Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-17
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

W no Does inc Ednlly WASnInS-At
sane Man sent to the Asylum from
Walton Couuty-A Jefferson County
Murder Suspect Forfsits $4,000 Bail.
GEORGIA.
Athens needs a street-car line.
Miledeeviue has decided to bore an ar
tasian we'll.
Sll 600 have already been spent on At
Hutas artesian well.
Measles have made a boy living near
Harmony Grove crazy.
James +. Stokes residence, near
Cochran, has been burned.
Josie WillOughby, aged IA years, was
drowned at Barnesyille Friday.
Wiley Warren, the Oglethorpe mudrer-
er, has been spotted, it is thought.
Monroe Patrick is on trial at Oglethorpe
for the alleged murder Of his wife.
some one filled the cistern on the campus
at Athens full of posts a few nights ago.
Mr.. J. T. Warlick viii have charge of
Nevin's opera house at Rome during the
coming season.
A Mr.. Mercer, living few miles from
Baxley, has a chicken with three legs. 1t
is living and doing well.
The colored Baptist church, school
house and a cabin were destroyed by
ire at ElbertOn Friday morning.
Scul Shoals district in Oconee county
voted on the stock law Wednesday. The
vote stood: No fence 56, fence "a.
The residence Of P. c. Harris, at Cedar
town, has been burned. The loss of S., 100
is not covered by insurance.
On Saturday last a child of Joseph Jor-
dan, of Carrollton, was bitten by a cat,
and there are grave apprehensions Of n.y.
drophOba.
Dock Herndon, who killed a negro six
or eight years ago and made his escape,
was arrested and lodged in Jail by Sheriff
Cook at Baxley last Saturday.
The Clarke county fair grounds are now
an assured success, and will be built at
once. There is money enough subscribed
TO buy the land and put up the buildings.
The anniversary of the Delta and Cice-
roman literary societies of Mercer Uni
veTsity, at Macon, will be held at Masonic
Hall, in that city, Friday evening, May
90, at s O'Clock.
A negro is in CedartCwn Jail for steal
ing three chickens. The crow of a rooster
so agitates him that he has secured a
harp and continually plays it to drive
away mind tortures.
Blind tigers" is what they call the IL
licit whisky shops which dot the line be-
tween Northwest Georgia and Alabama.
Several of the ''tigers" have been raided
within the past few days.
Frank Leverett, of Eatonton, has re-
Gently come in possession of photograph
of himself, blown away in the cyclone of
February, 1884, and picked up near Bar
nett, a distance of 100 miles.
The Campbell County Commissioners
at their last meeting reduced the fees for
feeding prisoners to 40 cents per day. The
old rates were 30 cents if one, 40 cents if
two, and 40 cents if three or more.
1t is proposed that 100 commercial tour
lists contribute 81 80 each and erect a
fo,, 30
the names Of the contributors to be set
forth in marble tablets set in the foun-
tain.
w. A Bunch, who was shot in Dough-
erty county a week ago last night, is
having chills, and is said to be in a serious
condition. The negro who was acciden-
Atally shot at the same time is said to be
Enproving.
~ The dwelling of j. T. Brogdon, near
Fairburn, was burned Monday night. Mr..
BrogdOn had $62 so in money in the house,
which was burned. In his efforts to reach
this he was painfully burned about the
face and shoulders.
r. G. Matthews, of GAINESVILLE, owns a
horse which is so full of electricity that
every hair in the tail stands out to itself,
and upon holding a guJtapercha comb
close to it the hair Immediately flies to it
as if drawn by some irresistible force.
Mayor Grimes of Columbus has APP
pointed the following delegates to the
Commercial Convention to be hed at At
lanta G. A. Redd, j. S. Garrett, NJ. Joseph,
J. W. voolfolk, SOule Redd, G. Nj. Will
lams, T. +. Blanchard, G. 4. HOchstras-
ser, j. II. Gabriel, w. b. Clark and VIM.
Redd.
Dr. Green Connel, of Maxey's, Green
county, had COW die just after the the war.
A post norton examination was held and
on close inspection seven and a half
pounds of old iron was found in her stOm-
ach, consisting OF twenty-nine twenty
penny nails and large quantity of bolts
and taps.
One of George H. Testers calves broke
into his clover patch at Lexington This
somewhat wratbed Ruff, his son, who Or
dered little negro 10 kill it. Taking him
at his word, the negro threw rock at the
calf with such precision and force as TO
kill it as quick as if IL had been shot, TO
the chagrin Of Ruiz,
A young minister of Oglethorpe county,
in order to raise funds for his school, re-
quests Cach scholar in the school to bring
an egg every Sunday morning, and the
minister pays the money for the eggs, and
thereby very easily enables the little folks
in his neighborhOod 10 have money to pur-
chase their sunday school literature.
A young man formerly of Athens
promised his wife before they were mar
her washing done he would DO it himself.
Since they were married he has not
prOspered like he thought he would, and
has got too poor 10 have the clothes
washed, and his wife makes hlm scrub
them out for her.
A committee of the Georgia Legislature
will make inspection trips over all the
railroads in the State, leaving Macon on
May 10. They will arrive at WaycrOss
on the Dist, at Brunswick on the Odd, and
Savannah on the gath, where they will re-
main for several days. Besides these
places they will visit all the principal
towns In the State.
Mrs. Riucy Walden, an aged lady who
lives four miles from Gibson, visited that
town FRIDAY for the first time since the
war She expressed herself as surprised
al the wonderful Improvement in every
thinC, and said that her business there
that day was very different from what IL
was on her last previous yisit-when she
came 90 buy negro.
At the south end Of 81. simon's Island,
near the linht house. David Whfta'a vfla