Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25

sugar manufactory, were injured The latter
nsnieo Is the most seriously, although neither
Oh them are at all dangerously wounded.
ne Atlanta PoSt-Appenl reports that a
young man named Frank Cregan was seriously
injured Monday night on the Western and At
lahnc halfway, In the vicinity of the fair
gTounds. Cregan had been drinking consid-
eraoly, and had walked out on the track as far
as the place indicated, when he sat down on
the end or cross-tie to rest and one of the
trains came along and knocked him Off cBt-
ung tIg Oad cash Just above the left eye. which
oled proIuSely. He says that his back is badly
nuIt ana MS hand slightly. He lay out all
nlght on the spot where the train left him. not
oeihg able to walk away till the next morning,
mlli store. Here officer Lynch found him, and
brought him to the station house, where he
was waiting 10 have his wounds dressed. Gre
where he has wife
The Albany Ne1cs and advertiser, speaking
OF the hoods IN that neighbOrhOod. remarks:
The river has been steadily rising since our
Iest. and at this hour seems ID be rapidly ap-
proacnlng the highest water mark. he rapidi-
" with which the stream has risen has been
relnarka ble, and we begin to fear damage by
oVelnow. The fair grounds and fences must
certainly suffer, and drifting timber may hurt
the bridges. Early in the corning it was dis
covered that the abutment on the lower or city
side tina public bridge across the KiDcha-
foonee was a little .shaky,' and before noon
the rapidly swelling stream had washed the
foundation away, and lifted this end Of the
structure clear OF its fastening All travel
across the bridge he's been stopped, several
unsuccessful attempts having been made by
wagons and buggIes on the opposite side"
Americus is having a considerable boom"
in the building line The Republican says:
Some twenty or twenty-five houses are now
being built in various portions OF the city,
while quite a number have just been COM
pletsd. Most Of these houses are small, hav-
ing only two or three rooms. vet they will be
finished up in neat ard comfortable style,
yyh Ia - hQndgOu7R of
quite number of houses to be erel ted during
the summer. Stores and residences"
The Americus Republican learns that on
Sunday last a UwO-year-Oid child of Mr. Henry
Harris living ebOut seven miles east of Ameri-
Gus, was shot while playing with a pistol. The
family had gone into another room to dinner,
leaving the child with negro boy. Tue boy,
in order to keep the little one quiet, gave it
pistol from the mantlepiece, and in the act
Iii char ge1 it, the bail striking the chm Of the
child. splitting it, entered the breast. and.
glancing along the ribs, lodged on the fourth
rib DIR. ]. b Hinkle wsS summoned as speedi-
ly as possible the ball extracted. and the little
sufferer left in quiet condition. The doctor
THINKS there is no danger of the child's losing
its life.
Reidsville Eaterprise: I'VE are sorry to
know that many of the citizens of Tagtnall
lunty have sadly neglected their farms for
the purpose of working with timber, and
many Of them who have been pushing ahead
tn their timber to get il off so they might
work on their farms between the first and mid
die of March, placed it in DaTien during the
recent glut in the market and the price real
lied for il was not sufficient to pay the ex
penseS 0T cutting, haul ng rafting, drifting,
etc. In consequence, they returned without
cent of money only to find their farm work
month or two behind. We think the better
plan would be to give the crops every attention
at the proper season, and devote whatever
spare time you may have to timber. Make
your own supplies at no re aud bad luck on
one raft viii not have such telling effect"
Says the Atlanta PhoHOgraph: ''Mr Turner.
connected with the peniteBtiary service of the
State. passed through Atlanta yesterday with
three negro men on their way from Coweta
county To the convict camps of G. neral
Philiips. in North Georgia. The negroes were
chained together, and in addition we're hand
cuffed- To one end of the chain was fastened
Henry Dickson, who. three weeks ago. az
wedding two miles from Newman, killed his
brother by shooting him. The se"tence i'm
posed upon him WaS two years owing to the
fact that the neg o plead guilty. ami made
staten ent 20 the effect that the pistol went OF
accidentally while he was try ing to get his
BROTHER to go home. On the other end OF the
chain was Allen HrdSon, who was convicted Of
throwing stone into a passenger coach OF the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad short time
sine. The sentence in his case was five years.
