Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-19
;E0RGIA AND FLORIDA.
HE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Counterfeit 25c. pieces are plentiful 81
Rome.
prohibition goes into effect In Taylor
eOun;y on oct. l.
Postmaster Brown, OF Macon, says tnat
MI. Hardeman will be his successor
The poorhouse of Whitfield county will
M let out to the lowest bidder on the nrst
tuesday in November next.
Tbree hundred writs have been served
d. he October term of Fulton Superior
Fnurt an unusually small number.
Hon.H. II. Carlton has been confined
~ bis home at Cloverhurst for several
days past, sufferer from neuralgia.
Mrs. NJ. s. Keith, Of Dawson, has
.,,4t made several months ago, with her
avn hands, that contains l2,34l pieces.
~ An Illicit distiilery run by g. Dew
b5rry. near Rome, has just been raided by
yeyeoue officers and the proprietor cap
tured. on.
Children pay 81 each for the privilege OF
attending the public schools of Rome.
Heavy extra expenditures made the fee a
necessity. ~
There is great complaint of a scarcity of
nostal cards throughout the State. The
old crop is exhausted and the new has not
come in yet. f'
Atlanta sporting men say that the bill
10 prohibit pool selling Will not pass be-
cause it now has tackled on a clause TO.
abolish bucket shops. y.u
George w. Stone, the blind man of OK.
ford, nailed on eleven yards of laths on
his brothers. new house in Oxford last
Saturday in four hours. .sa
GAINESVILLE has prohibition in fact
Twelve months ago the calaboOse was
burned in the big fire, and has never been
rebuilt The town has no use for one.
Out of population OF about 1900 Mari
eta has y lawyers, % doctors and white
preachers, and an innumerable numb
Of negro preachers, and only two families
of Jews.
A party of so eXcursiOnists from points
on the Florida Southern railroad reached
Atlanta Wednesday, and have been view
Ing the city and the Legislature. They
are well pleased with the city.
The horses Of the members of the tenn
perance lodge at Eastman were again
turned loose last Tuesday night by some
malicious person or persons. This Is the
second or third time this thing has been
Vepeated.
Hon. W. T. Macarthur, J ohm A. Wooten,
John f. Grady, j. Clayton Clements, Jas.
! c. Ryals, of Montgomery county; ThOs.
j. smith, of the county OF Telfair, and w.
X Busy, of the county Of Dodge, give no
tice that they will make application at
the next term of the Montgomery Supe-
Fior Court, as trustees, for the incOrpora-
tiOn Of Spring Hill nigh school.
A negro named Jack Brown did bold
and daring act at Fort Gaines last Satur-
day. He snatched $40 gold piece from
the hands of one of his colored brethren
and ran away with it. He made for the
river, jumped into it, and swan to the
other side and escaped. He has not yet
been caught. Several shots were fired at
aim while swimming the river.
c. P. Brown captured a huge wild cat
on Tuesday evening last on the planta-
tion of G. G. Spence, in Houston county.
His dog struck the trail about 8 O'Clock,
hnd an exciting chase ensued, which
TASTED until II O'Clock. There were nine
hounds in the chase, and four of them
were fearfully lacerated by the Infatuated
beast. which fought like tiger until life
was extinct.
The MOTHS Brown college. now being
built on the Boulevard at Atlanta, will
probably be opened by Oct. 10. 1t is pro-
crossing rapidly. The inside work is
nearly done and the furniture has been
ordered from Chicago. This college Is
being built by contributions from the
African Methodist Episcopal church of
Georgia exclusively. 1t will be attended
~ both sexes OF the cOlored people, and
llso have theological department.
AT Milledgeville Wednesday the 5.
.ear-Old son of w. T. Conn met with a
erious, but not necessarily fatal aoci-
dent Capt. Conn has been IN the habit
IF letting his little boys 90 on the drays
o the depot, and Wednesday, after load
ne with four barrels of kerosene at the
Georgia railroad depot. the draw moved
IA md FolI If hi baa
'aught under the wheel, almost severing
Ills ear from his head and otherwise scar
ling his face.
There is living at the foot OF Graves
mountain, in Lincoln county, Mrs. +.
Callahan, an aged lady of about so years,
"ho has been living there for sixty years,
Ind was never, in all that time on top OF
ne mountain. She says that il looks like
0mtoolery for young people to waste
lhelr time frOlicking ION thay mountain"
and hence picnic is looked forward to
with gloomy forebodings. She bids fair
10 be bothered many more years by the
young L0thariOs.
Willis Dyar, who has been reporting
Nolators OF the revenue law in Gum Log
and Red Hollow districts of Franklin
county for the past six months. was way
lald and shot through the head by some
unknown person as he WAS returning
from mill near Martin Wednesday even
ing He was riding in an ox-csrt when
hhOt' and the OK carried him TO his home
corpse, His son went out to meet him,
ana thought that he was asleep, but soon
ga" the blood in the cart and hole
through his fathers head. The Coroner
VIII hold an inquest over the body.
49, Three young white boys left Columbus
thursday in bateau bound for Apalach-
lcola. They said nothing TO their parents
Of their intentions, and their conduct
caused considerable uneasIness. They
sept at the compress most OF Wednes-
Jay night, and showed of down the river
az an early hour. IL is said that two
ioaves Of bakers bread is all the proVis-
lohs they carried with them. They told
some OF their little friends that they were
slihg on fishing and hunting eXpedi-
uph The distance to Apalachicola 10 be-
'"een 700 and 400 miles.
Humphrey Collins, who was run over
Nv the north-bOund train near Dallas
"e1nesday. died Thursday. Collins and
Trend named Carter went up from At
anna on passenger train and rot of at
utiias, somewhat under the influence OF
nnlsky. About dark they started home,
wHhng on the railroad track. Within
ws,9orporate limits of the town IL a long,
Hlsh trestle, and IL seeems that they had
nearly gotten across the trestlo when the
tolth-bound freight train overlook them
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