Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-15


4 small house occupied by Buswell Igor,
colored, in CedartOwn, was consumed by fire
recently. The fre attracted q large crowd of
citizens. who reached the scene just in time to
save three negro ch1dren, who had been locked
up by their parents, the latter having gone to
church.
The farmers Of Hart county are busy har-
vesting their fodder, which is represented as be
Ing in splendid condition.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Muscogee co -nty. at meeting held in Colum-
bus on Saturday. determined that no nJminat
ing conventions be called, because, in the view
Of the committee, there seems to be no well
founded necessity At present for nomination
OF candidates for the General Assembly and
county officers for the county OF Muscogee
The new steamer ThrOnate sku for the Peo-
pies Line on the ChattahoOchee river was
launched on Saturday last at Columbus. She is
being built by the COlumbu Iron Works, and
will be elegantly equipped in all her appoint
ments.
Judge Crisp is likely to be the nominee for
Congress from the Third Congressional dis
trict. The delegates to the nominating conven-
ton now stand 2 for Crisp and u for Cook.
The house Of Mr.. Prol Perry, of Marion eoun-
o.. was destroyed by fire one day last week
while that gentleman and his wife were off
from home.
Albert and William Drane, while fishing in a
stream that flows through their fathers plan
tatiou in Marion county, came upon a huge
alligator trying TO carry on a large SOW. His
rgatorship was killed and measured nine feet
eight inches in length.
Miss Arie Hyde, Of Dawson county, near the
line Of Lumpkin, was bitten by a ratUlesnake
one day last week, from the effects of which
she died in about four hours.
The prohibition law prevails in forty-two
counties in the State of Georgia.
Watermelons are rOtting by thousands in the
patches round about Athens
The Albany NeICs and Advertiser has had
trouble with its new Elephant press. Mat
ter was prepared and the forms put on about
midnight Saturday. but the press refused to
work, and the paper mad t. be finally printed
on a half sheet on the job press.
Major Morgan, Of Rome, Ca, has been ad-
Judged insane by commission de IuRGticO in
guirendO an6 Mr.. Joe Mckee, his son-in-law,
has been appointed his guardian.
Eighteen prisoners are confined in Bibb coun.
ty iail-two charged with murder. two for
arson, one for violating the revenue liquor
laws, eight for felonies, five for misdemeanors.
The Cherokee AdUGHee makes the bold as
sertion that the Savannah MeRN Nc News is
one OF the best conducted papers IN America"
Judge C. L. Battle settled the fence ques-
ton" for SchleY county last Monday, at his
court, by deciding that the entire election was
illegal
Harris county farmers are busy making
-
the yield promises TO be sufficiently abundant
to render the county all right on the sugar and
syrup question for the next year.
A railroad meeting in the interest Of rail
road from Quitman TO Monticello, Fla, will be
held at Hickory Head. Brooks county. on
Thursday, 18th inst.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger men
tons as an evidence OF the ability of Southern
manufactures to compete with those Of the
North, the fact that the Collins Carriage Manu-
factory, in that city, has shipped to the famous
Brown Cotton Gin Company, Of New London,
Connecticut. double dray.
There were sixteen deaths in Augusta for the
week ending Saturday. Of which seven were
whites and six cOiOred
According to the recent returns of the Tax
Receiver Of Jasper county, the entire value of
taxable property returned in the county is
S1,177, ,164 There are 1,72l polls in the county
and s2S, $40 acres Of land, worth S665. 4s9.
The contract to build the longest bridge in
Jasper county mat across Murder creek, on
the road from Monticello to Shady Dale, to be
four hundred feet in length, has been given to
Mr. E W. Baynes for fourteen hundred and
forty nine dollars.
Bliss Annie Muse one Of the most accom-
plished young ladies of Atlanta, will leave this
fan for China, where she goes as a missionary.
She goes under the care OF the North Georgia
Conference
On the sth inst, while Mr. A. Wyatt, of
Cherokee county, living near Frog Town, was
attempting 10 kindle the fire in the stove with
kerosene, the can exploded, and Mrs. Wyatt
was soon wrapped in the flames. Her intense
suffering was ended by death in about four
hours after.
