Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
raENEWsO OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

80 Tjvelv Times Over the Naming OIL
uose Reel mt Hawkinsville-An As
sault Ends IN Death at Ty Ty.
GEORGIA.
There are fifteen Cinnamon in Atlanta.
The Did Jail at Fairburn has been torn
down.
The Glynn county Judges salary Will
have to be paid by special tax
II rained 55k inches at Jackson from
sa4nrdav to Monday morning last.
qbore are thirty-nine new cases returned
n-t the September term of Talbot Superior
Court.
An the Glynn county prisoners except
ora nave served out their terms of con-
fnement.
roln Coins, a notorious desperate, OF
snoIding county, was captured in church'
sunday night, by the Sheriff..
Another reduction has been made in
Insurance Z at Columbus, A rebate
or30 ger cent. is now offered.
Mrs. n. 5. Eaves, of Gainesville, had a
wardrobe TO fall on her, dislocating her
shoulder and breaking an arm.
Agents are canyassing Atlanta for Gen.
Grants book, and several hundred copies
have already been subscribed for.
Edito Bingham continues to vigorously
oppose what he calls the proposition to
create ruinous gas and water monopoly
In Brunswick.
Gen. Pierce Young is in Atlanta on the
owe of his departure for st. Petersburg to
assume the duties of Consul General of
the United States there.
The first number of the Americas Euen-
ina Re0ubIicdN has made its appearance
and. as was to be expected, from its able
editor, is a highly successful issue.
n. Henderson, living about two miles
from Fairburn, is in possession OF a young
squirrel that is nursing a cat. The cat is
doing well, and its unnatural stepmother
cares for it tenderly.
columbus Reid, aged about go years, a
citizen of Schley county, died suddenly of
beart disease early Wednesday morning.
When his wife awoke she found her nus
band a corpse beside her in bed.
Americas will vote Oct. Son the issuing
Of S25, 1000 in bonds for the purpose of
erecting a system of water works within
said city. The bonds are to b ar interest
a. the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
While Ed. Smith, railroad agent, and
Ed. Smith, section master, were playing
In the agents office, at BronwOod, on
Tuesday last. the agent had a paper file
thrust through the palm of his ri%ghthand.
At Carrollton, Saturday, A. F. Sharp
WAS ELuLE pl JIG UdCh vi JuC ACCh ny a
wasp. from the effects of which he was
thrown into convulsions, and his life was
dispaired Of fer AS hours. He has since
recovered.
There is sOmeo opposition to reducing the
Athens police force, on the ground that
the Council has no right TO discharge the
men. as they were employed for a full
year, unless charges were brought against
them. The City Attorney gives it as his
opinion that the city cannot be held liza
bic.
Dan, the 10-year-old son ofD. c. Joiner,
OF Hawkinsville, wishing to join his
mother at the springs in Tennessee, was
given money by his father and told to ego
it." He made the trip from Hawkins
vile to Cleveland, Tenn, u distance of
over 800 miles, alone, and didn't make a
mistake at any point on the ute.
James Haney and Henry Peterson, of
Marietta, attempted to discharge a pistol,
but it was so rusty their efforts were una
vailing. They oiled it and left it on the
floor for a while, when Haney picked it
up and pulled the trigger, and immedi-
ately the pistol was discharged, the ball
striking Peterson in the right thigh, max
ing a painful flesh wound.
In February, 1884, Dan johnson, a ne
gro train hand employed on the South
western Railroad, was seriously injured
while coupling cars at An~dersonVille.
lie viii bring suit against the Central
Railroad and Banking Company, lessees
Of the Southwestern Railroad, for $40, 600
damages. The suit will he brought at
the October term Of BIB Superior Court.
Jacob Aultman, a clerk of Athens, vent
to New York a few DAYS ago, without no.
Trying his wife or friends. Wednesday
ne wrote back that he had Joined the nav
and would soon leave the port of New
York for a long cruise. His heart-broken
wife has gone back TO her people at High
Shoals, aud has abandoned the idea Of
ever seeing her hayward husband again.
At Americus Wednesday night an in
toxlcated man, walking down Lamar
street, came near breaking his neck get
ting out of the way of a gentleman who
was smoking a cigar and going in the op-
pOslte direction. He thought he was on
the railroad and the cigar was the head
hght OF a locomotive, and, in slipping
ASIDE, fell over a box, bruising himself
badly.
Al Rome, Tuesday, Allen Smith, colored,
went TO the house OF his wife, Cecilia
smith, from whom he had been separated
Tor some time, and found George Williams
there, whom he suspected of paying court
to his wife, and without notifying Will
ilams OF his intention. struck him on the
q abiChs "nACh bbuAACu MN ~
that II was thought he was killed. How
ever Williams soon recovered, and found
ms assailaDt had fed.
y. Mary's correspondence NEWS, Sept,
/ Our little city was thrown in deep
gloom on yesterday afternoon by the ar
rlyal Of the remains of Mrs. Robert Mare,
VINO died near Beaufort, 5. C.. She was
a long resident of our community, and
ner qualities Of heart shining through a
ne OF many good deeds, endeared her to
our people, who greatly deplore her
meath. She was buried beside her lovely
daughter, Mrs. Ann Avery, who preceded
uer not many months.
just as the passenger train was leaving
tne Union passenger depot at Macon for
Wednesday morning, smoke
was observed 20 be issuing from a trunk
IN me baggage car. The baggage master
gotalned a key and opened the trunk and
discovered that a box of matches was on
uIe. About a dozen large boxes or
matches We're lying nea the one in which
the matches had ignited. The baggage
masters prompt action saved the con-
cents Of the trunk. The owner was on
hle way from Jacksonville, Fla, to Co.
lumbus.
Monday evening Mr.. George Harper. Of
friendship, and Mr.. Crawford rented a
klh, nxed 1t up, aud Monday was their
hFnl QGy Tor ginning. Mr.. HarDpr. whfla