Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-23

Another Unjustly Clad in Stripes-A
Batch of Accidents on st. SimOn's
Island.
GEORGIA.
LaGrange has sixteen lawyers.
A dog law goes into effect at Madison Tues
day
Corn planted IN Harris county four weeks
ago has not come up.
district telegraph company has been
organized at Americas.
Mr.. Walker, of Brooks county. was killed
thls week by the falling OF a limb on his head.
The Athens Presbytery meets at Paoli,
Madison county, ON the evening OF the 9th OF
April, at O'Clock.
John 7. Lane, formerly Of Thomas county,
is now one OF the most successful dry goods
merchants at Ennis. Texas
Ii is thought that the recent heavy rains
will start all the springs which had been dry
around Cuthbert for some time previous.
The first session Of the quarterly meeting Of
the Greensboro circuit was held at Union
Point yesterday, and the session will close to-
daY.
According to the Ee,c South Brooks county
farmers are shipping country butter to Sa-
vannah' for which they realize fifty cents per
pound,
The annual meeting OF the Reh0bOth sun
day school convention viii DE held with the
harshallyllle sunday school next Friday, Sat
urday and sunday.
a gentleman fuf,roso,.tir,ar a New York loan
association has loaned Sl60, eco to Harris county
farmers without perceptibly diminishing the
Etringency of the times.
William Simpson. of Quitman. died Wedues-
day night with heart disease. lie ate his sup
per and was apparently well. In q few min
ptes he fell and expired without groan.
Mrs. Luke johnson, who was so badly
crippled during the -leet i'm January. at her
daughters. Mrs. Ren Anderson's, at La
Grange, has never recovered sufficiently to
return home.
Mrs. Mary Eliza Din, Of LaGrange. viii 90
this week TO Arkansas where she VIII make
her home with "A brother Her sister. Miss
Joe C0lquitf, VIII reside in Tennessee with an
ether brother.
The Montezuma Council paid over $500 to
the well contractor Saturday. The contract
was for S3,000. but $500 had been previously
paid. This was the largest single payment
she Council has ever made.
The attendance upon the West Georgia a.
and NJ. College at Hamilton is greater than at
any time IN It's history. President Puckette
thinks of publishing 4 catalogue this summer.
which 1t Is confidently predicted Will contain
the names of not less than $50 pupils
The Amercu7 Recorder says: 'Mr. J. W.
Brady received @ paper from Jamaica, West
indies, one day this week, which contained
notices Of the Watley Wallack troupe. The
paper was a curiosity. being In its lO5th year.
and yet looked no better than a siN months
old weekly in the States.
The jackson Herald Of this week, says: son
last Friday morning, Mrs. LIZZIE Lyle, wife of
kP j. NJ. LYIe. remarked to him that she was
not feeling well, and before he could do any
thing for her relief she died. It is supposed
by the doctors that clot of blood formed at
her heart and caused her DEATH
A test case Of the cOnstitutiOnalitv Of the
prohibition law has been made at JonesborO.
A barber had been giving away liquor 70 his
customers He was arrested and tried. His
counsel made several points against the con
stitutOnallty Of the law. Judge Hammond
promptly Overruled them all. The case Will
not be appealed.
The Rome Courier says: "At a regular
meeting of the stockholders of the Rome Cot
ton Mills yesterday afternoon Mr.. w McWIl-
liams was admitted to the company and sub
scribed a handsome sum to the capital stOck. .
There was no stock for sale among the indi-
Yidual members. so the company viii issue
new stock TO the amount Of $4,000 all Of
which Dir. McWilliams viii take"
This weeks Brunswick Adrer.tssi saws:
Through the iustTumeutaIty of Miss j. y .
Nathans, aided bY number OF sea captains
in port. q subscription was raised last week to
purchase and present TO Rev. !. W. W addell,
of the Presbyterian Church, handsome desk.
well stocked with writing material. Imagine
the geRtleman's surprise ON reaching home
after weeks absence In ST. Mary's to find
this beautiful and useful present in his studio.
testimonial of esteem from mis- friends and
congregation
The editor of the Cuthbert EnterDrise has
Just visited the cotton mills near West Point
He SAYS: "A cOmmOdi4us brick and iron
warehouse and brick and IRON picker room
mas been recently added. The boat is loaded
and unloaded at the warehouse, and, the
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are very little trouble to handle. The factory
now consumes about thirteen bales of cotton
per daysturnlng ont over 5000 yards of best
duck. There are now in operation $500 spin
dies and 40 looms, and it takes l5O hands to
manipulate them. There are 80 looms stand
ing idle that Will soon be put TO work"
Great excitement exists in Baldwin county
over the incendIary speeches of the negro 4.
