Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-06


with Dynamite, and the Whole Town
shaken Up-A Macon Negro Adds In
iurN to Insult by Breaking - Girls
Arm.
GEORGIA.
The famous Jones county belled buzzard
has reached Dawson.
J. E. Burke, a stenographer, has mys-
seriously disappeared from Harlem.
The board of visitors to the State Uni
yersity is now In session in Athens.
A few Maconites profess to believe that
Scott. the fugitive New York bank teller.
was in that city Wednesday.
DIR. j. L. Stephenson, former citizen
of Griffin, died at The Valley, Talbot
county, Wednesday, in his 65th year.
A citizen of Worth stated in Albany,
Tuesday, that fifteen people have died in
mis- neighborhood recently Of diarrhea.
B. 8. Caller, of Talbotton, one day last
week killed a very large crane, which
measured six feet from tip to tip and five
feet high.
J. n. Embry, of Columbus, has sold his
orange grove near Leesburg, Fla, to Mrs.
senator Plat, of New York, for S45, 900.
and the last payment has been made.
An Oconee county tree furnished seven
logs. three of them sixteen feet long, two
twelve feet, one ten and one twenty-one
feet long, leaving ten feet in the top of the
tree.
Bones & Co, of Rome, have made con-
tract to have roller machinery placed in
the Oostanaula Touring mills, owned by
them. This will double the capacity of
the mills.
Daniel S. Arnold, of Marietta, has a
needle case that was carried through the
revolutionary war by his great-grand-
father, John Hopkins, one of the signers
of the Declaration OF Independence.
Banks county has 9 lawyers, 24O
negroes and LOSS whites. This little
county pays tax on $697 ,0SS worth of land,
at an average of 81 80 per acre, an in
crease of so cents per acre over 1888.
Rev. Walker Lewis has accepted an in
vitation to preach the commencement
sermon at Andrew Female College, at
Cuthbert, on Sunday, June IA. He will
also deliver the literary address at the
Georgia Methodist College, at Covington,
on Wednesday, June II.
At Jonesville recently James Branson,
his family and day laborer, becoming
sick suddenly, 1t was suspected that their
we'll had been poisoned. On examination
four snake heads and snake were found
carefully tied together and anchored into
the well. tits not known who did it.
o. Y. Legg went into his large barn at
Careker's store, in Pike county, a few
days since to feed his stock. When he
had fed one mule he heard the barn gfv-
ing way, and he began at once to get them
out Of the large building. He had some
difficulty in doing so. In less than three
minutes the barn was amass of ruins. It
was very narrow escape for himself and
stock.
At Macon, while two Young negro girls
were walking on Mulberry street near the
Methodist church, a negro named Ed.
Lewis approached them and offered him
self as their escort. The offer was re-
fused and Lewis became angry and picked
up a brick which he threw at the girls,
breaking the arm of one of them. After
trial by the Recorder, he was fined 500.
His employer paid the fine.
5. w. Blackstone, of Columbia county,
gives evidence of the possession of re-
markable mechanical talent. He has just
completed, with very poor assortment of
tools, a miniature railroad engine which
is perfect in every respect. About two
years ago the same young man made a
machine for threshing peas, which would
tear up and separate the peas from the
bulls without breaking the peas.
The Northeast Georgia Fair Association
met at Athens Thursday and elected G.
Ii. Yancey President, S. NJ. Harrington
Secretary and Treasurer and five stock
holders as an Executive Committee. The
committee appointed to solicit subscrip-
ton for stock reported $1,000 subscribed.
The Executive Committee will purchase
the grounds at once, and as soon as $4,000
is subscribed will go TO building.
The death Of DR.. Lewis D. Ford last
~ea 1aFA Ia, fha 81 lf
sOrs at the Medical College at Augusta
which, until this week, has been tempo
rarly filled by his son, DIR. DeSaussure
Ford, Professor Of Anatomy, who in turn
has been assisted in his own chair by
DR.. Thomas r. Wright, Demonstration of
Anatomy, and DR.. William H. Doughty,
Jr., assistant DemOnstratOr. On Tues
day evening, at their reorganization, the
Trustees of the Medical College formally
elected DR.. DeSaussure Ford TO fill his
fathers prOiessorship, the Chair of the
Practice of Medicine, and also elected DIR.
Thomas r. Wright Professor of Anatomy.
Marietta Journal. The telephone wire
between Marietta and Atlanta is run on
the telegraph poles alongside of three tele.
graph wires. Now, it is something re-
markable that duplicates of the kilograms
passing over the telegraph wires drop
down on to the telephone wire and are
carried into the central office OF the Tele-
phone Exchange here. The kilograms
pass through the switch board on to the
telephone wires around town, and into
the stores and residences where there are
telephones. Thus our citizens are kept
IN close communication with the COM
mercial world. The fluctuations of the
London Stock Exchange are heard stimuli
eneously through the telephones in our
title city, although our citizens are per-
tctly unconscious of the fact.
Capt. Bevell, Of the steamer Katie, says
" the planters along the Savannah
Yer never had more flattering pros
~ for good crop. He reports that
". j. L. W ade. of Burton's Ferry, has
ndblossoms in his cotton for nearly
" \, as has also his brother, Sam Wade.
~ W ade is, perhaps, one Of the largest
Pafrs in Scriyen county, making several
nuAed bales OF cotton yearly. He
maA his farm self-supporting. He has
Ut sfral years been paying much atten'
o uou stock raising, and has made 1t
4utAmuneratiye. Seaborn Jones Is
one be largest land owners Of Scriven
IountA He has about 1900 acres Of
lISno' p0 Of which Is original forest
ms Iilence is magnificent, and is
I9eaVeo Mill Haven, on Brier creek, one
VI tne lest water powers in the state.
ihuIT morning Lizzie Hopkins,
eoloIeu,las searching Americas for
young (rt who had basely trampled
~ ~ Tue dltions of her daughter Ollie.
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