Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-05


u-sI society on the Fair-A Sleeping
rar Thrown on its Side at Macon
t,oetina of the Capitol Commission
ers.
GEORGIA.
Tn Randolph Superior court Tuesday
rnjep Clarke severely denounced lynch
Ing.
The most office at Atlanta was out o
o-crnt stamps Tuesday, and considerable
inconvenience resulted.
The artesian well now being bored al
Americas IS 1850 feet deep, and the indi-
cgtious are good tor water.
Twelve and one-half cents is the price
Albany taiors pay for the making of a
ralr of common pantaloOns.
Eifty.seven arrests were made at Macon
5rrirg fair week. There were So, 00(
TConIe. including the residents in the
CITY.
VIC. Armor, of Putnam county, lost
600 bushels of corn Tuesday night by
dre The fire is supposed to be the act OF
a negro.
The first ice OF the season was noticed
ot Macon Tuesday morning. 1t was very
INN. however, and melted with the rising
Of the sun.
Frederick Mangus, a young white man
of Atlanta was shot IN the leg by the pre-
mature discharge of a gun while he was
hunting Tuesday. He will survive.
George Enr.ght, an employee of the Bel
1qlppnOue Company, fell from the top o
a telephone pole at Atlanta Tuesday, ant
was so severely injured that his life IL
despaired Of
The special postal delivery in Athens
don't seem to be very paying. The office
mas sold 81 stamps and delivered u let
;ers. The postmaster has made applica
ton TO pay the messenger salary.
An election on the fence question held
in The Valley Plains district of Harris
county, gave majority Of % for no fence
Tlis makes eight districts IN the coun J
that have adopted the no-ience law.
Travellers from Eufaula say that The
cock fight at Georgetown will break VI
the Eufaula fair. AS sufficient accommo
daiions cannot be found in Georgetown
The visitors have brought tents along witt
them and propose to camp out.
y. A. Graham, of Americas, came very
near suffering a sad accident day or two
ago. A he was going out of the bach
door of his store. the sill gave way and b,
was precipitated down some ten or twelve
feet, depriVing him of consciousness.
Willie Buchanan, the 18-year-old son O
station house keeper Buchanan, o
Atlanta, was severely scalded by stream
Of hot water at a printing establishment
at which be was working in that city,
Tuesday. His injuries are not dangerous
Capt. j, W. Jacobs, who is to have
charge Of the construction of the military
barracks at Atlanta, is not expected there
tor some weeks. He is now at Hot Springs
Ark, where he has gone with commit
tee of army officers to inspect new hos
pital recently put up for troops located
there.
AT the Kimball house, at Atlanta, Tues
day, John Merryman, Jr., of Baltimore
Md, breathed his last. For several year,
past he has been accustomed to spend the
winter in Georgia, looking after the bust
ness interests of the firm of John Merry
man & Co., Of Baltimore, of which he was
the junior partner. He was a victim o
consumption.
Four policemen of Macon stood guarC
over negroes house all night Monday t,
prevent the escape of an inmate whom
they desired to capture. The negro land
lord threatened to kill the first man WIN
entered. At dawn the police made sue.
cessful onslaught and bagged their game.
He was charged with attempting to shoot
another negro.
Mr.. Orr, who was killed at Birming-
ham, Ala, in a difficulty. is cousin &
Rev. j. G.. Gibson, of Crawford. This
Gentleman says that Mr.. Orr was a sober
noble-hearted man, and leaves widow
with two daugh ters. A few years ago he
moved to Birmingham with $500, but b,
lucky speculation in real estate was worth
about SIS, 900 at the hour of his death.
Reese Walker, VIGOROUSLY bad negro
Of Americas, has for some time been sep
arated from his wife. Tuesday morning
he visited her house and assaulted he
with an AK, cutting her frightfully about
her head. Thinking her dead, he took to
the Muckalee swamp, and has not been
captured. The woman's injuries will
prove fatal. Jealousy Is the alleged
cause
1t is stated that the State Agricultural
Society is by no means satisfied with the
financial result OF the fair. The receipts
We're several thousand dollars less than
il was expected they would be. There
has been no money lost, but at the same
time there has not been much made. Il
cost $4,000 to run the fair, and the re.
eepis were but little more than this
amount.
The state Agricultural Society has de-
cided thar the publication of stock and
agricultural journal, under the auspices
Oh the society, be commenced about Dec.
l. 1t will be l6-page magazine and will
appear monthly. IL is understood thai
the editorial staff will be composed OF
Coz. J.. f. Livingston, OF COvington; j. r
W ade, Of Atlanta; Col. r. A, Nisbet and
Col. E. c. Grier, Of Macon.
At Atlanta a runaway couple from
4ontqomery, Ala, were married by q
Justice OF the Peace and also by a priest.
lhe latter had refused to marry them IN
less the Bishop at Montgomery sanctioned
me union. The telegram OF approval was
not received until after the Justice Of the
Ieice had been visited at 10 O'Clock in
I9e morning. The lady was Miss Sarah
Aahoney, and the young gentleman to
nom she is now doubly welded is James
Clty Marshall James Loyd, OF Atlanta,
Ioahed a soldier from Alabama money on
aWamond set amethyst ring during the
war The soldier said he would redeem
we ring, which had been given him by a
iAay. A Jew Gays later toe soldier was
AiIed IN the seven days fight. lie had
gwen his name as Oliver. The ring was
never called for. A year ago it was
s'oIen from Marshal Lloyd, and has just
Deeh recovered. The Marshal expresses
;soes'fe 10 return it 10 the lady who gave
III io the soldier.