Savannah morning news., 1885-07-22


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GEORGIA.
r1o water in the Coosa is getting down
q. low water mark.
poro Macon merchant, died Mon
He left considerable property.
uSy, sbfpers in Hall county are as busy
~ fba new administration as they
Srare under the old.
~ ratition Of the BARRIERS of the city the
,.Ian+a council mas passed an ordnance
hhas;n, barber shops on sunday.
Tau-is Tiener, who stole 5000 worth of
- rom Il. j. Anderson, of Macon,
s,l,, sn,,a time ago, has just been arrested.
pf,ira. Jones, colored, aged years, was
,aLod down by a train at Augusta
Mnn5ay night, and her left arm was cut OF.
no negro incendiary who caused the de-
,"+ion Of DIR. G. b. Powell's ginhOuse,
et et' WVaynesboro last fall, has been ar
rested.
10 and hardly a night passes during
a,bicb one or more safes or ttlls are not
ransacked.
pome business circles were agitated
saturday bv an unfounded rumOr to the
o3ect mat Mobiles Bros, of Admission, Ala,
had assigned
Dr A. q. Thomas. of Atlanta, has been
oiled to nreach at the Christian church
Of Sandersyille for the coming year, be-
ginning Oct. IL
prof. A. J. NJ. Bizien has been elected
snnarlntendent of the public schools of
Griffin BY a unanimous vote of the board
If trustees. He formerly lived at Atlanta.
Internal Revenue Collector Crenshaw
has been authorized by the Secretary of
the Treasury to contract for the retitting
AMI repair of the custom house at Atlanta.
Coils. A, Pr0udft and G. j. Harris have
announced themselves as candidates for
tbe ciy udgeship of Macon, an office
which bill now before the Legislature
seeks to create.
Trnder the recent adjustment of the sala-
ries Of postmasters, commencing July /,
the department has reduced the salary of
the postmaster Of Gainesville from $1,000
to 81 400 per annum.
William Wooten, citizen of Chattooga
county. while standing in the road near
qrion factory, in Floyd county, Monday,
couyersing with friends, suddenly fell to
the ground dead. Apoplexy is supposed
to have been the cause.
Parties who were on the wharf at
Columbus Monday report that dog COM
mitted suicide by jumping In the river.
He made several attempts TO remove the
mask from his head, and falling to do SO
drowned himself
s. l.. Parsons came very near being
killed on Saturday. While he was moving
the ecadold around the Methodist church
at Tennille, a large 12-inch plank about 16
feet hong fell on top of his head, knocking
him senseless for short while
x. W. Whitfield, near Munnerlyn, lost
his smokehouse and it's entire contents,
some 800 to 900 pounds of bacon, includ-
ing . very fine home-raised hams and
about 20 gallons of lard, by fire last Fri
day night. Loss fully $3.50; no insur-
once.
Rev. Cadesman Pope will take formal
leave Of his congregation at st. James
church, Augusta, Sunday, and will then
leave for Millersburg, KY, where he will
Immediately assume the duties of his
new position as President of the Millers-
burg Female College.
Baldwin Superior Court meets next
Monday. The grand jury will doubtless
nnd a bill of indictment against Bill
Iofd for the killing of Joe Edwards,
Judging by the verdict of the COrOner's
jury, and bis trial NAV come off at the ap-
preaching session of the court.
The plan lately in vogue in Gainesville,
OF allowing drug stores to sell liquor upon
Inc certificate OF physician has proven
10 be delusion. Drummers played
around the city with whole books of GER
ilneates One drug store took in $50
Hquor prescriptions in twenty-seven days.
AT Hartwell, Saturday, the stock law
leaders met and consolidated the
pet!tl1n for the stock law, which ran up
70 about 1000, and the county has not
DHHn fhgrOnnh1VT "a
mas already signed the petition for stock
Jaw there being about 1,700 voters in the
county.
AT Hampton Saturday negro named
sherman Harp was drowned in Flint
river, near Cut Bank ford, in the pres
euce 0i over fifty grown negroes, with
~ nlteen feet of the bank. No effort
VI was made to resue him. Any one Of those
On tne bank could have done it. His body
was recovered in about two hours.
=. One or more burglars were fumbling at
1He WINDOWS of the residence of Mrs.
Lmma compton, at Milledgeyille, a few
nlsnts ago, with view OF getting in.
Aiter giving them warning that their
presence there was unwelcome, she fired
q plstol shot In their immediate vicinity,
"nereupou they made hasty retreat.
Al Lexington, while Tom Lumpkin
SDal SAl 44lnlH was attending church, fire
wa. was seen Ut his house. He, with many
V,teuefs' run to the scene to rescue what
sley could of the contents, but the flames
bh"u MAoe such headway that he could
~ ~ stand submiesively BY and see eVery-
;nlhg ne possessed in this world DESTROYED
III nall an hour.
H., a. 1iaeon some time ago Green Frank
hf 0s4spred, while resisting arrest, cut
bhP@liih LOUIS Nelson so severely as to Law
H.. i,.u uP m bed. Monday afternoon Frank
~, ~. "ehl INTO the swamps below the city.
,t oiu panled by several other negroes, to
10y cArds. IN the course of the game he
~ ~, lhl2 q dispute with another negro,
sa, tuiied ont knife and gave him a
w. W, tVtg slap In the neck. Franklin has not
!eo heen arrested.
Ia, uegio who criminally assaulted Mrs.
- lashrough, a respected lady lIv-
,'. ns neht tJmes' mills, last Thursday night.
"7 Ialed sunday. There is no doubt AZ
tsl's Euilt, as Mrs. Yarbrough fully iden-
hr.-.tt,' w hooundrel when he was brought
dt her Tue assault was made about
~ NE iady WAS returning home from
A "1tLaFh's house. Court conyenes on
i,i-. ii'n-. y, but the guilty wretch may never
avg " sea that day.
.M,essrs Galloway and Camp. OF Gaines.
b.'l' are making arrangements 10
T., y baby show in few weeks, Offering
o,.lD nhest baby prize. No s1ueaker
.s,.i =. \ years Did will be allowed TO contest
n'r.!', y, one under years Of age will be
"il'ea TO vote. Competent Judges will
a. ,l gttu, md pools will be sold as soon