Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-16
TIIe gelOrning SIRIUS.
Eenrgia Affairs.

- ',-,rateIv rescued. The Evening Netcs states
49, recorder Webb sentenced him to $50 fine
-ivtv DAYS on the public works.
r,,o brunswick Advertiser and appeal learns
-. Mrs Emily Martin, of Cumberland Island,
- --,,oitted suicide one night last week by
drowning.
According to the Americas Recorder
- will be shortened in Sumter county by
che DRY snap which has prevailed in much the
lest part Of the county. The impress
ION is that crops viii be shortened one
fourth.
1t fybt between Bailiff Wood and Mollie
1frfrgstou. colored. The weapons used
ere brick bats. 5Iollie was resisting arrest.
Roms's cotton receipts up to date this season
are ,Io1.
Mr. sidney Lanier is lying seriously ill at
Balum0re
Tie .fdusrtiser and AppeGt boasts that there
u. an IDLE carpenter in Brunswick, and
t,,sss are looming up in every direction.
Complimenting His Honor Judge Simmons
b5z dispatch of business the Macon Tele-
--,,,5 and Messenger says: For the first time
- treutv-ive years the civil docket Of our Su-
-srfor Court is clear When Judge Simmons
,,a into Office two years ago, there were sew
=, hundred cases behind. The only cases now
ending are three in number, which were set
f.-,7stes that have not yet arrived"
Tho VaIdosta Times from a private letter
earns tn { the store CT ID. De Loach, or Mill
tovn with its entire contents, lnciudlng MS
f-oEs was burned on the nlght OF tuesday
- AS there hal been no fire in the store
f1- weeks. il is supposed that it must have
- ne work of an fncendiary. There was
no insurance
v,-;,y, reference to trade in Darien the Tim
- ETzeffs remarks: Since eur last issue
- mas been u arrivals and Z clearances.
rbsrs are now s. vessels in port. The timber
t+-siress viii not end until late this season,
aT4 vessels are arriving every day.
50 the Timber Gazette: 'sDr. BarnweH has
-1r-r IIs a fine sample Ct tobacco raised on
5--sroDney Island. IL has been valued by a CT
ger OF Savannah at 35 cents per pound.
Two thousand pounds can be raised to the acre
- g4irahIa land. which is equal to SOD per
90 We think this should wake up old fOgy
and induce immigrants TO inspect our vicinity
The Brunswick advertiser and appeal re-
-,s~-s with much satisfaction: "Fifty-one yes
80 in mort last Saturday-the biggest 19et
svar geen here at one time! True some OF
tb4se we're loaded, aud two or three had re
csiged their clearance papers
There is a gentleman in Whittaker's district.
Harris county, who has twenty thousand
-,5-I1Iis of good corn fodder to sell. and says,
IN a pinch he might dispose OF thirty thou
sand pounds. He has folder IN his barn that
vas raised twenty nine years ago, when he
fist went TO farming, and this stock has grown
constantly ever since
saws the Advertiser and appeal: An effort
il beiug mace to organize and thoroughly equip
an ovsfer and fish company, with headquarters
In Brunswick. Its membership will embrace
Leading fish and oyster dealers IN Atlanta and
albany and intervening to WIS to this city The
sTupIy is inexhaustible. and one of experience
states that he can get ready cash sale for all he
can get
Albany Ne1rs aud Advertiser: THE receipts
Of wool in Albany have been very light during
the mast week, and the season cannot be said
I'd have fairly set in yet. y lot or about l,OUJ
lbs has been the largest quantity offered 50
fsr for which - cents was paid. This is gen
ar4Iv considered to be over its actual value
when compared with Boston ami other Eastern
markets, and Uu.ess there SHOULD be reac-
ti0u in those markets. this price will not be sus-
tanned.
A correspondent Of the BltIlOch Banner says:
syVhile vfsitjng.the neighbOrhOod of ArcOla on
last saturday l noticed that the corn crop,
though somewhat backward, appeared to be
growing rapidly. The cotton crop had come
up finely, and was being chopped out. The
cat crop generally was unprOmising, and some
fields presented the appearance of having
basn so xu with the seed of a reddish looking
weed a few oats being interspersed for variety.