Al. Smith. He gathered several hundred ne
grOes IN a wood near Milledgeville Thursday
night and harangued them. When Sherif
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and ned. The sheriff fired at him and missed
smith and shot another negro in the arm.
sheriff Ennis was IN Macon Friday hunting
smith. Smith has been making incendiary
speeches. melting the negroes to riot, and
calling upon them TO make a general uprising
and commence on April l TO slaughter and
sin the white people. Smith is a noted jail
The Piedmont Press says: '.Uncle Arch
Patterson by little persistency once saved
$4,000 to Hall county. When the Airline
Road was being built Hall county subscribed
me above amount, but Il was one of the con-
tItioHs of subscription that the road should
pass near our new court house, which was
then the surveyed route. The route was
changed as everybody knows, and the con-
tract, so far as Hall county was concerned
was null and void. The road persisted in its
right to have the amount subscribed, but Mr.
PATTERSON, who had just returned from Cali
foruia, being one of the subscribers. defended
q suit which had been instigated, and the
courts decided in favor of the defendants"
o..
wick Adrertiser of this week, writes: mot
many days ago, Frank, an ldIOtlc son of old
man Ansell Richards, fell into the fire and
charred himself terribly. Soon after the wife
% Charles Collins, IN preparing supper, turned
her back 20 her child, who fell into the fire
and was badly burned. The mother. in at
tempting to save her child. burned her hands
and arms so that the cuticle Of the hands and
fingers slipped of like gloves. These were all
eol0red. and are doing well. Last Tuesday
night Charlie Taylor, bright little blue-eyed
boy Of six summers, was badly scalded by the
nurse Wkaruiy turning 4 basin OF not water
over on him. Under the circumstances the
little fellow Is doing well, but suffer ng a great
deal"
The Dooly Tindicatorsays: ''AIr. Choice c.
Cole, promising young man Of this county,
was confined to hs bedwith the NUM- abOut2l
days ago, which lasted him only about DAYS.
but he has been lingering ever since till about
or 10 days ago, when he seemed to be getting in
crazy state. and at present the writer con-
slders the unfortunate man a perfect lunatic.
I D 70 the time Of this writing he has had no
doctor, but one has been sent tor. and il is hoped
he VIII render some relief He fancies at diff
ferent times that he is a lawyer, preacher and
merchant, and is ready at any time 70 marry
some nice young lady, and build himself up
and move TO city: further, that he is very
wealthy and Is going to put up his widowed
mother u fine dwelling house and finish il off,
etc. Without a change soon, his neighbOrs
say that he VIII have to go to the asylum"
The Sylvania TeIeDhOne saws: There was
considerable rise in the Savannah river last
week which drove the deer to the highland,
ana the spOrtsmen have been quite active in
consequence. The river was rising rapidly
the first Of this week and the prospect is that
the water viii be higher than ever, in which
event the sport of deer and turkey hunting
viii be excellent. Mr.. r. 7. Mills, in company
with DR.. q. L. Mills, J. a. Enneis and I. j.
Willis, went on a deer hunt last week in the
FORK of Brlar creek. They started and shot
al several deer, only one being killed. and
that by DIR. Mills. While on the hunt their
dogs Jumped a catamOunt, and after a
three hours chase, succeeded in Overtakng
and killing 1t. it was certainly a huge var
mint, judging from the size of one of its feet.
which was shown us by Mr.. X. T. Mills, and
ne says II was as large as his old dog Buck"
The Jackson Herald says: "Three or four
years ago two negroes were arrested in Hall
county on a charge OF raping a white woman,
They were tried and found guilty. One was
hung and the other sent to the chain gang for
life. Since then enough evidence has been
found tO3satisfv the community where the sun
posed CRIME was committed that the negroes
were innocent. As the negro now in the chain
gang was resident of this county, parties
placed the matter before the last grand Jury
and, after an investigation, they decided to
request the grand jury of Hall county to ask
the Governor for the negrOs pardon If these
facts are true how fearful it must be to think
that human beings life was required to
satisfy law that he had never violated, and
another wearing chains for an offer Sc that he
never committed. The citizens Of Hall owe
IL 10 themselves to make thorough investi-
CATION, and if they find that the parties were
innocent they should make all the haste pos