Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,vrwsOF THE TWO STATES
THE ,r1r,O IN PAHAG RAPHS.

ntsr Hardeman'
GEORGIA.
NJ Bulloch's farmers are offering
SUI at . cents per gallon.
sur we're 100 hands at work on the
lle'r ilroad at Athens Wednesday.
suS' williams and A. G. Bell decline
T. naondidates for Aldermen at Ameri-
cr1. srcbitect at w ashington has nearly
~. pIoted the plans for the government
SSDidjng IN Macon.
O' ~, Lang. a Young farmer Of Crawford,
S Jln tnssliog with a negro Tuesday, fell
snd broke mis- arm.
'Io " NJ. Cowoart. of Excelsior, had
M%isfortune to get his horses leg bro
slT saturday night last.
AI Tso bird shipping business still goes ON
1.Hlon One firm shipped 800 birds for
snnrers aud trappers last week.
pI g,fteap or twenty armed revenue officers
8 20 zone to Alabama to investigate the
laIg Of Deputy Marshal Kellett.
v,rjon Hollingsworth, OF Crawford,
whose foot and ankle were so badly lacer-
1,1G nv a gin the other day, is slowly re-
covering.
"A ,1GpnTS Oh Lut OhANCi oA1J az AAhuOho Va
sSalenging Mercer University for an in
isr.eoIlegiate debate.
From now until May next Treasurer
pah Hardeman has 8, 400 bonds to sign, in
q sInding the 60 coupons to each. This
makps him sign his name in that time
4 g0l55 times
4 Sunday was the coolest and the most
rrnleasSnt day Rabun county has had in
Iong time. A continuous snow storm
lasted all day. and the mountains became
white with the beautiful SNOWY
lake Harris, colored laborer, was run
/ aver and instantly killed by a passenger
train on the Western and Atlantic rail-
road Tuesday night. The accident hap
nsnpd about five miles from Atlanta.
In the Superior Court at Atlanta Wed
np,dav Judge Richard Clark presiding,
Carter Cotton, charged with the murder
Nj Vine Ware, was declared not guilty.
The Jury were out not quite one hour.
The citizens of Hamilton have nomi-
mated the following dry Councilmen:
Can't, Tucker, Joe I. Dunlap, w. D. Wis
dom. L. G. AVerett and j. L. Allen, and
]. &. Hogan for Mayor. This insures
dry town.
The little circus now travelling through
Il the upper counties bring together all the
mOonshiners in the neighborhoOds where
It shows. The revenue officers appear
and have captured several OF the MOON
sinners who were selling whisky atIthe
circus.
Samuel Carhart, proprietor, and 7. G.
LLOYD. steward, of the Arlington house,
at WaynesbOro, bottle surreptitiously left
that town between suns recently, without
settling with their creditors. Lloyd was
captured at MilleH, but Carhart is still at
liberty.
Greenville Tuesday witnessed the
strange sight of a man about so years OF
age, with his wife and two children, who
had made the whole distance from Kala-
mazoo Mich, IN a twohorse wagon.
They were en- route to Florida, and the
old man was armed with repeating rife.
Th0maston Journal: DIR. T. X. Leonard
exhibited to US last Sunday little curl
Osity in the way of toy terrapln, which
he has confined in a small japanese box,
that has been in his family since 1898.
The most peculiar feature connected with
the little creature is its perpetual motion.
Town Marshal Col. B. G. Gail, of Mil
len, has a dog which will go in the even
Ing and hunt up the COWS and drive them
home. and likewise the calves in the
morning. If Mr.. Calls horse happens to
get out, and he is sent out he will hunt
him up and bay him until some one comes
for him.
Lawrenceville Herald: 1t begins to
look like ante-beIlum days in this county,
when corn is worth only 40c. bushei
and pork &c. We have at last caught up,
aid if the farmers of the county will only
plant with judgment in the future we will
no longer have our cribs and sm0kehOusee
in the West.
Il was reported at Macon Wednesday
that two Eatonton young men fell out
about girl Tuesday night. One was
getting ready to marry her, and the cere-
mony was to have taken place Tuesday
night. The other wanted revenge for the
slight to his blighted affections, and In
ut Of anger shot and killed the girl.
There is a possibility that Mayor W. H.
Gilbert, of Albany, will contest the cleo
ton to the office of w. II. Wilder in
tuesdays election. The fraud cry has
been raised. The vote as counted stood
Zl9 to 273. There is said to have been
quite number of illegal votes pOlled,
and that the fraud is susceptible of proof.
About $4,000 bales Of cotton are now
stored In the warehouses OF Augusta. At
S5 bale this reaches the snug sum OF
N44O,0O0. 1t is being held by the country
people in the hope of higher prices later
on, and is not being purchased by buyers
because they say local prices are already
100 nigh in proportion to those OF other
places.
A committee was appointed at the last
term of Clarke Superior Court by the
grand jury to investigate the affairs at
tae pauper farm. The full particulars OF
.ne report OF the committee have not yet
Oeen made known. only so far as that the
superintendent, Mr.. Tuck, has been dis
paced, and Sansil Barwick will take
charge OF the farm on Jan. 1.
Master William j. Graham, the nine
year-old-son Of George y. Graham, who
ives few miles down the COOsa river
rom Rome. brought his first bale of cot
ION to that city Tuesday. He did all the
work on the cotton except blowing, and
ud enough labor for his father TO pay for
mat. 1t was a fine staple bale, and
brought the top of the market.
Monday Il. w. Andrews. of Sumter, S.
"" passed through Americas on foot, en-
route for his home. He has been travel
ing for years. always on foot. His first
mp was TO Boston via New York, and
back home again. Then be went down
% New Orleans, and Is now going back
nome. He is 95 years OF age, and has a
sister lO2 years OF age, and one died a
snort time ago who was lO6 years OF age.
w. r. Jackson, in jail at Macon, ac-
cused OF robbing the mails and forging
money orders ut the Americas post office,
y looking we'll. He is expecting the ar
IVal OF counsel, who will take steps to-
ward making the bond which will secure