Jonesboro Nesrs: THE devil will be to pay
at this Office at the end Of the week. One of
the editors Is conducting a revival at Fayette-
vile. the other has gone TO Florida. They
didn't leave any money here-nOr carry any
with them, so far as knoWn-but the devil"
must be paiQ all the same. so II you have any
spare change Just leave it at this office, and
ike modern politicians, we viii put it where
IL viii do the most good.
The Jury Commissioners have finished the
revision OF the jury lists of Jasper county,
having selected 233 jurors for the county. The
jasper County Aelcs says en- the subject: 1T
the intelligence Of the people Of Jasper county,
TO say that OF the 500 white voters 10 say nOthiDg
Of the large number Of good citizens above the
age or sixty, there are only 20 proper persons
to serve as jurors; 223 is about one out of
every four Of the white voters OF the county"
Quitman Free Press: some eleven yesrs since
Peter Wright, a c0lored GOV reared in Brooks
county. went 10 lndian river wi h Culpepper &
Creech to work on their orange grove, since
which time he has lived there. We met him
there once, and have continually heard OF his
Ha = Is lnlirUau n q visit
Peter Wright has accumulated property and
money, ana Is worth not less than $500, per
haps $1,000 His success has not msde a fool
Of MIN, and be is Is polite ana good natured as
ever"
The Quitman Free Press gives its views on
the hQuOr question as follows Our opinion
is. ana We have been asked to give 1t, that
should the people OF county desire the pas
sage Of prOhibitOry law q vote should be Ia
ken on that question alone, and when no other
issues are before them; or il might be proper
70 bring it before the Legislature IN the shape
Of a petition signed by the people We are
opposed 10 mixing this issues with any other.
IL il is ever made in Brooks, let It be anti
whisky direct and whisky straight"
Sunday afternoon VIM Akin. on Taylor's
Ridge, near the Mattox gap, six miles east OF
OF Lafayette, was met by TWO unknown negro
men, who ordered hun TO give up his mule. On
MS refusing they endeavored to drag him from
the saddle In the struggle one of them struck
al him with knife, but he lodged the blow
and IL cut the saddle. Akin drew his own
AnlIe, ClsmOunted and cut one or the men, as
he thinks badly, in the side. After this his as
salianJs beat a disOrderly retreat down the
mountain side. Akin saluted their retreat with
shower OF rocks, then mounted the mule he
1ad defended 50 wei and in safety took mis-
departure. He is a citizen Of East Armuchee.
Ine difficulty occurred about three quarters OF
an hour by sun, and mile or more from any
residence.
Coffee County Gazette: ''Since whisky has
peen abolished from Pearson real estate has
gone up 50 per cent. Mr.. r. }. Mcdonald
made sale a few weeks ago, and the pur
chaser said he had given a thousand dollars
more for the propert- than he would have
gwen had whisky been sold here. We hear OF
many that would like TO own homes at Way
CSoss Il L was not for the sale Of whisky in that
plsce. Pearson and HOmerville were once no
- Tor drunkenness and rOw0yism, but since
ccLtsAy has been thrust from the domains OF
So1ee and Clinch, they are famous for their
so0l society, good schools and general pros
tHEelly, The people or the county can send
1it L1it children IN to board and 4 o 70 school now.
nile they used 10 do all they could to keep
'-euI away. Prohibition is q blessing"
me brick work on the new building Of
Cl-4ues and johnson corner of Fourth and
{eiIA Streets, Macon, fell on Saturday morn
-. Ine Telegraph says: The brick work on
A. Ilagnl cent building had been finished,
NJ 1ohe IN admlra ble style. The stone work
~ were putting on the top coping and had
- completed one end ana the ourth street
dsy Z. = IAe building The heavy rain of yester-
r1sd u Is suppo- ed, beating upon the newly
sue wall, and the coping and the projec ion
tbe.tN = oelng rather tOp-heaVy. the wall, 20
- uAteut Of ahout forfv feat gave tuav and