Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-12


The Romance of Murdered Mans
Career TweIve-year-OId Negress
Murders Two Children.
GEORGIA
Ey-C5overnOr Charles J. jenkins, although
.--fr very feeble. is no weaker than last week
and his recovery is considered more hopeful.
Miss Rosa Morris clothing caught fire in
rHa N0rth Macon Grammar School Monday
and She was quickly envelOped in
dame But for the herOism OF Miss Jennie
lane. one Of the teachers, Miss Morris would
rr1uestiOnably have perished.
Fiehtv-fOur liquor dealers had registered
with the Ordinary in Macon up to Tuesday
afternoon.
The committee from the Republican party
r,de.ermine whether or not that party will
throw out a candidate for Governor is ralIv-
ing &c Atlanta.
The following are the earnings of the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railway for
the month OF March: 1883, S32I, ,647; 1882. $246.-
I1,: increase, $75.539.
A Monroe negress, aged y years. is the muir
iercss Of two children. aged and years.
whom she had been employed TO look after
while their cOlOred mother was absent at her
work. One Of the little ones was thrown into
swel and drowned and the other was beaten
20 5death. The murderess has confessed. but
appears unnOved.
balky horse precipitated T. Guernsey and
Mr. Petit. Of Macon, INTO deep ditch Tues
d1r afternoon. and Mr.. Guernsey was badly
injured At last accounts his recovery was
looked for.
success is assured those who are reorganz-
ing the Hill City Cadets in Rome. John c.
Printup viii assume the Captaincy
The prospects are now good for a railroad to
Srlyauia. Two lines are bidding for aid from
ritizens-one from Perkins junction. on the
savannah and Augusta Road, and the other
from No. 81, ON the Central.
meeting OF the D0ugherty County sun
dav school Association was held Sunday af-
teruoon to select delegates to attend the State
sunday school Convention, which meets in
Augusta in May. Rev. Z. b. Graves, Mr.. Joe
5. Davis and Miss Annie Smith were chosen.
The Glynu county fair viii be held at Bruns-
viekou the l5.h, 10Th and 18th Of May.
The pharmaceutists' examining committee
viii meet i'm Atlanta on the 18th inst. for the
purpose Of examining applicants.
Valdosta wants a 100000 hotel.
Burglars are at work in Atlanta.
senator DuBignon, Of Baldwin, has been in
vited TO deliver the address at Sparta on the
s5,h inst, and it is said he has accepted.
Young man Of Hancock county has started
tobacco farm.
oats are beginning to head out in Southern
Gr0reia-
Albany has two new public drinking foun-
tdu-.
Albany $500 band stand has been sold for
SNs7.
The old Bachelors Roost lot was sold in
Lexington for $500.
Prohibition in Polk county has reduced
crime 30 per cent.
sumter county has a patch OF oats that
measures three feet in height.
negro near Lumpkin had the blood
brought from his face by hailstOnes.
a negro killed his brother in Augusta. who
adwhpped him about abusing his wife.
Governor BoyntOn has ascertained that it
may not be necessary for him to go on to
Washington upon the Trezevant claim of s35-
-55 &c.
A,IX-vear-Old child in Calhoun county was
.0uui walking the streets at night in Il state
OF -Umuambull7m.
Georgia now has l.2IS persons in the pen:-
'gltIlrv.
During the war NaldOsta lost her town plat.
aud the names Of the streets, with few ex-
rept1uS- were forgotten. The Town Council
recently appointed a committee to rename the
streets. which has been done satisfactorily.
Ou one acre in sugar cane the past season.
Mt. tordham. near Stephensville. made ten
barrels Of syrup and four barrels Of sugar, the
MIurL hdlut ol MhlCu Was f1au.
Tic Alabama division of the East Tennes-
see, irginia and Georgia Road has turned
over SIX engines To the Georgia division OF that
road FOR use.
Tie O0stanaula bridge on the East Tennes-
SEP. irgIula and Georgia Railroad, some siN-
teen miles above Rome. is to be rebuilt soon.
10 said that editor Burton. now of the
Cochran bIHHer, COntemplates starting new
F1per ut Brunswick.
