Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Maeen EIated by a 100000 Real Estate
TransactiOn-Fishing Among a Nest of
Snakes Near DalIss-Meeting of the
Georgia Truck Growers at Albany.


Snakes Near Dallas-Meeting of the
Georgia Truck Growers at Albany.
GEORGIA.
Sparta reelected her old board of Com
missioners Monday.
Harriet Burrows (colored) dropped dead
at Macon Saturday night.
The credit business at Griffin this spring
has been greatly reduced in volume so
tar.
Sergt. Edward Macon now wears the
company medal of the Brunswick Rifle
men.
Augusta will have full representa-
ton at the Atlanta commercial conven-
ton.
The Atlanta general council has in
creased the retail liquor dealers license
from $500 to $500.
Measles are prevalent at Columbus.
Several children have died from them
among the poorer classes.
Benz. VIM gashed his throat with a
razor at the insane asylum at blilledge-
vile, but may survive his injuries.
r. NJ. Mass. of Chipley, has assumed
his duties as Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Columbus district.
Jesse Cook, who murdered his wife,
near Butler, is said to be lying around his
brothers. house in Chattahoochee county.
1t is probable that Eufaula will chal-
leDge Stonewall fire company, of Griffin,
for another trial at the tests run at Anne
ricus.
The late Col. Bostwick, of California,
sold one of his mines before he died, for
$35O,0O0. Mrs. Charlie Reese, of Athens,
is his only child.
Hon. J. W. Daniel of Lvnchburg, Va,
who was elected commencement orator
by the Phi Kappa Society of the unlver-
sity at Athens has declined.
Friend Miller, who lives on Judge
Creech's place, IL Brooks county, killed a
tremendous rattle-snake few days since.
The snake had just swallowed a rabbit.
On MAY 10 the Grand Lodge of the
KNIGHTS of Pythias will meet in Augusta.
The Vigilant Lodge Of that city are pre-
pairing hearty reception for their guests.
Phillips IL Garbett. of Augusta. have
purchased lot in ElbeFtOn, and will at
once commence erecting a large foundry
in that town. They expect to have their
building up by July 1.
w. W. Rollins, of Macon, has a title
deed, in chain of titles, to a piece of
property in tie city of Brunswick, which
was drawn in the year 1877. 1t is musty
and can scarcely be read.
l.. f. Vanlandingham, of Wrightsville,
in moving a load of the Old-fashiOn bee
hives on a wagon from Wilkinson county.
in some way Jared the honey out of the
cells and drowned about half of his bees.
s. G. Warn, of Berrien county, has
mule that he has plowed thirty-three
years, and she is a good plow animal yet.
Mr.. Warm says he would not take less than
$3.50 in gold for her, and she is SO years
old.
The honors and places in the senior
class Of Mercer University VIII be an
nOuuced Nav %. The junior places that
are awarded for excellence both in com
position and elocutiOn Will be deter
mined Friday.
At Athens, Mary Webb, a young girl
"A years old, died with commissions sun
day night. She was in her room crying.
and the family went in to see what was
the matter, and she died before anytime
could be done for her
S. Z. Muslin, who has been conductor
of the Augusta and SUmmerville railroad
s'Hill carr for seventeen years, has re-
signed and accepted a position as con-
Guctor on the Augusta, Gibson and San
d2rsville railroad.
40 Augusta Monday afternoon fire was
discovered in {; picker room Of the Sib-
loss. The cause OF the fire IS not known.
This is the second similar escape that this
mill has had Of late.
The will of Mrs Rachael Bennett, of
Columbus, which was contested by Allen
Wright and other heirs, of Savannah, has
been declared valid by the Ordinary of
Muscogee county. The estate. valued at
$4,000, goes mainly to residents at Column
bus.
The annual meeting of the Augusta
Cotton Exchange was held in the eX-
change huilding Monday with President
w. T. Wheless in the chair, and Secretary
Miller at his post. The meeting was
short and only the usual routine business
was transacted.
A Stewart county fisherman who put
out his trot lines in the river says that
one day last week he caught pound and
half catfish on one of his hooks and left
it during the night, and that on returning
next morning he found that Oh the same
hook he had caught an owl that meas
ured four feet from tip to tip of its wings.
A transaction IN real estate was con-
eliminated at Macon Monday that is the
largest that has been made in that city
during the past or present year. The
piece of property on Second street known
as Shaw's block was sold to Mai. r. f.
i4dMloIl lNI N-OsbNus II DtiuUgNfi 10 IlIdm
Shaw and Mrs. Ann Shaw. OF Lexington.
KY. and comprises the stores occupied
by j. /. Shea, II. j. Hunt and Chas. II.
Solomon. The lot has a front OF 50 feet
and l05 feet deep.
The Cobb county Sunday school cOnven-
tion was a great success. The reports Of
superintendents and their discussions
showed that the sunday School AssOcia-
ton, under the leadership of Gen. Phillips,
is prospecting, and bids fair to embrace
within its jurisdiction every white child
i'm the county. IL now has on its rolls
about 300 names. A committee was ap-
pointed 10 consider the question of having
a large Sunday school tabernacle erected
at smyrna, to be used by all the schools at
their union meetings.
a correspondent writes TO the Paulding
Era as follows: Il was busy fishing,
when b ard a noise in the grass behind
me. ] looked and it was snake about
rs long rs a fence rail, just ready for n
fight, I turned and gave IL rap with
my pole, but instead Of stopping IL IL came
M me; so I fought and fell back until J
fen into the creek in swimming water. |
had 20 swim or drown, and there was the
snake on the bank looking at mo. and |
could not get out on that side. so had 10
swim for the other; and, just as / was
about to give mp, got 20 limb that hung
over the water and reached out my hand
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