Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
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~ Citizen who Wore Dresses During
the W Ara Free Fight on a DOOIy
County Plantation.
GEORGIA.
w. N. Beuns has resumed charge of the
Rutler HerGtd.
prohibition club was organized at
Butler last nlght'
There is but one applicant for the post
office at Lexington.
Tennille viii hold a municipal election
on saturday, May ,.
lot for the Brunswick powder maya
zine has been purchased.
BIG raid on the moonshiners of North
N east Geor2ia is on the tapis.
VA Joun clark died of fit in the road near
M Dahl0uega day or two ago.
The temperance Phalaux of Bruins
wick now numbers $50 members.
Nearly a hundred lots have been sold in
Ntyal City during the present month.
Brur swick now receives the Savannah
News twelve hours earlier than hereto
fore.
O, L. Harvard has been recommended
by Congressman Crisp for the Cochran
81 POstmastersbip.
It's reported that about $4,000 have al
ready been spent upon Brunsvick's
streets this year.
The residence of G. A. Mcdaniel, in
Lee county, was burned to the ground
Saturday night.
Dublin has q curious egg. 1t resembles
M an oval-shaped cologne bottle, with neck
81 and stopper complete.
Last year the tax on personal property
at Brunswick was IL per cent; this
s. year il is per cent. only.
Naval stores received at Brunswick
since April II were 760 barrels rosin and
81 g. barrels spirit turpentine.
Col. Simms' new opera house will have
an iron front, which will be the only iron
b front building in COYingtOn.
Pierce Chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
81 of Butler, which lost it's charter fifteen
years ago, has been re-established.
A. b. Campbell, Union county's crooked
3 Postmaster. has been taken to the Albany
81 On. " penitentiary to serve a year.
James johnson was badly hurt by a
falling tree on George Walkers planta-
ton in Hancock county few days ago.
The billiard Institute Cadets. of For
syth. have received their uniforms and
will visit the exposition in a body about
Fl May 1.
An Old citizen Of Wilkes county is
prophesying that we will have frost in
May this year-One on May IA and another
on May q.
George NJ. Napier, of Walker county,
has bought a half interest in the Walton
N0rS. The NelCS is one of the best week
lies in Georgia.
Mrs. Isaac Gay, of Laurens county.
retired a few nights ago apparently well.
but some time in the night was heard to
grosn, and before a light could be raised,
died.
The citizens of Spalding have again re-
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engaged Joe Wilson, of Montezuma, to
take charge and make an effort to finish
their well.
~ The Southern Mutual Insurance Com
n pauy. of Athens, have paid over 1000
claims Auditor Mitchell is preparing
his report for the May term Of the Su-
n perIOr Court.
n While two colored walters at the Ran
kin House. at Columbus, were fighting,
4 Tuesday, Lorenzo Harris attempted to
separate them and was accidentally dan
III gerOusY stabbed in one Of his hands, an
81 artery being severed.
b In Floyd Superior Court the case of
Mrs. Laura C&thron VS.. A. u. II. Brown,
which has been pending for three years,
has bee' finally disposed Of. and property
amOuntiH. to about 500, 900 has been turn
ed over o Mrs. CathrOn.
There are rats in Albany stores as large
as cat squirrels. One of the clerks in a
hardware house came upon one of the
monsters suddenly and the thing showed
fight, which caused the clerk to run out
the back door of the store.
Many hued birds sold by street ped
der in Marietta the other day were beau
tiful and changed ownership readily. A
81 purchaser of one of these birds placed one
of its bright tinted feathers in some hot
water. and the paint came off.
A party of fox hunters, headed by the
veteran John II. Walker, succeed in rum
ming down a gray fox few miles east of
Americus day or two ago. There were
seventeen hounds in the chase, their
voices ranging from a yelping tenor to a
growing bass.
There is a man living in Forsyth coun-
" now VINO IS 60 years old, and who has
lived within five miles Of his present home
since 1888, before the Indians left, who
has never seen a railroad car, who never
was on a jury, and who has never seen a
larger town than DahlOnega.
A negro by the name of Warren Phil
lips, who was blasting rock out of A. J.
Roberts well at jackson, was seriously
injured on last Wednesday by prema-
ture explosion Of the blast he was prepar-
ing At last accounts he was doing vel,
but viii probably lose his eY Sirht.
John Whit, Of Athens, ulrn d his mules
. lu a lot where his horse was, aHd
one of them kicked the horse ou the for
leg and broke it. The leg was So bad,
shattered that Mr.. White made one of thu
NEGROES shoot the roadster lie would
NOT have taken $1,000 for the animal.
Most Of the streams in DnOly county
have been damned up, and fish traps put in
them 30 prevent tie pass ge Of fish up
stream. and to catch all that attempt It.
lh', kind Of fishing should be- stopped.
There is a law which makes it INSIDE
meauor for any one to Obstruct stream
ih This manner.
10 is said that the recent collision near
Namelr", on the East Tennessee, Nir-
gni' and Georgia Railroad, was caused
by one OF the engineers being asleep on
DIS eugine. A railroad man says that it
l' MT inirequeut for locomotive engineers
I'D ooze at their posts, and that, too, while
ihe train is in rapid motion.
AT Vienna last Sund, y Rev. Mr.. Ellen
wood was interrupted in his sermon just
aS DE was reading his text by the alarm
on ire at the residence Of Mrs. Rogers,
which met prompt galhntry characteris-
ue an Nlennians. The fire was soon stop.
ped, and the audience returned TO the
church and attentiSely witnessed the re.
az Ia $500