Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-22


GEORGIA.
jug Tavern VIII be Incorporated this sum
mer.
James Wehunt has escaped from Jail at
Ellijay.
Gardeners in Perry have been transplant
ing cabbage plants this week.
Alderman Waite is inquiring into the cost
OF an artesian well for Eastman.
Kerosene street lamps have been ordered
10y the Town Council Of Franklin.
Esther Washington, of Dougherty county,
has been indicted for infantcide.
Twenty-four thousand bales Of cotton have
been compressed al Athens this year.
Thousands OF robins have been killed iu
various parts of Bulloch county this season.
The sixty-siX schools OF Elbert county have
an attendance Of 2,19l children of both races.
Andy Rowland. colored. viii not hang at
Spring Place April + an appeal having been
taken.
Atleast fifty horses have died of the strange
disease now epidemic in OcOnee and lower
Ogleth0rpe counties.
1t IS rumored at Eastman that the railroad
company viii remove the depot At that place
to a site outside Of the town limits.
Col John A. Trenchard. of Ebert, who has
been in the service or the BaDtist Church in
the Indian Territory, Is on q visit home.
The Town Council of Madison has passed
an ordinance ordering all dogs running at
large to be muzzled after the oath of this
month.
NJ. ". Hollis, County Commissioner Of Tall
bot. shot Jordan Williams, c0lored. IN the leg.
The wound necessitated amputatiOn, and
death followed.
Gwinett county's affairs, as shown by the
report of the grand jury, are in q prosperous
condition. There Is "a balance of over $4,000
IN the county treasury.
Five out of the siX prisoners in COyington
jail escaped w Wednesday night by removing
stone from one OF the walls. The one who re-
mained did so from choice.
Rev. George c. Thompson. Of Darien. has
furnished a handsome design for the proposed
City Han at Eastman Work viii be com
mencui On the building at an early day.
Col. L. d. stewart, of Jonesboro. lost his
p0cketboolS last Monday. IL contained SIS in
cash, S1l in exchange. and $500 or $500 in
notes. tie had found no clue TO its where
abOuts at last accounts.
Henry, the eight-year-0ld son of T.'B
Brady, Of Atlanta, was savagely attacked by
two dogs Thursday and badly bitten. The
lrate father sent both of the CANNES to the
happy hunting grounds.
number of sheep belonging to NJ. c.
Perkins, ON the Ogeechee river. ia Bulloch
county, were burned TO death recently by fire
in the woods. Dogs are killing many sheep
IN other portions of the country.
At Laurens Hill. az the commitment trial.
William Rowling was committed Co Jail as ac-
cessory before the fact Of the Andrew McTeer
murder. Henry, the muir ierer. has not been
taken yet OF course Rowling says that he Is
innocent.
Tie Fannin County sunday school AssorIa-
tion held meeting al Morganton on Wednes-
day Of last week, for the purpose of electing a
delegate TO the state sunday school COnven-
tiOn. 10 be held at Columbus, on the 13d. 9th
and Z5th OF April, which resulted in the cleo
tiOn Of o. +. Chastam.
While making brick for Mr.. Berckman's
store, at MaNey's. the Workmen laid bare a
large Indian graveyard and dlsnterred a
number of skeletons. They were surrounded
by shell beads and relics, one being an image
Of man carved from stone. and now in the
possession OF y. Z. Brightwen.
The Hawkinsvile Ne5rs printed the follow
ing: MIR. i. W. Lock. Of DOOly county,,
stepped out the other day and brought down
niuety-sIX black birds at three shots or at
least he found that many, and the probability
Is that he failed to find One-third OF the num-
Der killed, as they were lost IN the grass and
brlar patches"
An old negro, Henry Arnold, so years Of
age, was found dead IN branch near BaIrds-
town last sunday. He had been missing
about two weeks. His body was too near de
cayed To tell anything about how he came to
his death. The water had washed sand over
his body in the branch until he was nearly hid
from view when found.
The Warrenton CIipper says that few
DAYS since an Old negro living on Jesse
Roberts place came To- town and bought
coffin for one of his children who had died
from pneumonia. On Monday he returned
and bought two more collins another child
and his wife having died. He says his whole
family are down with the disease and another
child at the point Of death.
A few DAYS ago. while some of his hands
were clearing on field on his plantation near
EatOutOn. Dir. II. \. COgburn came in posses
sion of q quantity of silver. III seems that an
old tree. containing hollow. was burned In
the debris was found quantity of melted
silver. DIR. COgbum has no doubt it is the
hidden treasure of some miserly person who
is long since dead and buried.
