Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-01
GEORGIA AND L0RIDA.
rHENEWS OF The rW STATES
E0aD IN PAstAGRPAS.

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Er-G9v Fen on's Foreed STU at Balm
7.=.u-DA~ien's River C4ventiou-
Clayton County Planter no Has
u.d ft,p same Fire 40 YeAs-Geor-
ris,s Exhibit at New Orleaas Next
WINTER.
Jordan Anderson. colored, has bean ar,
raytad At Atlanta, charged with arsGn.
BURGLARS are busy at Desoto. Three
st.-as have been entered during the past
tao or three nights.
TIE Nethodists and Presbyterians have
u0lfad and are carrying on q p~rotracted
meeting at Summeryille.
a.. %. showers, Of Atlanta, shot the end
ut lis little finger of Saturday. He was
loading his pistol, when it went of.
rse colored people of SummeryiIle have
o5eb5tfng society. The last question dis
used was (which is the most useful 10
a community, buzzards or Lawyers ~
william Wright, who lives in the upper
nortion of Clayton county, has the same
!.-rock Of fire. he built in his house forty
three wears ago. The nre has never gone
ort winter or summer Matches are got
known in his house.
rv.Gov. and ex-senator r. E. Fentou,
ut AHh lOIh. uACQ al LIS AAOLIG III UdhiCG@
t[ru in that state on Aug. %. When the
steamer Nick King sunk nearly opposite
III Magnolia house in 1872, Gov. Fenton
ga Il passenger on her, and was COM
w., Ia 10 lemain in Darien two or three
DAYS.
There are several counties yet to elect
delegates to the Darien river convention.
Au are expected to be represented, how
ever. when the convention meets. 1t has
a. lis aim an object which will materially
add 10 the prosperity OF that section, and
-cGaseQueuIly the whole State, and should
be a Tousing success.
Barlow Correspondence NEWS, Aug.
Ell. There is a man 90 years Of age who
lives in this community who is the father
a ~ children. Twenty-eight are now
living and IL are dead. He mas "a grand
children that he knows of INC may have
more ard some Observation-Disclosures, max
ing 63 That he knows OF.
The Treasurer Of Glascock county has
IN hand d balance of 1890 81. The grand
iHrv. rec0mmeuds a rectificatiOn of the
lines between Warren and Glascock
counties. The body also requests the
Governor to extend to Jacob Hart, who
was convicted OF beastiality in 1874, a
pardon. be being sentenced TO the peni-
t~entiary for life, and being then only is
years old.
Sheriff Levy Patterson, of Bainbridge,
returned home Sunday from Florida, hav-
ing in charge John Barton, alias Roach,
|c0Iored. IN 1872 he committed a burglary
in the st9rehouse of George Donelson, at
Attapulgus; was convicted of the Offense
and was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary. He Immediately broke iail
md has been enjoying his freedom until
last week.
Henry Phillips died at the home of his
mother, at the Fulton county spinning
mill, sunday, Phillips was a young man
about % years old, who, five weeks ago,
shot himself on the yerandah of the Ire
mont House, Atlanta, on Marietta street.
At the time he made the attempt on his
life Phillips was under the influence of
liquor, bat it is said that a disappoint-
meDt in a love affair caused the desperate
deed.
Louis B. McWhirter, special commits
sI0Eer for the southern States of the North,
Central and South American exposition,
to be opened Nov. 10. is now in Atlanta
for the purpose of getting the Governor to
appoint a state commissioner to whom the
exposition management Will pay So 900
cash to assist IN making a creditable ex-
AIDit Of GeorgIa's resources. He also
hopes TO lnduce the merchants and man.
utacturers of Atlanta to make a collective
exhibit.
The convict reported two weeks ago as
escaping from Mr.. Smiths camp, in Ogle-
thorpe county, seems to be quite a willy
one. and is giving those who are trying to
eaten him considerable trouble. He has
never left the vicinity of the camp, being
enam0red by an ex-conv1ctnegs. whom he
visits on the place, yet he succeeds in
eYad1ng the unit ing efforts of those in
pursuit. One day last week he was run a
considerable distance by dogs, but being
armed Killed two Of them and drove the
Others oil.