Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Another Large Tract of Real Estate at
stake al AtIanta-F ederaI Officers Wis
iting the Old Battle Ground at Atlanta
Murder at BIackshear.
GEORGIA.
The Rev. NJ. Pattillo,of Rome died Thursday
night.
The price Of saloon licenses at Rome will re-
main al 800.
George Sassen, well-known character Of
Atlanta, is dead.
Talbotton has received about 1000 bales of
cotton this season.
y case Of mumps has rendered young man
Ia Dodge county non c0mpo6 meHfis.
There are several alum wells near Harlem.
People who use them say that the water
tastes very much like alum.
james Thomas, living near Butler, is in jail
charged with raping the twelve-year-old
daughter Of Drew Chldress.
Picnic announcements are beginning to
crop out. one Of the nrst Of the season will
be held al Island shoals April l9.
An old negro named Henry Dudley was
killed near Hamburg by "a sack of corn falling
upon him while lie was unloading a wagon.
Governor Vance has declined the honor Of
being the commencement orator at Athens
University. II now falls upon Gen. Gordon.
The Clarke Light Infantry, Of Augusta,
have accepted the invitation sent them bY the
Schuetzen Gesellschaft, Of Aiken, to partici-
pate In the annual festivities on the 22d Of
April.
A. p. Wade and Allen Aspenwall, brothers
ln-laW, OF Blackshear. had a difficulty d day
or two ago IN which the latter was stabbed
and the former seriously hurt by blows on the
head with board.
The Banks county veterans will have
another reunion this summer. Secretary NJ.
l.. Mcdonald has appOinteda committee from
each company that went from Banks to meet
at Homer and make arrangements.
Should the fair be held ia Macon this year.
one Of the features viii be reunion of the
Twelfth Georgia Regiment. Mr.. y. Il. John
son is the prime mover, ami he is now waiting
TO see what VIII be done with the fair.
The McDunie county grand jury have just
made their presentments. Everything is re-
ported in "a satisfactory condition. There is a
balance of S5,34j l6 on band. The jury refused
10 recommend the adoption of the new road
law.
The Thomasville Enterprise gets OF the
following: THE only objection 10 calling
the annex to the town proposed by Messrs.
Dam and Cotton 'Damville,' Will be that the
inhabitants thereof viii be known as Dam
Williams
The Columbus Guards have received their
new uniforms. The coat is dark blue, trim
med with buff, and the pants are gray with
buzz trimming. The uniform is very hand-
some, and is said TO be much preferable to the
red coats formerly used by the company.
Next Monday the Marietta barkeepers will
close out their business at that place. The
prohibition law gives them until April l3, but
TO sell after April would require the paving
OF extra license, and they feel that the eX-
penses would exceed the profits for so short
time.
J. J. Jackson, the well known artesian well
bOrer of Albany. was severely pounded by
Jesse Beall at Albany Wednesday, the latter
charging Mr.. jackson with having msulted
his mother. jackson denied the charge, but
did not prove rs handy with his fists as the
Warllke Beail.
S. $. Sweet, Of the Albany Netgs d1,9 Idrey-
q a
conveying the sad lnteils sence OF the death of
his aged father the State of Indiana. Mr..
Sweet is well known as one of the correspond
ents Of the MORNING NEWS. and in his be
Tsavement VIII have the sympathy of a wide
circle Of friends
Mrs. 81. \. Greer, one of the oldest settlers
OF BChalD county, died near Decatur on the
10Th inst She married. lived and died i'm the
same house. She was married IN 1929. There
were born 10 her thirteen children and seven
ty-One grandchildren and great grandchil-
dreu. She was 1uf toriy-elght years con-
sistent member OF the Prlmitlye Baptist
Church.
The poisoning Of Thomas j. Bramlett, OF
Rabuh county, bV his wife. has proven 10 be
hoax. Bramlett has gone crazy from trouble
with the revenue uuietfS ana lmaElncs his
wife is trying To poison him. He Is now hid
out in the mountains and trying to steal his
children. His wife is nice lady and has to
be guarded by her brothers. BramiGtt's fam
iI~ believes his tale of the poisoning and Keen
him supplied with provisions.
The "A 7rrenton C{iBDer says. 'IIOn. w q.
Braddv. of lidseJcg county, states that bUz-
Zsrt scars about over his neighborhood which
ne has been seeing '''r the last thirty years. Il
is identified bv a broken leE. Lhis may be re
garded incredulous 81 t~ttiheh1 H4 soihe-
but MIR. Braddy is gentleman ~ uni 'se@ttoli-
able veracity, and his assertion is suS1hlhcu hy
the fact that the longevity Of a buZZar,, Is re-
ported by scientists 20 approximate 100 years.
