Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-28
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

CAROLINA A PUT IN TYPE.
The Rome CoIored Boy Arrested for
lEurder-A Strange Bird shot Near
Hartwell-sanfOrd to Have a Hanging
johnson TO Hang in Henry County
May %.
GEORGIA.
Bulloch superior Court convenes to-day.
Tie Athens water works are assessed at
S5G,500.
col. Mark johnson, Of Atlanta, died satur-
day night.
lt is rumOred that the Quitman factory will
resume operations soon.
Le0nidas johnson. the rapist, has been SEN
fenced to hang in Henry county May %.
a factory for the manufacture Of cotton
pagglng Is among the possibilities at Griffin.
CT. Riesser. an old and prominent citizen Of
Chatham county, died Friday at Springfield.
TIC is said that more cattle died in south
Georgia last winter than for twenty years
past.
Tie establishmcntof Il fruit canning fac
tory is said % be again under discussion at
Athens.
The Quarterly Conference OF the Methodist
Church Of the district meets at Darien on the
preacher
The City Council Of Eatonton has passed
resolutions authorizing the raising of money
10 meet it- obligations to the college and for
free school purposes.
An old negro woman who was severely
burned on the nl-fated steamer Rebecca
Everngham died in Columbus Friday morn
ing from the effects Of her injuries.
The matter Of making Quitman the deposi-
tory FOR the public documents in this district
has been recOnsldered. The public library at
Albany will continue TO be the depository.
Milton Plaster q we'll known farmer OF
W alkcr county, who resides about eleven
miles from Chattanooga, drove his wagon to
inG for home.
Darien gazette: cone of the grandest ma
tural parks in the whole country is at Alta
ma, "a few miles from Daricn. If this place
was on the suburbs of Atlanta. or any other
large city, there Is no money that could buy
Athens Bquuel.- WatcAmaa: Maj. Lump
kin. the mIucraloglst, Is finding mica IN un-
limited quantities. and of the finest quality. in
Banks county. He has also found other
valuable minerals while prospecting for the
mica
Athens Bauner- Wdtchmdu: ''WisOn Lump
Kin. former Governor of Georgia. was the
Youngest man ever elected 10 the Legislature
from the state of Georgia, and Hon. Dick
Russell, our present incumbent, is the next
youngest
Darien gazette: ''The rope that was used
tO hang TOney James .colOred) on the 29th of
last June is now i'm the possession of Capt.
BOurke Spaldiug. Of ~apelo. IL is used on one
of hs boats, and ls "a good Watchman for him.
as no negro VIII dare 90 near it.. Heretofore
his ropes have an been stolen. but not one of
them viii go near the rope that 'choked' Toncy
James
Quitman Free Press. THAT Quitman needs
new railroad, q big hotel, an artesian we'll
and cotton seed on mill, no one viii gain
say. and we viii add, without fear of success
ful contradiction. we also need rice mill
Thousands of bushels of rice would be raised
10 this section, and as it is many hundreds
are raised, If we had q mill to clean and pre-
pare ill., a fruit canning factory is also ad-
Y0cated.
Griffin Nelrs: David Wing. of Rochester
y. l., Is IN the city for the purpose of putting
mp several large Aldme cvapOratOrs here and
at Orchard Hill. He has secured the build
ing ON solomon street. between Murray &
Words and Almah Han. and viii place there
lu i've evdpordtois- with capacity Of BOO
bushels per day. There is no longer any doubt
that fruit VIII be abundant this year and Of
the finest kind. and the undertaking can
scarcely fail OF being a splendid success"
HartweH sun: "Dr. Eberhart is extremely
fond of a joke. The other night he deter
mined TO scare his boys, who were mp town.
out of their wits when they came home. SO
he took big board ont in the piazza. and
with "a stick of phosphorus drew fiery coffin
ou the board, with devil i'm ID. after the man
ner Of the h. X. x. He became absorbed in
his ork. and neglected to watch his phOs-
phOrus, and the first thing he knew It ignlted
and before he could let it loose the skin was
burned Oh the fingers on his right hand"
Rome Courier: "About ten days ago a little
colored boy named Bud Ray was up IN the
Police Court charged with fighting. lie had
dealt another colored boy, Win Lang, about
u wears of age, q terrific blow ON the head
with hrickbat. Yesterday afternoon the
Nttle fellow who received the blow died, and
81 warrant charging Bud Ray with murder was
sworn out and Bud lodged in jail. 1t Is
thought shat the little negro died from iniu-
rlcs inflicted by the hrickbat. He received
fhe blow on his head. Lanes body viii be
subjected TO q post -mortem examination
Harwcn Sun: "Irvin Reid brought a large
water bird to this Office on Monday, which he
a AuNpV=OnV1lIp is
called the loon. or great northern diver. Is of
Il dark color, except ON the breast. which is
white. and has small white specks. Its wings
measured four and half feet from TIM TO tIp,
and its lCg= stuck straight back from the tail.
TO has g sharp bill and web feet, and cries
like "a child. 1t can dive several hundred
wards and IS very hard 70 kill; in fact we
never heard of one being killed before. Irwin
shot 1t through the neck close to the head.
with q common rifle, at a distance of 100 yards.
20 II native OF the Arctic region, but mi
crates southwark
Atlanta Constitutions: "Itls rumored on
what we believe to be good authority. that
Captain W. ID. Grant has sold his entire in
tcrest in the lease of State cOnvicts, his mule
wagons and appurtenances and his OLD Town
farm. on which his largest convict camp is
located. 1t Is saidthat The purchasers of this
interest, covering about 320 cOnVcts. are
senator Joseph r. Brown Messrs J W
English and j. W. Murphy and 1Ir. r. j.
James Messrs. Murphy and English take
one third ami the other gentlemen One-third
each. Ceptain James has purchas-
ca lr0m Captain Grant his tWO-thlrdS interest
i'm the old Town plantations, having owned
already the other One-third. 1t is said that
she amount paid 10 Captain Grant for his in
ferest in the lease, i'm the mules. wagons. ap-
purtenances, in the Old Town plantations is
between eighty and one hundred thousand
dollars. lt is said that the general terms of
the sale only have been agreed to at present.
and the details viii not be completed before
ihe first of May.