Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,uNEWs OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

"a Negro Stricken Mo61oniess anu
aochless-ResuIt of n Big Feast on
Tp.tstoalS-Accidents at tho Gins.
GEORGIA.
coal Is laid down in jackson for So so
per ton. ~ .,.a haroo
.,,,to the roads in Liberty county.
ros,evan and Mercer universities at
-, have lust entered on the fall term.
'rnA Ordinary of Muscogee county is
- twauty-two marriage licenses during
September.
ponks county can boast of three giants
g.. Soi,lht. They only lack few inches
of being feet high.
There is strong talk Of putting Talbot
1t, tn a test vote on the liquor ques-
,i"n Under the State local option law.
cumming is represented as being very
,.5i,nant because Beck, the Clayton
non9ty murderer, was not sentenced TO be
hanged.
A. GAINESVILLE, Wednesday night Cal
,r;o Rutts. a young man, was knocked
AVN by a negro and robbed. The negro
escaped.
Iobn Neal. son Of the ex-State Senator
81 Harris county, had one of his hands
badly mangled in a cotton gin Tuesday
evening.
Homer w. Dozier, United States gauger,
hos been transferred from Columbus to
Atlanta by Internal Revenue Collector
CrenshaW.
Al Allentown, Tuesday, John F. Burke,
while engaged in ginning, had his hand
badIy crushed. The physician thinks he
will lose his entire arm.
Al Walden. Wednesday, Pete Stubs
,ves nv some means caught in his steam
gin and had his arm so badly torn that
amputatiOn may be necessary.
countryman heard about the old
horse freight sale at the East Tennessee
depot at Atlanta, Wednesday, and went
DOWN. He said that he wanted to buy a
mule.
The Jail in Hinesville has more inmates
than it has had for many day. The negro
gamblers aud whisky dealers are being
csught. There are now six within the
walls.
It is said that John e. Bryant expects
to see all the Republican party return to
mower on the prohibition issue. This be-
lief is supposed to account for Bryants
views on the temperance question.
The Warthen family own 10000 acres OF
land contiguous to Warthen, w ashington
county. ne COluinE VI bhC 1AdH bobtt4
Gibson and Sandersville railroad Will
greatly enhance the value OF the property.
DEL. W. McGrath, of Macon, is form
inc A medical association. Each person
TO be entitled to membership shall agree
10 pay SOC. per month for year, whether
they are sick or not. he has secured
quite number of names.
John Fincher, of Jackson, married at
Sandy Ridge in the year 1865 in his 10Th
year, and at that time he was not worth
81 in money and could have carried all his
''duds' in a hand towel. To-day he can
claim more than $4,000 in his own right
and is out of debt.
Butts county boy gorged himself with
beetsteak one night recently at supper,
and during the night dreamed that he was
a COW and was butting a clay root. In the
morning when he awOke he found that he
had butted his brother, who was sleeping
with him. off the bed.
Nat West, one of Atlanta's mounted
policemen, is humorist. He held a mule
at the statiOn-hOuse Wednesday as collat-
eral for the appearance OF two country
men who had been fighting on Peters
street. Nat says, as this world goes, one
good mule is better than two average
men.
AHcIC % n Scl bdAu uCsIO III AbuSuo WIN
makes a support carrying liquor from
Fowler's bar-rOom to deliver to parties IN
Athens. The police are now on his track,
and the law-breaker will soon be roped in.
The negro whisky carrier got drunk the
other night and broke all the bottles he
had in charge.
Robert Moody, of DUPONT, went last
Saturday to enter the Bradwell Institute
at Hinesville as pupil. He is the seventh
brother who has attended school at that
place. The eldest brother went there in
1861, and now the youngest goes in 1885,
and all Of them have been to the same
teacher.
A day or two ago, in Crawford county,
some little negroes were playing on a cot
ton pile. One of them dug a deep hole in
the cotton, got into it and told his COM
panions TO cover MIN in, which they did.
They waited some time and as he did not
appear they dug down and found him
emothered to death.
1t is understood that Prof. B. T. Hunter
VIII resign the Presidency of the Cuth-
bert Male College at the close of the year,
70 accept position recently rendered by
the citizens Of Jefferson to preside over
Martin Institute. Rev. w. II. Cooper,
pastor OF the Baptist Church, Is spoken Of
rs bis successor.
1t is said that !. C. Plant, President of
the National bank, of Macon, will enter a
SUIT Tor damages against the East Ten
51Iessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad.
Inc gentleman owns some valuable river
bottoms, and the railroad embankment
mas caused the river, In its present high
state, 10 inund0te and hurt his farm.
. Warren Stowe, living II miles north Of
GAINESVILLE. is supposed to be 100 years
Olu, and is probably the oldest man In that
part OF the state. Hsbas seen seven gen.
eratlons Of the Stowe family, to-wit: His
grand parents, his parents, mis- brothers
1nu sisters. his children, grandchildren,
great,srandchildren, and great-great-
grandchildren.
ten. IOOmbs' condition grows gradual
~ worse. He did not recognize his most
Xtll W.. friends Tuesday night, but
Neuhesday morning was somewhat
1HIlgnter, and knew those around him.
" Mulligan says there is no possible
,nope Tor his recovery. but that he might
I'VE month yet, though his death may be
expected at any moment.
Dol. Marcellus Il. Thornton is now re-
Suing at Bridgewater, n. c.. where he
~ agent OF the Jellico Coal Company and
respondent Of the Augusta EDening
-,'"s' lie has not visited Atlanta, the
scehe OF mis- early trials and triumphs for
ne'eral seasons. die Is said TO be more
ulthilied than Of old, and 10 steadily as
'uu'ihS aldermanic proportions.
e.. Court begins in GAINESVILLE to-day.