Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-04


dren and a Stolen Mule Hurried
Through Quitman.
GEORGIA
The cracksmen have reached Rome.
Moore's Mill, in Coffee county, wants post
office.
"Uncle Billie" smith was Gainesyile's first
Mayor.
One farmer in Oglethorpe has $50 bales Of
cotton yet TO gin.
J. A. Hope has found a topaz on his planta-
ton IN Forsyth county.
Tax Receiver John c. Chew, of Burke coun-
ty, died at LawtOnyille Friday.
In l,0I5 poll tax payers in Lumpkin county
there are only forty cOlOrcd ones.
A colored boy lives in Dahloncga who drew
a pension until hc was sixteen years old.
Geology shows that ages ago Sawnee noun
tain was much higher than 1t IS at present
Eight hundred dollars was taken from the
Franklin mine, in Forsyth county, at one run
The Columbus bar met FRIDAY and passed
resolutions euOgstc Of the late Judge CraW-
ford.
A Gainesville chicken recently killed was
found tO have three tiny nuggets Of gold IN It's
giZZard
The town Of Quitman is now a third-class
post office, and = NJ. Griffin has been re-
appointed Postmaster.
J. W. HanlOn has started a new paper at
Albany called the Albany Medium. IL viii
appear every saturday.
j. W. AchOrn, a Main ship builder, is at
Darien securing cargo Of white oak. which
he viii ship North and test in his yard.
President Lewis J. Render. of the First Ma
tioual Bank of LaGrange, has Just received
the first currency OF the bank and signed his
first bill.
DR.. Burrows, whose church was damaged
by fire in Augusta Saturday. preached to his
congregation at Masonic Theatre in that city
Yesterday.
Henry Clay. a Marion county negro, has
fathered seventeen children, all of whom are
living save one. He has been married seven
teen years.
A dead body has been found in a sewer at
Atlanta. Whether it is a case of murder and
who are the parents of the child was shrOuded
iu mystery AT last accounts.
W. I. Atkinson, of Newman. has been
solicited to make the race for Senator of the
Thjrty-sINth District, but declines ON account
of close confinement to professional duties.
The grand jury recommend the County
Commissioners TO levy tax for the present
year and not TO exceed siX-tenths Of / per
cent on tne taxable property Of Epson county
for county purposes.
proposition has been made to build thor
ough system of sewers in Athens, the city TO
pay a bonus of $4,000 for the use of them,
while a direct tax VIII be charged citizens
who wish to tap them.
The stewards of the Palmetto and Fairburn
VI. +. Churches held q meeting Monday TO fix
the salary OF their pastor. Eight hundred
between the two places.
Two Georgians crossed over the river at
Hollands Ferry and back on Sunday. They
disagreed as TO who should pay the ferriage,
and finally settled the matter by crossing and
reer0ssing again ana diyiding expenses.
The Athens market is well supplied with
game. Partridges are sold for 10 cents: Opos-
sums at from > cents 90 81; turtles at from Is
10 50 cents; venlson hams. 81; beaver meat. 10
cents. \ mOuntaineer saws that he Will send
superior Court convenes at Fairburu this
morning. At this court John Thomas. who
was convicted year ago of murder without
recommendation and whose case was carried
to the supreme Court and affirmed. viii be re-
sentenced. There are no very important
criminal cases TO come before the court for
trial.
Can't John A. Cobb. of Americas. is noyv
hauling TO Harold, johnson K Co, the sur
plus corn made on his farms in Sumter county
tast year. lt amounts 90 5000 bushels. This
result was obtained without unreasonable re-
strlcuon upon his cotton crop, which amounted
to over $50 bales, in the face of q dry fall. In
lSSz be made over 500 bales.
The African Methodist Church Just erected
on Clarke street, Atlanta, costs $4,000. $4,000
OF which Is unpaid, j. G.. 1elscr, ID. d. is out
lu card asking Atlanta to help them Re
Gently tins card fell under Gen. L. j. Gar
trelIs notice, and realizing the great work
the church had done he sent them $3.50. The
congregation appreciated the gift and have
recognized it by giving TO the beautiful stained
glass window the title of the Gartrell memo
rial window.
Two cOnyicts escaped from the chain-gaug
at.BaNley. One knocked guard on the head
with an adze. but was soon recaptured. The
other, John els, pretending TO be sick and
unable TO work, was left alone in bOX-car
w eduesday- during which time he cut a hole
IN the bottom through which he escaped be-
fore daylight on the subsequent morning \
vigorous search has been instituted by the
sheriff, but his efforts to recapture him have
SO far failed.
