Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-28
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
The hotel at cambridge is for sale or
rent.
The best farmer IN Oglethorpe county is
lady.
Dougherty county is out of debt and
has $4,51S in her treasury.
Henry county has 81 paupers who are
supported at an annual cost of $1,000.
Col. w. T. Trammell, OF Griffin, has
been appointed Deputy Revenue Collector.
over $50 persons have protessed sancti-
haatiOn in Athens since the revival be-
gan.
The Eighteenth Georgia Regiment will
hold its annual reunion at Jefferson, Jack
son county, July 10.
DIR. Carithers, a prominent man in Jack
son county, died Friday and was buried
with Masonic hOnOrs.
J. j. jones' residence at Buena Vista
was burned day or two ago. The loss Is
$4,000, without insurance.
Friday evening, May "a, Gordon Insti-
tute societies have their anniversary
celebration at GAINESVILLE.
Warm Springs, in Meriwether county,
will be reftted for the reception of guests
during the coming summer.
Al Adalrsvllle the missionary Baptsts
have commenced TO make preparations
1or the erection of handsome church.
1t is reported that some of the holiness
people at Athens profess to receive spir-
itual communications from distant lands.
Rufe Bagwell, a common day laborer,
has recently received for ordinary labor as
high as $4 per day at Gainesville. Cash
Freeman can get a job at So per day.
Or. A. c. Mathews, of Elberton. has
clothes brush that has been in use 120 years
and is still serviceable. The doctor also
has a gun and watch each $50 years, and
a pOcketknlfe 80 years old.
Paul II. Hayne is engaged in preparing
an article on southern War Songs that
will be published at an early day, and
will he a choice contribution to the memo
rial literature Of the South.
George w. Sims, of Macon, has a copper
mortar that was used by his great-grand-
father. 1t is very ancient, but is still in
good condition. The pestle belonging to
it was lost several years ago.
A little S-months-old child of Theodore
Phillips. in Henry county, last Saturday,
while playing near the fireplace, pulled
over a pot OF boiling water, and was so
severely scalded that it died the next day
Among the cattle destroyed by fire in
the woods near Sylvania some days ago
was the steer taken as part of fee by
which was made in these columns at the
time.
Mrs. r. Hill, of Lee county, has a
chicken which has no feathers on it, being
perfectly smooth all over, with the excep-
tiOn of a patch of down on the top of its
head. 1t has a long neck, bill and legs
like a crane.
Land owners of Ebert county com
plain at the assessed value of their prop
erey. An increase of 5000, 600 has been
assessed on the real property of the
county over the amount it was returned
at by the owners.
The other day Johnnie Mcdowell went
hunting near his fathers house. in HOus-
ton county, and freed coon in a hollow
tree. Cutting the tree down, he caught
the coon, took out lot OF honey, and ran
two squirrels from the same hollow.
A very romantic marriage recently took
place in Decatur. Neither the bride nor
the groom is over IS, and their union is
known only to a select few, their rela-
tives having no suspicion Of such a thing.
The names viii be given when the groom
reaches his majority.
Although Postmaster Lamar, of Perry,
sent his RESIGNATION to Washington as
early as last January, and has since re-
peated it to the new administration, he
has any one been appointed to the office
so far as can be learned.
There is only one Federal appointment
in Decatur worth having, and that is the
Baiubridge post office, and nobody seems
TO care for that particularly. There is no
scramble among Democrats in the cOun-
tv for government spOils, even though the
Office does pay 81, 100 per annum.
The United states snagboat Toccoa, now
operating on the Altamaha river between
Darien and DOctortown, had her pilot
house slightly scorched by lightning dur
ing the storm Friday night. On the boat,
at distance of about 40 feet from the
pilot house, there were 80 pounds of dyna-
mite.
The DOugherty county grand jury find
the amount Of taxable property as shown
by the digest to be 2,S13, 455; county rate
of taxation = Of per cent, making $l4,-
067 IS due the county, OF which amount
the Collector has vouchers for $13, 402 81
leaving SGG5 06 uncollected, which will
be offset to the extent Of the insolvent
list.
N. d. Trout and George J. Goodrich, of
Rome, have invented a selt-registering
loading platform, with an adjustable set
gauge, over which the trucks must pass.
When the trucks are loaded IN proportion
to the gauge the register records; when
not so loaded, il does not work; so that
the returning empty truck does not
signify.
There is within the city limits of Amerl-
Gus a vacant lot which has been without
an occupant for years. There was MUIR
derer hanged there a good while ago, and
the supersttious fears Of the people keep
them from living on it. 1t is SAID that the
ground could be purchased at very low
price, on account Of the superstition that
rs attached TO il.
A child of Mr.. Frawley, who lives
four miles from Sylvania, was playing in
the yard when its mother was boiling
some potash. and before any one had no.
iced it, raised vessel holding some Of
The fatal compound to its lips and took a
swallow. The child was, Of course, very
soon in great agony. Every effort was
put forth to save ii but death relieved its
suherings.
Mayor Price. of Macon, has received a
letter from Alex. Doyle. the well-knOwn
sculptor, asking for information con-
corning the Lanier monument. Mr.. Dovle
ls the sculptor of the Senator Il. II. Hill
statue for Atlanta, the X. h. Lee, Albert
Sidney Johnston and Margaret Haugheny
statues in Kew Orleans, and others Of
public note. He will be in Georgia some
time i'm May with his design for the Jas
per monument iu savannah. and Will visit