Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-17

WV aSO. AS ne passed y. X. COOpers
market, Mr. Cooper got his pistol, and
nred at him. The ball missed the dog,
but hit a horse belonging to MreSam Tate,
which was hitched ON the opposite side Of
the street, the ball entering the animals
head between the eye and ear. The horse
is badly injured, and may die. Mr.. Tate
IS much aygrieYed and threatens legal
steps 70 recover damages.
. Five weeks ago w. J. Carlton, of Good
Hope, Walton county, was adiudged Il
lunatlc and sent to the asylum at Mil
ledgeville. He was taken there and eX-
amned by the physicians, and they could
ind nothing the matter with him, and he
was allowed to go about the place and do
as he pleased. After staying there five
weeks be was discharged and sent home,
Mr.. Carlton thinks that there has been
huge job put up on him. He thinks Of
suing the county for large amount Of
damages.
Montezuma Recorder: Willie Brown
says Mr.. Pete Twitty, of Camilla, owns
the most sagacious dog in the State. He
frequently sends the dog home With notes
to his wife. Not long ago he sent him
home after some matches, and not having
any, he picked up a chunk of fire and
started back to town. He had to pass
through a piece of woods, and by accident
dropped the chunk and set the woods on
fire. When his master found him he had
broken off pine top and was fighting fire
like the dickens.
Thursday DR.. J. T. Hester and three
hands were working at his saw mill near
Salem, when the boiler exploded, and was
thrown by the force 200 yards, cutting
down several trees in its path and large
pieces of iron were driven into surround
ing trees, bnt none of the men standing
near were hurt. A negro boy was blown
by the explosion under a bridge and the
bridge was blown from over him. Jim
Duke was standing by tree close to the
boiler, but the mass of iron passed over
his head, cutting off tree about 20 feet
from the ground.
j. P. Cole, of Spring Place, fell over a
precipice Friday, and sustained injuries
which resulted in death. He, in company
with two or three others, was out on Co
hutta mountain, in the vicinity of the
Legal Tender mine," of which he was
one of the owners. They were walking
along the side of the mountain, in the full
glee of mountain adventures, when Mr..
Cole stepped on a rock which was made
slick by a small stream of water. His
feet slipped from under him, and he went
dashing wildly down over the rocky cliffs
below. His injuries were mainly of an
internal nature.
There is a merchant in Athens who put
an account in a bailiffs hands to collect.
The account was sued and the bailiff Or
dered to make the money. After a great
deal of work the bailiff returned the iudg-
ment and indorsed thereon that there was
nothing but dog that he could find to
make the money out of. The merchant
ordered him to take the dog or he would
rule him. Now the question arises what
is the bailiff to do? If he puts his hands
on the dog the animal will bite him, and
he is obliged to lay his hands on the prop
erty to make the levy. The balif is in
trouble, and is thinking of catching the
dog with a lasso.
BY letters received from the Mayor of
Decatur, Tex, it is learned that Stedman
Ward, one of the two men who murdered
l.. W. FambrO, former citizen of Griffin,
a few months ago. was caught in Las
Vegas, n. M, and lodged in Jail at
Decatur, Tex, on July Is last, where he
is now lying. He has not attempted to
secure bail, and it is not believed that the
courts would grant it to him. The prose-
cution are confident of securing his con-
yictiOn, and will have their side ready and
use every effort to force a trial at the next
term of court, in August. Pubic senti-
a
Cham bliss, his accOmplice, who was
acquitted, and is on the verge of bank
ruptcy.
Mrs. Philoclea Eve left Augusta for
Washington Friday, whence she will pro-
coed in a few days to attend a meeting of
the regents of the Mount Vernon AssO-
citation. Mrs. PIckens, of South Caro-
lima, left on the same day for the same
purpose. Mrs. Eve is the Georgia regent
and Mrs. Pickens the Carolina regent of
this association. The association was in
augurated in Augusta, the first moneys
having been subscribed there, the first so
ciety formed and the first officer appoint
ed, then called the President of the Cen
tral Committee of the Stale of Georgia.
1t was then purely a Southern movement,
the place was to be bought By the Southern
ladies. No other State had made any
The grand jury of Habersham county
say: We find that the county safe was
robbed about January IS last, and we
are thereby confined to such records as
was left and to reports of county officers.
Robert N. Groves, eX-Ordinary, reports
the taxable property of the county as ST.
DOC, 045 Il. He fails to report the indebt-
edness Of the county, but leYies a tax Of
40 of | per cent. for county purposes.
and 7%.l0 Of l per cent. for special tax
for new Jail, which should have raised
for county purposes $7,091 80, and for the
erection Of the Jail S1,5S4 Is. He reports
as cost of jail 1851. Amounts col
lected on special tax $500 and execu-
lions issued against Collector for 1921.
Amounts collected on general tax 3d.
03l 90; balance due, and executions
issued, for $4,000. He also reports 30
paupers drawing from $50 TO $50 per an
mum.
In Wilkes county a day or two ago, An
drew MarlOw's baby, aged year, p0rished
in his burning homestead. Mrs. NARROW
mad been ironing in the house, and the
babe was lying in its little cradle. The
mother carried some fire from the house
t. the kitchen to make fire to cook din
ner. She then went of from the house
several hundred Yards, with her other
little child, few years old, TO
gather up some wood. When at
that distance she heard a roaring noise,
and looking round saw her house envel-
Oped in flames. She ran 10 the fire as
rapidly as possible, but 10 was impossible
10 enter the house. The frantic mother
heard the last screams OF her child before
the cruel flames did their deadly work,
and falling TO the ground insensible she
lay there until some one came. 1t is
the fire was caused by spark fall
ing on chair OF rough-dry clothes that
was sitting near the bed. Other struc-
lures on the place were also burned.
FLORIDA.