Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-24
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
-rORCTA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE

-rORGTA. FLORIDA AMI SOI IN
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
-.a.t in wilkes County over the
- EIection-A Child SinguIarly
i,.,l.ed by a Cow at Lafayette-A
-,coIa Housewife Fatally Shot
rbrough a Window.
GEORGIA.
,.tao- c0ntemplates numbering her houses.
p-..b4- are selling for 81 a bushel at Hart
"5--, "5o-..rsr- and iucendiaries are worrying
49, around EIberton are suffering badly
Or want oi rain
nm. Question or AN artesian well IN Dalton
L. being a-itateu'
Xsdu-ta has hye RESTAURANTS ana All are
r.--s good business
,-If,.ra'- melon men are not at all dissatis-
with their experiences this season.
,--er-- col0red Baptists are to erect a new
.t-rah 0n q lot which was donated by John
,l--rav county is said to have one Of the
---Is-r and most gushing water falls in the
H., cline o. the murderer Of smith Austin,
-r. r5llrej hackman Of Columbus, has been
obtained as !el-
rtls suggested that jug Tavern's new name
H. III Bloomfield in honor Of the Presi-
lsrf6f the Athens and Western Railroad.
t~ae bin has been found against W. 7.
--f1rI. who. "a few months ago, shot and
t9rsT " A. Leseur, OF Louisiana. formerly
b.. Athens. 6a-
lt--r rumored that the East Tennessee, Nir-
ril and Georgia Railroad Will build
handsome new depot on the old selma, Rome
and Dalton site.
An act of Incorporation Of the Vigilant Mu-
anal 1--we stock Company Of Georgia. with
fasIuuarters at Dalton. has been presented in
the legislature.
rriisv afternoon. while some hands were
working the road near Lula. white man
named Glass struck "a negro over the head
,r-rE "a shovel and killed him. They had been
t-4-iug each other. Glass walked on without
being arrested
Tin. fence men iu Wilkes county have en-
u-0yei John T.. Reid, Esq, TO contest the
election lately held IN that county, and by
which fences were abolished. IL Is claimed
ttartu0 precincts were illegally thrown out,
ami chat Il number of tickets written more
fence and better ones" were not counted.
A singular accident happened 10 a child of
Mr. and Mrs. Perry TOmlinsOn, of Lafayette.
some DAYS ago. The little year-Old was pass
in- near COW that had been fed. As IL
passed the COW hooked at 1t. The point Of the
horn entered its mouth and broke through the
r0nf 0r palate. For a few days everything II
attempted 20 swallow came out at the nose.
Nature has promptly repaired the damage.
FLORIDA.
company will manufacture fertilizer
Henry NJ. PARCELS, one of the oldest resi-
dents 0l jacksonville. died ON Saturday morn
Ing.
At ID recent fish fry at Fort Broom, Herman
do county the participants represented
Twelve states Of the Union.
gentleman Of FlemingtOn raised the
largest melon this year 10 weighed seventy
i've pounds, and was more than fifteen peo-
ple could eat
uis rumored that a new schedule viii 90
sfs d. b. ~
and that Conductor Bent Will resume his old
run t1 Gainesville.
MAY Green. one of the largest melon deal
er- iu the Jacksonville city market. proposes
tauetitiou DR.. Knight 10 prohibit the sale Of
melons iu the city after the first Of August.
4 pointer dog. formerly the property OF
I0rf We-thammertOn who once shot over him
m the iuugles of Africa. has been brought
Co 50. Augustine by sporting gentleman.
4 serious. difficulty Ouccurrcd at LurdVIlle
op saturday the l4th inst. between George
~. Brcare, and a negro 10y the name Of sol.
jackson, in which the negro was shot fatally.
Gainesville has her first fire engine. 1t is
hand engine. has been used in Pensacola, and
was purchased and presented tO the city by
capt. L. G.. Dennis The Eureka Fire Com
HauT man it.
some iend attempted four times To fire the
premises of Robt. Cameron on trystal Lake.
The fourth time Mr.. Cameron was absent
from home. but his wife in attempting TO eX-
tin-uish the flames was so severely burned that
after eleven days Ot eNcruclatlng pain she eN-
pred
I'm looking over the records in the Gaines
vile Land Office some time ago gentleman
ofNlicanopy discovered numerous grants from
tle spanish Government to his grandmother.
