Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-03
GEORGI

- Negresses in Putnam CountY-A
T.,nl,en Man Throws an Open Knife
On A street Car.
GEORGIA.
p.ker county court is in session this
week - .o,,,4,,
' nj the SIS. 900 in taxes to be collected at
roTisyllle. only $1,000 have been coli
commercial traveller OF Athens was
,rrastpd at Macon during the fair on the
else suspicion of being pickpocket b
negro called at the Eatonton post
o4ica and inquired if there was ANY mail
f1r any colored women in the country"
f., street car at Atlanta, Sunday, a
drunken man threw knife at young
1nan who had demonstrated with him.
end the blade nearly struck a lady pas
sencer. No arrests were made.
Hamilton Cole, an old resident and a
oript and peeceable citizen of Stewart
county. died Saturday. Mr.. Cole was for
. long time the only man in the county
hal wore a wooden leg. He was proba-
bly, 20 years OF age.
A vote was taken in the grand jury
room at Lumpkn on Wednesday last to
tthe prohibition strength. There were
o. iurOrs present. and u of them arose as
onf man and declared their intention TO
vote the dry ticket.
tLumpkin about two weeks ago
negro boy named Alex Leary accidently
s6ot himself in the foot, the entire load of
souirre shot lodging in his instep. He
fingered until Sunday last when he died
from the effects of the wound.
George C. Price, of Macon, who was
eipctcd Treasurer of the Southern League
far the ensuing year, at the last meeting
of the directors, has resigned. Mr.. Price
runs grocery store in Macon, aud says
that hIsundiyided attention must be given
to his business.
A negro boy came very near losing his
life at the steam gin of w. E. Williams,
at Ty Ty, Friday morning. BY some
means he was caught in the gearing that
runs the press and carried under small
shaft by which he was stripped OF all his
clothing and received a small wound on
his scalp.
An election was held Saturday in the
Coyington district, OF Newton county, on
.the lence" question, and resulted III the
adoption of the stock law by a majority OF
I29. Seven OF the eleven militia districts
in the county have now adopted the stock
law, and it Is believed that the others will
soon follow their example.
Sidney Johnson, a 16-year-old negro
boy living on the Village tract, caught
saw fish on Little st. SimOn's beach last
Tuesday The fish proper was seven feet
long, and the saw was three feet addition
al from its base to the tip, and on the saw
we're forty teeth. In the aggregate, the
fsh was ten feet in length.
Wednesday night, while H. Z. Albright
was at j. L. Cartoons mill, in Union
Point, where he boards, to get tub of
water to take a bath. a negro boy knock
ed him down with brick. He was un.
conscious nearly all night, but is all right
now. The negro mistoOk him for another
party, and is very much troubled at what
he has done.
A negro named Charles Jones, living
about six miles southeast OF Americas,
had his leg broken Saturday morning
while riding on wagon. He was stand
ing on the end of loose plank on the
front end of the wagon, when the plank
tipped, throwing him forward, and his
leg was thrown into the spOkes of the
wheel, breaking it between the ankle and
knee.
Miss Kinney, a lady living in Wilkinson
county, has in her possession heavy sill
yer spoon that was purchased by one of
her remote ancestors in Scotland over 200
years ago. The spoon has been in the pos
since the landing Of Mr.. Scott, the origi-
nal purchaser from Scotland, during the
early settlement of the American colo
MES.
Lumpkin Independant: A call was
made at the post office this week for a
special delivery stamp. Postmaster
Halves asked where the party wished to
send the letter. The applicant said it
was to 90 to Cuthbert, when the post
master told MIN that Cuthbert was not a
special delivery Office. The applicant re-
Piled that it didn't make a darned bit OF
difference with him, that he proposed to
Try the new system anyway.
About two weeks ago w. b. Wingfield
and = Il. Brown, of EatOntOn, were chal-
lenged by two bird hunters of Morgan
county to contest at shooting birds.
They accepted with the understanding
mat no betting was to be INDUCED in.
since the statement has been published
mat the contest is to take place for a
wager Of 500, Messrs. Wingfield and
brown consider the hunt postponed in
definitely, and will make no further ar
Engagements.
Henry ID. Wood, a Cincinnati drummer,
was robbed Saturday night at the st.
James hotel, at Gainesville, of his pocket
Oook, containing $40 90, and his watch
ana chain. His room was entered from
tne second stery yerandah, and the thief
leit BIS clothes on chair just outside the
window. The police were promptly mott
ned, and soon discovered strong circum-
Hantal evidence of the guilt of a colored
waiter. They arrested the waiter, searched
MN, found nothing, but are holding him
I0r further examination.