Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF TIL f TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

4 Eua s+ANIn Two heauA-DeaEn OF a
Wealtss Citizen of TwiRgs County
Mad Dogs in Union County Hog
cholera In sandersvtne-An Augusta
MANS Invention An Editors Mar
rage in Sandersvil1e.
GEORGIA.
The Clayton county convicts have been
LET ont for S6S a year. They have only
brought $2l year heretofore.
Dennis Lewis, colored, of Dooly county.
has a hog with twenty-four hoofs, eight on
each front foot and four on each hind foot.
The prohibitionists threaten to contest
the prohibition election in Butler, where
tbe liquor men put majority of ITO in the
ballot box. Illegal voting is alleged.
Covington Star: 1t Is 345 years since De
Soto visited this section and established
a camp in what is row part of ROckdale
county, evidences of which are still in
existence.
Macon is discussing the erection of a
hotel to cost $l5O,0O0. Seventy-five thou
sand dollars has been subscribed by out
aide capitalists, and MacOnites will be
asked TO subscribe the other half
Douglassville STAR While District At
torneV HOag was delivering his closing
argument in the case of John Johnson, a
desperado, he jumped from the box and
tried to kill his attorney, the man that
had been his best friend.
Buena Vista Sentinel: A negro woman
on Rube Browns place has a kitten two
or three months old that has no eyes. 1t
is also minus tail. The little wonder is
full of life, and is like other kittens with
the exceptions mentioned.
Greenesb Oro Home journal: The mother
of j. i. Kell, near this place, died last
week. She was about 100 years old, and
1u,r,y a papGinn from tho Trpitad
Her husband fought in the war of 1912.
She was the Oldest lady in our county.
Monroe NetoS: Mr.. Wilson, the cow
man, showed us last week a bottle of
alcohol in which was small snake with
two well-developed heads, two mouths
and four eyes. The snake is a water
moccasln, and was found in Pike county.
Young Baldwin, who cut young lowers
at the college in Dawson some time since,
was tried in Terrell court last week and
found guilty of stabbing. He was sem
fenced to pay fine of $500 and costs, or
serve a term of six months in the chain
gang.
GAINESVILLE Register: A motion was
made in the Court of Ordinary at the June
term to set up the will of Ludy Haly,
which was executed upwards of thirty
years ago, and destroyed q or IS years
ago. The case was continued until the
next term Of the court.
A lady in Americas several weeks ago
lost a silver quarter somewhere about the
yard or garden. Being unable to find it,
its loss passed out of mind until few
DAYS ago, her daughter in cutting up
some perfectly white and cOmpactly
beaded cabbage, found the quarter Sc
curely imbedded in cabbage head.
Earty County Nelos; We learn that a
negro was killed near williamsburg
Monday, by falling tree which was cut
down by some of the section hands on the
railroad. When the tree was about ready
20 fall the aX-man warned the negro to
get out of the way, but he failed to do so
and was crushed to death.
Irwinton S0utherner and appeal: Col.
J. w. Lindsey has Matched out chicken
thar mas a head like a mole, and no sign
Of any eyes. The entire head is feathered
over SO If nature never intended it to have
anything like an eye. The Colonel is
thinking of having a surgical operation
performed to see if they are not beneath
the skin somewhere.
4 Gainesville Eddle: We were shown a
4 specimen OF gold bearing rock picked up
in Dawson county a few days ago that
was remarkably rich. la a piece the size
of a cherry there must have been at least
half pennyweight of pure gold. Though
the main lead has not yet been discovered,
it is thought that it soon Will be, and that
it viii prove a bonanza.
The measles have become such an cpl
demic in Hancock county that it is inter-
fering greatly with farming. On one
plantation sixteen hands are out of the
fields on account of this one kind of sick
ness. There is also a very peculiar cpl
demic raging among the dogs. 1t seems
TO be a kind of paralysis in their spine
and hind legs, though so far it has not
proved fatal.
Sandersville Herald: Cholera is COM
hitting fearful havoc among the hogs
about the city. We have seldom seen it
so destructive. The theory of those that
affirm that lice cause the disease is at
least plausible, inasmuch as hogs at
tackled by cholera are almost invariably
infested with these vermin. The loss, if
IT continues, will have a serious effect on
the home supply OF this section.
Washington Gazette: There was a SEN
saton in high life in colored circles in this
place recently. The wife of Harry Over
ton eloped with painter named John
Watkins. Harry is well thought Of here.
About two months ago he decided his
house aud lot, which is very desirable
one, to his wife, and she carried off the
deed with her. She leaves one child, and
the man she ran off with has a wife and
seven children in Sparta.
Brunswick Advertiser and appeal: A
puppy half-grown was bitten last week by
arattlesnake. The fangs struck one on
each side of the nose. Within few min
utes the head and shoulders Of the
dog were swollen twice or thrice
their ordinary size. From the dis
lance between the fanRs, as shown by the |
imprnts upon the dog at leasttw inches
apart) the snake must nave been mon
ster. Giving the puppy freely of olive
oil cured him.
Sylyania Telephones: We learn that
Henry Scott, of the firm Of Davis Scott, |
was accidentally shot on Tuesday last |
There was a hole in his pocket through /
which his pistol dropped 70 the ground |
and was discharged, the ball entering |
Just above the ankles and ranging upwards |
lodged in the tieshy part Of his leg. Dr. |
Douglas, who dressed the wound, says |
that 70 Is not OF n serious nature, and /
under his skillful treatment of the same we |
ulist Mr.. Scott will soon recover from its |
ELECTS.
Gainesville Eagle: We saw letter, a |
day or two ago, from Evansville, Union |
county, which states that mad dogs are |
getting to be quite common in that neigh
DlrhOOd. and that great alarm prevails
among the people. Many dogs have been
Killed. Quite a number Of stock have |
ueeu bitten and are constantly dying /