Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09

Kane's Expedition to the Arctic in
Search of Franklin Lately on 1t. 81
mons Island.
GEORGIA.
The Bridges arson trial at Forsyth ended IN
an acquittal.
Whisky carried the election in Thomas
county Monday.
The Superior Court for Lee county cOnvenes
at LeesburE on next Monday.
Two couples have been married from the
Clarke county jail in the past year.
Dr. Jelks and Mr. Hines bid in the Quitman
factory at the public sale Tuesday.
The young vegetables in LaGrange were
nearly all killed by the freezes, necessl ltatlng
q general repianting.
a Long Cane lady, IS years Of age, is cut
ting an upper front tooth. It's predecessor was
removed eight years ago.
The Rome Hook and Ladder has challenged
the Pioneers, of Athens, To meet them IN Ma
con ana run for the champion belt
Georgia has 5l3.415 sheep, worth 81 80 head,
as against Z. .956. .27j head in Texas. worth S2 p
each, and l,5S2.ll6 hogs, worth s. 81 each.
RevJ. :. Bean. a learned divine Of Angus
Ia, Is spoken OF ln connection with the va
cant pastOratc of the LaGrange Presbyterian
Church.
Adiutant General stephens has ordered that
an election for Captain OF the Rome Light
Guards be held at the c0mpauy's armorY next
Tuesday.
A negro womau3 OF Hamilton claims TO be
one hundred and three yeers old. Not
another citizen is Old enough to disprove her
allegation.
Prof T. B. Mass who has been principal Of
Meson Academy at Lexington since lS49, has
rendered his resignation to the trustees. No
action has been taken as yet.
The assessors have just finished their labors,
and report as Brunswick's wealth: Real es-
tate, SSi3,S2t; improvements. S5o9.e50; total,
81. .433 .677-an Increase of $4,000.
ion WI
meet at Columbus on the 23d Of April. 1t is
expected that the attendance viii be large.
There will be between 700 and SEQ delegates.
Camplin's circus was purchased in Rome
Thursday by J. =. Webb. The organization
had been doing poor business and the at
taches are left IN the lurch with four weeks
salary due them.
Four thousand dollars in newly authorized
bonds Of the city of Brunswick are to be sold
shortly. The interest, PAYABLE sem1-annualty
m cash, viii run fOr about twenty years,
bearing per cent
The Monroe grand jury do not recommend
the imH4GF1fate adoption of the new road law.
They recommend the repeal OF the law
nominate new Judge
Sunday morning K. G.. Hood. of Hamilton,
received telegram announcing the award OF
the first and fourth gold medals in Baltimore
Medical College to his son, DIR. E. Van Hood.
The class Is composed Of l40 graduates.
The pauper list of TTOup county numbers
about ll2 persons, most of whom are simply
aided, not wholly supported, by the county;
About twO-thirds are aged or afflicted
cOlOred people. The cost Is about S325 per
month.
The wild lands advertised for sale for un-
paid taxes during the past month IN the Balm
bridge Democrat were not sold on Tuesday
last, the Attorney General having decided
that il was necessary that they should be ad-
vertised for three months before they can be
sold.
young man in Quitman, wrote a certain young
lady "A note last sunday morning asking her
10 Join him in a buggy ride that afternoon, to
which she replied that she had a previous en-
gagement to be married at ele ven o'clock
a. M
The Chattahoochee boat ventured as far as
HairstOn's Ferry last week. 1t ran ashore and
was gotten on after two days hard work.
The weather was cold and the hands suffered
fearfully. A weeks blasting will make ii
easy TO pass the rocks. \ lock VIII be built at
Bentley's dam this summer.
The wife of gentleman living near Ham
iltOn has presented him with fourteen chll-
dren-eight SONS and six daughters. He was
thrown from a horse last summer, and a ply
scian who happened to be passing at the
time was called in. This Is the only medical
bill he has made since his marriage.
Monday a twO-rOOm kitchen IN Dr. j. @.
GibsOn's yard. at Crawford. was totally de
strOyed by fire. The wind was blowing
q yale. and for awhile fears were entertained
Tor THIS gentleman uMtllAuE anu ScNtFdl
other houses in the vicinity, but luckily
nothing else caught. The origin of the fire is
not known.
