Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Tragic Details of the wright-Ham Trage-
dv-Cobb County Statistics-A Texan
cattle Kings Early Days in Georgia
-DarIen's Lumber Shipments-Re-
ward for a Florida Murderer.
GEORGIA.
tonvers wants "a cotton factory.
lanes scott. OF Newton county. died Friday.
Mrs. Homer Gail. of sylvania, is dead aged
years
The morphine trade Of Amerlcus is said to
Le very large.
James b. Edwards, sparta's oldest inhab-
liant. ls dead.
Trson county has S2,I52 IS in the hands Of
f-r Treasurer
Peaches are selling at forty cents per peck
.r Brunswick.
DooIy cattle are being bought up for the
Texas market.
The horticultural Convention meets at
Earuesvile Wednesday.
A spartan band have resolved themselves
into s. military company.
The new brick block Of the Kaiser Brothers
Is going up at brunswick.
OF eight children born in Macon last We'd
uesjay night SIX were girls.
Floyd county has more than twenty inmates
lu the state Lunatio Asylum.
Henry j. Morris died at his home in COlum-
bus early saturday morning.
Horse and mule thieves continue their dep
relations in Cherokee county.
Mrs. Amelia Tidd, Of TazeweI. sumter
county, is dead, at the age Of 20.
po0ly county viii attend a camp meeting
near Vienna towards the end of August.
ETWO Mormon emissaries are irving to make
converts in the uppear part Of Clayton county.
y. B. ThomassOn. one of the oldest and most
respected residents of Harris county. Is dead.
a Darien Captain is said to have a horse
which he wishes To back against any in the
state.
col Dunlap, Of Gainesville. is complaeent
over the possession Of gold mine of untold
value.
The taxable property of Pickens county
shows an increase OF $4,000 over last years
returns.
The Telfair Sunday school building will cost
over $4,000 and viii probably be the finest IN
the south.
Captain W. II. Morgan reports eaterpillars
on the plantations bordering the Flint, ON the
D00ly side.
The Clarke Light Infantry, of Augusta.
propose TO have an excursion To Charleston
ON August 4.
Henry c. HoOten, who recently graduated
20 Mercer. died at his home in LaGrange a
day OF two ago.
a cotton seed oil mill. il is said. will be built
in Greensboro this fail. II viii be backed by
a strong company.
The Athens Compress Company compressed
A,10O bales Of cotton last season. of which 33, o.
900 were exported.
The taxable property Of FORSYTH county for
the year lso3 Is Sl,502,JOJ 50, an increase of
S67, ,Z25 So over the year lSS2
The increase in valuation Of property Of
Randolph county. over the returns of last
year, amounts TO over Sl7l,OO0.
In Watkinsville an unknown enemy entered
Henry Jennings watermelon patch and mutt
lated every melon on the vines.
a progressive Dooly county farmer has sold
this year l.j0O pounds of hams and lard. and
has for sale 500 bushels of corn.
The Calhoun Presbyterians have raised
sufficient money To build their new church.
but have not yet selected the site.
Lewis King has been taken from Macon to
Griffin. to answer for a forgery alleged TO
have been committed four years ago.
John Speight, of DOOly, captured an alliga-
SOr four and a half feet long last week. on
dry land, some distance from water.
subscriptions to the amount Of over three
hundred dollars have been secured for the
enlargement of the Wlntervile Academy.
In Tr0up county a colOred man has been
sentenced 10 pay S35 or serve siN months on
fhe chain-gang for cruelty beating an on.
George Thomas, negro laborer on the
farm of Mr. Champion. near Greensboro. shot
and killed Eliza Moore Thursday afternoon.
The Tax Receiver of Irwin county closed
his books the other day, and upon investiga-
tiOn found that there was but one defaulter.
The original contractor having failed to
come 10 time, MOnteZuma is again casting
Miss Anna Parrot, telegraph operator at
Calhoun. allowed her Office m LaGrauEe 10 be
cut out rather than work until the strike Is
settled.
of Nlnn vs.. sykes, for slander, was finished
Tuesday with verdict OF four hundred dol
lars against sykes.
a man named Livingston, from Florida.
attempted TO perpetrate some real estate
swindIes in Brunswick last week, but was
detected and Jailed.
