Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-18


The Talbotton Rie are to give fair.
Hawkinsville is shave an ''old folks
balp' on Dec. 81.
1t is now settled tt the fraternities OF
tine university at thens will issue an
annual next year.
Willie McClellanda 10-year-old boy OF
Millen, weighs 100Iounds, and is little
more than feet in light.
K. W. Jackson, o6yrOn, who lost $500
in gambling den 1 Macon, has been
awarded a verdict Il the amount lost.
Last Saturday niht two negroes got
into difficulty in Tatkinsville over the
election, and one them was badly cut.
The Mayoralty ebtion at Watkinsville
is causing considelble excitement there.
J. T. Anderson anN. H. Ashford are the
candidates.
All the factors and shops in and
around Athens al running on full time,
and everything 1 prosperous. There is
work enough for Il at good wages.
The troubles ofAax Joseph, of Athens,
are at last finaB settled and no more
litigation is expected. Some of the credi-
tors received 50 ents on the dollar, which
is considered god settlement.
The citizens re anxious to have the
mail route cbaned from T0ombsboro to
Bruton, on theDublin and Wrightsville
railroad, from which point they can get
Their papers Onthe same day of publica-
ton.
Richard Galway, of Wilkes county,
has recently LOST sixty odd hogs from
cholera, These hogs would have weighed
over 2O0pOunds each. Capt. j. j. Graf
tons hasalso lost eighteen from the same
cause.
The Yong Mems Christian Association
Of Athen tried to rent Lampkin's old
barrOom for their hall, so as to turn a
plow-shaR into a pruning-hook, but the
rent was AOre than they felt authorized
to pay.
A gentleaan who owns one of the finest
plantations in OglethOrpe county, con-
tanning LOCI acres, says if any one will
pay him far valuation on the buildings
or the Dlace,that he will give him deed
to the farm.
The RAILROADS have, with their uniform
courtesy through Dr. Nell, granted the
students of the university at Athens re-
duced rate Of lc. per mile for the round
trip, so that tley may take in their homes
during Christmas.
Several of tie Ohio farmers who visited
Greene COUNT bought farms there, but
they talked tn, owners down to a very
low figure. Oilers are expected to re-
turn and invest,as they have places I'M
der consideration.
j. j. G. McMaaan having sold out his
stock of goods IN Crawford to S. II. Stoke
ly, that gentleman has gone into business
with Pete Rowland, and the business will
be continued unler the firm name of
stokely & Rowland.
John W. Payne, of Oconee county, has
made an assignment for the benefit of his
n
settle with the creditors on Dec. %. He
says that he thinks that he will be able to
pay soc. on the dollar.
The new City Council of Athens will
act with conservatism, but at the same
time work for the reduction of expenses.
1t is estimated that at least 5000 per
annum can be saved without interfering
with the efficiency of any department.
At Millen, Tuesday, j. NJ. Lavender,
train hand on train No. 8, was coupling
ears, when he met with a serious and
painful accident by getting his right hand
caught between the bumpers of two cars,
MASKING off his thumb and forefnger,
Mr.. Pittard, an old gentleman Of
Wilkes, says that before the war a man
named overly made race for Governor
On the temperance issue, but only re-
ceived about 10000 votes in the State. He
was brilliant speaker and stumped
Georgia.
The prohibition contest is waxing very
warm in Greene county, and both sides
are thoroughly organized. 1t is thought
that the county will go for prohibition
by between 100 and 200 majority. The
registration law will save the prohibit
tionists.
One hundred emigrants have left the
Immediate vicinity OF Adairsville for
Texas in the past 80 days. Two hundred
and fifty more are sacrificing their all to
leave before Jan. /. Emigrant agents are
putting in their usual lingo as induce
ments over their line.
The damages to the First Baptist
church at Macon by the recent fire were
assessed Wednesday. They were esti-
mated at $20,4OO The church was only
insured for $4,000, of which $4,000 was in
the Southern Mutual, of Athens, and
$4,000 in the Mechanics, Of Brooklyn.
l. L. Stephens, farming on Cedar creek,
In Pulaski county. made this year on a
2-hOrse farm % bales of cotton, 400 bushels
OF corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, barrels
Of syrup and peas in abundance. The
greater portion of the land cultivated by
Mr.. Stephens was cleared go years ago.
The cases against several leading gen.
tlemen in Athens, who were threatened
Win the United states Court Tor DuylnR
votes in the late municipal election, will
he dropped. The hpast is made on the
streets that District Attorney Hill urged
their prosecution, but no one believes It,.
A negro school teacher was at the head Of
the movement.
The famous belled buZZard, OF which so
much has been written by the Georgia
editors, paid McDuffie county a visit
week before last. He called at the resi-
dence OF A. Il. StrOther, on Little river,
and permitted several members OF Mr..
strother's family To approach near enough
to see the bell and hear Its tinkling as the
bird sailed away.
About a half dozen cases in which the
parties were charged with Illegal voting
came up before the county court at Wash
ingtOn last Monday. They were charged
with not having paid their taxes, but In
every case they produced receipts from
the collector or bailiff who had the eXecu-
ton, and we're all acquitted. There will
be no more prosecutions.
When the passenger train for Columbus
was leaving Macon Wednesday morning
sharper ran aboard the passenger car
and asked II anyone could change So bill
orhim. An old gentleman handed five sill
yer dollars aud took what he supposed TO
he s. bill. The sharper hurried out OF
The car az 10 moved of, and the old man
aiscoved too late that he had received a 81
bill.
There ia a building in Atlanta with six