Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-19
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Campbell COunty-Mining Stock Which
a. Netting Augusta Holders q Bonanza.
GEORGIA.
Social Circle now claims a population
of 1000.
A new bridge is to be built at Newton
Factory.
A man living at Marietta has eleven
fingers.
A shooting club has been organized at
Newman.
Gwinnett countY's new court house is
about completed.
Brunswick will elect an Alderman TO-
morrow to fill vacancy.
The New Odd Fellows Hall at Barnes
VILE was dedicated Friday night.
only $1,000 is needed to insure the
erection of a new hotel at Monroe.
The June monthly adjourned term of
Glvnn County Court convened yesterday.
There will be six or eight candidates
for the Walton county Judgeship in Octo-
Der.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
many has established an Office at Bron-
wood.
Fourteen hundred dollars has been sub
scibed toward building an academy at
Marietta.
Judge S. A. Kirby, of Summerville, a
prominent citizen of Chattooga county,
died Tuesday.
Richard Stillwell, living in jackson
county, committed suicide on June 10, by
hanging himself.
over 120 dead hogs have been hauled
out of Sandersville by order of Council,
at a cost of ever $50.
Prohibition was defeated in TAYLOR
county Tuesday by majority of III. The
result will probably be contested.
Col. l. W. Avery is suggested for the
position of Professor OF History in the
State University in case the chair is filed.
Powder Springs, in Cobb county, is an
old town on a new railroad. 1t contains
about 600 inhabitants and 20 business
houses.
j. A. Williams, of Pike county, whohas
been an incessant smoker for about thirty
years, has thrown his pipe away and says
lie is done.
Dallas, the county site of PauIding
county, is 30 miles from Atlanta and has
2S business houses, and about 1000 in
habitants.
new military company may be formed
at Monroe within the next two weeks.
with the assistance of Social Circle and
jug Tavern.
The wife of blind Oliver Clark. who has
been turning the press of the Gainesville
Soutbron for the past 10 years, died on
Wednesday.
A little son of Deputy Sheriff John A.
GLADDEN., of Gainesville, was severely
stunned by lightning while standing near
a washpot in his fathers yard.
Dalton will celebrate July with a bar
becue, balloon ascensions, game of base
ball by professionals, sack races against
time, wheelbarrOw races, etc.
The post Office at Chiversville, W ashing-
ton county, has been discontinued. and
Harrison has been made post Office, and
DR.. G. l. Davis has been appointed post
master.
The commencement exercises Of Mercer
University at Macon will be opened
tonight with the joint debate between the
Phi Delta and Ciceronian literary So
cieties.
Col. J. B. Mitchell, of Hawkinsville, has
discarded the use of tobacco in any form,
after chewing and smoking 80 years. He
discontinued the use &C. the weed about
two years ago. y
The election held at Hawkinsville on
Monday last TO determine the question of
issuing bonds to pay off the Indebtedness
of the town resulted as follows: For bonds
IA, no bonds "A.
A guano factory Is to be established at
-
at the September term of the Superior
Court, the capital stock to be $4,000, with
the privilege of 100000.
A. W. Walton, acting under instruc-
tons from the Rome Cotton Exchange,
left Rome Wednesday evening for several
points interested in securing the use of
heavy bagging and ties.
Col. L. A. Hall, the Representative of
Dodge county, proposes to introduce a
general registration law for the State at
the July session, and thinks be will nave
no trouble in getting it through.
Notice has been given that at the next
session of the Legislature a bill will be
introduced providing for 2 reduction of
the salary Of the Mayor Of Rome to $500,
and that of Aldermen to 800 per annum.
b. T. Carter, of Dalton, has in. his pos
session quaint pair of dueling pistols,
once owned by his grandfather. They are
of peculiar design, deliberately engraved
and inlaid. and must have cost a round
sum in their day.
A good Joke is told on an Acworth mer-
chant, who is great temperance man.
He went to Paulding county last week
and wrote a letter home, heading it Gao
worth" mailed it at Gainesville and di-
rected it to himself.
The subject of forming joint stock fire
insurance company at Gainesville is being
discussed. Parties interested say they
mean business. They propose to insure
property with rates so formed as to con-
form TO the stringency of the times.
At Dawson Judge Allen Fort declined
to pass an order for a change Of venue in
the Cheyes murder case unless counsel
Tor the State would consent TO. They
would not do this, and consequently the
application for a change ofvenue was dis
missed.
The rate oftaxation on property in New |
Ton county the present year will probably
he about 9-lO Of per cent, or S9 on the
800. This will include State and county |
taxes, and G-10 of it win be for county !
purposes, to pay for the new court house, /
bridges, etc.
Dr. T. ID. Thurman, of Atlanta, LETT for /
New Orleans a few days ago. ON trip for |
ine benefit Of his health. Nothing was 1
heard from him, and his friends became /
considerably alarmed. He has just /
written litter that he is recuDeratlng al |
Los Angeles, Cal.
The planning mill and wood factory Of j. |
r. Ellis, near the park at Macon, caught /
Are Yesterday morning, shortly after | |
o'clock, and was totally destroyed. The |
Waterman SAYS he discovered the IRE /
among lot Of shavings near the engine /