The peaceful inhabitants Of Warrenton have
for some time past been greatly annoyed by
Na.. ..Hr r.-n.# g
town from ITS midnight slumbers by changing
all the public bells in the place. Last Satur-
day night. however, Marshal Ed Cody came
near catching the ringers. He fired three
shots at them as they were retreating i'm the
distance, but was too far on TO do any dam
age. The Town Council are determined TO
stop the nuisance if ir costs an inquest.
The following is from the WarrentOn
Clipper: "Our farmers are fearfully behind
m their work. Large fields OF corn that have
been planted VIII have TO be replanted ON &C.
count OF tie washing rains, and the ground
continues sc wet as TO render all field opera
ti0ns impossible. Unless there Is an early
change iu the weather, the acreage Of corn
will le SMALL and preparation of cotton lands
greatly retarded. The prospects now are,
that this Will be an unpropltious year with
the farmers
The jackson 4rgas says: Mr.. ). i smith,
Ol Black Ankle district, tHls county. narrowly
escaped a serious loss one day last week. He
bad driven two rne mules To High Falls Mill,
and while crossing the bridge, the mules be-
on the same. and but Tor the timely arrival of
MIR. s. inn, the mules and wagon would have
been thrown from the bridge and been q total
loss. The taad, consisting of ten or twelve
bushels of corn end wheat, the body and hind
wheels were dumped into the river below,
and were taken out in d damaged condition.
Gen John ". Fuller, who commanded the
VOurth division OF the sixteenth corps IN the
Viy Of Tennessee during the siege OF VI
-. with Col. II. Churchill. of the Twenty
es,,t Ohio. who was I'm his division. spent
IT,''rsI., 'o0bcng over the battlefield OF the
80, ~ - Ihese gentlemen were engaged
in no besviest 0ari % the fight ON that 42y
-, .,-N - - 'su, Mcpherson was killed,
,j -, .,-,,i,,,ii < The troops charged by
Gen. w. II. Il. Walker, lC15S, e' ,be,ie
Cleburne, m the bloody - Ibnr@i.tlI
Gen. Walker lost his life. 80. ~
buried twenty-siz Of his regime II
days battle and was himself WOunU~
Henry Foster. the l2-year-Old son of "1,oi
1Ographer at Irion Factory. took his dog a ."
gun Tuesday and went hunting. He failed to
return home and a search resulted Wednes
day in the finding of the boys dead body IN
Chapel creek, half a mile distant from the
factory. An examination of the body showed
that the deceased had been shot in the temple
10y charge Of buckshOt, which had blown
hole in his temple. into which lady might
thrust her hand. Fifty yards further up the
creek from where the body was found the
searcheFs found the boys shot aud powder
pouch, and on the bank near these were signs
OF a scune ana clots of blood. The boys dog,
vva.S seen with him Tuesday afternoon. and
his o-i u can nowhere be found.
some @ the stockholders Of the old south
ern RallN -ay Security Company, believing
rbaf thor, vV 0re not treated fairly in the SET
fIen,enf 81 tba company affairs. have brought
snifsf Atlanta a, rainst the Atlanta Real Estate
ComDanv fo recSy-,V II a vast tract of suburban
nrol,ertv in the rear II the Second and Third
wards. now held hv tie Atlanta Real Estate
Company, valued all the way lIolu $1,000 70
100000 The property wa oIlslnlly NJ neLt ey
the Southwestern Company. Uu6 'iiS lIi. lIiatHtln9
the Atlanta National Bank, -, - = yaThsVh' f-,
Of Knoxville: Susan Z. COiem eh, oI hLoA-
vile. and CharesJ Martin. Of Ca aItalloo},d
expect 10 prove the sale Illegal. 1"S my my
ests OF the plaintiffs aggregate SlOl 90 ~
rs follows: Atlanta National Bank, N4J,VgV'
Mrs. johnson. 5000: Charles J. Martin. f4o,-
1O0i r. c. Jackson, $1,000.
r1ne Columbus Times Of Wednesday says;
.sThe Es2lle and Phenix Mills have been COM
PEELED 10 suspend operations for four or i've
davs ON account OF high water. III lt be true.
as some OF our mill men aver. that the world
now possesses cotton goods sufficient for the
next three years demand, even if every mill
in the world was stopped for that length of
time this interference would possibly not be
damaging 10 the stockholders, but the opera
tives. whose daily bread depends upon their
daily labor, are not little distressed The
dry summer and fail of last year indicated,
with almost unerring certainty, excess Of rain
at this season. and no one Is surprised at re
suits. The laboring poor, however, have mol
heretofore been accustomed TO lose short peri
Ods of time in such rapid succession, and IL
NAV, and probably viii, very materially aHect
both their eXchequers and larders."
Monday a Webster county correspondent OF
the Americus Republican wrote as follows:
''Whst are folks to do about cyclones. Ihey
are becoming disagreeable, If not dangerous.
morning about 4 o'clock. 1t made adip about
200 yards south Of the house and made things