The work of surveying the route for the
Sylvania and Rocky Ford Railroad is being
pushed vigorously. and Will be completed IN
about three weeks time.
A large bull belonging TO Hon. ". IL. Dayi-
son.. Of the seventeenth district. got into
james r. Ross barnyard last sunday and
g0red a fine mule to death.
Macon cOntemplates opening her Academy
oI Music with a SIN days musical festival. \
hopeful estimate places the receipts at Sl2.-
a55 50 and the expenses at $, 100.
j. ID. ParrOtt. Superintendent of the Bush
Brothers farm, in Pulaski county, had a corn
shuckng the other night. and shucked out
one thousand bushels Of old corn.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, her baby, "a colored woman
and two children were thrown from a wagon
by runaway horse IN Macon Thursday, but
All escaped without serious injury.
Miss Knowles a girl fifteen years old, was
found drowned IN stream near BOwden,
Carroll county, with stones tied 10 her per-
son. She had been dead several days.
Dr. Lansing Burrows. of Lexington Nv.
has been called To the pastOrate Of the FIRST
Baptist Church Of Augusta, not Columbus a
previously reported. The salary is $1,000.
An OeOuee disciple Of Isaac Walton has dis
covered "a bait worm which no fish can resist.
and claims To be making more money than
the most enterprlslng farmer IN the county.
Surveyors are busy locating the route be-
tween the Georgia and Northeastern Rail
roads in Athens. The connecting link be-
tween the two roads VIII soon be completed.
The cOlored vote turned the scale in favor Of
fences at the Newton county election Thurs
Gay by a majority of 800. An appeal Is 10 be
taken 10 the Legislature against the cOlOred
ballot.
Macon viii offer TattnaH square To the
State as a site for the proposed school of tech
nOlOgy. II the school Is not located ON the
site, the property viii revert 10 the present
owners.
O.. 4. Davis Il Co.. firm weli-knOwn in
Greensboro and all the surrounding country,
have retired from business, and viii be sue
ceeded by h. \. COpelan, \. ;. Seals and J..
r. Armor.
An accidental fire at Hazelhurst, ON the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road completely destroyed the turpentine
distillery Of HinsOn q. Moody on the 25th.
The loss Is estimated at $500.
John ". DarracOtt, proprietor of the Darn a
cOtt House, at CraW fordvIlle, has a walking
cane which was made from piece of wood
that came from the rOstrum on which Henry
Clay delivered his last speech.
a survey is being made from Kingsberry's
mill. Oh the TallapOOsa, 10 the Bonner gold
mime, for the purpose Of constructing works
60 convey the water TO the mines. Great
things are expected of the mine.
In sumter county, the other day. a mill
owner and his miller clinched in dispute
over a couple of dogs, and in the melee both
men tumbled into the millpOnd. When they
came out they were good friends.
At Indian Spring, at I o'clock Thursday
morning. Oliver Lyon was struck ON the head
with a rock by WHY Rogers and instantly
killed. EXtenuating circumstances resulted
m a verdict of justi1able homicide
At sparta a colored woman. the wife of Joe
Jones. living ON j. L. MedlOck's place, was
burned to death last Monday night. She
endeayOred TO fill lighted lamp with kerO-
sene OIL and lost her life in the attempt.
Four years ago there were I2j white per-
sons all tOlu, ON ~. SImOn's. and $50 negroes.
Now there are 800 white residents and SEQ col
ored. IN ten years, from 1879 to ISSg. ac-
cOr,ting 10 TINS increase, there Will be LOCO
whites upon 81. SlmOn's and $50 blacks
Mr. Hadley, trapper and fisherman. living
a short distance up on the river from Monte
yuma. catches quite number of surgeons
weighing from 80 To $50 pounds. He extracts
the oil. which is worth s. on the market 4
large sturgeon viii yield several gallons of oil
At Gordon. G.. IL. Owens and Miss SaIIie
stephens were enamOred Of each other. The
Young mans father smiled, but the parents of
the beautiful Sallie knit their browS and
frOWned. Thursday night the young mans
father drove the couple to minister's, and
they were married.
HAt GAINESVILLE a cOlOred woman named
Battle made a stew of jamestown weed TO be
applied on the rheumatic limbs of her hus-
band. In his Wife's absence the husband en-
tered the house. and, mistaking the liniment