Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
.,r VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES
IL TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

a ,r.,on County Genius Invents a FLY
Machine-A Visit to One of Pike
nannty's Indian Mounds-An old Muir
w. case in Jefferson County.
. GEORGIA.
The Gainesville library now numbers
! e members
religious revival is in progress at
ln a spelling match at Eastman the
,,+is defeated the boys.
rne Henry, a farmer of Buford, has
,,Tsferiously disappeared.
burglars have just ransacked JIM.
MpaIIew's store at Calhoun.
Tbe Cuthbert artesian we'll is 700 feet
,,an and there is no water yet.
Psv. n. N. Edge, of Canton, is a candi
aote for a revenue cOllectorship.
horse is reported to have pit cows
,onoue of in Newton county one day last
Mweek.
The erection of a block of tenement
bonses is spoken of as an experiment at
q Athens.
Han. R. D. Crozier has been selected to
5eiyer the memorial day address at
#Cutbbert.
dav or two ago 224 dozen eggs were
q Skinned from LAGRANGE to a single con-
q signee in Atlanta.
Local telephone connections in Mari
eta cost $40 per year; $s5 is the tax for
81 Atlanta correction.
i tits probable that the remainder of the
ranks lots at Gainesville will be sold
Mduring the summer.
! The cotton seed oil mill of the Americas
MOn Company has been placed in the hands
Mota an assignee for sale.
3 The sumner Worth county, Free
s ~ Trader has made its appearance. The
> first number is good one.
ItnOw looks as if nearly every county
#n the Eighth Congressional district will
, have a Congressional candidate.
The City Council of Augusta has passed
q resolution eXempting from taxation for
Give years the proposed new 100000 hotel.
NJ q several farmers from Oglethorpe saw
, Xhey will quit trading in Athens unless
Inc gates across the roads are taken down.
One hundred persons have Joined the
#church at Athens during the last ten DAYS
2inhuenced by the reVivals now in progress
there.
Il While there are no important buildings
B being erected in Americas this spring
there are a number of small dwellings
Wbeing built
The grand jury of the Superior Court at
#Blaifsyille has returned a true bill against
tbe man Smith for the murder of his own
s. child with whisky.
The First National Bank of Rome has
been paid the $500 illegally drawn by a
young man several days ago. The young
manis still in Jail.
Last Saturday Mrs. w. G. Peacock. of
Cuthbert, gave her mich COW too MANY
, raw sweet potatoes to eat, and the cow
ii was chOked to death.
5. ReXinger, the Athenian ice man.
spent three months in New Orleans, and
Fl luf No vAofI Joxv
the st. Charles Hotel.
An acorn, quite sound and natural, was
found by Jud Gait in the mortar of the
old court house, at Spring Place, which
must be about 45 years old.
hen was killed at the Story House at
JOnesboro ednesday, and the cook found
in her gizzard twelve copper cartridge
shells and one shirt button.
An old lady in Cobb county, at the ad-
yanced age of u years, has just learned
TO write. She is very attentive to the
copy which her daughter prepares.
The Bulletin thinks that Rome should
have an insurance company of her own.
The paper says that there is not $1,000
worth of insured property burned in thai
city per annum.
c. F. Stephens, of Livingston, has
bught the stock Of the Bargain Store OF
q. t. Flowers Il Co.. of Rome for So. 900
property. The stock has been
ed to Livingston.
party Of United States Deputy Mar
0as captured an Illicit distilery near
llthOnia. The cap and worm were cap
ured and about fifty gallons Of beer spilled
on the ground. One prisoner was captured
and others are likely to be soon.
little sister of Mrs. Z. NJ. Story. Iiv-
ing at Careker's store, Pike county, re-
M WI a mo Gi LODI
under the pillow. The snake was found
When the bed was made up, and meas
uTed two and half feet long when
killed.
Ware county has $1,521 in her treasury.
TIE grand jury recommend the removal
1lthe present COuntySchoOl Commissioner
because OF inefficiency and incompetency
90 MS part, and the board Of education
use diligence in the selection of his sue
eessOr.
young lady in LAGRANGE dressed as a
eggar on ''All Fools day" and disguised
erseif so ef'ectually that her pitiful
story evoked a half dollar contribution
Iom Judge F., one of her nearest
-e.-90ors, who failed to realize the pleas
ai' deception.
Houston county is to have an old-fash-
,Nl quitting at the club house near
Feagn's mills, on the fourth Saturday in
nay. One hundred ladies have con-
Hiouted square each, and those are to
eSeWed IN three quilts, and these quilts
Will then be sold.
Inc city tax assessors of Gainesville
~ Oh their rounds this week. 1t is
,ole Aan probable that the increase in
ropaV since the last assessment will
hhsAe up for the deficit caused by losing
Ig paIloom revenue, and thus escape the
-S1essily Tor increasing the tax rate.
~ IOl gentleman at Jonesboro bought
ucAeI from Jonesboro to Atlanta. BY
tst ne means or other the ticket was not
b S@Gen up, and the gentleman had never
ds sr Vccaslon to use it since. Last Thurs
s~5 que same gentleman was in Jonesboro
20. vent 10 Atlanta on that ticket.
f., No no \, Patrick, living near DrayCon,
cro Dooiy county, saw three large white
rS Snes allght in pond near her home,
to- s IA haaee picked up a shotgun and went
~ sne 6lrds. She fred and killed one of
snd Inc fowl was taller than man,
'1 ~ nad bill nearly six inches long.
i.aNeenly-iour thousand dollars has
Az, aeuy been expended on the new MethO-
Nlureh at Rome. This amount was
Inscribed by church members. Very
ior.s nas been raised through public en-
of '.9Illnnents, and not all OF the members
.le church have contributed. The
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