Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-02
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
rFORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

EEORGAA, ELOlsADh AMI oOO III
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
HyopderfuI Powers with Which Certain
Georgians are Endowed-The Proposed
Canal from the Savannah River to
Port Royal HarbOr-Atlanta's Missing
Girl Arrested at Macon.
GEORGIA.
Laureus county Jail has two inmates.
sylvania has organized dramatic club
Burglars are plying their vocation at
Jesup.
Work on the artesian well at WaynesborO
f has been resumed.
W. d. King has resigned from the Alder
manic Board Of Hawkinsville.
The citizens Of Buford propose to erect at
an early day a school building.
Gwinnett county's Commissioners are look
ing over plans for new court house.
Capt. }. W. Voolfolk. Of the Columbus City
Light Guards, has been presented with
sword.
W. o. Beau retires from the Franklin
Ne1os, and the Messrs. McCutchen viii take
charge.
a well-known grocer Of Macon is engaged
in writing a thrilling romance founded on the
incidents Of the late war.
4 fire at OchlOckOnee Sunday morning de-
strOvcd the store OF BullOch 4 BastOn. Loss
SI,5O0. Insurance about $3.50.
George A: Fox, who has been Atlanta
been transferred to Augusta
handsome monument has recently been
erected in Evergreen cemetery, in Perry, to
the memory Of Gen. Ed. Warren.
A negro child, two or three days old, was
found dead in brush pile near I. NJ. Fam
br0ugh's, in Oglethorpe county, last Sunday.
couple of pugilistic Maconites INDUCED in
a formal prize fight Wednesday. No serious
injuries were inflicted, and no arrests were
made.
The employees of the Air Line Railroad pre-
sented Capt. I. \. Sage, the retiring Superln-
tendent, with solid silver tea set at Atlanta
Thursday night.
The Trustees of Svlvania Academy have de
cided to put patent desks and seats in the
school room. an addition which has been sadly
needed for several years.
Thursday W. Solomon. of Macon sold a lot
OF $1,000 Wesleyan Female College bonds at
par. Macon city bonds are now quoted at
lul !, and some were sold Thursday at los.
There is an average of five or six burgaries
per night in Atlanta. 1t has been kept up for
Two weeks past, and when il viii end Is one
Of the most unlathOmable OF uncertainties.
At ElbertOn on Thursday morning Mrs. 5
l.. Garter ana her mother, Mrs. Agnes Hun
ter, both died Of pneumonia. the mother out
living the daughter but few hours Both
hved In the same house.
Many prominent Methodist diyines and
other distinguished gentlemen viii probably
be in sparta on Monday next to participate
i'm the celebration OF the golden wedding of
Bishop Pierce. Gen. Toombs viii more than
likely be among the number.
Enoch Freeman. convicted last spring Of
Killing Iobe Ware. colored, and whose case
was carried to the Supreme Court, was
Wednesday sentenced TO be hung on March
2lst. A petition is being numer0usy signed
for Communication to Imprisonment for life.
Hon. Il. a. BrinsOn, Of Screven, spent Tues
dav night in WavnesbOrO During the night
thief entered his room and stole therefrom
his vest containing small amount of silver
change and handsome gold watch. There
Us no clue TO lead to the detection of the thief.
new social club has been Organized at
Macon. with the following officers: Oscar
Bedlich, President; Charles Yencker. Vice
President; James Campbell, Secretary; Ru-
dOlf Esslinger, Treasurer; T. 4. SchOenerman
and c. kugel Trustees. 1t viii be known as
The Cosmopolitan Club
At negro dance near the colored Metho-
dist church, IN Newman, Saturday night,
George street was severely cut just under the
shoulder blade. DR.. Reese was called in and
at first 1t looked like 30 might turn out to be a
ease Of murder, bat lac Is now much better.
