Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

ri, T. NEWS OF III II TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
r,ro ministers Deliver the Same Sermon
the same Day at E1Onroe-Burnins
- an Atlanta GrOcery-Wh the
T,,rpssion "TOte Your Own Skillet
Comes
GEORGIA.
1lborfon wants a band.
rDovd county wants new court hou Sc.
s,.sral new dwellings are being erected
al Marietta.
ToGrange's municipal election occurs
next month.
The Dixon murder case in Harris
.,uaty has been continued.
Iug Tavern is shipping brick to Monroe
"a tobp used in building Jail.
Twenty-four true bills were returned by
+be Houston county grand jury.
Tbe electric fire alarm signal service of
Columbus is now ready for business.
FIGHT hundred bales of cotton from the
oo1ntrv we're sold at Columbus Tuesday.
sivtv.seven lots in the eastern part of
Atlanta brought $5,427 Tuesday at auc-
ton.
Clark. whose skull was fractured by
nubose at ElDertOn, was still alive at last
accounts.
A colored barber of Marietta has pur-
chased q 81 800 site and is erecting hand
some residence.
break at the Atlanta water works
Tuesday caused a water famine in that
t city on that day.
within the last week three horse thieves
have been arrested in Walton county and
csrried to jackson county.
mis- believed that Rome's street railway
81 ..u d., in C7snr9tiOO nv AUU Tho no
csssary money has been secured.
There are now twenty prisoners in
) Tryd county Jail, eleven of whom will
Isoye ID a few days to work out their sem
NlCes.
CITY Treasurer Hough, OF Rome, paws
4 ont $500 per month for the free schools.
L IL This money is distributed among eighteen
* n people.
80 Hewitt Stephens, of Waynesboro, is the
= - proprietor of an old tumbler which will
: hold an even quart, and which is said to
be over 100 years old
e The City Council Of Rome has resolved
Z TO organize a chain-gang in the city, to
4 81 which violators Of the city ordinances
will be sentenced when they fail to pay
h fines,
10 H.B. Mike, of Alpharetta, has a spin
z, ming wheel that was brought from Vir-
d b .na by his grandmother, and was made,
"E14i-. lND years dsOs IL LAS UGH III
y family since 1894.
"a B. Barrett, formerly of Houston
Is charged at Macon with selling
a ot-ased mules, victimizing a music
4 b ousa 90 the extent of an organ, and being
j. $40 behind on his house rent.
Deputy Sheriff Knight, of Walton
4 county, caught negro last week that
q was sent to Webb's chan-gang in 1879,
and who made his escape in twenty-one
D. days after reaching the camps.
Dr. PolhiIl, of Waynesboro, has a Curl
Osi-y in the shape of a dOgwood tree,
al & which put out a limb some four feet above
T. the ground, and, projecting some feet
d from the parent tree, turned dOwnwards.
took root and grew into another tree.
A bullet fired by a negro at w. B. john
son, conductor of a Western and Atlantic
III Railroad freight train, at Dalton Monday
9 night, just grazed his temple. The negro
fired as the train was running and the
conductor was standing on the platform.
lie was not captured.
II A Hampton gentleman has a volume of
n Isset practice of medicine, published in
d e lltl. 1t IS quite interesting, as it is so
different from medical works of the pre-
: sent day. The prescriptions are placed
4. N the centre of the volume, and in the
N treatment of any disease reference is
nd made bv number to recipe for said dis
ease. The volume is well preserved.
4 D. W. Visscher, Of Fort Valley, is plain
tiff in a suit recently argued before the
nitcd States Supreme Court involving
be title to a railroad in Alabama worth
half million. He has steadily gained
ng bis case before the lower courts. and there
ri are strong indications that the decision OF
the Supreme Court will be favorable to
him. Success will bring him a fortune.
- Near where the Towaliga empties into
D. the Ocmulgee river, and on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, is
an old Indian mound from which many
relics from time to time, have been taken.
When the hands were eXcavatng for the
railroad they dug up several Indian skele-
o. tons, also from the graves were taken the
j tomahawk and other rude implements
peculiar to the savage tribe.
James l.. Dow, of Cameron, was seri-
ousy nurt by passing freight train at
No. ~ Central Railroad, on Friday. He
al mad just crossed the track in a buggy
81 ahead Ct the train, when his horse COM
menced backing. MIR. DOw's efforts to stop
N me animal were Intellectual, and he got
lea ALONGSIDE the track just as the engine
b Mr.. Dow was Knocked sense
es .' buggy was torn 10 pieces, and
% llu -arse was very badly injured.
Argument on the motion for a new trial
lor George =. Curry is progressing at Au-
susta. Curry was convicted at the last
W. lAAN 1hi iA'I AOiAAb VI dIGtllN dlltI
]. rust, and was sentenced by Judge Rooney
AVe years in the penitentiarY. Curry
was prominent stock broker, and after
nls failure 10 was discovered that he had
converted trust funds TO his own use. The
motion for a new trial will hardly be
Granted An appeal will then be made to
the supreme Court.
Oalaoun correspondence News, April
.. N. Ballews' store was broken into
nv night ana $50 or $50 worth of various
tllcts stoen-one fine breech-loading
e 9uO.sun' eight bottles of fine whisky,
a a 1i4' tobacco, cigars and other minor
'n' %rucIes. There is no clue TO the thief.
~ "O negro tramps are suspected. En-
rance was gained at a back door 10y
t. oulnll- TWO holes just where the bar
T1Uss 'esQ on the inside and raising the bar.
Ky lhiei was some one that knew where
'ae bar was located.
~ oneFlh Burns left Columbus Sunday for
lm iiIHoniAsl llle, where he was informed that
"a '3loh harrell could be found. Huron is
% spefate negro, who was confined in
N.Y. ~ columbus 10 await trial under the
p."ts e OF assault with intent 60 murder.
M p.ohe Jail and escaped on the night of
XIV! '' Ioto. The assault was committed