Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-12

A
AT Baruesviile. tonight. the fremen's fair
opens. II viii close Tuesday night.
The grand jury i'm session at HomeryiUe.
adopted the road law for the county
james W. English has been elected Chair
man OF the Board Of Police Commissioners of
Atlanta.
The Atlanta Council viii convene i'm special
session tonight and viii consider the Chatta-
hOochee canal scheme.
The Wright murder crse in Monroe su-
perlor Court was continued on account Of the
sickness = Judge John /. Hail, one Of the
Hampton Purcell. who lives near the county
line between Liberty and Tattnall killed an
eagle a few days ago which measured s feet
from tip to tip.
At Columbus Monday John McGaran had
nearly an the fingers Of his right hand mashed
of I'm the machinery of the Columbus Manu-
featuring Company.
Judge Edward Langford, Notary Public.
Justice Of the Peace. eN-OilicIO, at CenterviIle
died 40 the court house at TaIbOttOu Monday
OF paralysis. The deceased was % years Old
au1 leaves number OF children.
Collector BRYAN. with the advice of the
Aolusia County Commissioners, has POSTPONED
the advertisement of the delmQueut tax list
for lssj one month. This is done in order
that there can De no possible grounds for COM
plaiut-
BromweI 81 Hubbard. the managers of the
Palataa Transfer Company, recently bought
t0 odd city lots, located on Lemon and Oak
/ M
prove some Of the lots, but the bulk Of the
land VIII likely be resold.
number of bodies were disinterred from
The old graveyard ON Highland Lake, about
tl-'C I1I IN IN ol OIiaulo; ia7t week; ana re-
moved To private grounds, as the old burial
ground Is private property and no lnterments
haye been made for several year.
The Dublin gazette says: ''The names OF
several gentlemen have been mentioned i'm
connection with the race for Representative.
Among some are ii. N. Burch. joe 7. COuev.
J.. g.. Perry, b. b. Lnder, Dennis kea, W. IT,
Iillery. j. u. Chapel and others"
Near sharon has been found a blank book
containing the family record of the Barnes
family The book is supposed TO have been
blown from Iranquela. Jones county. during
the cyclone, as tine name TFauquella district
Jones county, appears i'm several places.
The contract for the erection of a new iail
Tor fernando county and repairing the court
house was awarded boy the Commissioners at
Enterprise last Tuesday to Charles Parker 4
Co.. contractors and builders of Orange Citv.
the lowest bids having been sent in by them
4 well has just been completed on the Han
ION property. west OF Orange CItv, which is
seventy leet deep. IL is probably the deepest
IN Nolusia county. Ten feet below the sur
face "a strata oi clay twenty feet thick was
passed, and then sand the balance of the
seventy feet.
y test case of the coustitutiOnalitv Of the
prohibition law was mate at JOuesJOrO, sat
urday. barber had been giving AWAY
liquor TO his customers. He was arrested ana
tried. His counsel made several points against
the cOnstltut0nalIty of the law. Judge Ham
moDd promptly Oyerruled them all. The case
VIII not be appealed
At Macon Monday United states Commits
siouer Haskins heard the case of Dr.. J. f.
UsrY, of GlasscOck county, charged with re-
sIsting legal process. The case grew 0ut of
the arrest Of two negroe- by Marshal Usry.
DO Warren county ln which Dr. Usry is
charged with having nterfercd He was
bound over IN the sum Of $500.
Mrs William Thorpe, of Jonesville. In the
zith district of Liberty county, was seriously
burned one day last week. SHE was sitting
before the fire at work with her sewing ma
chine; and scraps of cloth catching fire with
ont arouslng her attention. the flames caught
her dress, and before they could be extin-
guIshed she was badly burned. She is now
recovering.
A few days ago the ladies of Eastman got
uu fair for the benefit of tine NerhOrist
Church and parsonage. At the close OF the
lJr nearly $3.50 had been taken i'm. There are
other articles ON hand vet TO be disposed OF.
and when an expenses have been paid the net
receipts VIII hardly fall below $500. The sue
cess of the undertaking comes fully up TO the
most sangulne expectations of the Orlginat0rs
and managers of the enterprise.
The Burke County Sunday School Associa-
ton met at the Methodist Church at Waynes-
horO Wednesday. DIR. G.. B. Powell, of the
B0it-tord sunday school, and Mr.. W. NJ. Full
cher. of the WaynesbOro sunday school were
appointed delegates to represent this as=Ocia-
tiou i'm the next state sunday school Associa-
uon To be held ia Columbus on the 23d. 24th
n
Will hold lts next meeting IN WaynesbOro on
the 2d of May.
I'M GWinett county Saturday Mr.. Upchurch
Nd- driving with his wife and four children IN
% tWo--eatet one-hOrse wagon. While at
tempting 90 cross Red creek the horse and
wagon were unable 10 resist the current Of
tile swollen stream. The wagon overturning.
one of the children was drowned before it
could DE rescued, and the horse had narrow
escape. The chlld's body was carried on bv
Lhe current. and had not been recovered at
last accounts.
