Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

varrenton-FultOn COunty's Grand
Jury Fails to Pump a Reporter-H. b.
CIafin Sc Co.'s Purchase at Macon.
GEORGIA.
,Jesup wants a fire department and a
theatre.
There is a big demand for small farms
near Athens.
The city of Athens has seven damage
suits hanging over 1t.
There is some talk of building fine
suramer hotel in Athens.
Work on Walton cOunty's new S., 800
iaiI will be commenced Immediately.
DIR. Lyndon, of Athens, has had his
sixth 10000 primers for children printed.
Some professional miners are hunting
for the long lost gold vein on the Leak
property.
A letter was picked up on the street in
Lawrenceville the other day that is over
50 years of age.
The dedication of the new Christian
Church at TOombsbOro will take place on
the third Sunday in this month.
The Pierce county burglar proof Jail
was broken Open last Thursday night and
the only inmate made good his escape.
Capt. William Kaigler will represent
Dawson at the Commercial Convention
which conVenes in Atlanta on the 18th
inst.
A. NJ. Levy, of Quitman, has sent to
New York for female barber. He says
she is handsome and u strictly first-class
artist.
The Dawson negroes are going to organ
ize fire company and use the old chemi-
cal engine displaced by the arrival of
new Silsby.
Mcintosh Superior Court will convene
in Darien on May %. There are only four
criminal cases for trial, one murder, one
rape and two 1nisdemeanor cases.
A Methodist minister of Leary county
SAYS that he once owned horse which
caught lamb and ate it, and would eat
all the chickens he could get mis- mouth on.
The town property of McDonough is
estimated at 100000, upon which they
propose to levy tax of per cent. the
present year. No tax was levied by the
town last year.
Darien has purchased the engine and
s'rig" used in boring the artesian wells in
Bruins wick, to be used for the same pur-
pose. Work on the we'll will begin within
the next two weeks.
E. B. Bridges, of Dawson, has gander
that has been in his possession twenty
seven years. 1t is not known how old
the gander was when ne came in Mr..
Bridges possession.
Dodge county can boast of a citizen
who, having lived out his three-score-
years-and-ten, can now read print with
out the aid of glasses as well as be could
siXty-five years ago.
j. w. Mcintyre and James Day had a
dispute about some property at a Justice
Court ground near Ousley one day last
week, when Mcintyre cut an ugly but not
fatal cash in Days back with knife.
Thomas ID. Stewart, of the firm of j. A.
s. T. d. Stewart, of COnyers, has been ap-
pointed by Mayor A. M. Helms a del gate
from that place to the National CONNER
cial Convention which meets in Atlanta
on May 80.
Jerry Sailors, white man aged 40
years, is under arrest at Rome under
suspicion of having married his 17-year-
old niece. There is also reason to believe
shat he is accessory to the murder of
Frank Wild, of Villa Rica.
The grand jury OF Fulton county made
fruitless effort to compel Edward Bruff9y,
a well-knOwn reporter Of Atlanta, to dis
close the source of information which be
published concerning the secret proceed
ings Of the Jury. Brutfey was discharged
as hopeless sphynx.
The board Of directors of the University
Bank at Athens has elected Or. J. A.
Hunnicut PresdeNt ia place of Major NJ.
Stanley. who resigned. Major STANLEY
has been President of the bank almost
from It's foundation, and has managed its
affairs with much ability.
Sam Howard, of Jackson county. who
claimed to be descended from the Kings
Of England, and to have an immense es-
tate in that country, died Sunday of drop
sy. Mr.. Howard also believed that he
had a title to the land on which the city
Of Baltimore IS bult. IN spite Of his I'M
mense probabilities he dieG poor.
Elijah BellflOwer, an old citizen Of Ter
rel county, claims to have raised the frat
yellow yam potatoes ever produced. He
says trait while bedding his potatoes
lon no ago he came across a yellow
ore planted that one of to itself and
from got fourteen slips. He planted
these lips and from the fourteen hills
made five bushels of potatoes.
The sale of the Hampton lots, near
Athens, on Tuesday amounted to S3,T32-
an average CT $50 per acre. Considering
the distance of this property out and the
scarcity Of money, together with the fact
that many of the lots were naked gullies.
the sale shows that Athens dirt is not
dead, but is considered good invest
ment. The gulles and toughest part
averaged $50 per acre.
The pump has been removed and Daw-
sons artesian well sounded. Water was
found TO be only 100 feet deep. several
hundred feet Of the well having filed up
with mud and dirt. Water lacks % feet
Of coming to the top Of the well. Several
citiZrns are speaking of getting up SUBJ
scnptions for the purpose Of boring an
artesian well. A prominent gentleman
SAYS ne will head the list with 5000.
Triton correspondence NEWS. Nav 6:
William Oliver, farmer who res d4S
about three miles from this place, came
up to mill to-day for n load of lumber,
and, while crossing th inclined plane on
which the log trucks run, he was struck
by u descending ear and one leg broken
near the thigh. A rib WAS also broken.
The wounds, though serious, are not
thought TO be fatal at this writing.
The Augusta Chronicle says: "This
paper will hereafter appear as the Au-
gusta Chronicle The CoRstitWt,oRdiist
was power in the land in its day, but
the Chronicle ann COnStitUtiOn0list is too
much OF name for even a centennial pa
per-" The paper has dOnned neat new
dress and gives every evidence that IL will
even outstrip the high standard of excel
lence which it has already attained.
A youth about 10 years old, and an
adopted brother of Joe Bailey, steward
on the steamer Thronateeska, is supposed
TO have follqu from tho uppar deck of that