Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-22

LneuuOnla Is prevalent Ill DOOlJs
A Methodist church is to be built at
Bremen.
The Baptist Church at Lawrenceyine
has been reOrganized.
The district conference of the Methodist
Church will be held in Hamilton on
Wednesday, May 81.
A Sunday school was organized last
Sunday at Pleasant Valley church, in
DOoly county, with about 30 scholars.
The decoration of the graves Of the
Federal dead will take place at the Ma
tional Cemetery at Marietta on MAY 80.
There will be a convention of the Good
Templars of Georgia on July % at Macon.
Every lodge in the State will be repre-
scented.
4 Mr.. Jackson, in Monroe, has some
curious little rabbits. They are blue ones
the color of elate-and there are a pair
of them.
William Morris, who robbed a Knox
vile clothing store OF $1,000 worth of
goods, has been arrested at Atlanta and
the goods recovered.
At Ebenezer church, a negro man, in
rage. struck his wife with an AK, at
spring on the place where they lived, from
which the woman died.
The South Georgia singing convention
will be held this year ut Cross Roads
church. five miles north of Vienna, on the
third Sunday in October next.
Jefferson county is out of debt and has
in her treasury a cash surplus of $6,300,
Notwithstanding the defalcatiOn to the eX-
tent of $4,000 of the late treasurer, Weeks.
Last Sunday night the Tunnel Hill post
office was entered by burglars, who rob-
bed it of all the stamps and change. No
clue has been obtained as to who the
thieves were.
Some miscreant set the woods on fire
west of the cemetery, at Dalton, on Satur-
day last, destroying large area of good
cattle range and endangering fencing IN
the vicinity.
The Americas people will celebrate the
10th anniversary of the Drayton Flint
river bridge on the first Saturday in Jure
by picnic in which DOOly and Sumter
counties will unite.
B. S. Howard living near Bremen, has
child who is only months old whose
bead measures twenty-five and one-half
inches in circumference. The child's
body is unusually small.
Something like murrain or pneumonia
has attacked the cattle in the Buck Branch
district of Clarke county. William Jones
lost five milk cows in As hours. Nothing
that can be done gives them any relief.
Col. Alexander II. Riley, of Carsonville,
died Wednesday of paralysis. He had
been a prominent citizen of the county
for a number Of years. He represented
the county in the Legislature before the
war.
The colOred boys at JOnesvilIe, near the
corporate limits of Marietta, have organ
lied a brass pand, and in honor of the
first Democratic President since enamel
patton have named it the "Cleveland
Band"
Jake Lewis who lives near the line of
DooIy and Puaski counties, has lost his
store, barns, mules and almost every
thing he had by fire. About $4,000 worth
was burned ard there was only 81 SOC in
surance.
AndersorGilmore,c olored, who had an
eve knOcke out and was otherwise in
jured, by Jumping from moving train at
Marietta 0 Dec. "a. 1884 has instituted
suit againsthe w. & A. r. r. for $4,000
damages.
Several Hmbers of the Macon Gun
Club have ent in their applications for
membership the National Gun Associa-
ton, who's organization was accom-
plished in wv Orleans in February of the
present yea
Walter use succeeds Capt. Y. G.
Rust, Albly's newly appointed Post
master, as Her in the Central Railroad
banking hose. Mr.. Elan. of Americas,
takes Mr.. uses place at the Southwest
ern Railrol depot.
A sensaon has been created at At
lanta, mat over the fact that a well-tO-
do coal dller named j. V. Greer is
charged VIII making his blind son, about
30 years o, sleep in the COW stable with
out prOpe'ood or clothing. A stepmOther
Is said to responsible.
The Col Spring on Bald Mountain is
in the heat of the mountains and is the
coolest an finest free stone water in the
whole cOntry. The water is said to be
unexcelle for dyspeptics, and the scenery
is as fine 5 that in the neighb0rhOOd of
Lookout Chattanooga, and from Potato |
Ridge neaby it is very grand.
Athens Banner Watchman: We were
yesterdayhOwD a copy Of the Columbi0n |
Sentinel, 4 blished in Athens IN July, |
1926. 1t isery neatly gotten up, and is in |
mourningfOr Thomas Jefferson. This |
ancientjo formal was published by R.L.Ro5- |
tnsou. assisted, so he says, in the editO- |
rial department, by company Of literary
gentlemen
Panther teek correspondence Of New |
nan Berdtd | learn that negro man |
upon the Vast Point Railroad has gone |
mad and bite everything in his reach. 1 |
learn that he chewed up pillow and /
caught cat ad gpawed its head off be-
fore he ever t,rned it lOHse. II is not |
known whetherle was bitten by dog or |
not, but he Is in strange fix.
A store room belonging to J. r. Will
liams, situated opposite the depot, at
Andersonville, ha been consumed by fire.
The building contained about thirty tons
OF guano. the properly of DR.. b. l.. Joiner.
The fire is suppOseCtO have been the work |
of an incendiarv. he loss is estimated /
at $1,000. W. X. Glver's store, near by,
was nearly on fire, bit was saved.
Mrs. Sarah Davis wife Of Jefferson
Davis, Of Sewanee, was fatally burned .
Tuesday. She bad procured some brush .
10 put to her bean Wins. and while burn
Ing the leaves of her clothing took fire.
and before the flame could be extin-
guessed she was fatally burned. She
was alive at last accounts, but the at
lending physician pronounced her injuries
fatal.
t0ikston correspondence News, May
IN: The kitchen and entiR contents Of A L.
Brown, ENwess agent ad pumper Of the
savannah, Florida and Western Railway
OF THIS place, Was destroyed bg fire sun.
day about - O'Clock mon. By having
plenty OF help, and a railroad tank Of
water being convenient, the dwelling was
saved, although only Tn feet from the
Kitchen. The loss was ibout 500.