Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
myuNEWS OF THE TWO STATES
rOI4D IN PARAG RAPHS.

-, sfanUfactOry''-A Historic Engine
I',ng switch Duty at DaltOn-Futiie
tS,rorrs to Discover the Identity of the
nation Regulators.
GEORGIA.
torrt is in session at McDonough this
week. ooo
Ris,ey school, at Brunswick, has 236
srnolars enrolled.
wild ducks are now to be seen on the
,ond, around Marietta.
rY,e are several Chalybeate springs in
,,a vicinity OF smyrna, Cobb county.
Miss Mary Hackett and II. B. Aims
[rth were married at Townsville, Tues
da7.
seven Of the city and county officers Of
,io~iatta and Cobb county all live on one
street--Cherokee.
# is reported that Alderman Symons,
If Rrlpswick, intends to resign at next
recular meeting Of council.
Snirituaism is said to be gaining con-
,.orts ot Atlanta. They now number 500,
md contemplate building a temple.
man in Good Hope, Walton county,
,ot dunk last week and received a good
Whipping by his wife when he sObered up.
Al Marietta Mr.. Chanev's son missed a
tobacco sack containing Sl36 last Friday.
and went back to Will Perry's store and
found it on the floor.
Three men were registered, at Bruins
u-irk. one dav last week and soc. given
Cor whisky. with :he admonition to vote
nm the side that thus treated them.
Iobn Plaster, a negro Of Atlanta, was
stabbed in the throat by an unknown as
sailant while going home at 2 O'Clock
Tuesday morning. He will recover.
The dwelling of V. A. Handy. about
seven miles east of Marietta, was de-
stroved by fire Thursday. He had insur-
spce of$1, 100. HIS loss is 81, 800 or $1,700.
night watchman at Athens says that
ne often hears the whistle of the eng'ne
IN the Georgia road as it passes Madison
in the night. The distance is nearly forty
miles.
Young white man, travelling under
many aliases, has been arrested at Ho-
cansville for entering the rooms of guests
Of a motel at Newman and purloining val
tables.
Lottie Mable. 81 years of age, OF Smyr-
ma. can take horse out of the shafts,
take OF the harness, put the horse in the
stable, feed him all right, and come back
smiling.
The prohibition election In Glynn county
will not take place until after the munic-
ipal election. 1t will probably be some
time ia January when the election will
be ordered.
At Atlanta, Wednesday, Miss Carrie
Gartrell, daughter OF Gen. Il. j. Gartrell,
and Barlow NJ. Blount, of the firm of
Blount Il Hill, were married at the First
Methodist church.
Tom johnson, a well-known gentleman
Of Atlanta. was badly dubbed by a po-
lceman in that city Tuesday, who was
attempting to arrest him for an alleged
attack on couple of negroes.
p. Il. Adams. of Washington, who
graduated last summer at the University
at Athens, and took second honor in his
class, will enter the United States mill
tary academy at West Point this year.
Richard Winn has been appointed and
sworn in as United States Commissioner
for Marietta. This gives Marietta two
commissioners, Judge Richard Earle
having been on active duty for some time.
Bell pond. Brunswick, was drained last
year, at "A cost OF $1,000. This year it has
been filled up at more cost. Now it is
flooded with water, and needing as much
attention as ever from sanitary point of
view.
A loud noise and a considerable shock
was heard and felt in Mpsena, McDuffie
county. last Saturday evening. The noise
seemed to have passed off In a northwest
direction. 1t was doubtless an earth
quake shock.
DR.. j. G. Hooks, of Sumter county, has
been missing since last Friday. he was
visiting patient and had his horse and
buggy put up. and after leaving the house
has not been heard from. His horse and
buggy are still there.
colOred boy, son of Richard Plat, OF
Toccoi, met with a severe accident one
day this week in Banks county. He was
working in gin. By some means he
was caught by the machinery and his
loot was completely cut of.
B. f. MauIdin, of Fulton county, has a
Daughter not vet IA years old who weighs
~ pounds. The same gentleman has a
cOl0red cook who is So years old and has
been with him fourteen years. She can
walk twelve miles in day.
Col. j. r. Towers, principal keeper of
lne penitentiary, reports that there are
less c0nYlcts in the penitentiary than on
July |. Although the courts are in SEES
SION the recruits are not as large as usual
and show decided falling of.
Friday. Charles McMichael, colored,
called at the court house at jackson for
oherln Beauchamp. When asked what
was wanted, he replied that the last grand
Jury found rue bill against him, and he
desired to give up and have hearing.
Inc engine being used in he Western
ana Atlantic railroad yard, at Dalton, for
switching cars, bears the name General"
lhis locomotive is famous as being the
9he stolen by the Federals during the
war, and which made the mad race from
Dig shanty TO Graysvlls.
Several negroes at Athens say that they
nave been rendered 800 10 support the
QUEENS ticket. Not one cent mas been
mus lar offered or spent by the citizens
sue on the election, and this statement
van be substantiated. The negroes, of
course, say what is not true.
mere was meeting of the stockhold-
es OF the kimball House Company at
AuSnta Wednesday. Over $4,000 shares
u STOCK out of the 10000 we're repre-
serted. The officers submitted their re-
ports and th" old board and officers re-
IN len. The reports represented every.
'nlng as serene.
b. f. Powell. who for the past few
"" years has been doing business in Ma
sou' dispos of his business there few
neHks ago, took his family, consisting Of
we and u children, and went tO Texas
" Ncate. He did not like the country
@uu mas returned 20 Macon, where he has
''H menced business anew.
nee the prohibition OF the whisky
1nc M Dalton the express company at
"tN place has de iVered ~ cOnsignees
soout l,J1O kegs Of "JOhn Barleycorn. -
must or "a hIph uyara ahfpYgd fro,,. Nh.te,