Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-21
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

GEORGIA.
IA more whisky can be sold at jug
Tavern.
Tbero is verv little talk about the Con-
,ressional race in Athens.
Fverv cotton mill in Columbus has or.
dars ahead OF the production.
harmony Grove is building large gu.
.no warehouse next to the depot.
cow at Giles Bishops place near
erifin gave birth recently to twin calves.
roere is a young girl near Athens who
DC nract!cing to become circus rider.
cooroe Hodgson, of Athens, has lately
,eceiyed a fine bird dog that cost him
$40.
over So. 900 of the Coweta taxes have
baen collected leaving yet to collect
about $1,000.
H. ia now thought the number of bar.
,oorps in Ouitman will not be diminished
another year.
An Atlanta gambler caught all of the
,onnc bloods Of that city and then left
for me far West.
Joe Davidson, of Woodville, shipped
fny cartridges TO Athens Friday that he
had caught in net.
Not day passes but what more or less
moonshine whisky wagons visit Clarke
and surrounding counties.
Tom Parker and j |. RAISER had their
hands terribly lacerat-d by cotton gins in
Rockdale comfy Saturday.
MIR. Cox, the conductor on the North
eastern railroad, has been conductor on
different roads in Georgia since 1865.
In 1857 Mr.. McGinty, the wealthy con-
tractor of Athens, was laying brick by
the day on the National Hotel, Atlanta.
Gentleman who has made a close es-
innate. says it will take only 1928 per
month to operate the Athens street rail-
road.
Hair & Stokes, merchants at Bdena
Vista. made an assignment Friday to
Howell Peacock for the benefit of their
creditors.
The Southern Rifles of Talbotton are
making extensive preparations Tor their
fair, which takes place about the middle
Of January.
tt is said that family of twenty-three
persons from Wintersyiile are on the way
10 Macon by private conveyance. They
will make Macon their home,
The colored NJ. E. church conference OF
south Georgia, is in session at Marshall
Vile Near two hundred delegates are
present. Bishop HOlseY presiding.
In the municipal election at Marshall
VILE Saturday O.. S. Johnson was elected
MayOr: Aldermen. +. B. Baldwin, G. G.
Goodwin, T. 5. Martin and A. 5. Bates.
Complaints are made that number OF
little negroes around Athens, as al so
white boys, go constantly armed with
cheap pistols, that they fire off at random.
After all the shares in series B Of the
Brunswick Building and Loan Associa-
ton had been taken, there were 30 or 40
more VINO wanted stock and could not be
supplied.
Mr. snodgrass. protector of the Athens
street railway, has already had three
propositions from responsible parties to
lease it at an interest Of over 10 per cent.
on its cost.
The owner of the COW that occasioned
the run off on the Airline road, near Su-
vance, causing the death of four or five
negroes. is sueing the road for the value
OF the cow.
Nsrshallville feels proud over the cree
ton Of a new railroad depot. Marshallville
is thrifty little place which is keeping
pace with the most progressive of the
Georgia cities.
Homer Cafe, of Hurtsboro, just across
the river in Alabama, 16-year-old boy,
has killed over 800 partridges this season.
he went out the Otner day and killed y
birds In Is shots.
Rev. j. c. Davis, of Athens, walks
eighto or ten miles every day, attending on
the poor Of the city, and he says that
there are cases beneath the sound OF the
church bells that are in urgent need.
The night before Sam Swilling's death
IN Hartwell, be was taken with hemOrT-
hage. and his brother started in haste for
aphysician. In stepping from the door
ne fell, breaking two bones In his leg.
j. G. Nixon, of Coweta county, is a
prosperous married farmer OF 80 years; ;
but until last week he had never beeu
twenty-five miles away from home, had
never Travelled on the cars nor slept in a
hotel.
lnSouth Rome, Friday, IS was snatched
from a negro mau's hand. Three negro
h0ys were charged with the theft, and
were arrested. Upon the promise of the
man not to prosecute them one OF the
BOYS disgorged the money.
The negro arrested for shooting little
coiored boy in Athens, in his mother :
yard, was discharged. There was no evil
dence to convict him, and again 1t was
proved that the snot which struck the
BOY was fired at a dog in the yard.
The ladies' Of the NJ. e. church at La
TRANCE netted about $l65 at dinner and
supper given in the courthouse saturday,
Tor church purposes. They have given
llelr order for pipe organ to Pitcher, OF
louisville, to cost, put up in the church,
SLl75.
-Four Of the Greensboro liquor dealers
nave taken out town licenses for the year
lS'6, and even in the event OF the county
gong for prohibition, they will not he mo-
tested for a year TO come. The town cOun-
on seemed to be opposed to doing away
With barrooms.
All Of the $40 lost by J. T. Crye, Of
Marion county, in Columbus last week,
nas been recovered except $l7. Baillfi
Ahney turned the money over Friday. IL
was found by some negroes who lives
Across the river. They had spent SIT, but
promise to refund it.
James $. Roberts sons, in Bsrrisn
county, caught beaver in a steel trap
several days ago. Mr.. Roberts and his
Doys have been seeing beaver signs IN the
creek near them for more than year.
Ihose rare animals have appeared lately
also IN Echols county.
here is a letter in the West Point post
Uuce from Hanover, Germany, addressed
mus 80 my Papa in West Point, Geor-
kla, America Doubtless IL WAS written
Ny some little child 70 "a wandering father,
tnu VIII never reach the hand OF the one
pl whom 1t was intended.
p Al the request of the family Orion
Halee, the sculptor, made "A plaster cast
W Lhe lace OF General Tonmbs before the