN this line, and will at no distant day
rap the reward of hisindustrY and enterprise.
We learn OF a gentleman in an adj joining
county that cOntempates setting out several
thousand trees. There are two gentlemen in
this county that propose to plant a grove of
~ - " al lsIahu n the eu"ahhoocliee- near
puPonE. Don't 90 to Florida or to the West,
| but stay in Cinch county. There are millions.
/ young men. IN the orange, sand pear and
Scupperneng grape in our county. There is
/ millions in it, and don't forget il. "
The Gainesville Herald says: ''Just as we
| were going to press last week we learned OF the
sudden death Of Joel Davis, one cf the old
citizens of the county, being in his eighty-hrst
/ year. His death remarkable. He had
/ been in his usual health for some time aud was
/ a vigorous man for his years He came 10
/ town on Saturday, during the snow storm. to
the district election, and experienced no incon-
4 yenience from the exposure. On the day pre-
/ vious 70 his death he worked in his shop and
I retired TO bed apparently IN good he alth. Dur
! ing the night he got up, and on returning to
bed told his lie that it was still raining, and
/ she supposed, dropped quietly to sleep. A
/ short time afterwards she noticed that he was
cold, aud putting her hand upon his face found
that he was dea0. Naturally frightened she
! got up and commenced blowing a horn to
/ arouse her neighboFs, and soon secured assist
ance but death had done its work. His death
+ was supposed to have been caused by dropsy,
i as he had been under treatment for that
! disease He was buried at Prospect On the
night following his death his wife was stricken
/ with paralysis, caused perhaps by the shock of
/ the previous night
/ The Griffin NelUS says: ION the Beeks place,
/ about a mile from the city. two colored indi-
/ viduas. John EiuckIe and Peter Rogers. came
/ TO angry blows yesterday. Rogers knocked
4 Muckle's hat of whereup1n Muckle sailed
! into him with an axe helve. Rogers arm was
broken in the melee At John l1imans bar
! room on Hill street, popular resort for the
1 town darkey, accident occurred yesterday
I which threatens to diminish our colored
I population. Several negroes were in the room,
/ one Of them handling a dOuble-barrelled shot
I qua. The latter was standing in front of the
near a stove. The negro with the gun, in try
ing 10 hand it across the Tar to another darkey,
/ cid il in such careless way that the hammer
/ caught on the edge of the bar. and the gun was
I discharged, the contents striking the negroes
/ sitting at the stove. Both Of them were terri
] by injured, though not fatally. One of them
I was shot il the shoulder and in the side of his
I face. shot entering one Of his eyes. The eye
/ sight is thought to be destroyed The olher
! negro received a large portion Of the discharge
/ in his breast and shoulder and is thought TO be
/ more seriously wounded than the other.
( There may be further developments ia the
case
E berton Nelrs: 'For the past two weeks
/ business has been unusually dull. Very little
/ cotton is selling, and apparently, less goods
/ The merchants tell us that the people have not
/ been so punctuGl in settling up their store ac-
] counts this season as they we're last. and that
many farmers are largely behind. Thi1 may
be accounted for to great extent from the
failure Of crops last yearin certain sections OF
( the country. The farmers invested largely liz
/ guanoS last year. and il great many instances
/ il was entirely Improbable, and consequently
aging feature Is that there was perhsps less
grain raised in Eibert county last year than any
/ other for the last ten. and many of the farmers
I will have to buy their entire supplies with
/ which to make another crop. Every man
I ought to know h own business, but it seems
! 70 us that the only safe plan Is for every farmer
10 raise mis- own supplies, and make all the cot
/ ton he can over and above this. We have no
[ ticed that invariably when there are good grain
crops made in the country times are easier and
I money more flush, stock is In better cOndi-
ton, and the country seems to be in q more
/ prosperous condition generally. To pay credit
/ prices f5r corn, meat and other supplies ia
/ make crop of cotton at eight or ten cents per
/ pound IS too risky q business to warrant sue
/ ceSs. an we would prefer 20 take our chances
/ SDeculGting in cotton futures. -"