Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-20
TENS IN THREE STATES.
roRGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAEOLINA Putt IN TYPE.

- ,herv q AInericus-Fhe Rome Stab
80, Array 49, Narrow Escape From
IL at yaIdOsta-A Trains Escape
from Disaster.
GEORGIA.
n,rien is at present without a board
81 ohealtn'
& .,o5 BowdOn College.
frank Huffman's 10-cent show went to
Wall at Griffin Friday.
W Tho new Presbyterian church at
N ,,nericus has been completed.
81 D,zier,s mill dam, at Lacrosse, Schley
.rrfy. has been carried away.
work on the new Darien and Ridge
m houroad has been commenced.
me new cypress mill at Darien will
am commence to rise upwards.
"A rba new Health Officer will go to Doboy
81, Nav /. and will remain until Nov l.
The Brunswick Riflemen win give an
,crrsion to Cumberland Island on May l.
The news in the Episcopal Church at
Dorien were rented on last Saturday for
&I,l19.
81 Cant. sid Reid, of Eatonton, sold his
n celehrated horse, George, last week for
#s3,0 900.
The snag-Eoat has been unable to work
8 an tbe Altamaha river lately on account
II of the high water.
flock of red-crested cranes few over
III Amaucus Saturday, en- route North from
y me Gulf Of Mexico.
paul Russell, colOred, will be tried at
Darien for the murder of Henry Floyd,
NJ eoorad, next month.
Atan early day there will be a formal
81 dodicltion of the West Putnam circuit
"a rarsonage in EatOnton.
Dnriug the year 1913 there was frost
Fl every month in the year in Georgia, eX-
cent during the month OF July.
Carroll county's debt is something less
than $1,000. A tax of = of 1 per cent.
4 is recommended by the grand Jury.
j There is q very general feeling in favor
of having an election in FORSYTH county
on fence or no fence the first Wednesday
IN July next.
The islands around Darten have put on
hair spring dress. and they are the IA
v1rite places now for those in search of
beautiful flowers.
The naval stores received during the
week ending April II at Brunswick were
.Gl6 barrels Of rosin and 800 barrels
spirits OF CufpenJlne.
Tt was rumored at Athens Saturday that
a man had fallen off of a Northeastern
rain near Nicholson, but the reporters
were unable to verify or refute it.
ExChief of Police Thomas Grier, of
Columbus. is dead. He had also been
Marshal of the city, and was a brave Con-
tederate soldier. Cancer was the cause
OF death.
The freight bills of one firm at Milledge-
vile have averaged $1,000 per month since
Jan. l tor goods received alone. They
have paid about 500 for exchange and $50
for kilograms.
Or. Clements. of Monticello. was losing
bis chickens nightly, Finally, when %
went of in one bunch, he resolved to try
strychnine. Next morning dead mink
was found near the house.
] The cases against W. j. Brake, of
|Nuledgevile, and Bill Adams and Taylor
Williams, c0lored, Of EatOntOn, for vio-
lating the whisky law in Putnam. will
come up in the County Court next We'd
nesday.
The Darien Timber Gazette advocates
the holding of an inter-cOunty convention
for the purpose of instituting an organ
ized and widespread movement to secure
liberal appropriation from Congress for
the Altamaha river.
An habitual mixer of Jasper county
has a sore between her thumb and fore
finger which she states was caused from
milking a cow with a sore udder. 1t heals
when she suspends this duty, but returns
when she undertakes it again, although
the bag is now sound.
Thomas G. Crenshaw is said to have
written to a SandersVille man that he
had already made all Of his appointments.
Hon. Allen d. Gambler gets about a peck
Of mail a day. All the boys want post
Offices, ard route agents. and stOre-keep-
er' and guagers' places.
Wallace, who was stabbed by Jerry Orr
at Rome, fears that he is going to die. Orr
now believes that part of his knife-blade
broke of in the wound and is still there.
Wallace's critical condition has made Orr
very uneasy, and it is said that he prays
every night and morning for Wallace's
recovery.
Henry Rountree (colOred) }, of Mcintosh,
IS still on the chain-gang. although Gov.
Mcdaniel was asked to pardon MIN sew
eral months ago. ROuntree's time eX-
pres in May. 1t will be remembered that
R0untree's innocence of the crime of
which he was convicted was established
lew weeks ago.
A negro asleep with his head on one of
the rails had a miraculous escape from
being ground to death beneath the south
bound passenger train at Valdosta night
OF two ago. He moved his head just
enough to escape with blow from the
cOW-catcher, which knocked him sense
less IN the ditch. He soon recovered.
The venerable Judge j. G. f. Clark, of
lawson, has the muster roll of the Macon
'olunteers when they entered the service
u the United States in tbe-FlOrida war of
Dob The roll called for 90 men. and after
tue lapse OF nearly half a century only
PIX survive. Judge Clark was a member
VI lne company and participated in the
campaign.
Ars. Il. T. Walker, of Schley county. is
sue champion hawk eXterminatOr. She
H'Aeu nuX-yOmica with Cough and fed it
y, w. ,laaIee hens and 30 young chickens and
r ny Allied every one of them-the chickens.
tu5 discriminating hawk soon after came
agu carried off a chicken TO which no
HuA-'omlca had been fed.
Aulericus Recorder: Thursday evening
pIetly tough thing occurred at the court
aoQse. The jury had been out on very
rcylpncated case, and returned a mixed
NJ 'rrdict, which proved a sumner TO
A. 'noI ana the counsel in the case.
e,,ter they had puzzled themselves
e"Alie lhey unraveled the matter, and
$50 % lne jury remarked: "Well, Ive
G, nv Juries hung, but it looks queer TO see
"s jury hang the Judge"
atiulofmation reached Mayor Dorsey, Of
n CuenS' that young white girl, but little
troi5 man child in years. has been en-
gjttPpeu INTO a house Of ill-fame in Athens
piu view TO effect her ruin. Chief of
in,ue oliver was at once sent to look
.ulU lne matfnr Int he hiecnVprpd TINT