Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-28
GEORGIA.


GEORGIA.
go,rt convenes in Clinch and BerrIen
counties the first MONDAY III Octooer'
1tbens physicians report the oaDV crop
49, fall az unusually large. Girls are IN
the majority -, =, ooo,s i,
=, ff.ck's store at Marshallyille a
night or TWO ago
,r,tbout means 10 successfully coMDdt
.arge Are should one occur
Hartwell lady weighs even 200
,,,ds and Ter husband III. He calls
her his .'belter two-thlrds.
n Zeiglcr. OF Lowndes county, says
,ora,s den Of genuine beaver in
creek running through his plantation.
The Hartwell Sun thinks the front face
+ho bench. Judge Lumpkin, resembles
The rest pictures of President Cleveland.
reward Of $500 has been offered for
.,onnrehensIon of the negro who killed
ant Lane. of Pierce county, last month.
mo Injunction case against the Jeter
md water contract for Brunswick is
~ nc argued at the court house In Bruins
wick to-day
L n Webb. of Hahira, LOwndes coun-
80 has A basket 80 odd years old. He has
'iso mortar and pestle of copper which
is near 100 years old.
Perry Vmson, the One-armed burglar
..ho was sent up from Albany to the
rbattabooche brickyard last October for
siy wears, escaped Sept. 70.
An effort is being made to have a new
,ostaf1ce established at Cork's Ferry, on
the Flint river, in Worth county. The
oAiea is-to be named Shell Blun.
Homer. in Banks county, is the health
est Mace in Georgia. There has not been
y death in that place IN three years.
me puvslcianS think OF emIgratlng.
A motion was made by the counsel for
.Tobn skies, now in Jail at Athens, to be
Brought before Judge Hutchins at Homer
fc0UrU
DE-. c. S. Harris, OF Rome, was suddenly
ls.r,cken with paralysis Friday at noon,
End ever since he has been almost uncOn-
Ecious His condition is regarded as
Erltical.
| The other day All Illicit still was broken
bln near Turnerville, on the Northeastern
knad. and the owner captured. Another
mooushiner was caught in GAINESVILLE,
but they did not get his still.
A telegram reached Albany, Saturday,
stating that >. Z. Salter's 3-year-Old Gram
bv won in three straight heats easy, one
Df the races at the MurireesbOrO, Tenn,
iar. Mr.. Salter is an Albanian.
Patterson, the man who cut his wite's
throat few wears ago, in Banks county.
forfeited his bond at this term of court.
Mrs. Patterson was at Homer during
court as a witness against her husband.
Rev. T. G. Crawford, Of Dirt Town,
happened to painful accident few days
IL rif
that was being put up, and one OF the
pieces of timber fell upon and severely in
9ured him.
Friday night last, Easter Thurman,
c0lored, the wife of A. 8. Thurman, of
Cedartown, gave birth to a child which
twas found to be possessed of a number of
teeth, one full grown and several others
emerging from the gums.
l 1t is rumored that an attempt has been
made to assassinate another revenue in-
Former in the same neigbbOrhood in
Franklin county where Dyas was killed.
"A shot was fired into a mans house, but
d plank warded of the bullet.
, While planter was picking cotton
kseyeral days ago at HawkinsVille, in
AOwndes county, he was startled by some
fhing blowing near him. He at once
discovered large alligator in the next
cotton row. His little boy got gun and
KILLED it.
A small negro of Americus has the
thOnor of owning the only tame 'pOssum
ever in that city. About two weeks ago,
while cut in the woods, he found the ami
Emal and carried 1t home. Now it is as
Ftame as cat and about as large. 1t is
Irare that a possum is caught young
Ienough TO tame.
The friends of temperance and the
Friends Of prohibition In Glynn county
ihaYe united in a call for mass meeting at
lthe court house, at Brunswick, next
Thursday, to confer together, to organize
their forces, and to prepare for the pro-
posed election to decide the fate of prohi
Ibition for two years.
| 7. Burwel Green, of Washington,
Opened large box Of valuable goods
FRIDAY, and found nearly all Of them COM
Pletely ruined with salt water. The
vessel which brought them South was in
r storm at sea, and the waves swept into
}ne mold and ruined nearly all the goods
Pn board. Mr.. Green has taken steps to
recover damages.
During dispute, which arose about 81
cents at Nahunta, Ware county, last
tuesday night, between two negroes,
west Morris and Hampton Carlisle, Nor
tbs drew his pistol on Carlisle when Oscar
9ii"ii lHuStl6f6u. motifs buFneO upon
marshall and shot him through the
bowels. and then made his escape. The
wounded man will probably die.
:, From the Albany Ne,oS: Messrs.
heuOon and Enoch Jones, of Baker. were
80 the city yesterday. There are three Of
sle brothers In Baker, viz: Reuben,
Lloch, and the redOubtable Primus,
%nlch constitute a trio such as IS rarely
IOuuu IN one and the same family. They
a.e not only good citizens, but intelligent,
actlVe and progressive men, such as build
up ana strengthen an agricultural COM
uluhlty and I'LL the Golfers Of a common
saturday morning the Americus, Pres
son ana Lumpkin train entered Americus
,.te'oped IN smoke, aud the
WW"Ih had no sooner stopped than
we cotton was being dumped
Gu me ground from the cars in hot haste.
No, v@ , was on hre on the train and it was
A.. Ahown where. The bale was soon
recovered and the fire put out, with but
s,ose damage. The cotton caught from
s spt.s from the engine, although the
'V.'on was slowed away in box-cars.
AT AT Columbus, Saturday, smoke was
49, en issuing from bale OF cotton that
m nv oeen uuioaded from the steamer W.
y, Nhlpley. II was cut into and the cot
~ near the centre OF tho bale was found
s ~ perfectly black and had the appear
~ ~ having been scOrched, although
s soe ur g, was not visible. The OdOr or lin
sr,' C oll was very pronounced and IL is
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