Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-17

GEORGIA
Hall ard Walton courts convene this week
There are nine couEszy stores in Quitman
county
ETralned pointer dogs IN Athens find ready
Lexington.
orc Athens hrHs pays about $1,000 year
for drayage.
Noultrie has beer out Of postage stamps for
three weeks.
A two-headea boy is being exhibited
Small boys are not allowed to attend court
trials at LaGrange
Only $50 per aunum Is required TO support
the paupers Of Quitman county
There is su old negro near Athens who is
said to eat every fat puppy he can find.
IT viii cost SLIGO to repair the damage done
20 the JOnesbOrO warehouse by the late fire.
The session of tee Laurens Superior Court
Just over cost the county for the week S7S2 so.
VIM. Wrinkle has been arrested at villa
now for tie murder of negro some time ago.
Cochran has a population of eight hundred,
and this population supports eleven bar
rooms.
Rev. J. Rufus Fedder, Of Bethany, died
Thursday. The Interment was made al
Perry.
Hiss Sarah o. Smith. of Trion, was given
iy mistake dose of morphine instead Of
qun.ne. and death resulted.
The Perry Journal claims three male citi-
Eous who make up 700 pounds, and three fe-
males who tap the beam at LOO.
The Macon hremcn VIII probably secure the
S1oe appropriation for a tournament, and
tranquility Is once more probable
NcD0nOUgh Is at the mercy of the first con-
1aIratiOn that breaks out. TEere are no
facilities for eOpIng with fire, SO the Weekly
says.
j. II. Lang has been chosen Superintendent
ul Roswell Cotton Factory near Marietta, and
has accepted The Roswell Factory runs
1900 5plndles-
A. B. Miller. of StatesbOr0, spent several
days in savannah last week in company with
J. I. SOuthwell, soliciting aid for the church
90 that place.
Reports from Cedartown state that several
houses in that vicinity were blown down by
the cyclone. Several members OF Mr. hc-
Bees family We're seriously injured.
The Baptist congregation at Whitesville
have erected neat and comfortable parsOn-
age building, which IS now Oct Upled by Key.
Il. VI LanIer. pastor Of the Baptist church al
THAT place.
Buwcl Crumby, Of Red Blum, Laurens
county. was thrown from q wagon with which
his team was running away and one OF the
wheels passed over his head, crushing IL into
=hapeless mass.
a coroner's Jury in Houston county con-
eluded "a verdict that Dave Bowman, a negro
who was found dead ON the plantation of Mr..
John Falk, came To ms death from gunShot
wound al the hands of Jack Barret, cOlOrcd,
who Is now in jail.
Dr. Wmford. in Webster county. had the
misfortune on Tuesday night Of last week tC
lose his saw mill. gin house, good deal OF
lumber, about 100 bushels Oi cotton seed and
Il lot of seed oats by ire. The doctors loss IS
estimated at $1,000.
Misses Mildred and Mary Lee, daughters OF
the great General passed through Atlanta
Friday on their way TO New Orleans, to be
present at the unveiling of the statue TO their
LustriOus father. They were entertained by
Capt. Milledge, whose wife Is their kIDswO-
man, and were received during the day by
GOV. Mcdaniel.
Capt. T. II. DOzier, who lives near Winter
yillc has on hand about $4,000 cigars that his
father had made thirty years ago. They are
made Of pure tobacco, raised IN Oglethorpe
county, and compare faVOrably with l0-cent
cigar of the present day The Captain
smokes only two day and at this rate they
VIII last him about twenty years.
The Griffin correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution furnishes the following remark
able story: ''Ihere Is . mar in our city that
has q relative who married at the age of one
hundred years. and who was the father of
three children by said marriage. He lived to
see the youngest one of the three vote. The
grand nephew of this ancient old gentleman
Is now a Baptist preacher IN Griffin
At the police barracks in Macon is a tame
katydld, left over from last summer. The IN.
sect Is seen every day on the sills IN the base
ment about noon. During the night It keeps
hidden. 1t does not sing, though 1t retains
It's color and vitality These insects generally
make their appearance about the first OF
June and die about the first of September;
but this one has proved an exception.
The editor of the Sylvania Telephone saws:
I'VE were shown this week the longest shot
gun We have ever seen. It was Of the old
dint and steel fashion. and was once owned
by Col. George Il. Blacks grandfather The
barrel is 4 feet inches in length, the whole
gun measuring feet. 1t Is certainly an in
terestng relic of the past. The Colonel, we
learn, Intends to donate 1t to the Georgia His
tOrical Society of Savannah"
A United states Marshal " no went to For
,yth to arrest DR.. NJ. Il. White for selling
liquor without license, reports that he had
narrow escape from being m0bbed, aud has
issued warrants for the arrest Of $. B. MObley
and William L0ckett rs ringleaders in OBJ
structng him IN the discharge OF his duty. As
i- often the case in arrests madeby such Mar
-hals. there was no ground for the proceeding,
and Dr. White was discharged after being
dragged to Macon.