Nobody knows who handled the knife
The cotton shipments from Camilla for 1882
were $500 bales, which was considered an
average crop. Last years shipments up to
tins date. with stock IN warehouses here. viii
only aggregate $500, showing decrease Of
1900 bales, or $4,000 less money to the farmers
than was received for the crop of lSS2.
II the canal Is cut from the savannah river
SO as TO connect Port Royal harb0r with that
stream as ls now proposed, an effort viii be
made 90 get direct line of steamers from some
European port to Port Royal. Ii is believed
that there would be a large emigration from
Germany and sweden to south Carolina and
Georgia If such line was established. Con-
gress Will be asked TO appropriate money to
build the canal which viii Onlg be ten miles
long.
Madison county boasts of a man who has
the faculty OF looking through a stone as
through q mirror. Dawson county has pro-
dUced girl who could sit down on a hollow
log and attract everything toward her within
distance of go feet. @. ". Price, an unpre-
tending citizen Of StilesborO, claims that his
daughter possesses a power similar and as
wonderful as that of Miss Lula Hurst and
demonstration Will be attempted at the
academy next Wednesday night. Still GeOr-
gIaus are not happy.
John Thomas Smith, the CAV Lotharlo who
figured prominently in the Belle Edwards es-
capade, has just spent several days i'm Amer
icus. Hearing probably that the Marshal was
in Geographic correspondence with the At
ianta authorities, he left very suddenly, tax
ing the common road to parts unknown. He
talked very freely about Belle Edwards-says
he came 70 Macon with her: that their desti-
nation was Montgomery; that he has some of
her clothes in his possession, and though she
has been taken back to Atlanta. that she Will
come 10 him again.
Ellen Mullaly, the l6-year old Atlantian
whose ineXplcahle disappearance from her
home we'll nigh drove her parents distracted
was arrested on a train near Macon Thursday
afternoon. She finally acknowledged her
identity, but claimed that her only motive i'm
tsat ing nome vas LudL Sne could take care of
htFselt- ne8ress ca doubtful nOtOrlety Oc-
cupled a seat In the car Tith the girl, and il
was surmised that the negress lad enticed the
girl from home. Both denied any foundation
Tor thls suspicion, and the cOlOred woman was
discharged from custody. The girl will he
returned 10 her parents.
The Cartersvile A HasricGn SAYS: "An order
Eas passed IN the Superior Court last week
Incorporating the ''R. H. Jones { Sons man
utacturlng company" with a capital stock OF
$4,000. with the privilege of increasing 1t to
100000 The company will be composed of X.
Il. Jones, Glenn Jones, ". B. Saddler, and r.
l.. Williams The object Of the corporation is
to manufacture buggles. wagons, carriages,
and all kinds of vehicles and wagon makers
supplies. Also TO saw lumber and do a gen
eTai milling business. They Will have their
5Fincinai CfUee az Cartersvie. with branch
.,stabishhlents at Rome and Stamp Greek"
J0s5ph Seabr0ok, d Gsgr0 merchandising on
the Columbus road iu 3 sghUrbdn Town,
ltuoc~p as tniOpville, was being SHEA On
claim ana 4idD't FaIt his creditors to suffer
fbe Issses Tue- day be inserted an advertise
.uent in the TsiograDh a~d -NessenQes notifying
the persons who had sold hun sue goods 10
come and get them. and signed the @UNSE-
0semeat Joseph SeabroOk, LniOnvine. The
printer, in getting it IN. substituted the town
McN llle. on the Brunswick Railroad, Tor the
place. Col. W. II. Nylly, an attorney who is
g. creditor of SeabrOOk for services rendered.
issued an attachment against him upon the
grounds that be was abscOnding, basing his
action upon the notice as il appeared IN the
p-per. SeabrOOk had 10 90 To the expense OF
.lng bond and employing au attorney to
-hssGlFe the attachment. which would not
nave been issued but for the mistake in the
adveruseI1ept. SeabrOok threatens TO de-