Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-07
j. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.

Walton County Kel1s: ga month or so ago.
Mr. Jack Snow, son Of MIR. inc. W. Snow. was
oltten on the forehnger by a rat. The wound
mas continued to grow worse, until it now has
an alsrr1ing appearance, the swelling extend
ing all the way up his arm Amputation me-
become necessary"
The McD1tgfe Journal says Of the Southern
Formers MOnfhltJ: 1T is strange to us that
every planter, farmer, hOrticulturist and
family In the Southern States does not subscribe
for this excellent magazine. It is. beyond
all comparison the very best publication CT
the kind ever offered to the people Of the
South. and ought TO be patronized far and
wide"
Walton County Netrs: Last Friday evening
the dwelling Of Mrs. Nancy Ivey a widow lady
living near Good Hope, in this county. was
totally destroyed by fire. The fire caught from
the ironing room Only a sewing machine
and few clothes were saved. She is a help
less widow, aud those with charitable hearts
can IND no more worthy object upon which to
bestOw their gifts"
Special weekly exhibitions at the Fxposi-
tiOn, says the Eost-ApDeGl, will occur as fol-
lows; Fruit and flowers, commencing October
%, 1881; cattle and mules. commencing No
yember l, 1851; sheep and swine, commencing
November 8, 1eSi; bench show Of dogs com
menclng November 10. 1881; poultry, etc, COM
mencing November p 1881: dairy products
commencing November 80, 1881.
Atlanta Constitution: "Oficers Rapp and
Mercer yesterday arrested Lee Bonner against
whom they bring grave charge. On Monday
night Bonner got on big drunk. and when his
bOlsterons conduct caused the police to at
tempt an arrest he drew his revolver and
cleared the way for freedom. Yesterday
mornir Officers Rlpp and Mercer ran afOul of
him on Collins street. and now Bonner awaits
preliminary trial upon two State warrants. -
Atlanta Constitution: About ten O'Clock
last night a fearful accident happened on West
Mitchell street near the city limits A gentle
man and his wife who had been TO town were
on their way home, when the horse becoming
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ran away. In his flight the buggy was upset
and the occupants thrown out. The gentle
man. q Mr.. Lindsey, was badly bruised by the
fall while his wife sustained a fractured collar
bone"
hmericus Republican 1--WE learn that on
Saturday night last several white men went TO
the residence Of Mr.. K. A. Greene, in the
Twenty ninth district of Sumter. and while he
was absent from home, drove his wife from
the house, locked themselves in and held pos
session for several hours. A neighhor went
there to find ont what they were up to, but was
peremptOrily ordered to leave before he was
hurt. When the parties left they robbed the
hen house Of every fowl on the place. Our in
fsrmant did not know whether Mrs Greene
recogniz d any or the party, nor the motive
that inspired the deed. The perpetrators, if
known, should be severely dealt with
warrenton Clipper: Mr. Thomas Wall, &
young man OF twenty-one, and son of Mr. Wm-
Wall, living a few miles east Of this place, was
stopped by two men. with faces concealed by
handkerchiefs, late Sabbath evening as he was
returning from n singing at Brier Creek
Church They struck him on the back of the
head with a stick and then commenced cutting
him with knives. They produced no flesh
wounds, only split ing his clothes in several
places His mule dashed and plunged fear
fully, which was greatly in his favor. Being
near Mr.. Elijah Norris residence, he called Mr..
Norris, and the parties ran of into the woods.
About two years ago he was shot at near the
same place His father says he has had no
falling cut with any one"
Marietta Journal: "At the Macon -four mills
Of ID. r. & J. l. Cook. on Thursday last, the
employees came verv naar heing forced to wit
ness a horrible accident While Mr. j r Cory
ell, the travelling agent Of the firm, was stand
ing y mammoth revolving shaft connected
with the mill. he reached mp to feel the box at
tached to the shaft for the purpose Of aScer-
taining whether it was hot. Mr.. COryell has a
yer long beard and while in a reaching DO
sitiOn he thinks the wind must have blown his
beard in a pC sition to be caught by the shaft
as il was making its five hundred revolutions a
minute. At any rate his beard was caught by
the shaft ani in a second more the gentleman
w uld have been torn Into threads But fortu
natelT for him he had pre- ence Of mind enough
{ grasp the upper portion OF his beard, and.
by main force, tear the greater portion Of it
out by the roots. thereby extricating himself
from the shaft and escaping a terrible death. -