Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-27
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


physician Won His Spurs-Applying
the Mad stone in Campbell County.
GEORGIA.
brownsville is to have fruit evapora-
tor.
Some one is trying to get barroom at
Clyattville.
Wilkes county.
Fairburn will have her annual picnic
in Fairburn on May 5.
A train of So cars passed through For
Valley Friday.
!. ID. Hopes residence in Worth county
has lust been burned.
sumter county has ST, 551 in her treasury
and owes less than $500.
Oconee county comes to the front with
an old negro 109 years old.
The trap at Starling's ferry, Lowndes
county, is catching plenty of trout and
shad.
A Columbus fishermad Friday caught a
3OO-pound sturgeon in the river near that
city.
Col. Joe Strother, of Washington, is a
candidate for the position of State Libra
rian.
Brooks county people-many of them
church members-have spent $500 in the
Louisiana lottery during the past year.
There is a fiourishing Sabbath school at
Neeley's school house, in Newton county,
taught by the students of Emory college.
The next meeting of the teachers of
Troup-c county will be held at the college
in West Point ON the first Saturday in
May.
From Nov. 1, 1884 to March 80, 1885,
there was measured at the public booms
in Darien 30, 423, $50 feet of square and
scab timber.
An effort is being made to establish a
tri-weekly mail from Valdosta to Bell
vile. A petition has already been gotten
up for that purpose.
Mrs. Mary Jane ClOtfelter, of Smyrna,
has just had one of her fingers amputated.
1t was affected with tunror. She is
getting along very well.
At a meeting of the East Rome cor
poration Friday, H. d. CothraR was cleo
ted President and Treasurer, II. NJ.
Smith Secretary, Daniel S. Printup Sec
Rotary pro TEN.
The effort instituted by the Sunday
school at Ebenezer to organize a Sunday
school association, and to have a Sunday
school celebration about the last of May,
at Smyrna, promises to be a success.
The liquor dealers of Athens are al
ready reducing their stocks, preparatory
will have but little whisky left, most of
which will be moved to OcOnee'and Mad
ison and sold.
Between 81, 300 and 81, 400 in gold bull
lion was shipped from Washington by eX-
press on Wednesday. Eleven hundred
dollars of this was from the Sale gold
mine, and the balance from the mine op-
Grated by the latham Brothers.
Three very important and useful inven-
til
OUitmau men. First came NJ. o. Young
with his stump puller. Next was Allen
JohnsOn's buggy coupling; andnow S. FL.
ClantOn steps in with plOW.
The Valdosta Times enumerates the
needs of that town as follows: A better
water supply, two new engine houses, a
city hall and market, brick sidewalks, an
artesian well. Dukes bay and the quag-
mire across our northern limit drained.
Thomas PolhiH, of Bellville, had a mar
row escape from being killed by a mule
last Saturday. The mule was trying to
Kill young colt, and when Mr.. PoIhill
interfered the mule ran at him, paved
him down and made every effort to kill
him.
The firm of Erwin & FOrtson, of Wash
inQton. has been dissolved, 7. K. FOrtson
purchasing the interest of J. T. Erwin in
the business. This changes an Old land
marx IN BuG DuSiIiGsS CiICItS VI W dsUiuE-
ton. Capt. Erwin has not yet determined
what business he will engage in.
James r. Phillips, an old and highly re-
speeted citizen of Campbell county, died
atshis nome on the night of April 30, sur
rounded by his family. Mr.. Phillips was
progressive farmer, being the first one
in Campbell county who planted and sue
cessfully raised the ribbon cane.
The receipts of cotton for the past sea-
son, and the corn and guanO receipts
since Jan l, at Fairburn, are as follows:
Corn, rs cars; cotton, 5,22l bales; guanO,
1920 tons. These figures show a falling
off in cotton receipts as compared with
last season of 2,O43 bales, owing to the
shOrtness of the crop in that section.
They also show an increase in guano
sales of 60 tons over last year.
At Conyers Saturday night, during the
absence of DR.. Mat. Stewart and family,
his house was broken into and gold
watch and some dresses stolen. Marshal
Bellah and Constable T. II. organs went
to arrest the negro girl who had been
staying at the Doctors. and they got so
close on her track that the girl returned the
goods. The case was dismissed for want
OF prosecution and the girl was released.
At Boston, while a cOlored man was
preparing the ground for a prospective
pinder patch. in field near the house, a
wild duck came walking up one of the
burrows followed by fifteen young ones.
The man caught the young ones, but con-
cluded they could not be raised and let
them go. They then waddled of to an
adjacent pond, and have not been seen
since. 1t IS supposed thev came into the
field for the purpose of feeding.
Last Tuesday night about s O'Clock
there was terrific explosion in the west
ern part of the Third ward of COnyers,
shaking up things considerably in that
portion of the city. Some think it
meteoric explosion, while others claim
that they smelt the powder; in the mean
time others could, were they disposed, tes-
tify to the, sudden expansion of loaded
stick of wood, which was missing from
Tie railroad pile. A negroes supper went
up through his chimney.
Mr.. Newell, the Quitman artesian well
digger, has been boring in the hardest
kind of flint rock during tle week. The
wei is now about 142 feet deep and is
cased So feet with 6-inch casing. A power
iul subteiranean stream was struck at
about ITO feet. This stream flows swiftly
and continually through the well and the
noise it makes at night can be heard at
some distance. The presence of this