Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Peculiar Case in Sumter Superior
Court-TwO Incorporated Towns Lying
side by side-A Negress Saved from
Her Jealous Husbands Bullet by a.
King.
GEORGIA.
Rev. G. T. Stansbury will deliver the
memorial address at Perry.
It has been ascertained that Indian
Mountains height is 1900 feet.
TIE Athens factory has declared a diYi-
dend of per cent. fer six months.
Sturgeon are plentiful in the Etowah
river in the vicinity of CaEersville.
The prisoners who have had the measles
in the Marietta Jail have all recovered.
Fire has destroyed one of the buildings
If the Trion factory. The loss is $4,000.
The material and good will of the Black
shear NelgS and Signal is offered for sale.
J. NJ. Vandiver's trial for seduction at
Rome ended in acquittal Saturday night.
Darien paid $4,000 into the United
states Treasury last year, aud Brunswick
100000, so a resident of the former city
claims.
The Athens Banner Waterman suggests
the formation of an eX-COnfederate Asso-
citation in that city similar to the one at
Baltimore.
Wilkins, who fleeced the Atlanta gro
Ger whose store he agreed to purchase,
has been arrested at Akron, Ohio, and
Will be brought back to Atlanta.
Henry Little, a Sandersville machinist,
was wounded in the shoulder Saturday
by a stray bullet from a Flobert rifle in
the hands of some person unknown.
One OF the girls at the Athens factory
made S26 in twenty-six days. She gave
$40 to her grandmother, and the other Sc
she paid on lot that she had purchased.
The Smithville artesian well has reached
a depth Of 500 feet. 1t is thought that
sufficient flow Of water will be obtained at
1000 feet, but this is a mere matter Of con-
lecture.
The smallpox scare in Washington
county a few weeks ago proves to have
been wholly untOunded. Thomson, Nc
Duffie county, has been rid of the pest for
over a month.
Seaborn Summers, an Atlanta negro,
after spending Sunday evening at church.
went home and whipped his wife because
she did not care to hear him repeat the
sermon. He was arrested.
There is a good prospect tor colony Of
Germans TO settle in or near Graysville.
G. W. Gray has made them some offers in
the way Of real estate. They want TO buy
q large tract of land-sOme 5000 acres.
The novel defense of kleptomania was
made by a negro to an Indictment for
burglary IN Houston court last week.
The verdict of the jury was guilty, and
the Judge gave the prisoner twenty-four
years in the penltentiary to be cured of
his malady.
Judge Green Bantley, who is so years
old and the nimblest man OF his years in
Washington county, was married on
EridaM uiubf n Misc RneGin KING q 1ocS
of fourteen summers. The Judge has
never lost one Of his teeth. He does all
of Washington cOunty's bridge work.
Charles Terrill, an Atlanta negro, be-
came so jealous of his wife Sunday that
he attempted to shoot her and then fled.
AS he pulled the trigger Of his pistol she
threw her hands before her face and the
ball, after decorating the flesh on two fin
gers, struck a ring and glanced off, the
ring thus saving her life. Terrill had not
been arrested at last accounts.
In the Raglan family, at Americas, there
are two old vests, or, as they were called
when new, 'waistcOats," that nave quite
a history. Both are made of hOmespun,
and were put together long before sewing
machines were invented. One helped to
keep warm the breast Of a soldier of the
Revolution, and its younger companion
served its apprenticeship in the war OF
1872.
Albert Clark, an industrious colored
man, who lives near Friendship, lost his
dwelling, kitchen and smoke house by fire
Friday. He had Just completed a new
frame dwelling, and was using the old
house for a kitchen. In some unaccOunt-
able manner the building took fire, and the
fire was communicated to the other houses,
burning up a good portion Of the furni-
ture, and about 500 pounds Of bacon Of his
own raising.
Summerville Gazette: Last Sunday
evening while John W. Cain, .Ir., and his
wife were quietly resting in their house
near TelOga. they were Mortified by seeing
their oldest son come in with their young
est daughter, about Is months OLD, in his
arms dead. The children had all been
playing in the yard, and the youngest,
getting of from the rest, fell into a tub of
water and was drowned before its cOndi-
tion was noticed.
Carroll County Times: We have not
forgotten the jug mentioned by one of your
correspondents some months ago, and
now bring to notice Heard's relic of the
Revolutionary war; Mrs. H., Of EnOn
Grove, has in her possession silver
sleeve button, with glass sets, worn by
her great-grandfather while IN the United
States service, made purpOsely for milf
tary set, which was composed of coat,
vest and sleeve buttons, those for coat and
vest being solid silver.
Jackson Herdld: Charlie Shackeltord
brought us a large sized bullet yesterday
when has an interesting history. Jack
Story cut down an oak tree for boards,
which measured at least three feet
through, and in the centre, carefully en-
bedded in the heart of the tree. was the
bullet, which had been there for years
and years. 1t does not seem gray from
age, but without doubt has been there
from the time whereof the memory OF man
runneth not TO the contrary.
Quitman Nelc South: Very recently we
moved "A couple of bee hives that were sit
ting on box about six inches above the
ground, and placed them, when moved,
about three feet from the ground. The
bees on returning loaded would light on
the box about the height Of former box.
We noticed, also. they would on returning
60 io the Old place about 40 yards dis
tahl, aud seemed perfectly lost. 10 took
Nneh over week 10 learn their new
I.'le and surroundings. The habit even
ol "a Dee controls them when once tormt d.
Washington Gazette. We will venture
le assertion that the finest and latest
III postum that has been served in the
RI Ateut.Ne mansion Of Georgia this winter
im" from the woods Of Wilkes county.
admlror OF GOV. Mcdaniel sent 10 10