Savannah morning news., 1885-10-12
ITEMS IN THEE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORDA. AND SOUTH
CAROLINA Pur IN TYPE.

GEORGIA.
The stock laWDlll for Hart county Will
20 into effect oIfeb. next.
The stock Iavlas advanced the price OF
Iandin Oglethore county % to oO per cent
strickland, th murderer OF Cox, will
nave an eXami1ti0n at Brunswick TO-
morrow.
william Wallce, OF Brooks county,
bsdhis hand cuff by his gin a day or
TWO ago.
sheriff Wier, oiClarRe county, killed
nine zeal ducks atDne shot with a breech-
loader in a 1ish pori.
The cotton wareDusemen OF Columbus
nave determined TO abandon the custom
of putting buyers % the street.
It is not probabN that any license to
rptai nQuOr III Brooks county outside of
Ouitman will be grnted to any one.
Elberton has a do ordinance and every
owner of a dog is compelled 10 buy col
lsr from the marshalat 81 for each dog.
The registration boks for the next mu-
nIcipal election at RunswIck are to be
o9ened on Oct. 10 AM continue open 80
days.
Itis rumored that tn Ordinary will be
called upon soon to seta day for vote in
Brooks county Of prohibition or no pro-
libition.
Prater, the celebrated walker, has es-
poused religion and joined Trinity church,
Atlanta. Prater says he s going to lead
a better life.
A Mr.. Simpson, of Pearson, claims to
have made about $1l this year swapping
knives. He says it beats renting poor
land and buying guano.
Matt Maxwell, colored, of Hart county,
has been convicted of illicit distilling, in
the United States Court, and sentenced to
one month in jail and 500 fine.
DeSoto will vote on the question of an
nexation to Rome on Oct. %, and if a ma
iorlty of her citizens vote for annexation,
then an election will be ordered in Rome.
Up to 8 O'Clock Saturday morning sixty
immediate delivery letters had been re-
CeiVed at the Macon p0st-oftce since the
system went into effect.
The annual prize drill of the Walton
Guards will occur next Friday night. A
handsome banner will be presented to
them by the young ladies'.
Sarah Bailey, coIored, found a deserted
negro infant on the sidewalk at Macon on
Saturday night. At the request of the
police she will care for it temporarily.
The Columbus Guards have just re-
ceiyed the gold medal awarded them by
the Macon Library Association as the
best drilled company at Macon on July A.
The prohibition movement at St.Simon's
is at fever heat. The island has a voting
population of about 200, three-tourths col
Ored. All the whites and at least third
Of the cOlored will vote for prohibition.
John Webb, of Rome, has a pair of
fine gray foxes which he purchased few
d8ys ago. Some night this week he will
organize party Of sp0rtsmen, who, with
dogs, Will have race after one of these
swift runners.
There is to be real "Mikado" room in
an Atlanta residence. The room-a
smokingrOom or study-is to be done in
Japanese every inch over. Mitchell, of
Cincinnati, has the contract, which he
Ills tor $500.
A thief broke into the depot at Coving-
ton, Thursday night, and relieved j. p.
Tilley's casn drawer of $1.25, all the
money there was in it. Nothing else was
missed. About $1,000 worth of guanO
notes were scattered about the platform.
A ripple of excitement was caused at
Hartwell, Saturday, by a little fsticuff
between two gentlemen, in which one of
them lost portion of his ear and the
other a thumb nail. The parties have adj
l1sted their differences, and the banquet
Of pistols and coffee has been indefinitely
postponed.
James 7. Jackson, brother OF the Amer
ieus post Office absconder, who was i'm
plcated in the latter's crOokedness, has
Deen arrested at Montgomery, Ala. Sewed
up In seam of his pantaloOns was $254
Of the money he had received from the or
ders he had cashed. William jackson
has not been captured as yet.
The lot on which the Young Mems
Christian Association building at At
lanta Will stand, once bought the freedom
OF slave. 1t was owned by tree negro
woman, whose husband was a slave. She
offered this lot for her husbands freedom,
s1d her otfer was accepted. The lot now
sells Tor $l2, ,O0O-a pretty good return for
The price Of a slave.
There are. several white women in AL
Oany who make a living by making mems
clothes for the tailOrs at what seem starYa-
uon prices; still they make a comfortable
hVlng at it. Being accustomed to the
WORK, they are enabled to accomplish a
great deal of 1t in single day. The
clothes are sold mostly to negroes at low
prces-material, work, prices all cores
pond, and everybody is satisfied.
?, Friday, as the passenger train OF the
home Railroad going into that city neared
tne cotton mill, rock came through a
rear window of the ladies' coach. A hole
was made in the glass about the size Of a
Acbory nut, and the conductor and pas
SINGERS thought it was made by a pistol
suot' A passenger was sitting in the
seat next to the window struck, and
mail pieces Of glass flew around him.
i"o sky-lights on the same coach have
recently been broken by some one throw
As rocks at the train, and it all happened
near the same locality.
luesday night Zeke Stokes, a colored
Nnan who lives about seven miles from
Xutman, on the old Troupville road,
hhearQ n baby crying in his yard. Taking
@ LIS Nlle and a light they found that a
Ilietio girl baby, about weeks old,
ri apped in quilt, had caused the noise.
tne child was taken in and cared for by
Sle colored family. track was found
coming from the direction Of old Troup-
,.e ana towards Quitman. The whole
. sl'ng is mystery in the neighborhood,
6.u is evident that the child was
D'ousht from some distance.
a dastardly attempt at highway rob-
A. ana murder was attempted Thurs
1a' tFening, five miles south OF Danburg,
va. shing creek, near jackson cross
~ George Garret, "A young man, had
M Out collecting money for his father,
o,- u1a Deen running "A saw-mill, and on
gr,.ylI .gIufn home was fred upon by an un-
,J"n party on the roadside. at about 7
rs.,9'VA' the ball passing through Mr.. Gar
,ra coat' He made narrow escape,
,-I Pefhaps would have been murdered
gs,r Anl the mule he was riding run of