Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-16

clinging on to the wagon body. Mr.. Irwin i'm
mesiately cut the mule loose from the wagon
and saved him. The wagon and guano are
still IN the river.
The Greensboro Home Journal relates tho
following: IS. \. TOrbert. OF this city. does
something IN poultry way. About ten davs
ago one l, ol ms brood hens came of her nest
win eleven young chickens. Several days
afterwards another hen made her appearance
IN the poultry yard with nine chickens Ry
s2lhe means the hrst hen was killed, and the
SleNeh Young chickens were mOtherless. Hen
No. seemed 10 appreciate their loneIiness
and- OF her own accord, took them under her
protecting wing, and now clucks, struts
timidly following her.
The Greensboro HOiae JourRdt has the fol-
lowing; - oung Charley Willment, the polite
anu gentlemanly news agent of the fast ex-
press Of the Georgia Railroad, has a relic of
The late war in the shape of check IL isa
draft at three days sight, dated Columbia, 5.
- January .. ISIS, drawn by Henry Hiscock,
captain Co. G., Missouri Cavalry, on Frank
sherman, Chicago, Illinois, in favor of J. G.
Elbless, for 500 IN gold. On the back of the
ufalt Il indorsed EOte TO Mr.. sherman,
stating That 1t was given in return for money
advanced Tor HiscOcks personal comfort
while prisoner of war at Columbia, 5. c.,
and requesting that Mr.. Sherman see to its
Immediate payment The draft has never
Dccn presented or paid. and. If not debarred
by the statute Of limitation, is worth to-day,
$780,
\ New York dispatch'says: "Ex-Secretary
81 the Treasury Window has appeared here as
the promoter Of the TopOlobampO Railroad.
The charter Of that company gives monopoly
10 the road between Mazatlin and Alamo the
southwestern terminus of the AtchsoD.
Topeka and Santa Re Railroad. The object
OF the road Is the development of the mineral
resources and rich agricultural regions of
western Mexico. 1t viii also make connection
al Columbus, Mississippi, with the Georgia
Pacific, which will thus justify its name
lherc arc a number of public men interested
IN The development of the scheme. Boston
aud New York capitalists have signifed a
willingness 90 take a large amount of the
stock. General John Il. Gordon is said TO be
one Of the principal nfen engaged in actively
working mp The movement. EX-AIayor
Prince, Of Boston, Secretary of the Democratic
National Committee. and senator Joe Brown
oi Georgia, arc also in the scheme
The Americas Recorder has the following
account of fishing frOlic: "Early Yesterday
morning some of the busy farmers of Murray's
1rOss Roads, having heard that Mr.. Lawrence
HIl had drawn the water from his pond pre-
paratOry to repairing the mill. were gathered
there Tor tic purpose of catching fish. The
pOnd was not low enough when We arrived To
commence fishing, but by half past ten o'clock
the work had begun. We had one seine only,
However, all EXCEPT enough to run the seine
began 10 Kill, catch and pick up as best they
could, and thus the work went on.
occasionally Il shout of joy would be heard
by the epergetic fishermen. as they chased
large trout, or when some one would fall
into the mud and water. About O'Clock
all hands were tired down. The immense
pie OF fish were divided into eighteen shares
Mr.. Laurence Hill weighed four shares,
which weighed scyenty-five pounds, cOnse-
quently the eighteen shares contained 3371$
pounds Of fish. There were four or five others
who hshed separate that caught large strings
OF fine ones. To say the least of it. there were
not less than 400 pounds caught. They con-
sisted of trout perch, catfish and suckers.
Among the trout were some very fine ones. We
suppose some of the best ones would have
weighed five pounds"
In Fulton county there are thirty seven
schools for white pupils and eleven for col
Ored ones: 2,Sll scholars attended. at a cost of
one dollar hfty-nine cents and nine mills per
pupil for three months, and fifty-three cents
and three mills per month per pupil. The
COuntN's chain gang expenses for the year
were $4,000. The running expense proper,
however. was only about $4,000. The gang
did $4,000 worth of work in Atlanta
alone, however. and is self
sustaining. The average number of convicts
has been 81 and the average running expenses
SSS2 II per month. the average expenses per
head per month Is SIS Az, the average eX-
penses per head per day is 81 4 cents, and the
average cost of feeding the cOnvicts per day
has been l3l cents. The expenses of the
almShOusc have been S5,l74 81, which includes
g. 600 which was paid for a lot containing fifty
acres of land. near OglethOrpe ParS, where IL
Is proposed 10 locate the almshOuse and erect
new and more comfortable quarters. Two
cases of smallpox were hlndered from
spreading at an expense of $500. The indebt-
edncss of the county consists of $4,000 of
court house bonds bearing per cent. in
teTcst. $4,000 of which fall due November !,
1883. $4,000 November l. 1881, and $4,000 No
premium. OF the county tax for the fiscal
year 1882, there has already been collected
the sum of S91.S07 Is. There is still outsUand-
ing, which Will he collected, about $4,000.