Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-21

court at Augusta Friday against EDsv
I VI INN, charged with the cruel treatment
Vi Juua Griffin, her grandchlld, who had
oeen placed In her hands by the mother
Ior rearing. The child for the past wear
mas Oeen punished for running about the
streets by having her feet locked by a
chaln, also a chain around her neck. She
escaped, and reported the case at police
headquarters.
AT Macon Friday Bonnie SpattoIa. an
Italian musician, and his wife. fell out
with each other and had a bloody fight.
spattola knocked his wife down. but she
quickly regained her feet, and Selling a
natchet, nearly chopped his left hand off.
Ihey were summoned to appear at Re-
corder's Court, but having a great fear of
the law they failed to do so. Recorder
PATTERSON fined each of them $40 for con-
tempt of court.
A party OF young men from jefferson
Went up in Fayette county fishing on
W hite Water creek, and while there one
OF tnem caught monster terrapin weigh
ing ~ or % pounds with 1862 cut on his
smell. The same party caught terrapin
IN 1862 and marked the date on his back
ana turned him loose; since then he has
caught the terrapin several times, in fact,
so often until he has become quite tame.
ana seems really to enjoy being caught.
suit has been entered by the city of At
lanta for S5O3 against John f. Faith. The
city was sued by Matilda Dorsey, for
damages resulting from a fall into gully.
She secured a judgement. The case was
appealed to the Supreme Court, which
sustained the verdict. The CITY now
sues to recover from Faith the amount of
the Judgment obtained by Matilda Dor
sey. 1t is alleged that Faith is RESPONSE
bic for the condition of the street where
the woman fell.
John Ward, of Brunswick, first lost his
dwelling and stores in town, the result of
years OF toll, burned to the ground. He
then moved to the country, arriving there
with the last load Of his household goods
just IN time to see the building and con-
tents burned to ashes. Not MANY DAYS
ago his mule was stolen, and on Thursday
last he hauled out of town the corpse of
MS morse that he had rented to a dray-
man at 81 30 week to help him outin the
matter OF income until ne could do better
Eastman correspondence NEWS, June
IL: The barn and It's contents belonging
to James Bishop, ST., who resides about
IA miles from here, was DESTROYED by fire
last Tuesday morning just before day.
light. The loss is $500, or more, and there
was no insurance upon the property. Two
mules, before they could be gotten out of
their stalls, were also badly burned, and
VIII, doubtless, die. 1t seems clear that
an incendlary did the work, but there is
no reason to suspect any particular per-
son.
An English sparrow was seen TO fly
from its nest on the court house at Jeffer-
son Thursday and drop something, which
one of Col. Mahaffey's children picked up
and found to be a young sparrow only a
few days old. On examination being
made, IL was discovered that the young
one was defOrmed, having one of its legs
turned over its back; and the question
arises now, whether the mother found out
the defOrmity of her young one, and, like
the Grecians of old. thought it b1st to
kill it.
Messrs. Odem g. Wood, practical gold
miners, who have been working for some
time on the Leak property, in Fannin
county, have discovered what is claimed
to be the richest gold vein in Georgia.
One pound of the ore beaten up and
washed out produced ten pennyweights
and eleven grains of gold. A number of
prominent citizens who have visited the
mines say that it would be difficult to
describe it greater than it is, as the gold
can be seen glittering in the rocks a dis
lance of fifteen feet.
There is colored man near Sasservllle,
Meriwether county, who says he was
sold by Hon. E. c. Thrash before the war
and carried to Virginia. Thence his
owner went to Europe exhibiting the
darkey as a show, negroes being novelties
on the continent. A few years ago he
was sent back to New York, where. for
the first time, he learned that he was
free. With the few hundred dollars given
him he made his way on foot back to
Georgia and to his old neIghbOrhoOd. He
mentions many places in Europe which
he visited, and details many incidents of
his travels.
Recently, in neighboring village, two
very prominent ladies (and by the way
one Of 'em is "charming little widow
decided that times were getting too duh,
ana they would try to wake things up and
have some fun. They dressed up in mems
apparel, walked over to some of their
neighbors' houses, passed off for tramps,
frightened some ladies and children al
most out Of their wits, and would have
made thorough canvass of the town, but
for little mouse, which appeared upon
the scene and caused them to identify
themselves with the weaker sex. True
to nature, they began to shoulder their
skirts (breeches and scream.