Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-06

According to the Tax Receivers digest for
1881, the taxable property Of Cobb county
fOOts up ss.S1 ,541, an increase over last year
OF ss42, ,se6.
An exchange says there will be abundance
OF provisions next winter. only it vii take
lots Of money 10 buy a supply for poor fami-
ly II that is true, would it not be a good
idea for every family to buy in nor. TO save
everything possible, and to plant abundance
OF vegetables in the winter gardenss A good
garden viii help out amazingly.
Thes Star Of Bethlehem" still Eliminates
the Fastern horizon after midnight. It is a
rare and brilliant visitor this generation will
behold no more
The Eastman Times tells this story: "a seven
year-Old colored girl last week. with child in
her arms, undertook, as she had often done be-
fore, to walk a u arrow piece Of lumber across
the opening OF an old well. lost her balance and
fell in with the baby. 1t was dry and not very
deep. only fifteen or twenty feet. Finding that
she could not make herself heard by scream
ing, she suecF eded in climbing out, left the
baby in the well and proceeded to neighbor's
house. where her mother was, and gave the
alarm Wild excitement followed and a rush
for the well The baby was speedily lifted out
QunAEE anu not lAutAA sEAIEu.
There is a movement among the farmers In
Houston county to fix the maximum price for
picking cotton at forty cents Per hundred
Walker County Messenger: John Harmon
and ALI. HOlsenback, from the Pocket, were
committed 10 Jail TUESDAY. They we're arrest
ed by Sheriff MCClatchey under warrants
issued f. bruary Term, 1880. The charge is
larceny from the house"
The Cuthbert Appeal says: Mrs TAYLOR lost
her qriu-housa nv firts last week Is thOurrhf
a match was in the cotton. which was ignIted
as it passed through the gin. Mrs. Taylor had
Just bought fine gin and had her press put
IN thorough repair. all OF which we're con-
sumed, together with about three bales of
cotton"
The Reidsville Enterprise says: We under
stand that somebody waylaid and shot Mr..
has. ID. Loud on the streets OF Mt Vernon
Monday night We learn that several shots
were fired, but only one took effect. The ball
struck him in the breast. but fortunately took
such a course as to infiict only a flesh wound.
We have been unable to get particulars, but
learn there was considerable excitement in
Mt. Vernon over the affair yesterday"
Dalton Citizen: We will have lean pork
the coming year. Owing to the failure Of the
the winter. and they viii be killed early in the
fall before they are fattened."
Dalton Citizen: "a ca'f was scooped up by
the fast mail OF the W. & a Railroad the other
evening and brought into town on the pilot Of
the engine. IL required six men to extricate
the animal from its position. so tightly was IL
wedged in the machinery When released it
walked OF as II nothing unusual had oc-
Cured
Marietta Journal: Harriet Nesbit, a cOlored
girl, assaulted two Of Mrs. kent's children on
sidewalk, last Thursday, and beat the blood
out OF them with stick. She jerked one Of
the children Of OF a gate post to the ground,
and has probably Injured h 5 spine. There
was no just IrOvocation for the malicious as
s4ult"
Albany NetCs: IAN extra train came to
Albany on the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway yesterday after cotton The staple
has been accommodating at this point so rapidly
during the past week that the regular trains
were unable to take it on, hence the extra"
Albany Net1s: The passenger train on the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, due
here at S:45 a. m, did not arrive until 2'30 p.
m. yesterday, OWING to run of near Ousley
station No serious damage was done by the
accident"
North Georgia Times: I'VE learn that the
authorities OF the East Tennessee Virginia and
Georgia Railroad contemplate reducing the
passenger fare on their entire lines from Bris-
tOl TO Meridian, Miss. to the uniform rate Of
three cents per mile. The change will prOba-
bly, 20 into effect next month"
The Chattanooga Times OF Tuesday reports
the death Of Dr. Stimmel, a German ply Sician,
at Chickamauga a small village on the Western
and Atlantic Railroad Stimmell was found
lying in his room on Sunday morning in an un-
conscious state. An examination revealed the
fact that he was dying from dose Of strych-
nine. doubtless administered by himself. He
was buried at Chickamauga Monday.