Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
georgiaARairs.

pl ce at Watkinsville, beginning October 10th
and closing On the 18th.
The Christian Monitor has been merged into
the Baptist Bonner, and DR.. Breaker retiIes
from newspaperdOm.
Thomas county is shipping and having a
boom on lie Conte Iears. The unfavorable
spring thinned out the fruit crop considerably,
but old trees are making handsome returns
The southwestern corner OF COlquitt county
has village called Chastain, with post office
of the same name, situated on the Big Ock-
Iockonee river. Chastaiu has store, a water
mill. grinding corn and wheat. saving lumber
and ginning cotton. Also, a wood and black
smiths shop, and three public schools in the
vicinity. To cap the climax, Chastain has a
good corresp p9ndent, who writes the above to
the ThomasvilIe Enterprise, and further says
crops are good in that section, and that parties
are there buying up all the beef cattle from
four years old aud upward to be shipped TO
Cuha. Thus it will be seen that Georgia is
furnishing beef to feed the Queen Of the An
titles.
4 little fee dog on one OF the passenger cars
OF the Columbus and Rome Railroad created a
sensation the other day. Tied to seat and
raging with thirst and heat the passengers took
him to be mad. They jumped upon the seats,
and pisto's we're called for I'm vain 10 shoot
him. Train people came in at last with clubs,
but then the owner came also and carried the
little dog to another car. Here the canine
gnawed the string, jumped from the car while
passing s high trestle, and was killed
Why not in Georgia citiess Fifty young ply
sicians in New York, in the interest OF humani
". visit the poor to give advice about the man
ageneDt OF the babies. It would be a noble
work in our Southern cities and towns
Colonel John P. Fort of Dougherty county.
Is boring an srtesian well on his plantation
Ifhe succeeds he will have conferred a great
blessing upon the rotten limestone region Of
the Flint river-that is to say, If he brings up
good water from beneath the limestone strata.
Bishop Gross, says the Netrs, severely repri-
nanded some young people in Griffin the other
day
The EIsas, Nay & CO. cotton factory, says the
Atlanta P0stApDeGI, is going up very rapidly.
The factory viii require 100000 brick in Its
construction
Mr. Ben C. Albea, in Covington, the other
day. fell from a second story window to the
pavement, escaping with a spraired wrist and
bruised face
Near Howard, on Saturday last says the
Butler Herald Randall Hays tied, under
threats Of death. Mack smith, and beat him
nearly to death, charging him with stealing
suit Of clothes from the assaiant's cabin Mack
is said TO be a harmless boy OF Il years, and
Randall Hays a stout man. Both darkies-
Mr.. Thomas McCollugh. of Monroe, Walton
county. has been a. Judged a lunatic and sent
TO the asylum at Milledgeville.
va ton NeIrs "Ferce or no fence is all the
rage i'm this county now. We have heard OF
hundreds Of men who were bitterly Oppostd 70
the no fence measure when il was voted on
who now say they are anxious Tor IT,
Atlanta Posf-Appedl. "The young and tai
aUted solicitor General still hover kindly around
the General Assembly, with an oecasloiia i1
Judge or Sheriff TO add spice and variety 20 the
delegation
A correspondent Of the Walton Netrs says
the crops about LOgaDsvilie, cotton, espe,
cially. look well Prospects Ior large yieiiq zee
very hattering- Mr. John J Floyd has nelo
- seven acres. which bids fair % produce seven
bales. Mr. F. is Cne Of the live farmers, as
his farm Wn show"
Gainesville SOuthrOn: zone Of the walters
at the Arlington mace strenuous efforts on
yesterday to split another nezr0's head open
with a hatchet The fellow saveS himself by
the vigorous use OF chair IN Shielding hi:
head The ksight Of the hatchet was seer
splitting for the Air Line Railroad in very
few minutes after the row"
Columbus Enquirer: ION Saturday las
Messrs- Sample & helch lost Two hne nlie' W
through the carelessness OF a negro hand. The
negro was engaged in Telling tree and with
out noticing four mules year by cut down Z
large pine: which struck all the animals, Kill
ing two and criplirg the others, The lnJur-
ones, il is thought will recover.
