Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-11


enced from the Explosion of a Dyna-
mite Cartridge-A Negro Arrested foI
Arson.
GEORGIA.
Forest fires are raging in Coffee county.
DR.. Stirling c. Eve. Of Augusta, is dead.
Arlington has a new industry-a guano fac
tory.
A 75-pound bear has just been killed in Cof-
fee county.
Josiah r. Henry. a prominent citizen Of
CrawfOrdsville, is dead.
It is rumOred that new hotel with lOC
rooms is to be built at Quitman.
Bishop Beekwith was in Augusta yesterday
and is booked for Bel-Air to-day
Mai. SHELTON says he has English peas three
inches high i'm his garden near liartWeH.
Parties ON the Ocmulgee river are now en-
gagged in running their TIMBER 10 the market
and disposiug of it for good prices.
A lady i'm Lowndes has made and sold 500
pounds of butter in one year, nor did she milk
Jersevs either-cOmmOn plney-WOOds cows.
Alta meeting OF the Americus Fair AssOcia-
ton. held a few days ago to wind up the bus
iuess, a dividend was declared Of y s. per
share.
The Columbus cotton seed oil mill company
sold four hundred tons of cotton seed meal to
one customer Friday. This Is an $4,000 trans
action.
II cos.s p. b. Woodward, of Madison coun-
ty, % cents per bushel TO raise corn on his
farm IN that county, and his land Is not high
ly cultivated.
Valdosta merchant made a cash sale of
merchandise 20 the amount Of $3.50 one day
last week TO parties who had come in wagons
dfty-iive miles.
The South Georgia Mirror. the successor of
the south Georgia Immigrant, has made its
appearance at IhOmasville. IL Is d monthly
publication OF unquestlOnable merit.
Mary Williams, a woman of doubtful char
actcr. recently made her appearance near
Gibson. and some of the citizens Of the neigh
bOrhOOd went to the place where she was
stopping and gave her a logging.
The Scriven county Jail has been undergo
ing repairs. The foundation has been made
solid Of brick and cement throughout. and
when the doors and windows are put in
proper order it will be as safe rs can be.
The calhoun County Courier SAYS: "With a
ever before. We haven't had much rain vet,
Many people I'm this county are hauling their
drinking water from stagnant ponds and
pools.
Mr.. Higgins. of Barnesville. has a watch
bearing the following inscription on the in
side of the case: Bought by Catherine Chill
colt. i'm the city Of London. England. in the
year l9Ol-' The movement was in perfect
running order.
There is a strong sentiment in Naldosta in
favor of the purchase of steam fire. engine.
Foreman Bentley. OF the Patterson Is now
IN correspondence with several manuiactur-
lay before the new Council.
Dr. Henderson has declined the proposition
of the trustees of BOWden College. and viii
not accept the Presidency rendered him. DR..
II. was elected President of adlSiu College,
a hourishing Institution of North Carolina.
but has also declined that offer.
The coffee county GIsette says: "A road
leading from the new bridge on the Satilla
river. intersecting with the road from Pear
son to Douglass, Is greatly needed, and with
out 10 the bridge. with AL its expense, viii be
of but little use to the travelling public"
a petition to the Post Office Department has
been extensively signed by the citizens of
Goodies district. Campbell county. asking that
"a post office be established at the gin house of
!. II. Reeves. The name of the Office is to be
Rock Hill, with J. II. Reeves as Postmaster.
The grist mill, gin house and screw of Bunk
Peck, who lives near Hatchcchubbee. were
destroyed by fire Friday night. About 400
bushels of cotton seed were consumed with
the gin house. Mr.. Peck supp0ses that the
fire caught from log heap which was burn
ing near by.
Alex Reed. an employe of the cotton seed
oil mill az COlumbus,was the victim of pain
ful accident Friday. While at work in the
mill his coat was caught i'm the machinery,
and before he could eNtrlcate II he was
snatched upon the shafting and both his legs
brOkcn-Oue of them IN two places.
Eight hundred dollars have already been
subscribed toward securing an arteSian well
for OuItman. The county authorities do not
feel authorized to eXpend any of the county
funds i'm the project, but Will make personal
subscriptions. An effort Will be made to Sc
cure aid from the town authorities.
