Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
M Jaws OF THE TWO STATES
-Tq)uO IN PARAGRAPHS.

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oecsr Killed in Alabama-Postal
s,- Greer Sentenced to Six Months
imprisonment.
GEORGIA.
rho now church at GogganS was COM
rleled saturday.
Tao notice OF Athens have not made an
-rost since last weeks election.
qbsre will be no injunction against
.,nding the street railroad AT Athens.
Vpshaw has been appointed by
cont helms Deputy United states Mar
C O'li for the CarTollton district.
p,nmenthal & Hirschtield, of Athens,
eonfident that they will recover heavy
Samages for closing up their store.
o,o hundred and seventy-ive gallons
- later per minute are being pumped
~ .rom Atlanta's $4,000 artesian well.
poayer meat was sold on the streets of
,ib9nv ON Saturday at 20 cents per
Ind. 1t is said to be choice dish.
Roh Raines shot and killed Gabe Hayes
,os, sunday night, near Hootenville. Both
,gsre white men, and we're drinking.
There is an old man in Carroll county
,rbo mas had a pair of socks for thirty
voars. and has worn them a good part of
he time.
The case of the State VS.. j. r. Hobbs, of
TAYLOR county, charged with forgery, has
b h~ set for Trial in Muscogee Superior
Conrt on Monday, Dec. p.
Judge Harris is holding an adjourned
,.rm of Heard Superior Court this week
tn try John and Ann Smith, charged with
The murder OF Bonner Barker.
Another of the negroes who escaped
nam iail at Albany a few days ago was
rant1ired. Still another OF the refugees
;s being hunted down at Atlanta.
lanes Webb, bill clerk and collector
FIR Tanner, Currier d Heath, of Atlanta,
laneuishes in jail in that city tor alleged
ambezZlement of $3.50 of the firms funds.
At Augusta Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock mis- honor Mayor Robert H. May
was married to Mrs. Alice Crumpton.
MAYOR May is about 60, but looks hardly
A..
Henry Jennings, formerly of Oconee
county. is the organizer of the Knights of
labor. and will travel through the State
orpapizlng lodges. Jennings used to be a
politician.
Lnmpkin nominated a municipal ticket
Tuesday as follows: Mayor j. B. Rich
ardson: Aldermen, A. H. Simpson, j. e.
Carter, NJ. l.. Everett, A. j. Fort, j. L..
Wimberly; for Marshal, A. w. Gritis.
Franklin Ne,oS: The estimated cost of
the murder case to come up this week
VIII he about 1925 per day. The case will
no long and tedious. About hundred
Witnesses have been subpGnaed for the
defense.
A Young lady near Athens had a pair
Of cellul0id rings in her ears, and one
night while adjusting her bangs touched
ahght to them. In an instant they were
inatull blaze, and her ears were pain
fully burned.
While Miss Maggie Elliott, a daughter
of D. W Elliott, living near the Forsyth
and Dawson line, was engaged in feeding a
cotton gin, her right arm was caught in
the gin. and so mangled that amputation
became necessary.
In the municipal election at Thomaston
Monday the ticket known as the dry ticket
was elected without OppOsltion; b. d.
Hardaway, Mayor; j. q. Thompson, g..
w. T. Hannah, &. b. Andrews, J, L. lis
niger, Councilmen.
While warming at fire built in the
cotton field, the clothing of little daugh-
ter of Alfred Minsure caught ire and
burned her So badly that she died in a
short time. Mr.. Minsure lives on Walk
er's creek near Tallapoosa.
Thos. J. Greer, a postal clerk ON the
railroad from Gainesville to Social Circle.
who was convicted last Friday Of open
ing and reading certain love letters, was
sentenced at Atlanta, Tuesday, by Judge
McCay to months in the Clark county
jail. Greer lie only about 10 years old.
COL W. H. Hodgson, of Athens, is an
expert In bookkeeping. He can add up
column of figures two yards long and keep
up conversation with two or three farm
ers at the same time. He has been known
10 write a letter to a man IN New York
with one hand and a man in Chicago with
the other.
The citizens of Athens will lose several
thousand dollars by the collapse of the
Mutual Self Endowment Association of
Texas, and great many poor people are
among the sufferers. The letter from the
Rev. Mr.. Burkhead endorsing the COM
pany drew a great many into 1t who
would otherwise have kept out.
Capt. W. d. O'Farrell, of Athens. sub
scrbed $40 to the defrayIng of expenses
for carriage hire on the day of the cleo
ton of the free school bill in that city.
There being no bills presented to cover
thatamount, he has, through W. Il. Davis,
Superintendent, donated the amount to
Landrum Chapel Sunday school.
movement was inaugurated at
Athens Tuesday to establish room over
Asndeville's jewelry store, under the
auspices OF the Young Mems Christian
Association, where the young men of
Athens can spend their evenings. A
library and other means of amusement
viii be purchased. In one hour nearly
WV was subscribed.
The following municipal ticket has been
elected for the coming year at Albany :
Mayor, w. II. Wilder; Aldermen, X.
Hobbs, I. M. Carter, A. r. Floyd, w. r.
Hilsman, j. G. Stephens and A. G. West
brook. This ticket, with the exception OF
stephens, ls what is known as the citi-
zens' ticket, and insured the election OF
H. NJ. Westbrook for Marshal.
The negro jug-toter from FOwler's bar
room, near Athens, has at last come TO
grief, and the next grand jury will take
SIN In hand. He was seen TO deliver a
Oottle OF liquor In Athens and accept the
money Tor it, which is a clear violation OF
lne law. Any one can deliver liquor in a
prohibition county or city, but when he
receives money for the same he becomes a
ueaer and is amenable 10 the law.
p Deputy United States Marshal W. ID.
saellett was killed on Lookout mountain
ave miles east OF Valley Head, Ala, Sum
Vyay night, while in charge OF Calvin
Ioung, arrested for violation OF the reve-
hue laws. Mr.. Kellett was made deputy
ldht HUIV- Ha runa alan DAINTY Qnnriff