Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS oFTHE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAG RAPHS.

GEORGIA.
Thn county commissioners OF Gordon
advertise for bids for building u stone Jail
I'D to date there has been shipped from
EatOnton depot about 14,oo0 bales OF cot
ton.
Rev. John L. Stewart has resigned the
express managership Of Conyers. He held
tie position 50 years.
K. Bertram, who has been living in
Elberton for four years, left recently for
Germany, to get a fortune of $50 600 that
has been left him.
The employees Of the Columbus bagging
mills were each presented with bag Of
Christmas tricks when they quit work
Thursday evening
A Banks county man named Rowe
Gaines Is in the lookup at Harmony
Grove for giving thirty or forty mortga-
ges on the same property,
Two thousand one hundred and twenty
eight dollars has been subscribed at
M0ntezuma toward building a new
Methodist Episcopal church at that place.
A little negro boy 10 years old was run
over by a lumber dray in Brentwood last
week, crushing his feet and legs terribly.
one leg had TO be amputated below the
knee.
Calhoun will soon have a new hotel.
The handsome brick building which was
erected by Messrs. BOaZ & Fite during
the past summer is TO be converted into a
hotel.
c. w. Bolton, the Texas man who was
in the collision at Austell, is in a critical
condition. He mas been unconscious for
the past two days, and his death may Oc-
cur at any moment.
Capt. E. p. Howell has resigned the
place of President and Director of the
i-so,haIl HOncp al Atlanta I w
English has been made president. Capt.
Howell sold out his stock.
The negro, Alfred Clark, who was ar
rested at Macon few days ago, turns out
10 be a TrOup county murderer. The
murder was committed in 1878. Officer
Jones will receive $3.50 reward for his
watchfulness.
At Atlanta, Thursday night, Harry
Reid fired four shots at David Beavers,
one of which took effect in the left breast
and may cause death. Both men are ne
groes. Reid escaped. An old quarrel
was the cause.
The Macon Euenlng NeagS has adopted
a novel plan in delivering papers, The
carriers have shrill whistles and as each
paper is delivered the carrier sounds two
long and two short blows, so as to remind
the subscriber OF his presence.
At Americus, Thursday. Judge Fort
granted James Salter, Sheriff Of Lee coun-
W, convicted and sentenced to two years
in the penitentlary, new trial on tech
nical errors in the Indictment. The rul-
ings and decision was against him in
every other particular.
julius Ward and William Crawford,
two farmers, met near Thomas Mills,
about nine miles from Rome, and an al
tercation ensued, in when Ward shot
Crawford in the abdomen. 1t is believed
that the wound will prove fatal.
A man named Kirby, returning to Car
tersville from trip to the mountains,
where he obtained supply of corn juice,
fell out of his buggy, and by some means
got his ear cut off. DR.. +. H. Baker sowed
it back and thinks it will grow.
During a church fair at the Rev. Robert
Bonds house, near Harmony Grove, a
row was raised between several of the
colored gentry, and while the row was
going on some thief slipped in and stole
all the eatables that were for sale and
skipped.
At Athens on Wednesday Sheriff Wier
commenced the sale of the magnificent
library owned by the late Gen. VIM. NJ.
Browne. This library has always been
considered one OF the finest in the State.
The sale was attended by gentlemen of
literary taste and the bidding was lively.
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4O'clock, freight trains Nos. % and 70 on
the East Tennessee road, cOllided, break
ing up both engines badly and wrecking
several cars. 1t was reported that one
man was seriously injured, but the East
Tennessee people state positively that
nobody was hurt.
Last May train hand named Frank
Johnson was terribly mashed while coup
ling cars on the Central railroad at An
IL -. H.. 80
Ii. Wiley, he brought suit against the
company for $4,000 damages. Johnson
died last week, and the suit has been in
creased to $4,000.
Richard Saulters, OF Athens, who has
gone out West to seek his fortune, writes
back from Fort Worth, Texas, that there
IS plenty of business out there, but that 1t
takes fortune to start with. There are
1873 barrOoms in Fort Worth and none of
them can be bought for less than $4,000.
He is soing further West.
Deputy Collector Mark johnson, aided
by }. w. G. Carmichael, a citizen OfJack-
son, has captured one of the largest illicit
disulleries in Georgia. The distillery
was debated four miles north of Jackson,
near the East Tennessee, Virginia and
tIeOrgia railroad, and was run by l.. A.
Davidson and n. j. benson. Both men
were captured in the act of dlstilling,
hhu were escorted 10 macon, WheIo Gne
preliminary trial will take place.
Reyivalist Sam Small has returned to
Atlanta after a months labOrIng in the
Vineyard at st. Louis. He reports good
results aud a wide interest. There we're
many conversions and a marked enect
upon the churches. He says that IT was
mistake that Sam Jones alluded
by name to Gov. Marmaduke as swill-
tub. His expression was general one,
and the application was made by others.
The evangelists go to Cincinnati next.
During the past summer the jones
brothers, Of Camilla, erected large,
finely built and well equipped hotel in
that town, with a view to attract mainly
Northern and Western tourists and pro-
hpectors. Last week this hotel was leased
by George u. Day, Of indianapolis, Ind,
Tor a Term of five years from the Jones
brothers. The building will be ready for
occupation by the first Of February next,
and Mr.. Day will then take possession.
Albany Neics and Advertiser: A gentle
man turned a Broad street corner yester-
nay morning just In time 70 receive a
back-handed lick plump on the side OF his
mead from the spread-eagle gesticulation
% cOlored country layman who was lee
turing some OF mis- "bredren an sisteren"
upon the theme OF the blessedness OF 'de
man what walketh cOntinerally In de fear