Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13
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wood home.
Meriwether will elect County Commission
ers morrow.
HaWkirssille is agitatlng the erection Of a
cotton compress.
A snow white partridge has been trapped
near Fort Gaines.
The erection OF q city hospital is again be-
ing aEitated at Atlanta.
Capt. A. J. Mcbride. Of Atlanta, is building
. hue hotel at railapoOsa, Ga.
The freight depot at Bran wood was burned
few days ago Win iJs contents.
ChatahOOchee county Is bound to vote on the
adoption of the stock law without delay.
Out OF tax OF S17.500 in Ebert county,
only IS has been returned as insOlvent.
Fifty looms made in Augusta in 1882 for the
Augusta factory are 5till in U~e In Georgia.
The Crescent -four mills, DESTROYED by fire
81 Augusta last summer, will soon be rebuilt.
W. II. Jarrett, OF Ellijay. went to Florida
for his health, but died At Jacksonville day
7A sWO ago.
The meat stalls in the Columbus market
house were rented on Monday, for 1884, at the
sUiH of l.63i.
J. F. Hatcher, J. W. Bell, J. F. LanQstOn
and J. =. Bradshaw comprise the new coun-
Gil at Harlem.
The LaGrange Council has ordered all the
ash ponds in the vicinity cut loose a. they are
fesspOOls Of malaria
5. b. Heads house, at Forsyth, has been
burned with all its contents. The insurance
nearly equals the loss.
Worth county has the fattest child in the
State. II Is negro child, only years OF age,
aud weighs ll9 pounds.
The residence and smokehouse OF Thomas
Fuller, OF Camak, valued At over $1,000, has
been destroyed by fire.
Another negro who has seen Gen. Washing
sOn many times is still hale and hearty near
Brunswick, aged l0j years.
A negro who is believed to he the perpetra-
Tor Of the recent series Of burglaries in COlum-
aus ia under arrest in that city.
Kate Moore, wife OF a colorcd man OF st.
simnn's Island. gave birth the other night TO
swins, weighing 10 pounds each.
Judge Kit Warren, lately editor OF the
Leesburg TekephORe. now shouts his hellOs
through the sumter Republican.
A marble statue OF Rev. Robert Irvine. d.
d., II to be unveiled in the Augusta First
Presbyterian Church Wednesday.
Bishop Pierce is confined to his home by
sickness, and was unable to deliver his ser
mon on the centennial " MethOdism last
Sunday.
The electric light works at Atlanta have al
ready proved profitable investment, ana
are to be enlarged. fhe company says that
gas must 90.
The publisher Of the Worth County Star. in
suspending that paper, states that during the
two years IL has been IN existence he has
cleared just 50 n month.
The OcODee river near Greensboro was
frozen over during the recent cold snap and
kNE HtECGto Ul LIt htlWtt were CoAkeu with snow
and ioe three inches deep.
John Phinizy celebrated his 9lst birthday
on Monday. the 7th + January, instant. He
il the o dest citizen OF Augusta, and is still
able 10 attend 10 his business affairs.
Mai. Mcfarland, an aged and well-known
citizen of Talbot county. died at his residence
near Geneva Thursday. He was so years old
and served in the Indian and Mexican wars.
From the lst OF September to the Ist OF Jan
uRry Hawkinsville had shipped 1858 bales Of
1rfff NarHr Iu uNna fhura fha1
shipments Tor the same months Of last
son.
Three hundred and three residents Of Co
lumhus including whites and blacks. died
last year. Placing the population at $1,000
this makes the death rate OF one in every
1fty.
John Shiyer, Of Worth county, killed a fine
buck that had sought refuge among his cattle
after being wounded. = few days ago. His
calf.
A matrimonial tide swept over Telfair
county during the Christmas holidays. and
Ordinary McDufhe exhausted his supply OF
marriage licenses, and has ordered another
stock Of lanks.
Twenty months in the chain gang is the
penalty which white man and negro of
LAGRANGE viii paw for using obscene Ian
guage on the streets Of that place despite the
MarshaFs prOtestatlOns.
On Christmas day Salle Sheats the l3-year
old daughter OF Mrs Thomas W. Sheats, of
AHUOfl nope was UlANlUE near Lut uFt anu nEr
clothes caught. burning her fatally. She lin
gered in great agony until Friday, when she
died.
