Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOI,D IN PARAGRAPHS.

A couut reveals the fact that there are
s0bachelors in Marietta.
Athens people will vote on the question
offree schools in few days.
clrnu county will have to pay about
,otD1 ON interest account by Dec. 10.
There are only three cases left over on
me docket of the Glynn county court.
Mo Kindergarten system of teaching is
~iuug in popularity IN Gainesville.
one wagon brought In twenty bushels
,rcbestnuts at Gainesville last week.
Tn- Young men Of Monroe are discuss
r. tournament for Christmas week.
Tnare has not been an lnterment in the
oitv cemetery at Marietta in four weeks.
Tsa scorched and damaged county re-
cords Of Glynn will cost 200 to recopy.
The bridges swept away by the late
forms in Glynn county will be replaced
for $500
The first ice Of the season made its ap-
coorauce at Gainesville Wednesday
morning.
There is only one county prisoner in the
iail ut Brunswick, and his term expires
on Nov. 10.
Mr.. Thompson, of Putnam, caught
,atamounU on his farm last Sunday morn
lng. measuring feet from nose to end of
tail.
The survivors of the Twenty-eighth
Georgia Regiment will have a reunion at
Augusta on the first Tuesday in August
next
the Council of Columbus has appropri-
ated 500 for the purchase of wood for the
moor. to be disbursed by Rev. DR.. J. II.
Campbell
During the month of October there was
NOT a single death in the cit hospital at
Columbus. There are now four patients
in the hospital.
The editors of the aawkinsville Ne1CS
and Montezuma Record are indulging in
acrimonious personalities which may end
in serious trouble.
4 report was in circulation at Americas
Tuesday that Will Jackson had been ar
rested, but the post Office authorities had
10 news TO that effect.
There were nineteen arrivals of steam
boats at the Columbus wharf during the
month Of October, from which the city re-
eeiyed a revenue of $50.
SiXty-six parties were tried in the May
O's Court at Columbus during October,
thIrty-eight of whom were discharged and
tWenty-ei@ht fined an aggregate of S42.
T.. j. Renfroe, of Laurens county, lost
BY fire a few days ago his ginhOuse and
several bales of lint and seed cotton.
Not being insured, his loss is estimated at
about 81, 200 or $1,000.
A one-horse wagon load Of rich light
wood sells at Gibson for 25c., beef Sc. per
pound, and small chickens at 10c. per
pound, choice pork only 10c.. and other
things in the same ratio.
Pulaski Superior Court Will convene on
Monday next. Judge Simmons, of the
Macon circuit, will preside for the pur-
pose of relieving the dockets of a number
Of cases in which Judge Kibbee is dis
qualified.
Hon. w. 2. Anderson. Of Marietta, is
still alive and at lucid intervals is quite
rational, but at other times his brain is
affected. He has the best medical atten-
ton and everything is being done to re-
store him to health.
Mari N Superior Court has Just ad-
journed. The only important criminal
case disposed of was that of Mary Lee,
colored, charged with infanticide. She
was found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
On his arrival at his home at Carriers
vile Rev. Sam Jones found with his mail
another letter from Atlanta, threatening
all sorts of things if he dared to put his
mouth in the business Of Atlanta on the
prohibition question.
Q. E. Carter, of Monroe, has a setter
and Judge Pascal has litter of kittens.
Mr.. Carriers setter suckles the Judges
kittens as though they were pups, and
when moved from their bed will carry
them back in her mouth.
For the month Of October there were
ntteen interments in the white cemetery
at columbus, of which three were nom
residents. There were thirty-one inter-
meuts in the cOlOred cemetery, ten of
which were non-residents.
The Clubhouse belonging to o. A. Gam
bic, one and one-half miles from Cuthbert,
was burned Wednesday, together with the
contents, consisting of two bales seed cot
ton and lot of several hundred bushels
Oh seed. The loss is covered by insurance.
Judge J. L. Lambrlght has telegraphed
withdrawal of his application for the
lQdgeship Of the county court of Glynn.
lie concluded he would rather hold his
present position, especially as the con-
unued existence OF the county court is OF
uncertain duration.
At Augusta Wednesday three frame
houses belonging to John Cummings, and
occupied by cOlOred tenants, we're burned,
as was also the Macedonia (colored) Bap-
usL church. facing on Mcintosh street
ahu running back behind the burning
buildings. The houses were valued at
SOout $1,000 apiece, and were insured.
Capt. NJ. P. King, one of the county
commissioners of Glynn, 1t is reported, is
70 ne deputy collector OF Brunswi port
unoer Hon. J. f. Dart. The matter was
referred to at the county comm ssiOner's
court and 1t was agreed that the accept
auce oi such an appointment would make
vacancy In the commissioners court.
Lucy Gresham, colored, Of Marietta,
last Monday night wrapped her months
VIZ Da0y up carefully in a shawl and
I,aced II in bed, and lay down beside 10 to
.'asant dreams. When she awOke
tuesday morning the infant was stiff and
SSol1 IN death. Being a hard sleeper, she
Gou1uless Internationally smothered it to
mere was an accident TO one Of the
}pcheys at the fair grounds at Athens
dluesday A young boy named Courtney,
sun OF Dr. Courtney, a veterinary sur
I'm who died in Greensboro laet year.
nes riding horse entered by Mr.. Reaves.
tn turning the curve the horse tipped and
w. ,I.e W the rider. The boy was badly, II
MOI fatally hurt.
negro man drove johnson & Glenn
VV, ,Dls team into the Chattooga river at the
.HI ing lord Tuesday, and not under
ulhg the ford very well, got into deep,
al water, when one or the mules got
sro,Wned; The negro man got on log
c cut naq been there two hours when dis
b.eled' The wagon body and several