Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-01

GEORGIA.
pleasant REYNOLDS is under arrest at
rroTIordville for stealing horse from
Vr C0fcr, OF Wilkes county.
more are ND TO date $50 registered
,.ofars ior the next municipal election az
pome OF these 265 are white and II
colored.
Perry Trmble, negro man who has
s,er working for the East Tennessee road,
Was fatally crushed by cars al Atlanta
Friday
Mr. Holm Green, OF Conyers, killed 122
chimney sweeps birds one day last
vnek bv smoking them in the chimney
with dry straw.
Arrap gements have been consummated
nth Miss Nay Gould, q native of ST.
Sin,op'e. TO take charge OF the school at the
mills within few days.
Tbere has been such a marked decrease
IN he litigation in BuIloch that the supe-
nor court sits only about half the time il
nsrd to. The criminal docket is almost
blank.
The CITY Council at Augusta will elect
a Recorder on Monday night. The race is
animated and three candidates are in the
feld-Messrs. D'Antignac, Picquet and
Vaughan.
The grand Jury of BuIloch county last
geek brought down true bills on 10 par
ties. There were two murder cases on
docket, but the parties have absconded,
and hence they were not tried.
The case OF stuffed birds, which was the
prcpertv of the late DR.. Stanford, has
baen donated to the Columbus public
library. and is on exhibition there. IL
contains several rare specimens.
The accident to DR.. j. Fl. Hall, Of Nil
Iedgeville. in having been thrown from
buggy. did not break bis arm as wa
thought at first, but dislocated the Shout
der. The doctor is up and about again.
1t was rumored at Rome, Thursday.
that the new steamer John }. Seay had
sank this side of Centre, carrying down
with her 500 bales of cotton and Other
freight. The rumor proved entirely false.
John Coleman, of Bitch, recently wen
out bird shooting and his pointer pointed
something which, upon examination.
proved to be a cOvey of fourteen rattle
snakes, an old one and thirteen young
ones.
W. E. Wheeler, selling sheet music and
claiming Augusta as his home, has disap-
pear, from Cariersville ieaviOg an I'M
paid bill for board. A gold watch be-
longing to Miles Dobbins disappeared
about the same time.
The school tax from the State for Bull
loeb county, for the present year, is ST.
ST. IS. To this must be added the pol
tax. which, at III 500, will make the avail
able school fund OF this county for the
present year $3,177 IS.
Judge W. W. Turner, OF LAGRANGE, has
patented rotary engine, with a cylinder
I by 10 inches, and equal to AZ horse
power engine. It is now being success
FULLY tested, and has received high recon-
mendatiOns from good machlnists.
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cross roads, shot and fatally wounded vii
Adams, who was behaving imprudently
in Der house and refused to leave when
ordered. She shot him with a musket,
and lodged load of buckshot in his neck
An adjourned term of Barlow Superior
Court cUnyenes at Ca tersville Monday,
Nov. , and will hold three weeks. There
will be no grand Jury, but considerable
criminal business will be disposed of, as
there are several Jail cases ON the docket.
Several days ago the nurse girl working
for Mrs. b Wheeler, of Americus. man
aged to get hold of some money belonging
TO Mrs. Wheeler, about $12. and suddenly
left the town. The police were notified
and succeeded in recovering part of the
money, and expect TO get the rest.
Prof. Casimer Zdanowicz, Professor OF
Mathematics and Natural Sciences at
Shorter Co lege. Rome, has received and
accepted a call to the prOfessOrship OF
modern languages Of the Vanderbilt Uni
versity, Nashville. This was the second
year of Prof. Zdanowicz at Shorter Col
lege.
Very heavy rains have fallen at Tallu-
lab and above there. Tallulah river has
been higher than it has before for twelve
months. All the bridges on the small
streams between Tallulah and Clayton
are swept away. The mail could not go
to Clayton Thursday, and the freighting
wagons were blocked.
Congressman Crisp wants Postmaster
Black. Of Americas, removed. Col. Jack
Brown, relative, wants him to stay. The
citizens, whose sympathy was aroused bv
the recent defalcatl0n of Maj. Blacks
trusted emplOve, have forwarded a petit
ton to the President, asking that he be
retained, at least till the expiration OF his
term.
Henry Williams was accidentally shot
last Sunday on the Fleetwood place about
Tour miles from ThomssVIle on the
county Line road. MIR. John Fleetwood
oad purchased gun a few DAYS previous
and was examining 1t when il discharged
ana struck Henry in the upper part OF
the thigh, from which he died Sunday
night. Mr.. Fleetwood did not know the
Gun was loaded.
Thursday Constable Venable. of Nichol-
son, IN jackson county. passed through
Athens with George sewel, an ignorant
iooking muiatto, IN chains. George at
tempted TO outrage a negro girl near
Sie Olson. and ran away and was caught
I'D LEXINGTON last week. He will Ne car
fed 20 Nicholson and given preliminary
nearing before Justice Chandler. The
boy.
Jennie Foles, colored, OF Spring
race, attempted to commit suicide last
week by taking two walls OF laud
Lne lose was too much, however, aud in
s.eaa OF passing n her checks for a sea
~ Cnaron's boat across the mulkv Ache
u'sne rs c0nvalescent and joyful over
ner narrow escape from the clincbing
Slutcnes OF death. The cause OF this
ueatlly freak seems 10 have isen from
we thought that her husband bad left her.
wen ne mad only gone on a trip 10 Rome.
AN Cedartown an infant . years old, the
Htle daughter Of Bu-hrod WIcher, was
Uulned 70 death. The cbiid's parents
TeFe picking cotton a short distance from
,ue mouse, while their two little children,
wye elder boy years Of age, were
laying IN the yard. The boy kindled a
ie upon the ground and the little GRIPS
slolblh TOOK fire from he flames. Upon
nearing the screams Of their children the
tlrnts rushed 20 the scene, and the
nm hands were horribly burned In at
lily I1ng 20 exfinguish the flames. The