Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
uurNEws OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGR APHS.

-. Iuryrnen Fined $40 Each by
I.,aee willis, of Muscogee-An Orlan-
-. suitor who is Placed in a Position
- Txcits Suspicion-Allen's Shooting
denounced Justifiable.
GEORGIA.
Tho victims of the Western fever are
inning to leave AckowOrth.
Tba wife of County Treasurer Will
Inns If Bulloch county, died Saturday.
louis Nelson, an ex-balitf OF Macon,
- been arrested in that city char ed
rTitb stealing 500 from j. t. Rider while
he was drunk. 70
ror candidates for alderman are now.
T., no field at Rome, and the campaign il
Lowing warm. The large registration
ssanders the result uncertain. d.
A dog case, which was carried from the
rnstice's Court to the Superior Court lim
SSIoscoek county and remanded fora.new
..ioI at considerable cost to the litigants,n
ras settled Saturday by the payment or
ok 10 by the defendant. II
Col Marcus A. Bell died at his resEc
dence. at Atlanta, yesterday. Col. BeH'
was born IN Ebert county, and was in
Ne 5sth year. He has for years sbeehs
continent in business, political and
Sofa life, and was known all ovef thsi
State" n y
warm. The election of Mr.. ReaXss as
Novor is assured, but there will be a hard
contest in several of the wards for Alder
men. It is reported that the ward men
WIN import several speakers from At
lanta this week.
A buge boa constructor was shipped by
exnress to Giles circus at Cedartown.
onened the reptile was dead. 1t
maasued some 10 feet in len0th
ana was some inches in diameter. The
cost of his snakeship was about $37.
At Augusta Monday the COroner's jury
fourd that the shooting of Albert Allen, a
negro bow. near Augusta Saturday NIGHT,
Nv John Kirsch, was justitiable. Allen
was abusive and threatened Kirsch, and
WREN he rushed upon Kirsch he was shot
in the head with q Gun and killed.
The Secretary of the Treasury has writ
ten TO Collector Crenshaw to prepare at
once rooms in the custom house for the
nost Office inspector of thet division, who
IS to be removed from Chattanooga to At
lauta. 1t was removed from Atlanta to
CDattau ora when Mr.. Sharp was made
Chief Inspector.
AT Atlanta, at O'Clock yesterday
1ibrning. three frame buildings on Mari
alta street, beyond Baxter & Boyd's
facforv. were burned. One was a saloon,
kent bv Mr.. Parish. One of the houses
belonged to Mr.. Cohen. A house, new
frame. belonging to Mr.. Hinman, was
also burned. The loss is $1,000.
The gin house on the plantation of j. T.
and J. A. Thornton, in the Fourth dis
trict of Terrell county, was burned Fri
day night. The loss on building. machin-
orooc oottOD Cppd jG of cd
atSl 800, and is nearly covered by insur-
ance The fire is supposed to have been
the work OF an incendiary.
A tornado passed through the place of
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen about five miles
from Gibson a week or two ago. The
monster seemed to have made a swOOD
eartnward for only a short distance at
that place, and tore up trees, entangled
shrubbery, and wrecked fences, showing
plainly where it had gone along.
Squire Larkin Wilcher, the venerable
justice OF the peace at Edge Hill, is prob
ably the Oldest man in the State occupy
ing this position. He is nearly 80 years
old and as active and spry as many
a man twenty years his Junior. He
attends his court regularly and meets out
impartial justice to the people of his dis
trict in civil matters and is terror to
evil-doers on the criminal side of his
court.
Frank Ellison is the name of a man
who is engaged to be married to a lovely
and accomplished young lady of Orlando,
Fla. Monday Chief Wiley, of Macon, re-
celTed letter from the young lady's I'M
Gle, asking for some information about
Ellison. who says he was once employed
on the Macon police force. Chief Wiley
never knew such man, nor is he remem-
bered by any of the older officers on the
force.
Harvey Merritt, an escaped convict,
was arrested at Atlanta Monday. Mer-
nit was sent to the chain-gang from
CoWeta county ten years ago to serve
fifteen years. sentence. Within a few
years after beginning his term Merritt
managed to escape, and has been at large
ever since. Monday he arrived in At
ANITA to see the circus, and while he was
loadng about the circus ent the patrol
men saw him and arrested him.
Charles G. Cook, the gentleman who
disappeared from his home near Hape-
vile, Friday night, has not been found
yet. Mr.. Cooks friends are still search
irgthe country for him. kilograms have
been sent in various directions describing
the missing man, and asking for his de-
IGNITION. Some Of MIR. Cooks friends
mink that be has probably killed himself
10 Mt OF desperation, and that his body
home.
A few days ago an article in the Hutch
lson kansas) Daily NeloS stated that last
spring negro man named Maj. Jackson
was murdered in Atlanta because he
wanted to 60 TO Kansas. A Constitution
reporter found that Maj. Jackson was
awe and kicking, and in better condition
financially, morally and physically than
cue man VINO penned the SANDER on the
southern people. Maj. jackson is in the
tmp.oy of ScOville & Beerman; his wife
y pr. Joseph Thompson's nurse, and
UVtn are we'll and happy.
When the Muscogee Superior Court
nv. met Monday morning and the clerk called
t Ie ny OF grand jurors, about One-half of
saelu JAILED TO answer. 1t was the same
es,s wnen the traverse jurors were
SSslIeo, and Judge Willis took the jury
E SVAes and drew a large number of tale.
s,Iors 70 MI up the panels. He then in
lucted Solicitor Grimes to see that $40
ieIe collected from each of the ABSENT
mlors who did not have lawful excuse.T
t ue court then took a recess until o.
SStviock Yesterday morning, to give the
IuueIlu Time TO summon the tales jurorss
js any OF the absent jurors showed up lat X,
A. A. eue DAY, and stated that they were UNI
AZ. tue impression that the court woud Z
tSS ~ al 10 O'Clock, while 8 O'Clock was
s ave nour liked by his Honor, Judge WILLIS
two two wa, was announced when court adjourned l