Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
Y -, ,y,s,ys OF THE TWO STATES.
tiN roLD IN PARAGRAPHS

Mas, Kluk with n Coloreo
Afeh-, -, in Bulloch County-JenerS"h
1..-is, Letter TO the Ihr" -.
LIZ ',,r.rt-Ben: Periey POore's hsca
pades At Athens
go GEORGIA.
-,...,.,oll,s new Methodist church VIII De
~ ss1{cated to-day. M, :,
E.S H.. matter OF Incorporating bAAley 10
~ 4.ilsain being discussed
so -, l,sr suike on the Rome street rali
,aJ has lust been driven
l0.r,-o Deiue. OF Dawson, has pet
'io,f which is as tame as a kitten
,ar,1 new buildings and more i'm
,oaats are talked of for Lexington.
po.,,,,mers paid the Lexington and
= c..l1ford hack line about so last week
ogetborpe man was in Lexington
rnesiaT for the first time III nearly '"o
years ~, r., T,,,s a voor
old school teacher, fell ana DroAe hel am
Friday. ...,,o ,,as ohio,-
81. non Is years old as pert ana llVely
az pullet.
Iigbting struck several residences and
and stunned several persons at
Macon Friday
'rbjrtv chickens were killed by heat
IL bainr driven to Athens in small
eoODs Thursday.
qbs mineral Of Benjamin G. Lockett,
cha died at Atlanta Thursday, was at
tended at Macon Friday.
twill only cost about $4,000 to give
Lexington water works and there Is serl-
ms talk of its being done.
Tweuty-stx Joined the Haw creek
q, church. in Forsyth county, last week, ii
Ssiae baptized on Sunday.
Tbe belled buzzard that has been Great
mr so much excitement of late was belled
on ocean pond in 1859 by Cage Emerson.
Notidings have been received of Prof.
Sve fine spectacle vender, who mysteri-
nisly disappeared from Macon some time
sixteen rock fish caught In Dooly coun-
s iva dav or two ago, aggregated in weight
ii5 pounds. The largest was 80
FOUNDER.
Farjy county gained 80 polls and $50
G0in taxable property over last year, and
$4,000 in three years. The county is
out Of debt.
James p. Howard, of Jasper county,
has A chicken hen 20 years old, and she
now carries a brood of little chickens of
Der own Matching.
There are three new stores now in pro-
ness of erection in Greenville. One will
bea wooden building, one of corrugated
iron, the other brick.
Engineer Wysong, who was In the ter
ribe collision at Camp creek trestie last
winter, has sued the road for 1900. He
H. is still disabled from work.
The reunion of the Forty-third Georgia
regiment at jefferson Friday was largely
attended by the survivors, and there was
quite a crowd OF spectators.
". X. Pilsbury, editor of the Dawson
AQea, has just been returned by q Fed
era soldier mt Chicago bible which he
carried in the war and lost in battle.
Friday morning u negro stole a horse
collar from Mr. WIlliams's stable at Fort
Gaines and then borrowed a pair of
names from Mr.. Williams to work on the
collar.
William Vaughn, living within two
miles OF Roswell, who lost both of his
hands while blasting rock several years
ago. carries on "A successful farm, doing
ii the work himself.
carpet sack marked E. e. Grannis.
and containing two suits Of clothes was
found in the river near Macon Friday.
How it came there and the whereabouts
Ollts owner is unknown.
In Southwest Georgia there is a man
who moves so often that every time a
wagon passes his house an old rooster
and Cross its legs to be tied.
jim Coleman, fireman ON the Roswell
railroad. claims to have discovered Lula
hursts great mystery, and will wager ten
WVue be can perform any act Of ners as
successfully as she. and can teach it to
others.
W. Terry has recently bought the
WIpentine right to &c, $50 acres of land in
Clinco ana Echols counties. In Cllnch he
gels the Charles Strickland estate and
N hchos he buys out Messrs. Wiley and
Staten.
On the farm of II. V. BalkcOm. 3 miles
ron Gordon, two negroes, Lucius Hart
S Sua Lack Edwards, became involved in a
wlueully The latter was shot dead while
former 'D '"0
mrs Mary Brooks, of Lexington, has a
e' VI clalrs that were made in 1926, the
,caI Oh ner marriage, which have been in
D Dvns.anC use ever since. They are home
service -'-''"3 S0"io
us, Use lua Young, for several years a
m Sn So tDH IN The Augusta public schools,
% u' ioI lhe past two years student i'm
uOmal institute for teachers in
esn,l ne Tenn, has been selected as
n OF The Washington high school,
, 'us 40 Yal0rem tax in Valdosta when
slg., ,.t was zoe. on the 500. There are
mi It whisky licenses issued at $3.50 each,
ibat t .i hihth one viii soon be issued. so
Go t ,ue revenue from whisky will be TO
s Te w"n $3l5O-much more than the
'"l'ul' raised by the ad valorem tax.
psrIat gainesville, on Wednesday, Ben
.p s'uUg ana Mr.. Fletcher House, both far
Wb,et, oecame involved in a difficulty
Mr. " euoeu by Mr.. Perdue shooting At
hbaoqSe Three times, one bullet grazing
WAIN,, MS pistol was a fve-shOOter.
I. Tine would probably have shot five
lvHbs,,A aQ not Mr.. House taken refuge
ht l-'o, week while G. w. Brooks. of lex
tgsNl' ana his brother Walker were
apnsr over The latter's place in the
Tmd par Of Oglethorpe county. thew
-l;lst =, S.'early cut on rock the figures
hsl f,. ,n old style characters, showing
R6fk ~ we're cut during that date. The
Win INV. 'uoMe every evidence OF being done
T, 'O'uething like chlsel.
IA, lo. ~ youth m Sumter county who
Villa armed % write splendid hand
cause az 'ipoIarlly deaf and dumb. The
.salgi,c,,uliis misfortune has never been
saews ,soy accounted for. He also
NAM. "ulueriul aptitude in masterin,,
nA 81.