The Coffee county Gazette says: cone of our
COl0red brothers was brought to trial last sun
day for dancing. but he plead not guilty. He
said that he had partner on the floor and
passed her around on time, still he did not
turn her, and upon this plea he established his
innocence. Moral: Don't turn EN-"
The Quitman Free Press SAYS: "SOme miser-
able wretch entered the house of Uncle Nat
Lovctt. i'm the lower portion Of the county, ON
Wednesday last, and stole 1920 I'm gold, some
silver coin and several other articles. " Var
rants have been issued. He IS very old and
this little hoard is probably all he had
\ few days ago a negro woman ON Judge
I. +. Rainey's plantation. near Euaville. left
one of her children in the house. and it is
supposed that the child went to sleep on the
hearth and caught on fire. The child was SO
badly burned that it died in q few hours.
This is the second child burned to death on
that place this winter.
The West Point Enterprise of Friday saws:
"a month or two ago the Franklin Nelcs and
the Newman HerHld gave an account of a
bellcd buzzard passing over Heard and
COweta counties. Tuesday buZZard with a
bell tied to it was seen on Mr.. Dallas Jack
sons place near here, and must have been the
same that our exchanges spoke Of
The Brunswick AdUertiser SAYS: "The
ubiquitous Col. Gentry has been over TO Al
bany and taken drink Of artesian water
and stopped at the Artesian Hotel. In the
I
that the Artesian Hotel Is the finest he ever
stopped at. Good hotels and good water are
two things every town must have. We con-
gratulate our sister city on having both of
these
Peter Freeman. colored, was brought to
Leary Tuesday by some of his colored breth
rem and locked up Tor burning a house on j.
c. Prices plantation near Williamsburg. Pc
ter and his wife had had domestic trouble,
and Peter who Is considered by many as a
lunatic. became enraged. and losing control of
his passions, as he says, set the house on fire
when his wife had vacated It. for the purpose
of destroying her wearing apparel and other
goods.
The Louisville Ne,rs says: ''The people
down on the river opposite MOXley are eX-
cited over bear that is thought to De i'm the
river swamp. Twenty-One men with guns
Of all sizes. and loaded heavily. found him in
q big thICket one night, but he grOWled so
loud no one would crowd in on him. The
next night torty-hve went to get him, dead or
alive, but he could not be found. If they
catch him, we think they could make money
10y exhibiting il as the native bear of JefIer-
son county"
The Elbert0n >optb SAYS: eve are informed
that Mr.. Il. &. Adams. of this county. has
been quite ill for some time past. a friend
who visited him a few DAYS since informs ms
that he met a brother and sister OF Mr.. Adams
there and the three added their ages together,
which made q total of pa years, K. G.. Adams
being SIS, his sister, Mrs. Davis 81. and his
brother Mr.. John Adams, % years old The
two latter are IN excellent health, old man
John being still able 10 work and make q
living for himself, and Mrs. Davis does all OF
her own knitting and knits socks for sale
Miss Frank Heath. of Unadnla. New York,
died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John An
tell, at Fleming, on Thursday. OF congestion
Of the brain. Miss Heath. with her sister,
Miss stella. came South in December to
spend the winter. and had been here but a
few weeks when she was taken sick. Her
remains were brought TO savannah yesterday
and placed on board the steamship City Of
Augusta, whence they Will be conveyed to
her former home. Her sister stella was
among the passengers on the ship, returning
10 her saddened home.
This week Greensboro Home journal saws:
There was q general closing in of stock on
last Friday. The streets of Greensboro pre-
sented Lonesome appearance, robbed of the
accustomed procession of cows and hogs. In
deed, our eyes were greeted on Friday by
only few gaUnt and skeleton pigs. that
rooted in detected. llstless kind of way
amid the refuse ON the street. But even their
freedom was of short duration. for our Argus
eyed Marshal sWOOped down on them like a
blizzard and run them in. In aii portions OF
the county arrangements were made for the
law and everything moves smoothly along
The Ogleth0rpe Echo saws: According IN
the call. many of the District Road Commis-
siOners Of this county for the year lSS2 and
1852 met ia the court room Tuesday. The oh
iect Of the meeting was TO take into consider
alton the pending prosecution Tor neglect oi
duty and to devise some plans of defense. II
was decided that the Commissioners get sign
ers in their respective districts TO q petl,
tion to Judge POttie, showing that thC
roads had been as well worked as they haC
been since the war, and praying that he no
make them suffer when others were guilty o.
The same Ohense. If the cases 20 to trial one
Of the Commissioners viii be arraigned and
test case made of him, the whole abel
bearing the expenses"
The Carroll County Times saws: Mr.. and
Mrs. IFritcnard. at Hutcherson factory, were
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