Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
GEOGRAPHICALLY TOLD.
prilnus Jones' NeighbOrs Doubtful of
HIS First Bale-A CHASTITY Mystery in
Carroll COunty-SOme Strange Land
Transactions in DOOly County Cleared
Tp-KiIled by Train.

Tp-Kuled by Train.
GEORGIA.
An Eastman correspondent of the NEWS.
.--..lr date of July l3 writes as follows: .sThe
Easr Tennessee, irginia and Georgia Rail-
road IS hauling great many watermelOns
now. FOrty-iye car loads went up to-day.
.-F from ten To fifteen or twenty ear loads
rs-- over the road every May. They come
mainly from points between WaycrOss and
TFamasyile on the savannah. Florida and
Western Railway. This is new business
,gftl the East Tennessee. Virginia and GeOr-
rla Until this season they have done very
little hauling of this kind. Vow they use the
fruit and melon cars of the Cincinnati South
rru fur the most part. but II this business con-
ruue- 90 increase it is said the East Tennes-
-rr. lrglula and Georgia proposes 10 build
Its own fruit cars"
petition to the General Assembly to have
ClattahOOchee made nayigable 10 Franklin is
0n foot.
A man lives a few miles above Athens who
eats In one county, sleeps in another, smokes
when sitting upon his piazza in a third, and
bias built his barn in fourth. He lives where
four counties corner, and Is as Independent of
legal officers as 4 Wood SAWYER
The Calhoun county Courier SAYS: ~ COM
pauv of Col. PrInus Jones ueighbOrs, con-
s.sting Of MessFs. Croker Barbre and others.
visited his plantation, and after diligent in
vcstIgauOn, say that they failed 10 see any
evidence Of new cotton. and they are Of the
opinion that the cotton sold fOrncW was raised
last year
Inc uniforms lOE Ahe MNllcLuuld Lewis
Light Infantry are made OF Confederate gray.
the pants trimmed with dark blue and the
coats. which arc of the swallow tail fashion.
are trimmed with light blue braid. The OIL
GERS suits are the same. with white trim
mugs.
Miss Bullard, of MOnteZuma. who is charg-
ed with the murder Of her baby, born out Of
wedlock, attempted suicide.
The Columbus City Light Guards are going
10 drill against the Columbus Guards for "a
prize.
Columbus Is organizing a mutual loan asso-
ciat0n.
The negroes, Sim johnson. his wife and son.
who have been on trial at Chiplev for brutallv
beating a child, were bound over 10 the ~upe-
riOr Court. The bonds required of the two
men were $500 each and $40 for the woman.
The Baptist Church at Fishing Creek has
set apart Saturday and sunday, the nth and
18th Of August, TO celebrate her centennial.
The church was organized in 1888 by Sanders
Walker.
The kiln of brick recently burned at the
brick yard IN Washington contained l1O. 600.
The demand for brick Is 50 great that a kiln
Of 100000 is now being put up, and viii be
burned IN week or two.
1t cost SIj6,0OO 20 construct the eighteen
miles Of the Washington branch railroad II
was built m the early part of the hfties.
There are S63,595 whites and 6-l,O75 blacks
i'm Georgia.
\ wild cat has been killed near Dublin
The Hsrald reports cholera i'm and around
SdndcrsVlue.
On Tuesday evening of last week. as a con-
structiOn train was approaching the depot at
Greensboro, a COlOreu cmplOyc OF the road,
who lives at COnyers, fell from the train and
was instantly killed. one arm was cut oil
and ms neck almost entirely cut in two.
Terrell county voted for license the colored
vote carrying the day.
On the 10th of December lSS2. Miss T. :
NOles, Of Carroll county. was either abducted
or voluntarily elOped with W. 4. Gravett also
4 citizen of 9rrnfI la Haa l..f
Miss NOles by her friends and relatives WAS
ON the night of the 10th of December last al
Francis Gravetts, near the Alabama line.
Hhc ndu never been seen or heard Of. by anV
one known, since that time. \ week ago YES
terday, however, her body was found ON the
banks of the TallapOOsa river IN AN advanced
stage Of decomposition. The COroner'- Jury
were unable To decide whether she was muir
dered or not.
The Pitier family. of Athens. have a third
interest in the famous Lumsden mine i'm Ma
coOchee valley, and VIII contest its sale 10 the
English company. They claim that the pres
ent titles were obtained through fraud
4 Macon cOlOred boy who was riding on the
steps of an outgoing train Friday jumped on
IN front of an incoming passenger train on the
other track and was horribly mangled and
instantly killed. He was not aware of the
passenger trains approach.
Mossrs HeuIy X Jeter who are engaged in
the manufacture OF Drick as HaN kiisyIlie.
have already sold a million and two hundred
thousand. and have orders ahead for half
shipped from Macon and Atlanta Haw-
kinsville viii soon be brick city.
a few weeks ago Judge y. L. Atkinson took
trip down into DoUly county To look after a
Tot of land W nlch ms mother had given him i'm
her life time. He found that the land had
been traded several times. all in the same
handwriting, except the last. The party ON
the land mad what appeared 20 be a regular
chain Of titles. with plat and grant of the same
date OF the Judges, with a forged signature
of his mother, ali Witnessed. and dated twenty
fH.assFa
the Judge drew his papers the party claiming
gave II up.
ON account of the prevalence of measles in
ChattOOga county. the time within which uub-
Tie schools may begin the present wear has
been extended to the first Monday in Septem-
her- IN all cases IN which those Interested
deem 1t for the best interests OF the schools
not TO begin them within the time formerly
fixed by the board.
\ CatOosa preacher has given i'm 81 500 more
property this year than he did last.
negro has been lodged in jail in Catoosa
county for an indecent assault upOn two
young ladies.
At Adamsyille the other night Thos. We'll.
aW0ke 20 hnd burglar pilfering his pants
pockets When Mr., We'll essayed 10 arise the
burglar drew revolver and after covering
his victim with it cO0lly backed out of the
house and disappeared down the street
Ii is roughly estimated that railroad con-
neetIon between Augusta and Sandersville
with branch roads TO Louisville and Gibson
viii cost about S2S5,00O.
The proposed Rome and Decatur Railroad
will be almost exactly an AIRLINE about loo
miles long. About halfway between Rome
and Decatur. Alabama, its terminal pniuts il
crosses the Alabama Great Southern at Col
linsville. When the line is completed to De
catur IL IS proposed TO build an air line from
Rome TO Gainesville. connecting the Richmond
and Danville with the Alabama Great South-
ern at Collinsyille aud with the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia al Decatur.
This makes link completing a new
Atlantic and Pacific line either nv ,va,- ~
New Orleans TO the Southern Pacific. or bv
st. Louis to the Union Pacific
Macon suffers from scanty supply of ice.
Spalding superior Court convenes the first
Monday IN August.
a mousse IN Amerlcus occupied by Mrs Max
Marcus, and owned by Harold johnson 4
Co., valued at Sl.j00 and insured for 81. .O50 has
been burned. Most of the furniture vss
burned.
FLORIDA.