The OglethOrpe Echo of March says: "a
move is on foot TO lay before the commission
ers of the new capitol IN Atlanta some sam
pies OF granite found in eXhaustless quantities
i'm this section. It has been proven that the
granite found here is not eXcelled in the
United states, and we confidently expect
the capitol, or a part of it, to be built from
OglethOrpe granite. If so Lexington VIII
have railroad and the whole county be ben
eflted."
The Athens Baauer Waterman says: "a
stranger was in town last week. Ostensibly as
an agent for the sale of guanO, bat he in
formed a citizen that this business was only a
blind. He came here to demand $4,000 from
an Athenlan, and If the money was not forth
coming that the state would soon he as
founded with a revelation he could make. 4
few days ago he showed the party a check for
shat sum, and said that all had been arranged.
There was considerable excitement yesterday
over the matter. We predict that there Is
nothing whatever in it
J. F. Cooper, the United States Marshal
who refused TO pay fare for guard who was
with him, on an East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia Railroad ira n last summer. and
drew his revolver on the conductor when he
threatened to put him of. has been arrested
at Newman. soon after the esCapade Cooper
was dismissed from the United States service,
but had previously secured a bOndsman who
became responsible for his appearance to an
swer the conductor sicOmplaint in court. The
bOndsmau was left in the lurch, and Cooper
continued at large until his capture at New
nan.
The St. Simon's correspondent OF the Bruins
wick AdCertiSeF says: "AprOpOs of the recent
reception in honor of the heroic dead and
survivors who have lately arrived in New
York on board the Hamburg steamer. we are
reminded that William Baker. an old sailor,
lately at the Mills, as one OF the crew of the
British bark LandSeeT. Is probably the Onlv
wing member of that noble hand who -
cOmnaned DR.. Elish Kent Kane in his cele-
bra ed expedition IN 1888 and 1854, in search of
Sir John Franklin and his men. Baker Is still
q hearty old man, and his eyes gllsten with
wOnted fire as he recOunts to admiring hear
ers the adventures and hardships of the la
mented Kane and his heroes"
The LaGrange Reporter says: "Mr. Silas
Brown, the Heard county gentleman who had
a disastrous visit from couple of robbers last
week. was in LaGrange on Saturday We
learn that he deposited his remaining funds
in one OF our banks. He says that the men
were masked, and that their hair, in
its disguise, seemed to be long and
straight. He heard a noise in the
ward, and, as he was expecting his
brother at that moment, bade the persons
come in. They entered and Immediately
pointed their guns at him, calling on him to
look cut and to deliver his money. Dir. Brown
was so frightened that he ran out of the
house, falling into the yard in his haste. He
went under the house and thence to his negro
cabins. In the meantime the men hauled out
q trunk containing : $l,500 in greenbacks. John
W. House and boy named Cox were arrested
by the Marshal of Franklin on Saturday on
suspicion of having committed the deed
a MORNING NEWS correspondent writes
from BirdfOrd, Tattnall county. under date Of
March g as follows: We have had a great deal
Of wind and not much rain within the last
month. Farmers are forward in planting. Some
have been done planting corn three weeks. The
cold weather has delayed the crop from com
ing up. l guess the sugar cane crop will be
short. as 10 was so dry in the fail that seed was
dlyitamaged.-Onl last Sunday Shell " aters,
q son Of Wiley Waters was out in the woods
showing some other boys some exploits with
powder. He poured powder out of a gOurd
on the fire There was an explosion. of course,
and the boys hand and face were badly
burned He was better on TueSday-I hear
Mr.. James w. Todd split ten cuts into rails
from one tree, each cut being 1915 feet long
That shows that pines are valuable in TAFT
nall cOunty.-Ihe Oat crop has been killed by
the cOld.-Our farmers have commenced to
farm in easnest this year They are using 3
great deal Of guanO-'
The Albany Nelcs says: "The man who at
tempted TO commit suicide on LOckett Rawls'
place on Tuesday afternoon was Henry Pear
son. eOlOred, who is well known in Albany.
He was sent to the penitentiarT for stealing
some time ago, and had got to be a 'trusty.'
a few nights ago the smOkehOuse on the
place was robbed of some meat. and the THEFT
was fixed upon Henry Pearson. As Henry
was given plenty to eat, Mr.. Mathis, the man
ager OF the place, thought that some one else
was implicated in the stealing, so he told
Henry that If he did not tell who his accom-
plice was he would punish him. Mr.. Mathis
went out to the field and left Henry to medi-
tate upon what he had told him. and after be-
ing left to himself the latter evidently became
reckless and determined to end his life With