Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-20
Georgia Affairs

man named Hayden, formerly barber a.
TaIb0tton. died suddenly in Washington last
week from perforation Of the bowels, oeca
stoned by long continued and neglected diar-
rbp8.
The Trustees Of the Lunatic Asylum have
held a meeting and resolved to proceed at once
20 construct the large addition contemplated
by the legislative appropriation The institu-
ton is now filled TO its utmost capacity. and
there are more than two hundred applications
for the admission Of patients on file. Almost
an the applicants at present are whites.
Two men at Dale's mills. near No. :, Savan-
nah. Florida and Western Railway. on Friday
last had a 1sticuff and then a shooting scrape.
Smith attacked the other man name not
ku1wnl for abusing his (Smith'sl wife. and got
the better Of him in the tussle. but as he was
going OF the other drew pistol and snapped
at him two or three times Upon this Smith
also drew a pistol and shot the other man near
the mouth. wounding him so severely that it Is
feared he viii die
A gentleman Of intelligence SAYS he has been
much afflicted with cramps in his legs and
body. in so much that it often interrupted his
business and required him to keep somebody
near 70 rub him when severely attacked. Dur
Ing one Of his worst attacks, the other day,
upon recommendation he tied some strips of
eel skin around his legs aud body, and, 10 his
great surprise, the cramp left him and has not
returned He felt returning symptoms in
his legs one night. when he discovered that the
eel strings had slipped on. but, replacing
them, he finds complete exemption from his
excrueiatiog pains
Rev ". F. Glenn, Pre- iding Elder. has very
recently travelled throughout the counties OF
Foyd. Polk. Carroll Haralsou. Douglass,
Cobb and Barlow. He finds upon the whole
that the average Of crops in these eight coun
ties will compare favorably with those OF last
year.
Joe Harris, the negro who killed Mr.. T. T
I.anzston. near Powelrs Mills. few months
since. was convicted Of murder in the first de
gree st the Greene county Superior Cour
Thursday He was sentenced to be hung OF
the 11th OF October. the hanging to be private
The Gainesville Free Press heard a minister
the other day. say the drought had not beer
severe enough-that it was Gods punishment
and he wished it would last the whole year
But how if he should find whole yeari
drought in his curacy Whose punishmen
would that be
Mr.. Thomas A. Foster, OF the firm of Foster
& Harlan, Calhoun, Ga, shot himself dead OF
the 18th inst He was a prominent citizen
So years Of age, and prosperous in business
though it is said his miud brooded over som,
losses he would sustain by the short crop.
Our Georgia and Florida exchanges in ever
section are rejoicing in refreshing showers o.
much needed rain.
A fine new sleeper is soon to be put on th'
Savannah. Florida and Western Railway, be
tween Townsville and Savannsh.
Pike County Nelcs: After spending about
half the session in amending the old Code. the
House has passed a hill authorlzlnS G. n
Lester. C. ROwell and Waller Hill 70 publish a
new one"
Carroll County Times: The Southern
Flurmer's Monthly for September is upon our
table. This is cecidedlY the handsomest and
best agricultural magazine ever published ia
Georgia Every intelligent farmer should
take it."
Ouitman Free FTess. The bill to prohibit
minors being employed in barrOOms has passed
both houses Of the Legislature and is now a
law Two minors have been employed in the
Quitman baTrOOms. but on last Monday they
were turned out TO grass "
Greensboro Home Journal: ''Turpentine. as
well as cotton, is going up, and thus the far
mers in lower Georgia are enjoying double
boom. Turpentine that last year at this time
was worth thirty-fOur cents, is now worth fifty
cents, and the tendency is still upwards.
Gainesville Eagle: a msn by the name OF
sam Masters was run over by both the fast
mail trains, about three miles above this place,
on sunday night last. His body was literally
chopped 70 pieces and his entrails we're strewn
on the road-bed for nearly one hundred
yards" Liquor.
HaTkinsville DisDDfch: ''On Thursday night
last the GIN house on the place Of Mrs. Cstha-
rine lrammell- a few miles below Hawkins
Vi'ie, was destroyed by fire. About five and a
hAIl oaies OF cotton were consumed. and the
The fire was evidently the w0rk az An incendi-
ary, as IL occurred about midnight'
Madison MadIs0Hidn: '-AIr Whalev of Ocol
nee county, started out Cf the CITY Isst me-
day driving Mr.. James Prices teaT Tts
horses attempted 10 run throwing hin, ont ~
the wagon and dragging him some oisfsnce ~
the lines which he firmly held He succssse5
in regaining his seat in the wagon and cbecE1
ing his horses He was severely bruised ana
otherwise injured"
Brunswick advertiser and appeal: 1T i
very strange how persistently our Darien con
temporary viii cling to the delusion that a
railroad is to be built from No. to Evelyn He
has tWice made the assertion This week he
states that the survey viii soon be male. Mr.
forms US that he has no such idea-that the
road Is 20 be built TO Brunswick"
Columbus Times: while Mr. c. N Milford
printer In the Opelika Times ofice, on Thurs
day, was returning 10 the ofice after dinner,
ne was caught upon the COW catcher or pilot
OF passing engine, and carried some thirty OF
forty yards Deiore being extricated from his
unpleasant predicament. Fortunately no harm
except pretty bad scare occurred. He ner-
sisted 10 holding his umbrella over him durino
bis unpleasant ride"