Savannah morning news., 1885-06-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

scriyen county has balance OF $3.50
in her treasury.
The First Baptist church at Columbus
is without pastor.
Atlanta's water supply is declared to be
dangerously polluted.
Steps are being taken to revive Macon's
Chamber of Commerce.
canary bird died a few days ago at
Quincy at the advanced age of 10 years.
Barnesville's new hotel, now being
framed, will cost $20,0 900 when completed.
There has been more sickness in Thom-
aston this spring than was ever known
before.
sturgeon was caught on the traps at
DR.. Daniels mill, near Thomaston, Satur-
day that weighed 03 pounds.
There is no whisky sold in Greene county,
except at Greensboro, and the trade there
is growing Stacker and Stacker.
The asylum investigating committee of
the legislature has just been in session
at the lunatic asylum at Milledgevile.
Barnesville's revival, which had been
in progress for four weeks, closed Sunday
night with 30 accessions to the church.
negro boy named Newton Smith,
living near Sunny Side, committed sui
4 eide Sunday by shooting himself with a
4 pistol.
|. c. Thompson and G.. A. Weaver each
q nav for acolumn in the Thomaston Times,
s which they devote to matter in favor OF
8 prohibition.
Only sixteen indictments were found at
this last term of Scrlven Superior Court,
while twenty-seVen were found at the
term previous.
Chris. Kiessling, the printer, who was
Il run over in attempting to board the out
going Atlanta train at Augusta Friday
AAQIght, died Monday of his injuries.
4 The sum of $67,431 % had been sub
scribed up to Monday night toward the
$4,000 wanted to build a Young Mems
Christian Association buildingin Atlanta.
DR.. John Il. Ruddell is having a small
screw propeller built at Matthew's Bluff,
on the Savannah river. 1t is to be about
50 feet long, about 10 feet wide and about
5feet depth of hold.
Columbus needs several new sewers.
The volume of water brought into the
city by the waterwOrks needs TO be car
red off, and the sewerage capacity must
be increased to do it.
The male citizens failing to raise the
i necessary amount to finish the artesian
well at Waycross, the ladies of that place
i have taken hold OF the matter and will
8 push the well through.
Application will be made to the ad-
q jOurned session of the Legislature of GeOr-
& gia which meets the second Monday in
July next, by the trustees, to incorporate
the Paulding County Camp Ground.
In Musoogee Superior Court Tuesday,
young man named David was found guilty
and fined $25 for using obscene language
q to school girl who threw a stone at his
dog While passing his house about year
2gO.
Six or seven men, styling themselves
the Franklin Square Minstrel Company.
have left Greensboro and Madison hotel
e keepers with unpaid board bills. The
company gave no performance at Green's
borO.
While Mrs. Greene, whose husband
81 lives in Brownsville and works IN the
n Eagle and Phenix mills, was looking at
8 an organ in Pease's book store at Column
. bus, Tuesday, she fell in a fit and broke
. her jawbOne.
Mrs. w. E. Dennis fell down a pair of
steps at her residence at Marietta Satur-
day, and injured herself seriously, break
ing her left arm about the elbow and sus-
tanning other injuries. Mrs. Dennis is
in her 9th year.
Columbus people have shown very lii.
lie disposition to aid the soldiers home at
Richmond by paying the small sum of %
cents to see "Littls SOrTel," Stonewall
JacksOn's war horse. The gentleman in
charge Of the exhibition says he took in
only 90 cents one day.
James Dunn, young man about %
years old, residing four miles from AL
pine, ChattOoga county, committed sui
eide saturday evening by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with razor. Dunn
was well-to-do farmer. Bad health is
assigned as the cause of the suicide.
81
We're the first persons ever married in
Floyd county. Their license was issued
April y, 1884, by p. W. Hemphill, Clerk
court Of Ordinary. The marriage cere-
mony was performed by J. Hemphill,
Judge of the Inferior Court, the same day.
l.. NJ. Park and wife, Of Lagrange, Wis.,
lled lion. Jefferson Davis, at his home on
t1e Gun, Beauyoir, en- route 10 the expo
slon. Mr.. Park said he wanted his chill
dTen TO have the proud satisfaction in flu
lure wears OF having shaken the hand of
Ile President Of the Southern COnfeder-
acy, and therefore took the little boys with
him
The people of the Gritter district, in
Madison county, are beginning TO tear
uoWn their fences in accordance with the
sock law. which went into effect in the
district May Is. Old fields, which have
oeen fenced in for the last forty or fifty
Years, presenta peculiar appearance with
Foreclosure around the growing crops.
general election for the county will be
heid this month
sylvania correspondence NEWS, June
y The District Conference for the Savan-
nan district Of the NJ. E. Church South
was neld this year at Millen, commencing
ou flday, May 30, and ending yesterday
morning. The business Of the conference
was transacted in very short time, only
occupying part Of Saturday. A goodly
N number OF delegates and preachers were
mtsent' Key. j. b. McGebee, Elder Of the
mslIicl, presiding over the meeting. The
attendance throughout was large, the
uu5 gates and guests being well accom-
nooal-d and all nronouncing Mlllen
uost hospitable town. The next confer
gues VIII be held in Sylyania in May or
lew days ago Mr.. Easou, living a few
ni'es from Madison, while engaged in
Wpplng cotton IN a field some distance
pn ms house, was set upon by a coach
'ulp ol huge dimensions. Mr. Eason
umed the offensive and tried 10 repel
violent antagonist. fIe was soon
'td 10 nee, however, for safety. and a
very chase, with The young farmer In the
aus was made over cotton beds 10 the
a'uee. As soon as he was IN hearing dis