Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-06

A SloOp Caught in a Waterspout in
Tampa Bay An Old Army Carbine
Taken from the Water in Walton
County,
GEORGIA
Work on the West End Methodist Church
SO Atlanta was begun yesterday.
William NJ. Jones is a candidate for re-elec- -
t.1u as Treasurer Of Thomas county.
Tie first brick building on the Bay at Bruns-
W.cS mas oeen commenced By Capt. Davidson
No rain has fallen in four weeks around
jasper. Gardens and late cotton are nearly
ruined.
George p. StOvall. Of Thomson. is a eandi-
date for the Lower House Of the General AS
semIly.
The Milton Democrat presents the name Of
Hon. InOmas i. Lewis as a candidate for the
senate for the Thirty-ninth District
Tie District Conference for the Augusta
DlsHct NJ. Il. Church, South, will meet at
ST. johns Church. Augusta, June 25-29.
The anti-prOhibitionists are stirring their
forces IN quiet way. 1t seems TO be the i'm
preston that the prohibition sentiment in I'm
son Is on the increase.
AZ Bainbridge, Frank Airline coIored. of
A-ller' was shot to death on Saturday by a
c9-ored boy named McGriff, whom Airline had
little white girl.
william Roach. very promising young
man, Wnile IN drunken fit, broke hls skull
n
that ms recovery is very doubtful He lives
near Talking Rock.
Mr.. Charles p. Hansell has been appointed
Vice President for ThOmasville for the Uni
UersIty OF the South at Sewanee. Tennessee.
The object of the University is to build a new
college which will cost $4,000, Of which al
ready S35,000 has been raised.
The case Of Thornton vs.. Conley, to deter
mine whether the remains of the late Post
LEEs1t newspaper belong 10 Col. MareeUus
E. Thornton OF 20 Capt. John l.. COnlev. was
called for trial In the Superior Court at At
lauta Wednesday and was TO be continued
yesterday.
The viii Of Robert Siphers, coIored. has been
fled m the Ordiuary's office. He is the first
co.0red testatOr in Hall county. Ii is dated
May 81. 1854. and bequeaths his property to
bis four children, his wife and mother having
an interest in II until his youngest child is q
wears OF age. when IL Is 10 be equally divided
among them.
ON Friday night last colored woman Iiv-
ing ON the Bryant place, near the Byne place.
u Lee county. went of from home and left
her three little children locked mp in her cabin.
with the usual result. When she returned
she found her cabin in ashes and it is sup-
posed that the children persisted in the flames
though no trace Of them could be found in the
debris.
Cornelius Shehans has just secured YER
dict of SAB 79 in a suit against Atlanta for
5000 damages for the burning of "the Beaver
Slide notorious block infested by the scum
of the city, which was leveed by fire by order
OF tAe lily 1uuucll Wnen IL became infested
with small -pOX during the epidemic of 1882.
The amount of the verdict is supposed to be
about the market value Of the old lumber in
tine Slide for wood purposes
A seiuiuE party on Marbray's creek. near
Truman smiths mill. in Walton county
seiued a Carbine, which had been in the creek
for % years. In 1854 a soldier. in attempting
Co cross the creek a few yards above where
the gun was found, came very near drowning,
and had 10 throw his gun in the water. The
stock of the old carbine is remarkably we'll
preserved, and the barrel is not rusted to any
considerable degree. IL was loaded, and the
cap was easily removed. Lloyd Thomas now
has lt, rubbing it up as a souvenir Of tIa great
struggle.
Thomson Journal: Messrs. StOvaIl & BOYD,
Of this place, dealers in general merchandise,
have made an assignment to George p StOvall
Tor the benefit Of creditors. The assignment,
We learn was not necessitated by the pressure
Of the liabilities, but was the result OF the pe-
culiar IN mIsfOrtunes Of the members of the firm.
Mr.. StOvall. the senior member, has been una
bic to attend to business for a long while on
account Of i'll health. and Mr.. Boyd. the junior
member. Is now prOstrated with typhoid pneu-
mOnia, from which il is hardly probable that
he will entirely recover for some time TO come
Under the circumstances il was deemed best
10 make the assignment. The assignee in
forms ms that the liabilities of the firm are
about s2.609. the assets, notes and accounts
5000, and the stock Of goods $1,000. We are
also informed that some one or more Of the
creditors have attacked the deed Of assign
ment, and have obtained q temporary iniunc-
tiOn against the assignee. This, however. will
he nrOperly adjudicated in the course of i few
days.