SAudwiched between these two notableS was
George Powell. who will be three years Older
when his term of sentence expires. Powell
plead guilty to the murder of Trusty Smith in
Newman some months ago, by cutting him with
a khife"
Says the Walton NetCs: I'VE could fill near
" the whole side Of GU local page with an ac-
count Of the damage done by the heavy rains.
We mention the following bridges as entirely
destroye1 or ba lly damaged: GOOdson's bridge
over Jacks creek. Tanner's Kilgore's. Shows
aud Shepherds bri ;ges over the Apalachee
river. State Road bri &c and Dicke, sons
bridge, on the Alcova river Many
more are doubtless gone. The dam
age done to county property Is at least
sSOh0 aud to mill dams and private prop
f4rfIr haV rH Of
more bridges being destroyed. Ali the bridges
on the Apalachee river from High Shoals up
are gone. 5000 will not replace the bridges
destroyed in Walton county alone"
The Columbus Times, speakingof the ham
eied condition of the farmers, arising out of
the credit system, pOintedly remarks: The
merchants have made poor progress in
collecting last years accounts and they do not
feel in the least inclined TO supply man who
is in the arrear. Who can blame the mer-
chautg He does exactly right No man wants
to let out what DDS he has in store without
the least prospect OF ever receiving his pay. 1t
is the same way with the warehousemen In
terest on money has been so reduced that it
does not pay to take any risks. The fact IS,
the outlook is gloomy, and the farmer VINO has
no money or credit, stands a Toor chance
There is no use to ask what has brought
about such a state of affairs 1t is the same
old story of too much cotton and too little
corn And it Is useless to offer any advice.
From year 10 year the farmers have acSnOw-
LEGGED that this mode of farming was Tulnous
They have seen to where they were drifting
bur, like the gambler, they have risked every
thing Just one more time, hoping for a change
in luck. That change has not come. and some
Of them are desperate. We pity them, but we
cannot help them. We have stood upon the
watch-tOwer, and year after year have warned
them of the inevitable result Of their course,
but to no effect We have done our duty-we
have furnished the advice. We will be hope
ful enough to repeat it: Raise your own corn
and meat.
A correspondent writes to the Atlanta Con-
sfitittiOn from CIR fin under date OF the ed
instant. as follows: "A sad and touching case
Of filial devotion has just reached my ears,
aud briefly give the facts. Mrs James Neal,
/ OF Fat Shoals has been in Griffin for some
weeks suffering with that dread disease. con
sumption Last week she was reported to be
/ dy Ing, and the news reached her son Clarence,
/ who was also very i'll at Flat Shoals with the
/ measles As soon as he heard of his mothers
condition, though, he got upsout OF bed, rode
/ twenty miles in the cold, facing biting wind,
/ and reached Griffin to find his mother still
/ alive, But the tax on his strength was TOO
/ much for Clarence, and a dangerous re
/ lapse was the result of his expo
/ sure For several days and nights he
| lav upon a fevered couch, tossed and tumbled
/ with delirium. growing constantly worse, his
mo her the while still ciinging to the little
shark of life Just hanging on the edge OF dis
/ solution. Last night three physicians were
with the Young man, but their efforfS proved
of no avail: death had pointed his black finger
\ AT him and this morning the soul OF Clarence
/ Neal went out TO its God it IS certainly one
| of the saddesU cases / have ever been called
| upon to chronicle and calls forth the deepest
| sympathy from this entire community. Young
| Neal vas Just about entering the estate of
manhood, being twenty years of age. he
| gave promise of bright future hut it is all
ended now. Mrs Neal is rapidly sinking and
can only last a few hours She is sister to
Hon James c. Freeman, of Atlanta"