Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-24

Cotton Goods Advanced in Price by the
Augusta Mill Men-ShOOting Scrapes at
Gardi-A Daughter Falls Dead Beside
Her Dying Father in Habersham
County. q.
GEORGIA.
The state Baptist Convention meets at At
lanta to-day.
pr, VIM West, an aged citizen Of Rome,
lied Tuesday.
Perry NmsOn. notorious one armed bur-
2lar oil southwest Georgia, has just been re
captured at Albany.
A total Of $500 has been appropriated by the
columbus Council for the tiremanic tourna-
ment to occur in that city shortly.
Columbus Times: ''The little steamer Wewa-
mtchka. which was built in this city last fail.
ana winch was primarily intended as a fish
ing boat. has been recently secured by the
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad to run in its
interest on the Choctahatchee river in West
Florida. II has not yet left our city, and it
viii probably bc some days before II is in con-
dltlOn TO enter upon its new enterprise
Tallulah special, April 81: Henry Ellard,
one OF the WealthIcst farmers of Habersham,
was on his death-bed few days since. HIS
wife died few months ago, and his daughter,
young woman of II, was attending a female
college i'm south Georgia. She was called bv
telegraph 10 the side of her dying father. and,
ou entering the death chamber, She saw that
her father was in the last agony. Rushing to-
ward him, she simply uttered the word
Father and. recliug around. fell to the
floor dead. Both were buried in the same
grave.
Columbus Times: "The body of a negro man
was taken from the river at ChattahoOchee,
Fla, a few days ago. His identity is not posi-
iYely known, but he is believed 10 be Bob
Griffin. the lost stevedOFe from the Evering-
ham, We printed "a statement made by Mr..
Cary, one of the engineers of the Evering-
ham. Immediately after the burning of that
steamer in which 1t appeared that Mr. Cary
Hofa
after lt, and was never afterwards heard Of.
Bob was certainly not burned. and while per-
feet identity Is scarcely possible after so long
"a time has elapsed. there Is little doubt but
that the body of Bob was the one taken from
the water. He was buried at ChattahoOchee -
Oardi correspondent Of the NEWS: Monday
night, dt James turpentlne still. u miles
from here. "a negro named Charles Joiner
shot another negro named Jerry Ferguson,
with 4l-callbre pistol. lie was shot IN the
abdomen and has an ugly wound. DR.. Hack
l- attending him. 1t Is not known whether
.lt wound viii prove fatal.-The negro Dan
Middleton. Who was shot several davs ago is
getting well.-Fully half of the negroes on
most of the turpentine farms 90 armed and
they carry good, double action. five and six
shot pistols, 32. IS or A-cahbFe.-Ihe Difficult
o. between Joiner and Ferguson was about
cards.-We have had splendid rains, and crops
looking are nicely.
Albany Nescs and Adrertfser: "a young
cOlOred man named Washington John
son came mp from Triton sunday eve
ung with pistol BAN i'm his head.
tie had been shot the night before by a white
man named Jake Young. The ball entered
Immediately in front of his left ear. He came
mp to get the attention of Dr. Mcmillan The
latter inserted q probe in the wound. and the
patient, who was standing ON the front porch
of the Doctors residence. tainted and fell.
lie struck his head against the side of the
house a- he fell, and it was fully an hour
before he was revived. He walked up town
To sea the doctor again Monday morning.
The ball is still i'm his head, and the doctor
says he doesn't think he will undertake TO
cut It out, as he has not been able to locate it "
Augusta Chronicle dHd Constitvti0naZist:
-'rhe cotton mill men OF Augusta and of the
state seem 70 have met the question of alleg-
ed over production In a novel way. and in
stead of reducing figures TO work OF what was
believed 10 be an overplus. they have marked
mp prices of goods from q quarter to "a half
cent per yard. The fact is, that although
most of the mills have goods on hand they
feel that they can better AFFORD to hold them
selling them on from time to time as con-
sumers order them. at q paving price-than
work them of at figures below the cost of pro-
ductiOn. The fact Is that, at the present
price of cotton. manufactured goods were far
too low. and what goods are needed will be
taken as readily at the advanced price as at
the recent low figures. until the reaction of
the trade, when IL Is believed matters will i'm
prove all round"