Col. Tom Ochiltree, the Texas Congressman.
bas written 20 a certain prominent sup OTter
~ Gum nsham for Judge. in which he says
shat Cunuingham'5 chances are gone aud the
gentleman referred to II asked 10 change his
support to Iwiggs.
party OF Lexington Young people. noted
for their love OF practical jokes, MASKED them
selves a nigh or two ago and threw the town
into CONSERVATION by going from house TO
house and apIng the harmless part of the call
lug o. midnight marauders.
The cold snap has been general throughout
the state, and IN many places frozen p0uds
aud slI ht falls of snow are reported. One
degree below zero at Atlanta seems To be the
lowest point touched by the thermometer.
such severity IS unprecedented IN several
years.
Cumberland Island IS swarming with duck
hunters, ana the water is SO full OF mullet
according o the fishermen. that they can feel
them striking against their paddles whilst
prOpeling their boats through the water.
Thousands OF them are caught every year
with nets and used as fertilizers.
A new cotton warehouse and several brick
stores are expected to speedily follow the new
railroads entrance into Greenville, there ne
ing but little doubt that the town will raise
tne $lb.OuJ necessary To secure the completion
Of the enterprise. Fully 1900 bales Of cotton
are handled in the town annually.
The fire department Of Cuthbert has elected
the following officers; George Mcdonald,
Chief; +. NJ. Allison, Foreman Company A:
II. Tobias, Foreman Company b: John ID.
Gum, secretary and Treasurer; A. Wilson,
Engineer; 4. McGam6le. Foreman hose; r.
j. Anthony, Assistant Foreman hose.
At the first annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Peoples National Bank Of
AmeTieu5, held Tuesday evening, the old
Board OF Directors and officers were e-elect-
cd. A second semi-annuRl dividend Of per
cent. was declared. After declaring the divi-
dend there renamed over $1,000 of undivided
profits.
TIE city Of LaGrange has reduced its debt
TO $1,000, the surplus money IN the treasury
having been used to discount N re bonds, due
next April. Within two or three years the
city viii bc entirely out OF debt. Thes. bonds
were the SIS. 600 subscription 10 tile North aud
twenty miles short OF the town.
That the re idents OF Atlanta are a re-
maTkably tender hearted set OF people has
been demonstrated in many ways during the
late cold spell. Among lhe other instances it
mny be mentioned that the ladies along the
Metropolitan Street Railroad. ma ie it pleas
ant for the horse car drivers by sending from
time 10 time, q gOOdly supply Of hot coffee.
The celebrated John Broad viii case. which
has been pending in the State supreme Court
for some time past. has at last reached a set
tlemcnt. The settlement Is IN the nature OF
Omprumse between those who claim that the
will IS genuine and those who claim that it is
q forgery. Each OF the claimants receive a
part Of the estate, which is to be divided by
Four months ago Miss Carrie Williams. OF
Atlanta gave birth to a child. On Wednes-
day night last it apparently died. but upon
reaching the cemetery where the interment
was TO be made the infants body was so warm
that the mother believed it still alive. and
instead OF COnsigning il TO the grave carried
st back 10 the city and consulted physicians.
Tho evidences were 20 puZzling that they
ordered the mother to keep the infant till
Friday morning In the morning there was
no longer any doubt OF death, and the burial
occurred.
At Homer Wednesday a case Of considerable
interest was tried between Ransom Boswell
and Jessie Borders, involving the possession
of 4 child years of age. Borders married
BosWels daughter, and just before her death
left the child. then an infant, TO Boswell and
his wife with certain request, etc. Borsters
sgain married, and after nine years obtained
possession OF the child, and refused to let it
remain any longer with its grand parents.
Whereupon Boswell sued out a writ of habeas
corpus and the case came up for trial. The
habeas corpus was dismissed and the child
was turned over to its father.
A crazy negro living Tom Brooks
place about eight miles from Athens. de-
mandea Of Mr. Brooks $500. Mr. Brooks re-
fused, aud the negro produced an old army
sabre aud told Mr.. Brooks that the Lord had
commanded him to kill him He then made
q rush with his sabre, and Mr.. Brooks got his
gun, which the negro wrenched out of his
hand altar eutffuU him severely the arm