An old colored man who couldn'tsWim and
FanUNf 10 q the when fine timber
raft upon which ne and two other men were
passengers went to pieces down alb Jut
Viola bend on Tuesday night. held on
TO his tree until daylight Wednesday morn
ing. when he let himself down into the water
and found that he was outside the channel Of
the river and could wade ashore.
The Buford correspondent of the Cuthbert
Enterprise says: As the season for fishing is
ON hand, we give you the wind signs given Us
by Peter Thomas. colored. who, according to
his statement. is the champion fisherman of
the age: When the wind blows from the east
the fish bite the least; when from the west.
Ihe fish bite the best; when from the north
1t blows the bait OF; when from the south 1t
blows the bait right in the mouth"
The Cuthbert Entefprise's correspondent at
Bulord writes: about fifty years ago there
settled i'm this part of the district, then will
derucss, three men with small families. James
Martin. Alexander Culhreth and Abel Bass.
All lived to "a ripe old age, passed away. and
to-day their DOsterIty number between five
hundred and "a thousand. their homes being
IN every state lu LllG NOulIs ONE OF LutH re-
siding in q majority Of the populated counties
of Texas"
Tie Athens Banner Wdtcbmqu saws: ''On
last Tuesday evening q mad dog appeared al
the residence of Mr.. 4. \ Lester and attack
ed his little daughter. but fortunately she
made her escape unhurt. Then the dog made
fight ON another dog. and soon six other dogs
and rs many men were fighting the mad dog.
After considerable lighting the mad dog wa
killed. but not until biting all Of the other
dogs. which were killed Immediately after
ward -
A correspondent of the NEWS at Reidsyile,
Tattnan county, writes under date of March
Is. as follows: The academy at this placeis
ia a lOurishlng cOndltlOn.-Ihere Is q freshct
In the OhOopee and Altamaha rivers--There
Is a good deal of timber afoat for market. and
there is money al0at in the country rs con-
sequence.-The guanO trade Is hyely.-Farm
work has begun in earnest and movements
are brisk. The season Is fine. The gardens
are coming ON cncOuraglngly.N
The Walton Ne5Cs tells of an old negro
woman named Nettie Mccoy, who lives at
Mr. Tom Philips. who gave a gypsy woman
three bushels of corn. three hens una ham of
meat. everything she had in the world
to eat, to get her fortune told. They say the
fortune teller gave the Old woman something
that Is called the hand o luck. which she car
ries i'm her pocket in day time ami keeps under
her pillow at night. 4 great many are cur
ious TO know what the hand o. luck Is. but
Nettie Will not be apt 10 satisfy their curios-
ity.
Friday last. while quietly sitting 10y his fire
side reading his Bible, as was his custom,
Rev. I. q. b. Law. an aged Baptist minister
of this county. called the attention of those
around him 10 a flock of birds near his house.
and then fixing his eyes on the floor near him.
he said: Look at that little baby. He then
fell from his chair and expired almost with
out a struggle. The babe that he seemed to
look upon for the moment with so much in
terest was visible only to the eyes Of the aged
minister
4 Barlow correspondent writes on March l9:
1--WE have had the heaviest rainfall OF the sea
son the past week. Our farmers are appre-
hensive lest ID may damage the stand of corn.
cause the grain to rot instead Of terminating
The railroad leading of from this place to-
wards Dublin. and styled the Dublin and Bar
tow Railroad. Is being rapidly graded-abOut
completed for the iron and ties as far as W .
F. Bailey 4 Co.'S mill Our friend and
neighbor, Hon. Winder Z. johnson, brother
Of TGmlinsOn F. johnson. of YOUR city. has
been very i'll recently, but Is now GONZALES
cent
In the wear 1918 Benjamin Braswell
died and willaG all his property to Morgan
county. 20 Toe invested in safe securities, and
the interest applied 10 the education Of or
pnan children Of the county, in any school in
the county their guardians might select. The
grand juTies make a report az every sitting of
the Superior Court OF the status OF the funds.
IL has up to the present time increased IN
stead OF diminishing-the several Ordinaries
are made his perpetual executors. His wishes
have been strictly complied with. In 1863
Mrs. Ann hOld died, leaving $1,000 20 be added
10 the Braswell fund. The last report shows
the nominal value of the fund to be about
$4,000, and the market value S36.000.
Among the Ebert county grand jury's re-
concentrations are the following: I'VE re-
commend that Immediate steps be taken 70
| collect from I. A. Chandler, former CLERK OF
/ the Superior Court and securities, the amount
l paid ont by the county for looking M and re-
eording, papers IN the Clerks Office. We in