Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-03


shaped Like skun-A BusheI of
Dead Rats-An Important suit Insti-
tuted by the Pensacola Railroad Com
Pany.
GEoe "a.
sparta wants a fire company.
Alapaha wants a turpenrine stin.
swine are fine i'm Franklin county.
Wildcats are proving an0ut GOloid-
Americas artesiau well Is down rs feet.
There were no deaths in Macon last week.
II raiued in Waynesb0re fifteen days during
June.
Hog cholera stin raging in Laurens
county.
Thomaston's new school building is highly
spoken Of.
Waynesboro c0ols on with $4,000 tons of ice
per month.
Banesvnle has "a guinea egg shaped like "a
human skull.
The Twenty third Georgia Regiment meets
at Canton to-day
An exhibition Of colts is in progress at
w asAlnEton to-uaF-
The la.uer-oi Hancock are urged To- organ
ne an agricultural club.
The smallpox Of lasJ April and May cost
sumter county about $500
Both the Baptist Church and the jail at
Canton are nearing completion
The smallpox I'm Grangervllle some weeks
ago cost Macon county SI.21b 46.
scriyen comty's camp meeting viii be held
az simpsons Chapel september 3.
Rome claims that her population has in
creased - per cent. IN four years.
Upson county Jail is unoccupied at this ume
and it is only two weeks tu court.
The Cuthbert Light Infantry are Co he bene-
fited 10y fair, which VIII continue open All
this week.
Jones, the wife murderer. who WAS recently
executed made 30 hales OF cotton ln lSSo with
q blind horse.
"Fate" Dorsey. cOl0rcd. d. reported muir
dered I'm McDuiie county. bat the rumOr has
not been verified.
Lemuel Parker. am old citizen Of >yiyania.
ls dead. Mrs. Elias Mcclellan, ot the same
county. Is also dead
At GreshamviIle one of Major Gresham's
Berkshire hogs Eilled "a mule by stabbing him
with one Of his tu-ks-
Two gentlemen iu Lexington have formed a
parInershipan viii build Sl.jOO brick build
ing on the old hotel corner
Rev. j. Il. Morton. Ot sparta. has rare
collection 0f Old coins. some Of which are said
To De- almost as old as she hills
One thousand three hundred glasses Of
lemonade We're sold by one man ON one day
at the JonesbOrO commencement.
sparta believes that q street car line run
ming from the depot 90 Court House street
would prove "a profitable Investment.
Lam Robinson, Of Burke county. reports
that q short time since he killed $50 rats In
Dis barn, and that they measured level
bushel
At Texas Valley. Floyd county. a mule
kicked q small colored lad in the stomach as
he was falling of hls back. and caused the
boys death.
Kate Jones. "A colored girl. living near Lees
burg. was kilied by falling tree few days
ago. An infant which She was carrying
escaped injury.
The Cuthbert cotton factory is % be inn
proved bv the addition Of new machinery.
said tO Doe I'M great demand IN the North.
Near Waynesb0r0 q snake stung mule on
the nose and tine quadruped died from the
effects. leaving his owner, William Hay yman,
% poor but industrious citizen. without ans
animal go DO his plOwlng.
The malaria epidemic 40 the Uplands Hotel,
at Eastman. is attributed tO bad drainage.
and not To drawing the water on the marsh
land near by. The hotel Is to Doe Oyerhauled
by an experienced plumber.
Al Wayuesbora. "a week ago last Saturday
there was "a reunion of the family of Hon. NJ
j. CarsWeu, of HepHzhah, at which there
were present nineteen children and grand
children. and with MT. and Mrs. Carswell,
making tWentY-One m all.
Upson county has thirty-seven free schools,
twenty -four white and thirteen colOred, and
teachers are all graded and paid according
TO grades. There are hrSt grade white
teachers. l3 second grade and third grade;
second grade c0l0rcd teachers. 6 third and ;
fourth grade
The residence OI Captain klnE~utfN. AT
OuI .-as struck by llghtningO on Saturday
last. yuu chimney was knocked partially
down. q portion of the roof was torn OF and
several window blinds were badly damaged.
The family were all in the house, but none of
them felt the shock.
William Potts. Of jefferson. Jackson county.
has closed out the trade Tor his farm TO Mr.
Galley. of Banks county. The price lsSs.5uO for
210-a little over S35per acre. The farm Is a part
of the Gen. Burns tract. and lies az the mouth Of
Parks creek, which emptles into the North
OcOuet river just below Burns mills
Dennis Williams. negro desperate, who
shot Alderman Roberts some time since. i'm
whom a reward had been offered by the Gov
ernor. was captured by sheriff Mcneil and
Mitchell BriCc. at sOulOustee. Florida. on
Wednesday last, and Is now in jail at Quit
man
A >vlvauia cOl0red woman who pushed
white lady OF the sidewalk has been sem
fenced 90 pay "a fine of twenty-five dollars,
serve ten days in jail, and placed under a bond
Of three hundred dollars 10 answer TO charge
of -.,4. .ta1 trttery at the next term Of the
superior Court. The cOlOrcd women OF the
Town are -aid 90 nave become very insulting
and --Tessiye of late
The Augusta Ne3rs SAYS: "A writer in the
last issue Of the W ashingtou gazette, in very
well written article. attempts To show the ad
vantages Of making the Augusta and Elber-
ION Railroad "a narrow gauge. The writer J.
wasting his time and talents i'm this matter.
The Augusta and ElbertOn Road is destined
FOR trunk line between the West and south
east. and no narrow gauge road VIII suffice.
The people who have the enterprise I'm hand
are determined to make 10 q broad gauge road.
and they viii succeed. Money put IN an en-
terprise OF this sort IS not done merely to pass
away time \ narrow gauge road would be
Iuoucy thrown away. and TINS the stOckh0l-
sers do not propose to do