Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
RAE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD In PARAGRAPHS.

Rome win iuvlCe Rev. sam Jones 10
sonyert the town.
James Robinson. who has resided at
Atlanta since 1919, is dead.
Mrs. ". h. Stephens, Of Sylvania, has
6ni.eed quilt of 1880 pieces.
Post Office Inspector reports the af-
fairs of the office at Americas q. n.
iames Nj. Goggans has been appointed
p,st,,,astpf at .luhette, in Monroe county
cav. Mcdaniel is expected to attend
enhancement at Milledgeville next
week.
cl,rch county will vote on court house
.owoyal from bonneville to Dupont on
July 3.
qsa contract for huilding a court house
.t Villedeeylile will be let on Thursday,
July 9.
nrotracted meeting is announced to
commence at the Presbyterian Church at
Actworth July -.
Tuesday A. r. Johnson was elected
Tia,,tonant Colonel Of the Colored Bat
TALON of Georgia at Augusta.
A telephone lire connecting Acworth
with Marietta and Atlanta Is one OF the
hrobaIllities Of the near future.
Alfred Wnlngham, the Macon lad who
w. thou .,bt TO have been fatally Injured
in ? runaway accident day or two ago,
is recovering.
A charter for the proposed Macon Home
Insurance Company has been drawn up.
II viii he submitted to a meeting Mon
dav for amendment and adoption.
The election on changing the county
seot of Appling county from Oakley to
Preptiss viii ne held on July 3. There Is
considerable excitement concerning the
issue.
Il. c. Nays0n, an Atlanta grocer, has
inst lost a suit against BrsdstreeFs COM
mercial agency Tor $4,000 damages for
ALLEGED misrepresentation OF his financial
standing.
It is estimated that telephone line
could be erected between Macon and
Americas, with stations at all the prlncl-
pal towns. for $4,000, and that the invest
meut would yield fair profit.
The report that a rector had been Sc
cured for 81. Stephens Episcopal Church
at NiuedgeyIlle IS incorrect. The vestry
are, however, corresponding with min
lister whose services they hope to obtain.
Tae postponed contest between the fire
steamers II C0lumbus-No. l and Young
America NO ., took place Tuesday. The
test was 10 yeU up steam and show water
IN the quickest time. No. l won easily.
The prze was so.
The business Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company IN Rome has largely
increased in recent years. Four years
agO 5000 messages per month We're
handled. To-day this number has in
creased 20 from 10000 to $4,000 per month.
For the first time in fifteen years
change was made last Sunday Iorning in
the uperintendency OF the Baptist sun
day school of Gainesville. Capt. D. w.
K Peacock retired aud Rev. F. NJ. Daniel
was Introduced into the duties of Super
iuiendent.
President Sibley, of the Sibley Manu-
featuring Company of Augusta, an
n0unces that the coupon bonds Of the
company due July l, 1855, Will be paid at
the American Exchange National Bank,
New YORK, and at the Commercial Bank
Of Augusta.
In Blue Spring district. Harris county.
Tuesday night, billiard johnson and
smith Johnson, TWO negroes and brothers,
fell out about woman, and tue latter
was terribly cut in seven or eight places
Dy the former. Ii is not thought that the
wounded man can recover.
The lot on the corner of Fifth and Cherry
streets, at Macon, owned Ly Merry Horne
and Isaac Hardeman, has been sold to C.
b. Rogers for $1,000. The lot has a front
age OF % feet and depth of 2l0 feet. tits
understood that Mr.. Rogers will erect at
an early day handsome three-Sory brick
store.
John Stewart was a deputy revenue
collector, who was indicted in Fannin SUI
perior Court several months ago for
shooting at citizen of that county. His
case was transferred TO the United States
ri of
Jay. The jury returned verdict of not
guilty.
Patrolman George Wright was Sc
nously knitted by a negro man at Atlanta
ABOUT o'clock yesterday morning, and
tle negro was shot five times. once Sc
liously, oy the patrOlman. The negrO's
name Is unknown, and he refuses en-
lAaucally to tell who he is. The shooting
vert.
Inc annual meeting of the stockholders
VI Jhe Augusta Factory was held Tues
nay. The regular routine of business was
transacted, and the Presidents report of
Iue operations and results of the year sub
United. Inc following officers were elect
su' PRESIDENT, Chas. H. Phinizy: Direc-
m1fs, Joseph b. Cumming, b, S. Dunbar.
si0ley. - "-' ~''0' ~
Grlggs, who, with one Lovett. was con-
tcted Of the murder of Rozier, in Han
eocA county several years ago, and sen.
lelceo 10 the chain-gang for life. but who
mas bardoned by Gov. Stephens, writes
ne Jerk OF the Superior Court at Culver
eSu' laat be desires a certificate and conv
VI certain records in his office conpeeted
"i.u MS trial, as il is his intention TO com
sagnce sun against the State Of Georgia
~ breaking down his health while In the
o1alI-sang. Griggs lives in Atlanta.
Near Columbus Tuesday night Messrs.
D,4om, watkins and Skinner made an a.
IpI 10 arrest Sip Williams. colored
11oeI bench warrant, about ten miles
fa9y ol the city, and the negro showed
$50 IN the scramble a shotgun held Inv
ny ~ lus gentlemen was DISCHARGED and
''s negro fell as il killed, but immediatelv
r.feu up and ran and succeeded i'm
--hiHs MS escape. 1t is not known how
M lously ne was hurt. In the scufle Mr..
negro. ''4' 'oii"r Dohe by the
T5espa sution was circulated at Macon
Va-o 10 winch number Of names
letn f''nched' asking for the pardon of
ls-ft{{1,D ,unn, VINO on Christmas eve of
oc.,, e.'leQ sam Rainey In difficulty that
lieu IN NannucH's saloon al Macop.
ms -,l was afterwards tried, convicted Of
teg,iaaa.u shter and sentenced to the peni-
o1t ' '9GI Tor fifteen years. He has served
ret,,ie'en years Of his sentence. and the
bi e,,l,ashs executive clemency because
stance Is IN very destitute clrcum-