Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,-7,,,s OF THE TWO STATES
l = at0r,D IN PARAGRAPHS.

TrfhuiALAOBH W -
-. of ware County.
GEORGIA.
W W. P. Harden, of Harmony Grove
died Wednesday, - 49,.
Thomas Davis, the coroner Oh IToup
couuty. is "a years old
Tso+vo prisoners confined in the jail
81 rasup have escaped.
,r,o first brick on Randolph county's
..,, ,.,lrt mouse was laid Tuesday.
- prorosed to establish a Young
49, christian Association in Decatur.
/. a association of the eX-COnfederate
s. soldiars of Houston county Is TO be formed.
NO Dawson ApOeal has been levied on
60. daht ana is advertised Tor sale by the
Sheriff.
Xjnety.eight degrees is the highest
,.,rd ri the thermometer in Eastman so
far this year.
laroe proportion of the Georgia week
IDS will observe the Fourth by suspend
ing publication.
father aged So, and his son aged so,
btb Of McDutiie county, have never seen
game of base ball.
Dawson shows more improvements the
nresent summer, in general way, than
~ In several seasons past.
Rev. q. T. Stansbury, of Perry, may
BAPTIST Church in that city.
A new paper will be issued at Madison
peyt week. Another is to appear in the
fan. This Will give the town three.
Fourteen hundred dollars were sub
srribed Monday and Tuesday for the cree
uon OF Clayton Institute at Jonesboro.
At the approaching session of the Legis-
latgre an act will be introduced creating
. aCouaty Court for the county of Terrell.
II Forestvlie, suburb of Rome, will
donate land for public park the Rome
street Railway will be extended to that
N village.
There is a movement on foot to organ
ize a military company in Eastman, and
the prospects are fair for a successful Gull
mnation.
Miss N. A. Rocks has been Postmistress
at Monroe since April y, 1865, and during
all this time she hasn't lost q half day out
OF the office.
James c. BoykIn, formerly editor of the
Dekalb AejrS. has received an appoint
maut rs clerk in the War Department at
Washington.
EX-Goy. Bullock is visiting Rome for
n tb inst time in several years. he ex-
presses himself as greatly surprised at
the growth Of the city.
Tnirty-f0ur members at $50 and II at
cau1lssing Macon in behalf of the pro-
passed Chamber of Commerce.
Chief Palmer, of the Columbus police
force. returned from Helena, Ark, Thurs
day without Frank Madden. The officers
Ont there had arrested the wrong man.
The post Office at Hooper, HARRISON
county. has been discontinued, the mail
is sent TO Tallapoosa. Also, IrOnvilIe,
Barrow county. Mail to Cass station.
An act to change the name of Ward
Station to 'Shellman," after the popular
conductor Of the Southwestern Railroad,
Will be offered at the session of the next
legislature.
Bonds issued by the city of Cuthbert for
the completion of the artesian well have
been sold to Mrs. J. +. kiser, of Atlanta
the bonds bringing 10414, and bearing
per cent interest.
John w. Murray, of Sumter county, has
a daughter OF II years, whose head is
quite gray now. In all probability it VIII
Be snow white by the time she is Is, as it
continues to turn gray.
At Albany a bee martin was seen to
hsAt on the back OF buZZard and ride
500 or 400 yards in that position, in spite
Of tue frantic efforts of the big bird to
shake the little fellow off.
At Dawson a cat was bitten BY a large
TAT. few minutes after the bite was in
nlcted the cat began fOaming at the mouth
and showed other signs of hydrophobia,
ana died in short time afterward,
James NJ. Patterson has been paid 500
Dy COY. Mcdaniel, it being the reward
ouered for the capture of Monroe Jonas,
me 6Wlnnett county murderer. The
alleged crime was committed in 1882.
private letter received from Wales
Wynton, who left Macon under cloud.
IIAE NQf NaNN n.4.. 4.
CITY editor on the Birmingham (Ala.O
IT0" aye, the leading paper in that State.
Duringa thunder storm at CarrolIton
Ihufsday lightning struck and killed
morse belonging to Charles Erik, cOlored,
Whlch was standing in the lot. The skin
was broken only around one eye and one
hoof. 0'''
The Augusta District Conference will
meet ~ the hsthOdist church in Harlem
next Wednesday night. The opening SER
non Will be preached by Rev. G. A. Evans,
pected.
Hillery Langford died in MeDufie
county day or two ago aged 81 wears.
leaving the following posteritv; Living
STllIGren ., children dead s, grandchildren
iIFlng 80, dead 81, northumberland
nIl1S l25, great-grandchildren dead 81;
last saturday George Wilson was pre-
Sbip;'ated from the trucks of an engine at
Aed b.ut, Brunswick and Western Rail
,,JId' 1T the mill of James Mcdonald, alter
we engine was detached and the wheels
kun ien onto him and crushed him TO death.
Allllng him instantly.
Wy. l. Lang, Of the Armory KNITTING
tull OF Macon, has given r contract Ia
a',e the machinery at the mills increased
O a. 70 double the capacity. The mills
wa hereafter knit bali hose and be canal
w. every respect 10 the demands of Inc
ua-es and the trade
"e7rge Gilmore, Of Jasper county was
""hl cur on the arm and shoulder nv n
-io last saturday. Mr.. Gilmore. il Ia
oalI' threatened 10 whip the Negroes wife
o cut nc Ieyenged himself by Slipping up
m ~ gilmore while at work In the field
H'Ilcted the wounds with n knife.
rh negro girl was arrested NJ Colnmhps
nun sQay, charged with robbing four In.
e 5ris Of sixty cents, which thew had
bteae selling blackberries. The crime ia
ctrIinNHay robbery, as she overpowered the
rii'I' en- on the roadside, about three
',e' rom the city, and took the money
ndpHePuty Marshal Cooper scored the first
Nogu under the new admtnistratjo,
.AFul before last Ia "a pftr,4 T,.i-.- '