Mr.. Mary Fontaine. One tract contains $50
acres i've miles from st. Augustine. and 200
of these acres are covered with wild orange
trees
Pat. Hogan. q cOlOred warehousemau. EN-
VIoved by & . Il. Tayler. agent of the Fernan-
4 tod
stealing money saturday morning out of the
company office at Jacksonville and sentenced
90 imprisonment IN the county Jail for sixty
days-
10 Is announced that next autumn Florida
viii celebrate the introduction Of Presbyte-
rianism I'm that state. West Florida, near
Lake de Funlak. was cOlOnlzed many years
ago ll hand Of noble scotch Presbyterians.
and to-day their descendants class as the best
people iu that state.
There was disposed OF i'm the city market at
Jacksonville during the week ending Satur-
day. 80 beeves. 50 Tennessee Sheep hogs, 900
pounds sausages. 200 pounds veal. saddles
veuis0u. 800 pounds turkeys. $500 pounds
chickens, l,22j dozen eggs, Is terrapins, $500
CLAIMS. IS dozen turtle eggs, 460 muskmelOns.
5000 WatermelOns, bushels figs. ll5 pounds
grapes. I55 crates peaches, vegetables, etc
on Friday night last. as the wife Of Baptiste
MatamOras. living IN the eastern portion of
Pensacola, was undressing for bed. some un-
known person shot at her through the bed
room window, the ball striking her iu the
right hip from behind, and ranging forward,
lodged in the pelvls. some three or four inches
from the surface. a physician was called I'm.
who pronounced the wound as very danger
0us. some Of the large arteries having been
severed by the billet There Is no clue vet rs
90 who the perpetratOr Is
Gen. Narnum and Mai. Grulle are looking
Tor The most favorable route by which thew
can run their railroad into NeWnansVille.
The iron has been laid within three miles of
che end Of the grading. and the laying is still
going ON. The road will he located to New
uausyilIe I'm about week, and the grading
completed In about month. This enterprise
Will develop the most beautiful part of
Alachua county. Gen. Narnum is hunting
hands TO cut ties for the road. He wants
about twenty-five thousand ties cut. and
about two hundred hands. IL Is expected
that the road viii be completed to NeWuans-
vile by the last of August.
The poor family mentioned in the Gaines
vile dee several days ago as having been
brought from Palatka and temporarily pro-
vlded for through the efforts Of Conductor
Finch, were sent to ThOmasville few davs
ago, where they have friends. The woman is
SAID tO De a granddaughter OF Gen. Joe john
-tun- ~ hle here the children. some of whom
were sick. were attended gratuitOusly by Or.
Lancaster. and the money for their journey
about 500 was obtained through the efforts
ni Mrs. j. T.. Thomas, and their car fare
greatly reduced beyond Baldwin through the
snlness Of Mr.. Day, he passing them over
DIS road free
John ". shipp, of Nashville, Tennessee,
son OF lhe Kew. Dr. SnIpp, OF anOerDlit l nj
yersitv. registered at the Edwards House, in
81. Augustine on Monday Of last week. and
ou going to his room found $4,000 in bills in
iorNet1ook under a pillow on his bed. The
property was handed over to the hotel pro-
yIletor, and % ultimately transpired that the
tu uc2 banker and stOckhOlder in the Jackson
Vile. II. Augustine and Halifax Railroad. ".
Jerome Green, had occupied that room the
night previous. and the money was his prop
erty. Mr. Green had left the city bsfOre Mr..
>hlrp made Che find. and was therefore una
Die 90 personally thank the finder.
The Mariana Times says: ''The prObabiIi-
ties of d railroad from some point on the PEN
sac0la and Atlantic Road To St Andrews
Bay are becoming more and more promising.
some weeks ago much talk was made about
the Montgomery Southern Road being eN-
tended 10 st Andrews, but now IL seems that
gentlemen from Michigan. representing a
wealthy corporation. have been prospecting
IN Florida for some days. and they saw if the
Pensacola ard Atlantic Road will make n
liberal donation Of It's lands toward construct
lng the road, that they will Immediately
take hold of the road and push il through If
built, IL viii be for the sake Of the timber in
lhat section
SOUTH CAROLINA
The Grand Lodge of cOlOred Odd Fellows of
south Carolina meets in Greenville August s.
The receipts of csttOn at Charleston To
suly - aggregate j6S,5l6 bales, against 492,7i3
GALES last year.