He instances several fields, however, that are
EXCEPTIONS and are looking remarkably well.s
Ths lafayette walker county, Messenger
relates the following singular circumstance;
ION the 9TH Of May John Arnold, OF the town
district went out 'pOSSum hunting. He brought
ia after killing the old one, six young ones as
the result. Now comes the point. A cat that
he had seeing that the poor things were
orphans, took pity on them and played the
part of mother. And IL is an actual fact that
ne has a bunch, drove, herd, flock, or whatever
they may be, of 'pOssums being raised on cats
nils
The Rome COurie- heraIds the arrival Of the
IleIsts and remarks: They have come on
time and the woods are literally alive with
them Mr. John Williams tells us that in the
Armuchee bottoms they are coming up from
the ground by millions, and that they are SO
noisy that it IS impossible to hear ones self
talk Mr. Williams has laid on our table SpGci-
mems OF the larvae which were seen TO come
from the ground, and were watched until they
split in the back. producing the full hedged
locust. 1t is said that during locust years hSn
lite better than any other time. They make
much aEer bait for drum fish than the regula-
ton crawish-'
The Atlanta Post-AppeaI OF Saturday relates
that Wednesday night fight occurred
near the barr 4cks between two women, and in
the Recorders Court Friday morning 1t was
proven that Corporal Frank Curtis had helped
the fight along by encouraging one or the
yemen and disparagiug the powers or the
other. Recorder Miledge fined the Corporal
twenty-five dollars, but as he only gets thirteen
dollars a month pay, ana spends that rather
lively, ne could MOI pay, and he is now work
Ing out his fiae in the chain-gang."
With reference to the Tecumseh furnace the
place is making an average OF twenty tons per
day, and has been running on the same hearth
Tor six years, having never been cool IN that
length of time, which speaks volumes Tor our
Superintendent, General Warner, and reflects
no little credit on cur tOundrymant Mr.. X b.
White The Tecumseh Iroa Company has just
finished two churches, ore for the White and
one for the colored people, which adds very
much 20 the place.
Brunswick Advertiser and appeal reports
that ON Sunday. the SIN inst, the residence OF
Col J. +. Collins. ia that an. ESsS discovered
70 be on FIRE. The fire originated over the
kitchen. in rear OF and attached TO the house,
and is supposed to have taken from some de-
feet in the fiue. The kitchen and house were
both metal rooted, ana the FIRE, as 1t could not
get vent, after badly burning under the roofs
OF both main building and Kitchen, was eztln-
guished by superhuman exertons ne
peril being so imminent, however, the
furniture aud fixtures. doors, sash. mantelS.
CRATES and everything that could be gotten out,
was removed. Colonel Collins had $500 in
surauce on the buildings in the Insurance Com
pany Of North America and S2,oOJ on tuFDl-
trire. et'.. in the Southern Mutual, OF Athens,
Georgia"
Tn. Uireqrdss Waterman reports that a
fracas occurred at HaZleEurst on saturday, the
-Jh inst. in which negro, Duncan LOWry,
U.s. Killed The WdtchmQ1s says; I'VE have
b-an unable 20 obtain the particulars Ia full,
sw-ng to the fact 81 not having 8 regular cor
respondent at this point, cut understand that
little dispute arOs9 between Dir. Julius Flckren
aud a negro when the Marshal Mr.. Frank
Wilcox. appeared and demanded quiet Mr..
Pickreu O6eyed the order OF ths Msrsha II, and
went about his business Not so, however,
with the negro. He continued TO be boisterous
Until the Marshal was forced to at
tempt his arrest. whereupon Lowry
took stock in the affair and at
tempted the pFis0aars release. In
ste squire over the prisoner, Lowry got the
-iarsAal down, and vas giving him :. hail Co
ium1ia when the report of a pistol was heard,
ali Lowry said he was shot. We understand
that the COrOner's jury returned q verdict that
Tie deceased came TO his death by pistol shot
nre1 from the hand of Mr Julius Fickren but
that everybody considers the deed per
tectly justihabIe We learn that the de-
ceased was near relative OF Berry Lowry.
who committed such lawless depredations in
North Car llina few years ago, ami that a
'Ieat many, or all of the surviving members
e llS fGmiiy are scattered along our line of
ROAD. 0roagEs OCT Esre BY the turpentine man
utas,gIeTs
Inc augusta Chronicle aud CO1lstitUtioIldiIst,
OF saturday, relates the following novel pro-
tselings which were accompanied with an at
Tempt at suicide Yesterday afternoon, just
TS1afe the Superior Court adjourned. James
n bug, COOTed, who was convicted Friday Of
sel1cton, Signified his readiness to marry the
PROSECUTOR, George Lewis, and to give bond
~ eLUR, required by the court, for the sup
pOfl OF the said Georgia and her child. The
proposition was acceD ed the girl sent for and
Ile marriage was performed in open court by
vtqss snead. Just alter the ceremony girl.
ta.llng herself Sarah Bugg, who had watched
luz .5 Uial OF Bugg with great interest and