Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-07

the weather vane on the court house
splre, and daily took note of its position.
Lately, In repairing the spire the work.
men discovered the vane had not moved
out OF It's place for years.
Inc State is getting along finely with
tbe collection of the taxes. The receipts
10 Gaze Tor this year are more than $50, 900
over the receipt for the corresponding
date OF last year. The receipts so far have
been upwards Of s250, 600. The capitai tax
VIII net about $3.50, co., About a fifth of
the total tax has been paid.
The Board OF County Commissioners
OF Coweta have passed the bill allowing
SoO0 to the Newman Soldiers monument.
winch Is now in the hands of the Ladies'
Ana society and ready foruse. The monu-
ment has been landed at Savannah, and
on next Saturday the unwilling ceremo-
MES VIII take place at Newman.
AT Augusta, Saturday, the roof of
mouse on the corner OF Broad and Kollock
streets caught fire and was put oct with
out the aid of the fire department. A
young lady tenant of the house ran up.
stairs and brought down her prayer book
and the picture of her deceased sister,
the only articles most valuable to her.
jerks a. Holmes steam gin, near Bell
vile, caught on fire from q match in one
OF the gins Saturday and created quite
blaze, but there happened to be a lot OF
men, buckets and water at hand. and by
strenuous efforts the fire was subdued be-
fore the building and machinery were
destroyed. The loss on the cotton is about
5000.
Two negroes at Albany had a sharp
dispute the other day as to neither or
not there were any colored "ladies" One
OF these men was so ungallant as to deny
the existence of such a class, when the
other promptly called him liar. Friends
lnterfered, and there was no blood shed,
though the original proposition was not
Withdrawn.
NJ. V. Bunkley, blacksmith, who has
been residing at Waycross for some time
past, disappeared very mysteriouslY
Tuesday night, taking with him, it is re-
ported, Miss Grimes, the daughter of a
shoemaker Bunkly leaves wife and
several children who have no means of
support, and who are dependent upon the
public charity.
AT the last meeting of the City Council
of Cedartown it was enacted that in
future all barber shops in the city should
be closed on the Sabbath. The ordinance
| also provides that no article of mercnan-
disc shall be sold In the town upon that
| day except in cases of providential neces-
sity. A penalty is imposed upon the
buyer and the seller.
The Working World, the organ of the
| labor organizations in Atlanta, in its
issue of Saturday publishes an address to
the public on the part of the Atlanta Ty-
pographical Union, declarin a"bOycOtt"
against the Atlanta Constitution, on the
alleged grounds that this paper proscribes
union printers. and in various ways is
| nimical TO the interests Of the organiza-
ton.
At the State agricultural office Commits
sianer Henderson has about two thousand
! carp for distribution IN Geogia, They
were left with the Commissioner by the
special Fish Commissioner of the United
states a week ago. Two hundred and
forty lots of carp were shipped by the
special Commissioner to all portions of
tue State, in response to applications
made for them, and filed with the depart
ment at Washington. The carp lett with
Commissioner Henderson is the balance
of Il, 900 set aside for distribution in this
State. They are said TO be the finest
quality of carp ever brought to this State.
In Carroll county day or two ago Bill
Muse, colOred, was cooking for A settle
ment barbecue, and George CIR fir, an old
negro, commenced to handle aud eat the
yictuals shat were being prepared by the
culinary, darky, and this so iTritated Bill
that he told the old man to desist, where
upon he became Infatuated, and, taking
out his knife, he began TO cut and slash
around recklessly. He cut him in one
place on the arm, and stabbed him in the
back cut inches long TO the ribs. An
other place was deeply incised across the
hips 6 inches long. DIR. Cole thinks the
stab in the back will prove troublesome
and perhaps fatal.