Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17

.-.z+tng statistics OF the Business
n,ne on Three Great Rivers-The
,..-,.st Time on Record on a FIOridian
p,iIroad-Marriage Between Cen
marian and an OetOgenarian.
GEORGIA.
o.f-man's melon shipments reach nearly
.IH car loads.
nv. Iohn McJunkin, Of Toccoa, has lost his
house hy fire.
tsInesviIe started broom factory in fun
blast last week.
East Dougherty is in need Of rain and crops
..r. suffering In consequence.
dr. WUkiuson-s home at Quitman was laid
.. ashes Thursday morning.
pra.k- couutv's taxable property shows an
.,'.rease over last wear exceeding $4,000.
-e,1uaI Powell died AT his home near the
p.ra SPRINGS in Brooks county. ON Monday
Ia-t.
rri-claimed that Gilmer county has fewer
negro inhabitants than any county in the
state.
truck farmer just outside of the corporate
limits of Hartwell has been selling cucumbers
ai Use. peck.
4 house in Cumming has the. same roof of
shingles on that was put on it forty-eight
years ago, and it is good roof yet.
The Columbus bar has adopted suitable
resolutions on the death Of Charles Coleman.
which occurred at Orlando, Fla, in January
It-t-
The Gainesville Eagle predicts that in
twenty years there viii be no such thing as a
living chestnut tree. They are dying out
rapidly.
issued a license to Abram Livingston, cOlored.
aged 100 years, and Maggett Jones, aged So
wears.
Archie Goss, young man living a fe,y miles
from Preston, was thrown by mule last sun
Iay week and had thigh broken. 10 was set
ur local physicians, but modification set I'M
from the foot up To the knee. and Ir. GOss
suffered very much. ON Wednesday OF last
week De sent for DR.. j. b. IIinkle. Of Ameri-
,u-. who amputated the leg below the knee
Ills chances of recovering are not considered
hopeful.
Thirty davs from date q bill viii be intro
iuccd n the Legislature. entitled IAN act TO
incorporate the ThOmasyille and Northeastern
Railroad Company, and grant certain powers
aud privileges thereto" The object Of the
company in asking the above of the Legisla-
urc Is 90 run a railroad through the counties
Ui Thomas, COlquitt, Worth, Berricn, Irwin.
Montgomery. Wilcox. Ielfair. Dodge. LaU-
rrus Emanuel and Burke.
Tie HartWell Sun SAYS: "A Young imp0s-
tor spent "a night with Mr. jenkins. near
huoN's bridge, last week, and succeeded in
passing a counterfeit gold coin of on the old
Gentleman, for which he received his nights
lodging and nine dollars and fifty cents in
-reenbacks and silver. lie inquiries Of places
contrary TO the way lie goes. but Is supposed
t0 DE making down the savannah river. lie
appears to ne II OF ~ ears oi age.
The business done by the steamboats, on the
ChattahOOchee, Apalachicola and Flint rivers
Tor the past year ending june 30th. lSS3
amounts 10 Sl0.563.f34 The year previous ii
was Sll.460,0>4- The discrepancy represents a
falling of in the value -0t merchandise and
not a decrease in the business on the rivers.
The receipts Of cotton from the river to Column
bus are already 5,566 i'm excess of the same
date last year. and 5.:92 in excess of what they
were during the entire year. The first steam
boat landed i'm Columbus fiftv-fVc wears ago
This was In ISIS, one year after the village
had been established as a trading town. The
boats which have piled the rivers since
50. worm out. SO; blown up. @: burned. II;
lost In gale, =; left the river. 3i: now run
uingOu the river. 3.