Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

strange Freak of an Atlanta Tippler-
Murder Among Cubans at Key West
Further Particulars of the Fire at
Co,ington-SinguIar Sequel to the At
Isutan's Dream.
GEORGIA.
N.- Mahala Hall, Of Oconee county. Is dead.
sergeant o. II. Bates, his son and the flags.
l-.t.I at Atlanta Monday.
tween 80 and IS hands will be EMPLOYED
Il uIIkiusvilie's new barrel factory.
r-- Rosa L. McCOllum. of At anita has
taken charge Of the McAfee HOus.. at Can
Campbell couuty's barrooms close Monday
urat. prohibition went into Oper tiOn YES
ter3ay.
The railroad prospect has iuduceo several
persons to move to Buena Vista to engage in
business.
William Prime, an English diicher IN BUS
trE- l-idna was crowned one night th week
lr aa attempt TO swim the Altamaha T YER
The marriage, at Camilla of a bschelor
J.U. about fifty, TO Gentle young adv of
Sixteen summers, Is expected to occur Don.
Marshal Richards Of Talbotton. secu~ad re-
wards offered i0r the arrest Of culprits guiltv
n. miuoI crimes last year. aggregating S200
Nrar Camilla. Jarrett, eolored. sbof. mis- IA
-..--fu-law. W yatt Oliver, colOred ald tba
.e.r died. The murderer made his e,eape
red boy named Ed. WimberIt who
-.ar H-eii win a toy pistol at A1susta
OHa=, dleI sunday night from Iod jaw.
the wound.
- carolina jockeys went to w,lnes-
.r. u.th ia couple Of trotters got mn , fsce
..l carried of an the loose change therelFras
the local sports.
ST ulrien. on Christmas eve. Belles De
-i., aged ten years. accidentally shot her
-.I through the head with pistol RI
u1uui painful but not mortal.
mistake in Yesterdays issue made az
..sit-n of the y Aetrs and Signal on ceffain
'rtuqate scenes o. CHRISTMAS eve apII s Is
Iuc.u51 Adams, c0lored. of Colunkne
Wl-r stealing plank from the yard Ii a
r..-lilr early sunday morning. fell iIh a
well forty feet deep and sustained serlaus
l.Ule-.
Thomas Cary, carpenter, whose father is
-lH. O.. ue Well-t0-dO contractor OF Column
-..HI.I iu Atlanta Monday in pitlable cir
cum-iancc- Tie leaves wife who was faith
luL o. tue end.
W. 3D. % utson. of the Governors execu
t.re-.I'. received a registered letter Monday
tHl. t.aa exactly slXty-dve days to make the
tru from oEIethorpe county The notice of
Il. registry came in slNty-twO days,
Tile Columbus iron works is buiIdirg~ three
Iet muchnes-One for the Columbus ice
works. which has "a capacity of 10000 pounds
uf pure. El0j ice daily. The other two ma
chimes are being bulls Tor the Fort Worth
I-. Company. Of Fort W0~th, Texas. They
ha.a % contract to build and put them up for
which they get $4,000 each.
Aue-ro was killed just above Harmony
orfEc, ON the Northeastern train on Wednes-
lag last The negro was to stop at Harmony
Gr1Fe- but being asleep the train started. 4
trun HHnd aWoke him, and he attempted to
jump from FIAT while the train was in mo-
tun. anl was badly injured that he died
soon after reaching Maysviue.
Au olj gentleman i'm Atlanta has been tell
u- about The good old days when wholesale
merchants We're wont to provide their country
customers with theatrical tickets whenever
fleT were in town. The old gentleman also
rsiuembers when Jenny Lind and other stage
ts itErl Of
c'H7 thrown to them on the stage by the
audience.
squire Germany. an Atlanta negro, was
Shot and instantly killed SUNDAY morning in
Newman. lie was offering for sale the mule
which hc stole from 4. 4. Smiths stables in
Atlanta last Wednesday night while the
owner was lying IN bed dreaming of burglars,
fueutipu Of which was made in this column at
the time. Germany refused to O6 arrested.
and William Jarrell, who was pursuing him.
fred his pistol at hin, sending bullet through
bis heart aud causing almost instant death.
THE shooting was pronounced stfable.
ID. >. Collins was married in 1857 to Mary
Auu Williamson, daughterof of Andrew J. VIII
hanson. of Emanuel county. They lived
together mp to = out a year ago, having five
ur ~IN children born to them, when they sepa
rated. Collins went to live near Homeryille
some SIN months ago, where he has since
lived. ON the 10Th of this month be was mar
rei To- Mrs Indie DickcrsOn. widow of
David DickersOn. and daughter of the late
Josiah Sirmans, >r.. among the best faEnilies
marriage coming 10 the relatives of Mrs.
