Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-04


blacksmith. The knife is remarkably
well-preserved and good for several addi-
tional years service.
From the reports received at the United
States Signal Office ut the custom house
at Atlanta Thursday morning from
thirty-four of the chief cities of the United
States, including Bismarck. OAK, st.
Paul, Mimi, Chicago and Boston, it was
found that Atlanta was the coolest by one
degree. These reports covered all the ter
ritorY east of the Rocky Mountains be-
tween the Canadian line and the Rio
Grande.
Many Georgia cities will celebrate the
Fourth to-day with patriotic enthusi
asm. One hundred guns will be
fired at Columbus. and other evil
dences of joy be INDUCED in.
Macon and Atlanta viii have the most
extensive celebrations ia the State. Au-
gueta will spend the day at her outing
places. But very few OF the small towns
will allow the day to pass without recog-
milton of some sort.
Representative l.. A. Hall, of Dodge
county, will not Introduce a bill in the
Legislature TO create bonded indebted
ness upon his county for the purpose of
establishing poor house. While he has
respect for the recOmm andatiOn Of the
gated the poor house system in some other
counties and finds that the county does
not need more than third OF the amount
recommended for poor house purposes.
Quite an unusual scene transDired in
Justice Freeman's court at Macon Thurs
day. Mary Horton had her husband,
Thomas Horton, arragned on a warrant.
charging him with having abandoned her
and his children. When the case was
called tho parties to the warrant suddenly
fell upon each other necks and embraced
in open court. Between smiles and tears
reconciliation followed, and nothing
was left for the court but to dismiss the
warrant.
In digging down the hill on Main street,
Gainesville, Just in front of the college,
DR.. Green struck upon a vein OF gold
bearing rock, which is said to be quite
rich. Many fine specimens have been
gathered from it. This vein has
been known of for many years,
and has been tested in many places,
but, for various reasons, the persons
through whose property it passes have
never seen fit to work it themselves, or al
low Others to do so.
Mrs. Pringle, from England, has been
with the Holiness band at HartweI, and
says she was confined in Jail for one week
in one OF the English towns. Several
persons profess to have been cured by her
prayers and faith. She anoints with oil,
according to the Scriptures. She saws
Sam Swilling, formerly of Athens, will
be healed if he Will only have faith. Mrs.
Pringle anOinted him with oil and in
v0ked the Scriptural benediction upon
him.
1t is believed that Alexander Etheridge.
the insane negro burglar VINO escaped
from the asylum at MilledgeviIle. is be
lieyed to be in Macon, and the people have
been continually expecting midnight
visits from him and his bottle of chol0rO.
form. Many gentlemen, whose business
cOmpels them to be away from home at
midnight, are especially troubled on the
subject OF the willy burglar, and to-day
it is learned that they are thinking of
asking the Governor to offer a reward for
his capture.
A few days ago, near Jamaica, in Glynn
county, little Henry Mitchell, youngest
son of John G. Laughinghouse, was m
stantly killed by a flash Of lightning.
Quite number of the family were work
ing in the field, when very severe cloud
was seen coming up. All ran toward the
house. On their arrival they looked
around to see if all were present, but the
youngest was missing. Thev ran back IN
search of him, and found him lying on
his face liteless, evidently killed by light
ming. He was about s years old.
A. NJ. Castleberry, while out hunting
for his COWS Wednesday afternoon near
Howard, came across J Jesse Cook, the wife
murderer, asleep in the woods with pistol
and Valise by his side. Mr.. Castleberry
went to Howard and informed two or
three gentlemen of the circumstance, and
they went out to capture Cook. Instead
of taking the fugitive while asleep, they
awOke him, and ordered him to hold up
his hands. He Immediately took to his
heels. and although several shots were
fired at him, he succeeded in making
good mis- escape.
Ever since the killing OF the oolored en-
gineer by the explosion in mill No. of
the Bib Manufacturing Company, the
negroes i'll that locality have been excited
by what they believed to be the repeated
visits Of his ghost. According to them
the ghost of the dead engineer is in the
habit Of appearing near the northwest
corner Of the factory Enclosure on NOON
lighted nights at 5 O'Clock, and Of prom
enading in grim silence around the
grounds Just outside of the brick wall
Two policemen claim to have seen the
ghost Wednesday night.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: The following
two items were handed to us few days
ago by "Uncle' Bob Pughsley. He made
a memorandum Of both in July. 1857, and
and has kept them over since: "A fish
was caught by Geoge T.. Mcleod and
others called a sturgeon fish. in the Geo
nee river, length ~ feet. Az feet around
the body and weighed 1876 pounds. The
large man of Tennessee died 1857: he was
~ feet high, 81 feet round the body. and
weighed a fraction over 900 pounds. 1t
took 100 feet Of lumber to make his coffin,
and took seventeen men to put him in his
cofiln."
The City Court of Atlanta was engaged
Thursday in hearing the case of Jack
Morrow, OF MorrOw's station, against the
Central Railroad. Mr.. Morrow is a prom
inent citizen Of Morrow's station, and
was serving on a jury in the Federal
Court in Atlanta. lie had a "thirty-trip"
ticket, and in going home boarded the Sa-
vannah fast train. He was told by the
conductor that the train would not stop
at Morrow'e. He insisted on riding, and
was put of several miles below R0rrow's
ana had 10 walk back home and carry a
large bundle OF papers. He sued for So
coo and a verdict was rendered for the
rOUd.
j. b. Orr, accompanied by his wife, LETT
Fayetteville after dinner Wednesday, for
their home, situated some distance in the
country. After they had proceeded some
miles, the horse became frightened and
ran away. Both Mr.. Orr and his good