THERE'S a good prospect now of Athens get
ing the electric light, the ctty's new water
works have just been completed, there is
scarce a Yacant store IN town, magnificent
three-story brick business block is about to be
commenced q new Ice factory is soon to
be built. the city has just purchased quarry,
us streets are T. be put in the best condition
possible, and the citizens boast one Of the best
local newspapers that press ever printed
facts which iudisputably prove that the citv
IS on healthy boom.
The Nerjretbey TiHdic1tor says: "a lew
daVs ago q little negro child ! wears old fell
into the well OF Henry b. Leverett. OF Warm
Springs district. The well was 80 feet deep
and none of the freedmen being willing TO 20
down altar the child il drowned before Mr.
Leyerett could get TO the house. lie descended
into the WELL ana securing the lifeless body
attached the well rope and had it drawn to
the surface. Had any of the negro men pres
ent, when the whereabouts Of the child was
lrst discovered, been willing to have gone
down into the well the little ones life ight
have been saved
The Quitnan Free Press saws: "a shooting
aifraY occurred IN Madison, Fla, on Saturday
last, between 4. :. Church and a man named
Phillips. An old grudge was at the bottom of
the difficulty. and il Is said that Phillips had
threatened 60 kill Church very often of late.
Fuller Grower, of this place, was present. and
was insulted by Phillips without the slightest
pr0vocation simply because he was a friend of
Ouurchs. Phillips was shot ia the back by
Church. and at first il was thought the wound
.Tf
rver, Is To the effect that Phillips IS improving
and viii recover
The Quitman Free Press says: ',On Thurs
day morning last, about daybreak, a man
passed through Quitman on a mule with
IUle girl behind him, accompanied by boy
f1dlnE mule. They made no halt. but took
the road leading to ThOmasyille. In the after
noon two meh reached Quitman in pursuit Of
The party. They stated that the mules, a sum
of money and the children had been stolen
from Mr.. WeathingtOn, of Mad son county,
Florida The two men only stopped a short
time 20 rest and started again IN pursuit OF
the fugltives, accompanied by Constable Car
ter. l p to this writing nothing further has
been heard from the pursuers o. pursued"
The Chief of Police Of Rome has received
The following pathetic appeal from dying
and heart-bFOEen mother: "Please search
the sporting houses Of your city and see If
YOU can find girl by the name OF -, who
ran away with woman of i'll fame few
days ago. II You can find her, tell her that
my days are but few in this life, aud that if
she would see me again on earth, she must
come right away. If she has no money to
come on please send her home, for / am not
able to send for her. She is my baby. and so
EoGug. Tell her how her mother misses her.
Tel her that her sister is at home and will
not live Long Please send her home" Early
Friday morning a very pretty and attractive
gir' seemingly about Il or rs years old, and
neatly dressed, was noticed en- she streets by
many She was evidently stranger IN the
city, and passed 10 and down Broad street
Hss or six times withSut any apparent pUr-
pose fr view. When the police searched Tor
her latei IN the day she could rot be Iound'
a. Marietta, Friday night, negro, named
" Nesly Con, got druHiS, and raised such row
that the Eity Marshal was sent for. COL get
ting WING o. it., fled, pursued by tte Marshal.
Nh0 was led by his curslng. Finding the
Marshal gaining UpOn him he hid behind a
leDce, aud as the Marshal passed, sprang out
upon hlla. aud attempted &c cut him. They
grappled. and in the scuille the Marshal broke
i.ls club to splinteFs over tine negrO's head. in
hic-ing a scalp wound that bled terribly.
Pulffn 2 loose. the negro fed Later. parties
cane 10 town and reported that they had
found n min - all bloody whom the ears had
run over. TpCu investigation it was found 10
De the negro WHOM the Marshal had clubbed,
He had crawled Uuder irelgnt car 10 hide.
and attracted the pSfi3es by us sTOahs. iie
was brought to town ma lQused IN ne cana
bo05e. Saturday morning he was tried DSIore
the Mayor and fined SIS and costs. or thirty
Gays work on the streets. Having no money
he viii work the streets. His wound Is dan
gerous but not fatal.
Ihe Th0mastOn Times saws: son last FRI
clay tternOOn, in the Superior Court, WRat Is
known ss the kukluX case was called. The
glll of indictment charged six persons with
breaking ints the house on j. {. Jlmmerson
anu pulling h!m osit OF the Oed with MS Wlle'
and in the presence os his family, giving nlm
a severe whipping with hickOrIes and leather
straps Two OF the defendants, 7. }. willing
nam and Harry Gilbert. placed demand Ior