Dlckers0n, they found upon Investigation the
facts % be true. Collins Is now under arrest
as q bigamIst-
Joe DELANEY. c0lored. of Columbus, who had
been absent from home some time. returned
sunday night and demanded GImttance at
mis- wife's house. which was refused. He left
the door and " few mlnut returned and
forciliy eutereR the house. IN the meantime
his wife had taken refuge under the bed,
imagining that she would be safe from the
frsff of her Delaney "A
pistol and fired it under tie bed. The shot
took effect in three places in the thighs of the
woman. The wounds bled quite freely and,
though they are not dangerous, are very pam
ful. Delaney fed and has not been captured.
No reason Is assigned for the desperate con-
duct of the man. The woman VOWS that there
was no man ia the case
j. W. Banks. an Atlanta tipper, amused
himself and frightened all the women and
children in his neighbOrhOod by carrying the
decomp"sed leg and arm of a woman into
their houses in his arms while in his cups.
Banks viii be arrested. A short time ago "a
portion OF a corpse was found in the vicinity
of the Macon depot. These remains were sup
posed at the time to have been portion of
some phvsician' subject. lost from the Vehi-
Gle in which they were being conveyed under
the cQEasraf night. TO suitable burylng place.
mn tents were buried under platform
uear the Macon yard. and it is supposed that
fhev were uuearthed by dogs, and were
stumbled upon by Banks while in some of his
idle WanGerings. just what punishment is
hanging over Banks head it is hard TO deter
mine. but lac VIII 10 doubt be properly dealt
with by the authorities.
4 later dispatch from COvingtOn SAYS Of
Monday uighth's fire: ''The fire origi-
mated IN X. ". Bagby's barroom-cause,
defective stove 1ue. The store is situated
lin the centre of the north block. The
centre of ths block was consumed, including
the court house. Messrs. !. W. DearIng.
general store: Henry Horton. barrOOm and
restaurant: X. ". Ragby- barrOOm; ". F.
Wells. postmaster and fancy groceries; j. W.
Levy. jeweler; NJ. d.. SOckwel, barroom;
George johnson, cOlored, barber; court house
consumed. All partially insured. Col. Capers
DicksOu's entire law Office, books, papers. etc.
burned. The records of the court and county
land almost entirely. Great excitement and
fear at one time that Hunter X Andersons 5
store. between the court house and CONs
hotel would burn. The fire was under control
at 10 p. m. the Enterprise Office and outfit was
burned. ;. W. Hawkins saved only his book
onice upstairs over Bearings, and nothing
else saved
The Athens BgHner- WGtchmGR says: "Mr.
Tom Hampton. accompanied by Professor
Barrow Yesterday visited the mill tract, six
miles from Athens, belonging 10 the Hampton
estate. TO see if there was any iron ore or mica
uu The place. They made thorough lnyesti-
cation, and Professor Barrow thinks the IRON
ore is splendid and is worth looking alter
They discovered q great deal OF mica. some
Ferf large. but could not tell how much there
.-gf it, Four shafts sunk on the place. 10
looked like some one had been prospecting ior
-olt, auG after questioning an OLD muller ti,i'
hai lived on the place for long tlme MI
hampton lOun0 out thaL Mt. bOil udu. mum
Dep Of wears ago. sunk a shaft for gold, ana
Lai found Il in paying quantities. MI Coit
-,l+ q ueculiar old man. and would never ten
ANYTHING about it. There once was In
Athens an old maa who would 90 our
on ~uudavs and bring in SS or -
worth OF gold at night. lie would never al
NplSe the secret, and we feel confident that
ta, is the place he found it. If there Is no
gold tle Hampton heirs have a good fortune
-u jhe iron and mica that is to be found. MT
Hampton Is receiving quite numDer OF re-
ler- regard to tine iron and mica. auu We
hope soon 10 chronicle the fact that IOmmi5
Hampton owns line or two Of steamers ana
--rerai trunk railroads with any number OF
short lines. Good luck to you, Tom; we nope
you may strike it rich
FLORIDA.
a sailor was robbed and dangerously shot
daring the week AZ Pensacola.
The marines will give ball at the Pensa-
cola navy yard January l0.
Orlando VIII give the grandest ball IN ler
history 40 the opera house in that town Jan
uary 3.
The taxable property Of YolusIa county !
sl.9l0.0O0, the rate per cent. of taxation being
only 10 mills
George Harden. colored. who made his es-
cape from the Quincy jail in July. 1881 mas
been arrested.
The proprietor of the Key West skating RINK |
Nas wounded in the thigh by an unknown as
-I--lu who fired at him from hush few |