Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,rNEws OF THE TWO STATES
49, TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

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lint Blazing Kerosene at Albany
T'rerv stables Burned at ThomasViile
Rig Beaver Killed in Habersham'
GEORGIA.
rbare is some talk OF organizing mill
.o-y company IN CoVington.
G. Jones, druggist of Albany, mas
faied. New Workers are tne heANles'
creditors ,.-o,,d
p,chanan has reason to be very proud.
sho boasts that there Is not young man
a. town who ever gets drunk.
NJ Putnam has been appointed Post
Ter at Acworth. He is one-armed
rnterau OF the Confederate army.
Fditor Sidney Lewis will soon remove
albany and become connected with
.bo Snarta IShmdeLtte. He is very able
writer. c-.-
Isst saturday night, at Chokee, Sumter
.onntv. as two colOred boys named Fort
"ra 81 play one of them stabbed the
otber with knife and killed him.
On Monday, Sept. %, the Brunswick
pDee-p will be enlarged to five columns
and changed from morning TO an even
;ng naper, with a Sunday morning Issue.
A. sparta a baby carriage and it's Occur
,art rolled down bank into pond and
lba infant was on the point of beng stran-
cled 10 death by water when its rescue
was accomplished.
A negro made murderous assault on
can't. John D'Antignac, near Gum pond,
in Mitchell county, day or two ago.
One hundred dollars reward is offered for
the uegro's capture.
suit for $4,000 damages was filed
Wednesday against the Atlanta EUeniHg
ToJ,rnaI by one Lindsay, for an alleged Ii
belous publication IN Saturdays issue.
me proprietors claim to be not alarmed
lady in Athens, the mother Of large
FAMILY of interesting children, has never
struck one a blow in anger. When child
does wrong she keeps bottle Of castor
inland rhubSrb on the mantle and at once
f,1ces the culprit to take a dose Of the
mixture. 1t is harmless, and said TO be a
salient remedy against disObedience.
negro and a white man had a law
suit in the Justice court at Monroe. The
negro lost the case, but gave notice that
he would carry it up. The next morning
one of the negro's hogs came up cut to
pieces and his horse died in his stable.
He thinks his horse was poisoned. The
law suit was for damages to his crop by
COWS.
George Franklin, son of DR.. Moses
Franklin. of Habersham county, killed a
beaver a few days ago that weighed, with
ont the tail. 100 pounds. He cut the tail
from the animal and 1t weighed pounds.
Tbe hide. he saws, would hold four bushels
of any dry measure. The tail furnished
oil enough to supply the demands OF a
,annery in the neighborhOOd. The tusk
If the beaver was inches long. He also
,eught muskrat, weighing 80 pounds.
Fire broke out at Townsville Wednes-
dav morning, about O'Clock, in Arthur
10 Il
m0lishing them, and burning few old
wagons owned by William Smith. The live
stock was saved. The fire was incendiarY
in origin. The rolling stock was dam
aged 1000: insurance 81 900. The under
taking establishment of Herring & Walker
was slightly damaged The insurance
companies interested are the Western
$1,000, half loss; Crescent $1,000, three
fourths loss; Rochester German $1,000,
half loss; London, Liverpool and Globe
about $500.
An Albany family moved Wednesday,
and as night approached, it was found
that the kerosene can was missing. AT
ter dutifully kindling a fire In the stove,
the gentleman of the house went around
to the place they had left to hunt up the
missing article, leaving his wife to cook
suppsr. AS soon as the stove began to
heat smoke was seen to issue from the
oven of the stove, and an odor Of kerO-
seDe filled the kitchen. Quickly opening
the stove door, the lady discovered the
can. smoking hot, the spout melted OF.
She lost no time in removing it, and as
she did so, portion of the oil was spilled
on the floor. This instantly made blaze,
but the lady was equal to the emergency
and soon extinguished it. 1t was after
wards found that the drayman had chosen
his remarkable place for storing kero-
iene.
The most important criminal case to be
tried at the coming term of the United
States Court at Macon is that OF the
United States VS.. V. S. HOlton, Of Craw-
ford county, charged with Withholding
pension money. HOltOn was the Ordinary
Of Crawford county. In May, 1894, the
grand jury for the Western district OF
Georgia indicted him for the offense men
toned. The specific charges were that he
withheld pension money, and that he
forged vouchers in the case OF Mrs. Eliza
beth Shurley, widow Of a veteran of the
war Of 1872. At the time, Mrs. Shurley
was more than 80 years old. Holton OBJ
tanned three sums OF money, one OF
S3O667, and two for 1874 each. One of the
latter sums was obtained after the death
Of Mrs. Shurley. The indictment was Sc
cured at the instance of Mrs. Shurley's
heirs. The case has been repeatedly post
ness; but, although he refunded the
money when threatened with suit in a
State court, he will hardly escape trial
At the approaching term.