A. W. Cosby, of the old board. and b. F.
Wilder and J. g.. stephens are DOugherty
guuuty's new Commissioners. II Is under
stood that the new Commissioners are free
bridge men.
saturday night fire broke out in the car
Shell of the Carolina Central Railroad at Lin
fu.utou- destroying the shed and burning up
the tools Of the company. The fre is supposed
Ga haze been caused by lightning. The total
loss about $1,000.
The Lutheran Church of Salisbury. y. C..
has called Dr. Bowman of Augusta. TO fill the
vacant Va~torate now existing in their church.
He has not yet -gnificd his acceptance.
The PhIfer cotton mills at LincOlnton had
narrow escape from being burned Friday.
Fag -iXrv-third anniversary of odd Fellow
ship iu the United states win be observed in
Athens ON the 2ith Of April at Odd Fellows
Hail. Joseph =. Bean. Jr.. has been selected
Oy tue committee 10 deliver an address.
Tine Athens City Council has subscribed
,ltl for the entertainment Of the Pharmacists
convention next week.
Miss Mary a. II. Gay. of Decatur. is in Au-
gu-ia for the purpose of soliciting subscrip-
uous for the Ben fill monument fund.
Hendrix S McBurney, real estate agents of
AD-r-tI. sold az auction Tuesday the RYAN.
H.- Wadley grove. The property realized
$3.50.
senator Edmuuds. of Vermont. accOmpa-
l.ci uy H,s wife and daughter. passed through
Atlanta Tuesday. ON their way from Aiken,
r. a.. lp california. They were in the city
only short time.
Tr. -rrr..rfr,,r 80 Of .ro Nr,r~u-so T-ll,a,.
io4 au9 Chicago Railroad is now within ten
miles NJ Elberton
Work on the Georgia Pacific will be cOntin-
Uet to the coal mines, four and "a half miles
beyond the present terminus. orders having
Deem received To that effect.
40 stone Mountain Monday George NJ. Nc
Aipn ami John W. Mehaffey had a difficulty
l4 when Aehaney was cut five or six times.
lie IS not considered dangerously wounded.
AcAIpn Is under arrest.
Bey. J. +. McClelland. Of stone Mountain.
At7 been chosen 90 deliver the annual address
OF lle Newton County sabbath school AssOci-
alton at oxford on May 4th.
ID Barnes and J. +. Hill, who fell from
-can1lding 40 stone Mountain on the 81 inst.
1le u'ln improving. IL Is thought now that
Barnes viii recover.
Anderson Clements, Of COweta county, SEN
teneei 90 the Dade coal mines for life, was re-
gell{ kicAed by mule. from the effects OF
Which bee died
HE celebrated Nulligan Keaton case, which
.i- ueen upon the Early county docket seven
teen Years. was compromised the past weekm
tAr plaintiff receiving $500.
IS rum0red at Blakely that Chappell
rleaih, The murderer of James 4. Glenn, was
carried up the river in chains ON Saturday
i4'i ana lodged in the Fort Gaines Jail.
lle state Pharmaceutical Association is in
convention at Athens.
james TAYLOR, Of Gum creek, is the father OF
eSlieen children. His present wife is the
'-irr ol ten. and his first wife the mother OF
eight.
Rev. j. G.. Johnson saws that OcOnee court
l--e Was built in lS27. so that bottle OF
rssa-it louna m the walls must nave been
A'll SIX wears old.
lass Tuesday Dublin was visited bv man
-' ha4 never heard before that day that
uoF. stephens was dead.
A granite mOnument is to be erected at An
i7'nfilie- IN memory Of the Federal soldiers
"-' aye buried there.
,'oln L. Brown. Of Cumming. has a COW
~; lfQm which over two pounds Of butter
va! ha- been made.
Cleveland has q ten -year-oid boy who never
tliton county Jail has nearly two hundred
Inmates.
Harriet West. Of Coweta county, recovered
f.'-'g from the railroad for killing her hus-
,, a drove Of forty beeves left EIbertoa last
A-sy for the Augusta market,
r. ID. Porter died at his home near scale,
.l.!4y night, Of ser0ful0us sore throat. lie
ss iFty-three years Of age, and leaves a
"lle aud one child.
aones. the OglethOrpe wife murderer. has at
a. expressed sorrow tnat he killed his wife.
heretofore he has said he did not regret what
Nt hau done. but only regretted that he did
an