Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-11

,rrOes Manned by a Dynamite Explosion
Augustus Military COmPanies-One
~ GOV. BOyntOn's Brothers Dead
SmalI-Pox Securing jacksonville.
GEORGIA.
lanes stone has taken the contract 70 build
.reyr bridge over seventeen mile creek. near
pearson, for S1,265.
The first sheriff sale in Coffee county for
over 4 year has just been advertised.
Barnesville is being religiOusly revived.
The Athens grain elevator and grist mills
are nearing completion.
Hundreds of acres have been set out in fruit
trees around Athens this season.
Parties are now at work inspecting the gold
mines in Madison county.
Judge BOwerssays he intends TO extend the
GAINESVILLE Railroad to Athens.
The horses in and around Athens are suf-
feriug with typhoid pneumonia, but we have
heard OF no deaths as yet.
The Rev. John Calvin johnson, of Athens.
has married SO persons in the last 25 years,
and he has outIived sixty of the number.
The Columbus Guards prize drill, which was
fixed for the 18th, has been postponed until
some time after the 26th.
There are S592 Is in Wayne eounty's Trea-
urv. and S4l2 81 in the School Commissioners
possession. The establishment of a chain
gang in the county is recommended, as is also
an increase from 81 to 81 80 per day in the
compensation Of jurors.
Tight Squeeze" is to wriggle from under
that sobriquet and hatch into a full-tiedged
Incorporated town named North Atlanta.
The completed digest OF the city of Augusta
foots up 1858 900, not including the recently
added territory, which is not taxable for five
wears.
Quitman Is pOndering over the boring of an
artesian well.
Purnen Truitt, Of Washington county,
whose wagon line from his native county to
Philadelphia has lately been made the sub
ieet of mention in this column, died a week
ago Monday. lie is mentioned as probably
the oldest man in the county,
An aged negro fell down ten foot em-
bankment near Atlanta sunday night, and
broke his neck.
Augustus Clinch Rifles. which numbers
sixtv-one active members, had its annual
election Of officers Wednesday night. Joseph
5. Bean. Jr.. was elected Captain, and 1. Clar-
ence Levy First, Tom :. Jones Second, and W.
". Fry Third Lieutenants.
Yancv BOyntOn, aged 6S, one of Governor
BovntOn's nine brothers, died at his home
near Amis mill. in Carroll county. Saturday,
and was buried at Antioch Church on sun
dav. He had been sick about two weeks.
Mr.. Grisham. Of Vaucluse, :. c., has re-
Gently recovered his l3-year- daughter
from the clutches of a gigantic negro with
whom she elOped TO Augusta. The negro.
named Neese, is p years old and repugnant
in expression. He threatens 10 recapture the
child
Thomasville is to have cotton factory.
jim Gartrell. a Wilkes county negro, burned
William BoOker's barn and it, contents be-
cause the latter alienated his wife.
TObie Clark, the oldest negro in Stewart
county. died at Florence on Thursday. lie
was known to be ia years old. and many
thought him to be even older.
Two negroes arrested in Columbus for rob
bling trunk on the steamer ThrOnateeska
were released Friday. rs 1t was thought the
evidence was not sufficient to convict them.
Warren Price, Of Sandersville, who was
tried last week for killing ROmanus Perry,
his sOu-In-laW, was found guilty of murder.
Motion being made for a new trial. sentence
was not pronounced. On yesterday he was
brought back and placed IN the Sandersyi!le
jail.
D. r. Walker, a notorious character. who
murdered :. ;. Hamburger on sand Mountain
last October. has been sentenced 10 hang on
Friday, the 4th OF Nav. at Trenton. Lee
TreOce, who was with him at the time of the
killing, has been sentenced to ten years inn
prisOnment.
Thirteen wagons. all in a drove, belonging
20 Major Burton Bellamy, most Of them six
mule wagons, were in Quitman Saturday,
loaded with five hundred bushels OF corn for
sale. The cavalcade of wagons extended fully
q third of a mile \. J. ROuntree \ son
bought the corn at fifty cents.
The Richmond Hussars. destined to he one
Of the crack companies OF Augusta, and, in
deed Of the state, held a spirited meeting
Monday night. In speaking Of the meeting
81. A
great deal of enthusiasm was manifested
bv an present and II Is now a certainty that
Augusta will have at least one live cavalry
COMPANY. Invitations 10 the SchuetZentests
az Aiken and Augusta were accepted. The
~chuetZenfest at Aiken viii take place on the
18th and 2Oth Of April, and the HusSars Will
attend in fun uniform with large company.
The company will also parade on Memorial
dav. At the meeting last night quite a num-
her Of new members were elected, and II was
decided to reOrganize the company and elect
new officers on the night of the second of
June. \ committee composed OF Captain
Clark. Lieutenant Fleming and Secretary
Asher was appointed for the purpose of select
ing and purchasing the uniforms OF the COM
pany 4 fun dress inspection and drill will
lake place next Monday night, and sabre drills
will be held on Monday nights thereafter.
Steve Williams, an eN-cOnvict, and two other
darkeys at Old Town, jefferson county, con-
cluded they would try to eaten some fish;
They had been fishing IN a certain hole, and
having had good luck, they thought they
would try a new cut on the fish with dyna-
mite. steve took the dynamite in his hand
and commenced To light the fuse with
match. but the wind blew out, as he thought.
the first match, and he tried a second match
on il. The other two darkeys came to his as
sistance with their hats to ward of the wind.
But while they were working with the second
match the first took effect. and the cartridge
Of dynamite burst into a. thousand pieces.
steve's left hand, in which he held the car
fridge. was entirely torn of, and his right
ma u-az adj 1gCnrafpd q
men received a severe flesh wound on one
arm. The third man was hurt on one hand,
the course Of the material passing just over
the back OF his hand. DIR. j. VI. Kelly ampu-
tated the left arm of Williams between she
wrist and elbow. and cut two fingers of the
right hand. The wounds OF the other men
were dressed. The report of the explosion
was heard six or seven miles.