Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

BuEgy-E1OW Drs SahuB once treated
a Georgian.
GEORGIA.
Madison is to have another paper.
Forest fires are raging near Athens.
West Point has ordered new fire en-
gue.
Marion Superior Court convenes TO-
morrow.
r. B. Gunby is after the Columbus post
mastershlp.
A new court house is talked of in Ogle-
thorpe county.
Dawson has an elevation of 325 feet
above the sea level.
The people of Franklin are again agi-
Eating the stock law.
Sabbath school has been organized at
statesboro with p pupils.
The factory operatives of Columbus had
their annual picnic Yesterday.
The Georgia State Sunday School con-
venton meets in Rome on July %.
Col. w. o. Mitchell will deliver the
memorial address in CrawfOrdvine.
A wild turkey weighing thirty pounds
was killed in Gilmer county few days
ago.
Roses are in bloom in Perry, and straw
berries Will be ripe within week or ten
days.
Green Register, of Cochran, and George
CaylOr, of Pickens cod@ty, dropped
dead Friday.
Thomasville is to have a fruit canning
establishment this summer, and an ice
machine and gas.
Rev. B. r. Bray, of Calhoun county.
shot trout last Monday which weighed
three pounds and quarter.
Capt. j. b. Eads, of Mississippi iettv
fame, is at the "Piny Woods" Thomas
vile, with party of ladies.
Brad Tatum, OF Dade, has been ap-
pointed deputy collector of his district,
with salary of $500 per annum.
While out hunting last Saturday Hurley
Ballew, of Calhoun county, killed an
otter which weighed twelve pounds.
Jesup refuses to let any trains except
{ regular passenger trains go in or out of
her corporate limits on the Sabbath day,
Dawson's new steam fire engine was
shipped from the factory on April u, and
is expected to arrive the latter part of
this week.
A citizen of Coffee county captured six
fox cubs one day last week, about the size
OF One-month-old kittens, and sold them
in Pearson at % cents each.
The Amoskeag Lumber Company. at
Eastman, has commenced the erection of
another dry house, 10 supply the place Of
LL4c QIG ICCbhOiy tOuSuulSu ny IRE.
In the lower part of Murray county the
reports of mad dogs were so numerous
thai last Sunday the people armed them
Ives with cudgels when they went to
church.
Col, Edward Young, of Greensboro. has
been invited by the Ladies' Memorial AS
soc alton of Union Point to deliver the
address next Monday. He has accepted
the invitation.
A little child of Taylor DeVane, who
lives few miles from Cuthbert, swallowed
a siX-penny nail on Monday morning last.
Serious trouble, it is feared, will result
from this unfortunate accident.
The leg of a calf in Cartecay was broken
the other day in jumping a fence. Sher-
man McHan, the owner, amputated the
Lee and spliced on a wooden one. The
only inconvenience suffered is in living
down.
A heavy hailstorm ragged at State Line,
IN Heard county, Tuesday evening. 1t
lasted about thirty minutes, and did great
damage to gardens and young corn, and
washed the land badly. Hail as large as
guinea eggs fell in some places, complete
Iy covering the ground.
If the deficit of John NJ. StOvall, of Au-
gusta, does not run too high, his family
will be able to make it good. The default
already runs up to $4,000. 1t went in
hHECuldLlOHs ne udu power OL dUIOf0eN
for his uncle, Gen. NJ. A. StOvall and has
also ruined him financially.
A gentleman and lady, both citizens of
st. SlmOn's island, were very much sur
prised the other day in conversation to
md that they were both descendants of
that illustrious revolutionary hero, Gen.
Nathaniel Greene, and that they were
seventh cousins to each other.
The Georgia Baptist convention at New
- Inn
Nell is chairman. ROme's invitation to
meet next year in that city was unani-
mously accepted. There is preaching day
and night by distinguished divines, and
the services are largely attended.
Frank Smith and John Waters, of Eli
jay, went out Thursday morning for a
turkey hunt, They separated in the
woods and began calling. Through the
brush Waters saw Smiths knee move and
blaZed away with a rifle fhe ball entered
just below the knee and Smith was carted
home.
At Americas Wednesday night Bill
Cglesby, cOlOred, waited in front of DR..
Barlow's till Levi Congleton, another
darkey, came along from his work, when
Bill drew pistol and shot Levi, lodging
bali of thirty-tWO calibre in the muscle
Of his right leg. Frank Hill, Jr., was
present and secured the pistol, taking out
the rest of the cartridges. Oglesby
claimed that Congleton had been stealing
from him.
Mrs. Tom Woods, living near Lafayette,
had a strange visitor to spend the night
with her a few days snce-a turkey buzz
zard. Going into an unused room she
found it very quietly and peaceably
perched upon the head OF the bed. The
men mad been burning of the woods the
day before up above the house, and 1t is
thought he became frightened or overcome
ln some way, and in the evening took
refuge in the house.
In iroup county, one Of Mr.. Jones sons
caught a young rabbit, and on bringing IL
home gave it TO the little children. IL was
SON missing and a search revealed 10
suugly hid away in a box with the yard
uog On being taken out the dog whined
aud followed ~ about the place. The
children carried the rabbit back TO the
ned ana turned 10 loose, but the dog
caught 10 and now nurses IL as tenderly as
ID 10 was young pup.
d. b. McNeal and Miss Lizzie Hay, Of
terrell county, drove up in a buggy before
Judge simmons door last Sunday morn
ug and called for the Judge. When the
Judge came out McNeal said they wanted