Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-07

OF Young Lady from the Seminary
at GainesVilIe-Death from a Bees
Sting.
GEORGIA.
The United States Court is in session at
Macon.
James Acres house, near Homer, has
been burned.
The new Methodist church at Tennille
is about half finished.
The Columbus tiremen will have their
tournament on May 27.
1t is said that the Albany Daily Medium
will be enlarged to 20 columns.
The measles have developed in Forsyth,
but as yet are confined to one locality.
The older residents of Gainesville are
to play a game of town ball tomorrow.
r.. j. Black, of Rockdale county, died
ii his chair while eating breakfast Mon
day.
The 4-year-old daughter of Sch Swilley,
of Lowndes county, was burned to death
last week.
1t is believed that Troup county will
give an overwhelming majority for prohi-
bition on May 10.
A number of gentlemen from Chatta-
nooga Will shortly establish furniture
factory in Rome.
The old Rooney building was sold at
auction at Columbus Tuesday to James
A. Lewis for $15,115.
Judge j. I'll. Hase, of Houston county,
has two baby grandsOns named respect
fully Cleveland and Hendricks.
JonesborO had an election for Mayor
and Council yesterday. Hutchinson and
Ward were candidates for Mayor.
The merchants of Elberton will proba-
hp1 a ffY9ts 4 70 70
the Atlanta commercial convention.
Adjt. Gen. John A. Stephens was at
Dawson Tuesday. He was pleased with
the inspection of the armory of the Daw-
son Guards.
Mrs. f. B. Comstock, of Atlanta, had a
toOthache Tuesday, and took laudanum
to cure it. She took too much and nearly
died, but was saved.
Capt. Smith Lemon has been appointed
delegate to represent Acworth in the
national commercial convention, which
meets i'll Atlanta May 10, 20 and 81.
William Moore and Frank Sanford, At
1anta negroes, quarreled over a game of
marbles Tuesday and Sanford was
stabbed in the back twice. He VIII not
die.
6. J. Gwaltney, of Magnolia Springs,
has a kitten that has the head of a rat.
The ears, nose and mouth are shaped pre-
cisely like rat, while the balance of the
animal is shaped like an ordinary cat.
joan j. Leach, aged q, paralytic and
ex-cOllector and mailing clerk of the At
Ianta Sunday Record, attempted to COM
nit suicide at Atlanta Tuesday by taking
laudanum. He was saved. Dependency
was the cause.
A handsome span of horses attached to
a fine carriage belongs to Mrs. w. H..
Deem, living a few miles from Athens.
This equipage was bought with the pro-
ceeds of the sale of butter, eggs and
chickens alone.
A foot race has been arranged for next
week at Macon between Ed Conner and
Mr.. Jake Rau, two fleet-fOOted runners.
The distance will be 100 yards, and $50
will be given to the winner of the race.
The forfeit is $l5.
Samuel Parr, who has been living for
several years in Mississippi, will move
back to Athens and go into business with
his brothers. Mr.. Parr is the party who
found all that gold in an old Dutchman's
bake-oven at Gettysburg.
The remaining $4,000 of the capital
stock of the Columbus street railroad
company has been taken by Columbus
gentlemen, and the track is to be laid to
Star park at once. The company is now
negotiating for the rails.
There is an old lady living in Athens,
now 80 years of age, who has never en-
tered a church or spoken on the subject
of religion, When this topic is preached
she always gets up and leaves the room.
No one knows what is her belief.
While the Columbus city hands were at
work on a reservoir on lower Broad street,
a Confederate carbine was found, which
is supposed to have been thrown in there
at the time of the rad. 1t was in COM
paratively good state of preservation.
Jesse Cook, the negro who brutally
murdered his wife at Butler last Thurs
day evening, and has been so shrewd in
lodging the officers in the past four or five
days, was seen near Geneva, Ala. Satur-
day. The probability now is that he will
be arrested.
SandersYille correspondence NEWS,
May 6 A gentle rain fell here last even
ing from 5tO SO'clock, giving what farmers
term "a good seasons" hence man. beast
and vegetable look bright and 1lOurishing
this morning. This rain viii about ma
ture the cat and wheat crop.
A new mail service between Macon and
Brunswick is being established. The
service will be put on the night train to
Brunswick via the Southwestern and
Brunswick and Western railroads as soon
as the requisite number Of postal clerks
are examined and appointed.
At the Sherih7s sale at Conyers Tues
day a piece Of land quarter of mile
from the court house, containing about
eight acres, was sold for taxes, and
brought only SO, or 81 - per acre.
The land is claimed by three or four
persons, and there are two or three deeds
to it, held by different persons.
l.. ID. Clodfelder, living on the edge OF
Clark and Oc0nee counties, had fine
mule bitten about seven weeks ago by q
mad dog. A few days ago the mule de-
Veloped clear case Of hydrophObia, and
Bit himself and everything else in reach.
Finally MIR. Clodfelder killed the mule and
burned the stable down SO as to prevent
any of the rest ofhis stock from getting in-
oculated with the virus.
The COW law and new Sandy Creek
road, two subjects that have been annoy
ing the Athens Council for a long time,
are finally settled. The stock law will
be enforced in the city after June !, and
the Council has appropriated $3.50 toward
opening the new street up Sandy creek
10 be known as Bloomfield street. II cuts
OF Barheryllle. but will be OF incalculable
benefit TO travellers coming from that d.
rcctiOn.
Archie Meaders, a son Of l.. Q Meaders,