Gainesville Southron: They call it a wagon
cite. and Mr. George W Walker IS building II
at ms carriage shop. IL looks like cross be
tween a bridge over the creek and an ole
fashioned Dutch oven on wheels You car
drive around into q crowd let down the back
end and shovel up q load Of humenity, which
can be dumped out at the railroad with the ut
most ease"
Americus Republican: "On Saturday th'
examination of the applicants for the cadet
ship in the Naval Academy resulted IN the
selection Of Bloom Brown, a son Of Col. Jacl
brown now iu Wsshi gtOn, ID. @. Bloom Is
recent graduate OF the high School Of Ameri
Gus. and will hold the position with credit Z
himself and hOnJr to his country
Correspondence Americus Republican: Mr.
John Pound. of Barnesvile, Ga, was shot an'
killed by VIM T. RespesS. formerly of the firm
OF Saulsberry. RespesS < Co. Of Macon. bu
now living in Barnesviile- Pound was advanc
inc with a knife, and Respass shot him with
donbIe-barreled gun. The difficulty occurred
in Barnesville"
Gainesville Soufhr0n: "On Sunday last tn,
resfdeDce Of Page Latham. near Shallow Ford
about four miles from this city, ives ENTIRELY
S5estroyed by FIRE: also his OutnOuseS, contain
ing wheat and other supplies No one was a
home aWCRuE ME. lalAldlu UaOAlAtEs MAll Ndi
preparing dinner when the honse caught
Nothing was saved except two feather beds
aud Mrs Latham was badly burned In dOinl
that"
Sparta IssmGelite: If Georgia could hay,
one legislature, made up OF members that dl'
not care 70 be reelected. there would probably
be a Law passed TO impose tax on 'sucn anI
msIs as from their nature and habits, ar
5sStr1Icfive Of other animals AS il is, IN,
r,aioritv in the Legislature always vote will
reference TO the greatest happiness OF th'
greatest number Of dogs In the language o.
the pOet-'DOg on EN- J."
WaItoa Nerrs: The killing Of the negr'
woman near Walnut Grove, some ten day
ago. bids fair to furnish az least two subj ect'
for the gallOwS. She was killed 70 make wal
for another marriage. and the husband OF th'
murdered woman is in jail with be murderer
He is said to be sixty years clt. Two WomeI
and one man will be tired for this crime"
Rome Cotrier: Charles Alexander. younE
,rhire man about nineteen years OF age. while
,rorEin- m the Dlow factory Of TOWei & Su Ii
van met With a very painful accident the othel
5av yrherehy he lost the thumb or his lett hand
He vas engaged Eorklng az ohS 9I .ls P'al,ll.s @
machines, and unfortunately his thumb " a
,-enghf nv one Of the bits. and was taken on al
the second Joint before he realized that he wa
hurt"
On last Thursday, while Mr.. Thos- H Farnum
n travelling salesman. was visiting Dublin. h'
80 st1lns on the lower lip by some kind OF al
insect or spider. He gave but Little atteutloi
20 the sting at first, but soon his lip began e
swell and became E4lNAlAE4 win AAetNSr
swelling extended 70 the face, and every Tea
t,lre soon became swollen until no semblanct
OF his natural self remained. Mr. FarnuH
nnaliy died Of erysipelas despite the best oi
medical treatment
Waltou Netrs: "Mr. Elisha Thompson, oi
Cut on, is living example OF a Georgia farm
er who lives at home and boards at the same
place. He has never bought any provisions
since the war. but always has every thing N
the produce nns 10 sell he makes less cot
ton than any farmer Of his means in the cOun
y, but always has money on hand be has
raised on his farm in this county a head OF
oats thirty-One inches long. stalk six feet sever
inches high, blade Of fodder fifty nine inches
lOng-all without Euano. "
Rome Courier: IN the year 1873. as the cen
sue Of 1880 shows, there were 3O6I5 acres al
Cotton planted in Floyd county from which
were gathered IA, ,545 bales, being one bale 10
,sverv 2 I-9 acres: while in Polk county IS ~
acres we're planted, making I26 bales or one
haze 10 every 1-f6 acres These figures show
verv couciusiveIy that this section Of Georgia.
while it Is the finest grain county in the state
is al the same time, also, the best cotton pro
ducinR section Floyd also ranks eight as tC
number Of bales produced
Rome EsuLef1n: Information reached thl
city yesterday to the effect that q most seriOu
smash up took place on the w. a. A. X
Monday night. AS fast south bound frelgh
was booming down the road on the aooV'
night the engine without auV known cause