Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-29

Narrow E>cape from Death-Efects of
She Stock Law in Campbell County
IiVe loads Found in an Old Corner
stone.
GEORGIA.
Cobb county has only four prisoners in
Jail.
Ocou.. ard Clarke counties are badly
SPIN ZIP oH tie stock law.
The IL ,rces have a big baptizing in
The rive ,t Athens next Sunday.
Tne measles are abatlng at Athens, and
10 spread OF the scarlet fever is feared.
Several negro boys have been arrested
for lighting in colored church at Athens
sunday.
The weather signal service for Athens
is detective, as the calculations are made
for Alabama.
There is a lady in Jones county about
so years old. who has 200 children, grand
children and great-grand-children.
An alligator has just been killed in one
Of James BOhannOn's fields near Haw-
kinsville measuring 8 feet in length.
The entire amount of taxes assessed on
city property in Sandersville, $40, $50 is
reported by the City Clerk, DIR. Whitaker,
as paid in tull.
The vestry of the Episcopal Church at
Rome has called Rev. George Darne, of
Prince George county, Maryland as rec
tor of the church.
The Town Council of Wrightsville have
placed tax of $4,000 year on the sale
Of Jamaica ginger-the same that is laid
on spirituous liquors..
Pulaski county has $3,T00 in her
treasury. Ten thousand six hundred dol
lars win be raised to meet the county ex-
penses for the ensuing year.
MI 1.oe,4st,,1 vIooo -.
of Monroe, known as "COw Pens" was
once thought of as the site for the county
seat. 1t would be a desirable place for
town.
Marietta is soon to be treated to quite a
sensation. Two marriages Will occur on
the same night, at the same church, by
the same minister, and within an hour of
each other.
At Augusta Tuesday James p. Yer
derry was selected by the directors as
President of the Enterprise Factory, to
fill the vacancy caused by Francis Cogin's
resignation.
s. A. Anderson, of Marietta, lost his
fine stallion "Butler" on last Thursday
night. He was fastened in his stall by
rope, and, becoming entangled, fell and
killed himself.
At Athens Tuesday NJ. B. McGinty
closed a contract TO build a fine brick
store for A. T. BrightweIl at Maxey's, and
also two brick store houses at HockstOn,
on the jug Tavern Road.
j. w. Brown, of the tlrm of Brown g.
McGill, of Dawson, has sold his interest
in the firm to Mr.. 5. A. Loyless. The
business will be continued in the name of
the new firm, McGill & Loyless.
JonesborO has the distinguished honor
of furnishing the youngest commissioned
Captain in the Confederate army, In the
person of Capt J. NJ. Smith, who was
commissioned at 10 years of age.
At one of the cOlored churches in Nc
Duffie county the brethren were surprised
at the sbOrtness of the contributions, but
their wonder ceased when they discovered
that one of the collectors had tar in the
top of his hat.
Oliver McIlheney has sold out his in
terest in the fertilizer factory at OpeliSa,
Ala, and has located in Athens. Mr.. Nc
Ilheney viii at once put up cotton seed
oil mill and will run fertilizer factory in
connection with it.
There is a band of colored Adventists
above Athens who are firm believers in
the faith, but their prediction is that the
world viii end on July 4, 1855. They are
holding nightly prayer meetings and pre-
pairing tor the great bust up.
Willie Owens, a 16-year-old colored boy
Systematically pilfering Taylor &c Jelks'
store, where he was employed, Of money
and other articles. Forty dollars in
money was the haul which brought HIM
to grief.
A negro named Harvey Thomas is con-
fined in the barracks at Macon as q sus-
picious character, ard is supposed to have
escaped from Powell and Davenport's
camp, in Greene county. The authori-
in, -
detention there.
Leila Hammock, a colored nurse of
Talbotton, has been arrested on suspicion
Of having poisoned the 2-year-od dsugh-
Ter of John Matthews. The prisoner
claims that the child must have eaten
some poisonous herb. Tae result of the
analysis of the child's stomach is not yet
known.
Speaking Of the proposition of Mr.. Mum
Gay TO eat ITO eggs at single sitting an
Athens gentleman saws that a short time
ago man from Madison county came
into an Athens restaurant and ate four
dozen fried eggs at meal, and said he
could get away with as many more. There
is a gluttOb living in OcOnee county who
nas more than once eaten eight dozen
eggs fcr lunch, besides other kinds of
TODD.
Al Columbus Wednesday. while the
olu war Dofoe| OF cLOneNal jackson was
being exercised near the boat landing the
screaming whistle of the Naiad alarmed
him, and escaping be scampered directly
into the bog hole a short distance below,
lie soon sank, and though he struggled
@allautly, the quicksands held him fast
and his death seemed inevitable. Aid was
speedily summoned and a tackle was adj
msted which, after several hours Of care
~ labor. succeeded in fishing him from
the soft mud.
An adventurous explorer with the spirit
nt a STANLEY or Livingston is wanted to
explore The cageruoTs recesses that are
believed 20 puderlie SandersYille aud
PROBABLY iauch % that limestone belt.
Ih3 adventures OF r. II. Brown and % b.
era somo lears ago give The assurance
'hal caNcrn- exist, but Of their extent and
nature nothing is known. Let prelimi-
nary eNEiuration be made, says the SAM
uor~yille .N@rcgrM and then, IL found
= acticable. ioi purse be- raised and the
cSNefns be thoroughly explored.
ln Muscogee Superior Court az Column
bus " Wednesday tho entire time was con-
suhcd in TIE trial Of the case OF Bill
'7os- charged with tho murder Of Smith
Austiu, the negro hackmau. The jury
was obtained from the FIRST loriy-oight
names. aud tho inf roHftcAfon "a fee ffffftfyy