The BfrrjsV County Aeirs SAYS: ''In the re-
cent cyclone which passed through Alapaha.
q rooster ON Mr.. shade DOrmincv's place was
taken up 10y the wind and carried to a height
of several hundred yards. He was set down
% few hundred feet from where he was
Shown up and WAS unlurt with the cNccp-
ton of being entirely stripped of his feathers
our Informant, who was an eve witness, states
that when the rooster struck the ground he
immediately Mapped what was left or his
wings and croWcd, no doubt proud of his trip"
capt Reuben Nickerson," says the Athens
HitttWdH- mas the cast OF huge bull dog
made OF terra Gotta. In his trout yard, partly
concealed behind tree IN a most suggestive
and threatening manner. A number of ladies
and children have been badly frightened
They dO not notice the dog until they enter
the gate. when, with q scream. they beat
nasty retreat, visions Of hydrOphODla 1Oating
through their mind 1911 Holman Won five
dollar bet from a countryman by going up to
tlc figure and kicking it,
Monday morning a negro fireman named
~
-ee- Virginia and Georgia Railroad. encoun-
tered an accident that may result in the loss
Of u1lh of his feet. His train had stopped for
. short while about three miles below Macon.
Hul Gillian got of the engine with a gun and
started lu the woods bV the roadside To shoot
birds. Unexpectedly the hammer of the gun
struck against log and the entire charge of
tle gun was lodged In his feet and amputa-
lou may DE necessary. Gillian was taken to
Macon and carried 10 his home, near Sandy
Bottom.
n II 1Tef5,,7. ti,r l5,-,.r - ,l l.l MOO, ~ ,-.l
houn- lost pair Of fine horses recently by
drowning. They were hitched to a twO-hOrse
wagon and being driven by an emplOye at
ic0inlS, who drove them INTO the backwa-
lrf- OF oocuoluOgO creek. which have backed
uN lu "a considerable depth across the road.
But for some one living near at hand the dri-
ser would have perished with the horses. The
wagon body hoated of and he pulled by the
check lines To- the horses and got on one of
lhem and was sitting there using his vocal or
=tns 20 their utmost capacity with the raging
waters up to his chin.
The Athens Banner Wdfcbm1n SAYS: "a
gentleman was recently clearing piece Of
land on the OcOnee river. in Oglethorpe. He
il-covered square hole, shaped like a grave.
and prompted 10y curiosity began to remove
tAe litter and dirt that filled il. After going
down several feet he found a layer of fiat
rocks and beneath them human skeleton.
Below this was another layer of stones and
human bones, and so on until four skeletons
were taken out and the bottom not reached.
The bodies had been buried SO long that even
iAt tceyh crumnled when exposed TO the air.
lu this locality was found a human tooth as
large as the mOlar of horse, as also two
stone Saucers made of the hardest flint rock
and highly polished. One was red and the
other white
AT Atlanta, Monday, Mrs Mary B. Ras-
berry. following up her suit to recover the land
bounded 10y Fort. Wheat. Butler and Jackson
Slreete. nled the following additional COM
plants for land: Charles King. James Wal
lace. Jack Livingston. Henry Thomas W r.
rayton Henry Powers, Addie Davis, John
Blanchard. Martha Thomas. Martha TAYLOR.
Felix Brown. Sandy Livingston. Carrie
stokes. Nepton kinon. Spencer MInas. Joseph
hoWdeu, Gus PIttman, J. II. Hin. Sidney
Gardner, Mary Gibson, Jerry Moore. Sallie
BROOKS. Carson Miller, -- Mcdaniel. julia
Dean. Froney Thompson, 4. F. Maxwell. ..
j.. Feasc et al.. Amanda Nix, Nelson Brown.
Anthony Noley, Amanda Christian. Fannie
spear. Henry Stokes, John Mlnas- Daniel
Martin. George Nelson, Robert Murphy.
Joseph McCane
The Washington Gazette prints the follow
ing. "Au absept-minded man from this part
oi the state went down to Augusta some time
since. ana stopped at one of the hotels. The
next morning he reported TO the proprietor
That his watch had been stolen during the
night. The door of his room was found to be
sll right. and 1t had been scarcely locked
livery effort was made TO find out who stole
tle watch from the guest, who declared it had
been stolen. Not the slightest clue could be
found. Finally, months afterward the hotel
proprietor wrote to his former guest that he
lost the watch went down to see what il was,
the hotel man told him he had accidentally
found the watch at the watch makers. where
the guest had left 1t himself the night before
ne stopped at the hotel The man said. oh.
yes, ] forgot about leaving 10 there. and
would never have thought of II again "
The athens BGHHer- Wdtcladn's ''AIan
About Town says: "COl. l. W. Avery tells