Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-22
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Interesting statistics Concerning the
ChattahoOchee River-VaIdosta and
Her Growth and Prosperity-A Ne
gro Sentenced to Hang at Orangeb urg
The Newberry Poisoning Case.
GEORGIA.
The Americas Light Infantry viii spend
Wazhington's birthday at Albany.
John Williams, the negro murderer of night
watchman Allen. of NaldOsta, is still al large.
Athens viii soon have a first-class club
house. The furniture OF one room viii cost
about $500
Columbus receives over 10000 bales Of cot
ton per annum, and 10000 Of them are used in
her factories.
A merchant in Athens compromised a $50
debt for . cents, and then sold out about $500
worth Of accounts for So.
Capt. WhitesIde, of Columbus, viii build a
new steamboat, which viii be launched on the
Chattaheochee river about July J.
Chief Burrus, Of the Columbus Fire Depart
ment, ls trying % secure the introduction Of
the electric alarm system in that city.
The negro Methodist Conference was in ses-
sion at NaidOstd last week. It is said that
there We're 100 preachers IN attendance.
william Evans stabbed Robert Fincher with
knife IN several places, at Rome, Saturday
because he was called a liar during q game of
pool.
Arthur sharp and Mr. Mitchell, Of Walton.
ran 100-yard horse race in Conyers last
Thursday evening. The purse Of 800 was
won by Arthur sharp. whose horse came ont
% feet ahead.
few nights ago one Of the roads near Dub
I'm was made almost impossible Tor nearly
100 yards by heterogeneous assortment If
logs, brush, poles, fence rails and rocks thrown
across it. There is "a clue to the identity of
the culpr it, and prosecution is anticipated.
The Loud mine. in White county, has gone
INTO the hands OF new company. Rufus
keaFes' OF Athens, Is President and the stock
holders are Judge Erwin and Or. II. II. Carl
ton, OF Athens; DR.. james Phillips, of Clarbs-
Vile, and others.
The Athens B3nuer says. THE Guberna-
tOFlal contest Is already aEitatlng the Atheu-
ian politicians. Public sentiment seems to De
divided between Bacon. Blount and McDan-
lel. II VIII be nlp-aud-tuck race as to who
VIII carry Clarke county next time"
A farmer living near Athens visited Flor
IDA recently, and was carried an over the
state and feasted, fOndled and earessed with
out being out cent The report got circu-
lated that ne wanted to buy a farm, and the
land spectators took him In charge and he
was treated like a lord.
The BaHner- WGtchmdH says: SIT is surprfs-
ing the amount of Iliteraev there is amono
the farmers of this section. Every day in
Lelligent, well dressed men come into our Of
nee and subscribe for the BanueF- Watcb nan.
stating that they cannot read themselves. but
want the paper FOR their Children
The Albany Ne5os says: ~ party of raft
hands engaged im bringing cedar down the
river to this place for Transportation To New
YORK, report their raft stuck on the shoals
above Albany, the river being SO low as to i'm
pede their further progress until a rise. This
cedar business is a new venture and promises
TO be very remuucrative."
The COnyers SOfjH South saws: sTucle john
ME south, aged S. has Tor some time been
paving marked respects 10 Mrs Wilkinson.
aged about 90. Mrs Wilkinson is better
known as Aunt Melissa Christian. These aged
people have lived alone within two miles Of
each other tor number of wears. They had
concluded that they could descend the hin of
lie more pleasantly by jOing heart and hand
IN marriage, so last Sunday week Uncle John
ME bounced into hi buggy, rode over to his
brides house. and seating her by his side be-
gan retraCIng his tracks to his own housq
where the minister was waiting To tie the holy
knot. When IN about a half mile Of home he
allghted AT the creek to let his horses bridle-
rein down SO he could drink. and while in the
act, wonderful 20 tell, the lady was stricken
down with paralysis She was carried to Mr.
SOuth's, and the best medical attention has
been given her. She is still there. but living in
a critical condition.
The following is condensed from the Val
dOsta Times: "NaldQsta came into exfsfourt
about 1860. Prior To that time the court house
was located at old Troupevile. small viz
lage northwest of this place and the territory
now covered by 1000 souls and a thriving
community was partly an old field and partly
pine woods. During the war the town grew
very little, and its real beginning might he
dated about 1855. At first 10 was huiIt IN
with hat wooden buildings. but in 1872 dis
astrous fire swept it almost from the face OF
the earth. The financial panic of 1873 struck
US just ia the midst OF am effort TO rebuild and
hence the work was veiv much retarded M
first. Iweuty-siX brick buildings and
numerous wooden ones now make up the busi-
ness community. Ten wears aLo Nald0sta
shipped about i.t00 bales of short cotton: now
she doubles that amount and adds 1900 bales
OF sea island cotton. Ten wears ago Naidozta
l.n eft al,
a cucumber; the season past the county most
of them from NaldoSta and 0usley station
shipped 500 carloads OF melons ana 5000 pack
ages OF vegetables. This business has been
doubling itself every year, and promises 10
assume huge proportions. The timber and
naval stores shipped from Valdosta and
LOwndes county amounts to many hundreds
of car loads annually"
In Georgia the Chattah00chee river passes
through seven counties with q population of
$1,000; in Alabama, through four counties
with a population of $4,000, and in Florida.
through i've counties with population of
30,000-making q total of sixteen counties
With q population of lSS,900 through which
the river passes south of Columbus and de-
pendent upon the navigation of the river as a
means OF transportation. The value of mer-
chanulse transported on the river has I'M
creased from S3,560,0e0 in 1879. to S73l4.26I I'm
1888, while the frelghts 60 steamboats, aggre-
gated SI56,55S i'm 1879, and has increased to
500. $50 in lSS3. The year the improvements
were begun the receipts 0f cotton BY the river
were osAit RdttSs Alt 1863 Llltg were lb.ZE. 6utt
in 1888 they were .. I60 bales-thus show
ing rapid and steady increase
in the business OF tine river as the
work of improvement progressed The
Columbus sun continues: The amount OF
money expended in improving the condition
of the river is so small as 10 appear insignifi-
cant when we consider the vast amount of
benefit that has been accomplished The
whole amount expended from 1874 to date is
only $l25, 5o2 6t. ON the first day of last July
the amount available was S26.4I 36. The
meagreness of the appropriation has ALWAYS
prevented the engineer IN charge from taking
such sFeps TO make permanent improvements
a. the importance of the river business dc
mands Maior pamreu states that ii will
take $I50.000 for the completion OF thu existing
project, which is To give channel one hun
dred feet wide and four feet deep at low wa
Ter"