Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-05


Earth-Children with Long Names.
GEORGIA.
One day last week a gentleman of Hart
well mailed 5000 sealed letters.
The name of Dawson's new fire engine
will be decided by ballot of the citizens.
The Ordinary of Hart county issued y
marriage licenses in 1878 whites and
% cOlOred.
There is talk of an excursion from
Sandersville TO Atlanta during the COM
mercial convention in May.
The Quitman Guards celebrated their
twenty-seventh anniversary at Forsyth
Friday with target practice.
The uartwell sunday schools viii PFC
mic at Andersonville Saturday before the
third Sunday instead Of the second.
Friends of DR.. c. w. Lane, of Athens,
Saturday presented him with a purse of
500 to pay his expenses to the exposition.
Oconee county had committee at
work last week surveying a short road to
Athens, and now want the cooperation of
Clarke.
There are several old houses in Hart
county that are covered with shingles that
were fastened on with wooden pegs in
stead Of nails.
The cOlored Methodists of Danielsville
will build a church this summer back of
the Presbyterian church on lot they
have recently purchased.
Thomas E. Lane, who was charged
with the murder at Oglethorpe, of Fred
Mckenzie, cOlOred, last summer, has been
arrested at Valdosta and lodged in Jail to
await trial.
The business on the CoOsa is now brisk.
1t is reported that Cornwall and Round
Mountain furnaces will soon be in full
HAST which will greatly inprpaEn huGi-
ness on the river.
Mrs. Annie Gaines, of Hart county,
will celebrate her 93d birthday
on May IL, by an old-fashioned quilting,
and a reunion, as far as possible, of her
numerous descendants.
II. T. Russ, the Office boy employed by
Potter & Carter, of Butler, did not leave
the town under suspicious circum-
stances as was reported by a correspon-
dent of that place. He went away on
business for the firm.
Some time ago the store of T. M. Green,
in Wilkes county, was burglarized and
$50 or $50 taken therefrOm. Last Wednes-
day the burglar sent Mr.. Green the
money, with the urgent request that no
questions be asked.
At the recent tiremen's tournament in
Americas Miss Annie Bell wagered all
her pin money on Wide Awakes, and her
winnings amounted to 81 80. With this
money she purchased a handsome pair of
vases, which she presented to the COM
pany.
Mark Leonard, of Fort Mountain. found
Il nugget of gold weighing about two pen
nyweights, a few days ago, somewhere
among the COhuttas. The exact place he
refuses to divulge, because he says there
is more of the precious metal. At the
same place he has found small ruby.
A couple of colored children of Daniels
vile have long names. The first is a girl
who is named Myrtle Rosa ZiIlah Jennie
NanduZpr Pussy Satterfeld Addie Belle,
and the boy is named Jimmie John Halle
tine Judge Atkins Fox Galloway Plea
ninnV Flora.
The annual election of officers of the
Young Mems Library Association of
Rome will take place on the second
Thursday in this month. The ASSOCIATION
numbers more than 800 members, owns
5000 volumes, and Notwithstanding hard
times. is in a very flourishing condition.
The report of Messrs. Redwine, Dorsey
and Moreno, City Assessors of Gaines
vile, shows the total value of the city
property to be 81, 004, 225. This is an in
crease of SOS, 900 over last year. This in
crease represents almost exclusively i'm
provements that have been made during
the year.
J. W. Walters, of Americas, was re-
minded of old times Saturday when a
friend brought him a gallon of fresh but
termilk in a jug that he used to drink out
of before the war. 1t is an ancient speci-
men of the little brown jug family, and
Mr.. Walters said he enjoyed draught of
the delicious contents with smack of the
old time gusto.
NJ. f. Govan, of Rome, has pair of old
fashioned horse pistols that are curiOsi-
ties in their way. They were brought
to this country from Scotland by
James Govan, grandfather of Mr..
Govan, about the year 1865, and were
this inscription: "H. A. Mortimer 81 Co.,
London, gunmaker to his majesty"
Sunday there occurred a most disgrace
ful fight in and near Knoxville between
six negro women. There was a general
scratching, wOol-gathering, knOck-dOwn-
and-drag-Out, t-yOu-with-a-brick fracas,
in which the half dozen ebony amazOns
were more or less bruised and battered
up. On Thursday they appeared at the
County Court, were fined SIS each or thir-
ty days on the chain gang.
Mrs. DR.. Gatchell, living in Clarke
county, sold a negro woman pair of
shades tor so cents, to be paid for in butter
milk. This lady sent for the milk, but her
debtor refused to deliver the same. She
then demanded back her property, and
started to take one of the shades, when
she was assaulted in brutal manner,
beaten over the head and otherwise in
suited. A warrant has been sworn out
against the negress.
George COuntryman went to Americas
Saturday and had seven teeth drawn.
About an hour after the operation ne was
standing in the passage at the post Office,
when ne was seized with fainting fit
and fell full length. Recovering, he was
assisted to his feet bv Zach Baisden, and
walked a few steps further and Tell again.
He recovered sufficiently to be removed 10
a chair i'm the barber shop, where physi-
clan administered stimula and brought
him around all right again.
some parties in Atlanta have struck a
new lottery scheme which Is having a
big run. The concern is dubbed the Over
land Tea Company, Of Cincinnati. 1t sells
H. pound pasteboard cans of tea and 3
pound cans Of coffee. They distribute
g.us IN the cans, and the purchaser picks
can with the chance of getting a brass
trick or watch or piece Of jewery. They
are do n big business. IL the pur
chaser draws something worthless they
take back his can and for 80 cents more