Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-15
E0RGIA AND FLORIDA.
'tEE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


How a Monroe Belle Chose Between
Her suitOrs-David Gann's Novel Tum-
HE Into an Inheritance.
GEORGIA.
Ladies are playing billiards at Tallu-
lah.
There are nine candidates for Congress
in the Eighth district.
Pulaski county is entirely clear of debt
4 and has So, 1856 50 in her treasury.
The Columbus public schools will close
for the summer on the last Friday in June.
Dave Gam, of Clarke county, sold
d 81 500 worth of wood from his farm last
year.
James Galloway, an engineer of Ath-
b ems. has been pulling the throttle for 40
years.
The taxable property of Jonesboro for
the municipal year ending May II, 1885,
is S377, 5S8 II.
Thomson is rapidly recovering from the
disastrous effects of the smallpox scare of
several months ago.
A negro who stole thirteen sides of meat
from the smoke house of j. f. Sinks, of
Butler, was arrested Wednesday.
the saw mill men on the Northeastern
and Airline railroads say they are sell
Henry Allen, a negro incendiary, has
j been sentenced at Clinton to lifelong i'm
q prisonm ent for arson in the night time.
There are fourteen new buildings in
progress of erection in that portion of
s Brunswick north OF the Baptist Church.
Rev. Jesse Cook, the cOlOred wife
murderer of Butler, is still at large,
i although a reward Of $3.50 awaits his
cantor.
Matt O'Brien, recently manager of the
4 Southern Express office at Columbus, will
& organize and conduct detective agency
8 at Atlanta.
Homer, youngest son of T. N. Vning,
of Senoia, has come to Macon to spend q
8 I'VE years. apprenticeship in the Central
Railroad machine shops.
The old and well known hardware house
d of Carhard & Curd, Of Macon, has passed
into The hands of Messrs. James II. Camp
y bell and John @. Van Syckel.
Jesse Ward, living near Jonesboro, was
8 g. years of age Monday. He has lived
under the administration of every Presi-
4 dent, from Washington down.
At the term of Jones court Just closed
Henry Etheridge, cOlored, was sentenced
TO be hung on June 10 for the murder of
Tom ClemmOns, his rival in love.
J.D. Shaw, of Waco, Texas, an ex-
Methodist minister, has challenged Rev.
4 sam Jones to a series of public debates
on the subject of revealed religion.
A negro on Wednesday outraged the
7-year-old daughter Of James Green, a
farmer living in the southeast part of
Harris county. The tiend is in jail.
A factory for the manufacture of ak
handles, hoe helves, names, spokes, etc,
would pay in TalbottOn. Talbot county
is full Of the very best class of timber.
GOV. Mcdaniel and party were enthusi-
astically welcomed at Albany Wednes-
day. They attended barbecue at Blue
/ Springs Yesterday. The Albany military
Il we're reviewed Wednesday.
Judge Lawson will not preside at this
#term of Clarke court. Judge Hutchins is
only disqualified in one case. where an
old cow was killed on the Georgia Road,
and it is possible that the case may be
settled.
The Postmaster of Americas has been
borrowing postage stamps from the neigh
boring post Offices for some time. Mai.
Black ordered some for his Office about
April l. and they have failed to reach
Americas up to this time.
Washington Butler, one of the first set
tiers in Sumter county, died at the adj
Yanced age of 81 on Sunday, May 10, in
the lower part of that county. MIR. But
Ter went to Sumter in 1882 and has lived
there during all the intervening years.
The annual meeting of the Georgia So
Ci9ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails was held at Augusta Wednesday,
at the headquarters, and President Henry
B. King, Secretary and Treasurer S. r.
Craig and the old board were reelected.
Rev. J. r. Littlej0hn, of Americas, died
"a Of
the Americas Methodist church when it
was made station in 1855. He has be-
lOnged to the Georgia Conference more
than 30 years. At the time of his death
he was in charge of the Sumter circuit.
The stockholders of the Columbus
street railroad have elected the following
board of directors: Cliff B. Grimes, b. l..
Hatcher. n. N. Curtis o. 5. Jordan. L. G.
Scbuessler, j. A. GabOurly and G. W.
Dillingham;. At a subsequent meeting of
the directors Cliff B. Grimes was re-elect-
ed President, and L. q. Schuessler Sec
rotary.
young Virginian has been counting a
belle of Gainesville. The town boys are
jealous OF him. They determined to stone
him as he emerged from the lady's house
at night, it being fOregOne conclusion
that he would run. When the missiles
began falling around him he cOOlly lighted
matches and discovered the identity of
his assailants. They will be presented to
the grand Jury.
A spoon fish was caught in Flint river,
near the county line of Sumter and Dooly
counties, day or two ago. 1t was about
four feet in length, measuring from the
spoOn-shaped appentlture to the tip Of the
tail, and weighed about twenty pounds.
BY some the fish is called the shovel-head
catfish. 1t has never before been found
in the streams in that vicinity. The fish
was sold for 49,
II. A. Pope, of Sumter county, has cap
tured "A hybrid white fowl, which is neither
guinea nor chicken, but calf and 'ali."
To lock at the bird one concludes that 10
IS white rooster, then white guinea.
and then that it is neither, but some rare
bird driven inland by "a storm. IL is large
and wild, its neck is in part like rooster
with long ornamental feathers. II has
the mere semblance OF comb, but no
spurs.
Mrs. Julia ID. Holt, OF Macon, while on
a recent visit to Florida, was so pleased
With the handicraft of the resident ladies'.
that she undertook, and right well did she
execute, a hat from the cabbage palmetto
of that State. The plat cf which the
crown and rim is made was executed so
uniformly that 1t looked as though il
were done with machinery, while the
band and ornamental tassels were just