Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-19

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ss.5rsrson n Low8dss Couury-DAv-
80 EeI0Ree Camp.
GEORGIA.
s--rrsi5e has q nice, new town han.
T~snnal superior Court couvenss 10
morrow
nararur county sent over 100 men 1nto
80 IAN fsasTa1e service.
pmsran county has $4,000 II lis rrsss.
- Taxes VIII be reduced.
n 1Ickissack's store At Fort Gaines
was lurelarized night OF TWO ago.
n mere Is negro CHURCH in Lee couD1v
nat has between 5000 and 1900 members.
M MeDon0ugh mills are turning ont
-,s.i ross al The rate Of fifty bushels per
T,a Brunswick and Western Railroad
damn a W2ycross was burned Friday
I'm II. Vardivar's trial for The alleged
.s3r.rsa q Miss Lizzie O'Barr is IL pro-
,rfss 81 Rome.
his said that 3 prominent Columbus
osriIe1 an is being urged for an important
fors.e1 appointment.
Tss sanitation Of a mutual benefit
association is being contaminated by The
. r6-ku men q Columbus.
ps-cer University has been the reeip-
ierr n a donation from Col. J. II. Blount.
eo7ss.iug Of 500 OF 800 publications
The Collier residence IN Crawford
j coIntv. has been destroyed by fire. The
i sIesp.ug inmates had a narrow escape.
The robberies perpetrated BY the band
N thieves VINO hid their goods in a cave
mean Antioch amounted 10 5000 or
n 4yl).
n one # Valdosta's streets is named
E greg.ry street. The reason is very ap.
parent when you look at it. II is a briet
i street
Watkins. who feeced an Atlanta grocer
n pretending 10 buy MIN out, has sue
cessully played tbs same trick at New
Orleans.
The mail route from Sylvania to No. 6
win soon be changed to No. 6ls, and the
mail VIII be carried over the Sylyania
Railroad.
The property owners on Broad street.
Athens. bied damage suit Tor $40, 900
against the city for cutting down the
Dorsey hill
Mad son people have just been relieved
of several dollars by dudish confidence
HAL. 81 l-AAAtENA ~ hN III AAlE III
auce business.
There is a liquor dealer in Americas
VINO never tasted a drop of alcoholic
liquor in his life unless when incorporated
in some medicine.
C. WillcoxOn, of Newman, will try
to pass the examination necessary to
enter the United States military academy
at West Point. n. \.
Col !. Z. Hicks, Mayor of Dublin, anda
very prominent lawyer, died at his iather's
residence near Washington, Wilkes
county, last Saturday.
The City Council of Fort Gaines has
raised the retail whisky tax to $3.50, and
tba wholesale to $50. This is 80 per cent.
advance on last years tax.
Near B0wdOn, in Carroll county. a
SheriG's posse fired on a cOlOred thief
named Prince BlantOn as he was fleeing,
and dangerously wounded him.
Thomas d. Stewart has been appointed
the Mayor a delegate from COnyers to
attend the national commercial conven-
lion which meets in Atlanta on May 10.
Mayor Dorsey, Of Athens, has commits
stoned Dir. MalOn to put in three street
GtnHng f0Unts, at convenient places,
which work Will cost the city about 500.
Tie evidence in William Grimes con-
test against G. Boykin for the office of
ordinary for Miller county has Just been
heard. The returns alleged majority Of
6 for BOykin.
The Newman Advertiser wants the
city to bond itself and put in system of
water works. 1t is claimed that with
them the purchase of fire engines viii be
Unnecessary.
A proposition is before the Columbus
Board of Trade to endorse some one as
worthy of being appointed Postmaster of
the city. The fate of the plan will be de-
cided at the next meeting.
Berrien Minter, a young lad OF
Early county. has lust been acquitted of
burning }. W. Towards house. Three
others suspected Of completely in the
affair shared his good luck.
James Pittman, of Long Pond, Iowndes
county, was shot at in his house a few
nights ago, and the shot, missing him,
struck his wife in one of her lower limbs,
causing a painful though not dangerous
wound.
The Central Railroads line of boats on
The Chattah0ochee river declines to enter
INTO any negotiations looking to an agree
ment with rival lines on rates Of trans
loriatiOn. The present war Will, therefore,
Continue.
At T0ccoa a man sued in = Justices
court to collect 50 cents; he obtained
Judgment, and had some property levied
on, This property was claimed by some
one else, and the claim sustained. lie had
pay - 10 costs.
Ine corpse OF a drowned negro was
found at Albany Thursday. The decom-
position had attained a state that rem
ueIed recognition impossible. The theory
IIetalls that the body is that OF the negro
VINO was drowned in hinchatOOnee creek
several weeks ago.
~ A. Chastain, Of Lafayette, has
sauuie stick that he uses in his store that
nas owned by Gen. ClabOurn. II was
sven 5y the General himself to l.. T.
ccss.eatoers. and became the property Of
. SSIaslaln When the company Of CGIeathers
"NlastaIn dissolved.
a, Emanuel county Is out OF debt and has
1tt'-vln the Treasury. The whole amount
go A collected in the county for 1854 was
,,-,i. OF this, the state received
49, ana the county 81 1872. The ppll-ta1
0'a4it@fs N the county number 323. and
~ general, or pr0perty-Owning default
r-ehtif man giving his name as A..
ten2aT. and claiming 20 De member
! n'lz Dayld's Lodge Of Free MasOns.
ill., - oi Lexington, by, has been VIC
/ Toe fraternity ia Sparta and
e. ie3rs.a towns. He Is denounced
4 n, !.a poster by the lodge with which
y. c'a.4s Connection.
NJ Z. cotton receipts az tbe depot At
wv. lon up % date. since
f" 7. are rs sgA AGAINST fffrJ