Savannah morning news., 1886-06-18

Working Up the WaSermelon shipments
"A One-Legged Ex- Confederate Gets
800 that He Didn't Know was Coming
TO Hina-A Runaway Boy Tells of His
Tribalations.
GEORGIA.
The merchants and professional mon of
Albany are clamOring for a telephone
exchange.
Miss Mary Sallie Irwin will be married
toJ. S. Wood, Jr., at the Christian church,
Sandersvile, Ga., Monday, June %.
On Friday, July 80, the Survivors AS
sociation OF the Eighteenth Georgia Regi-
ment viii meetln reunion at Gainesville.
Two companies OF the Second Artillery,
who have been stationed at Fort Barran-
cas-. will arrive in Atlanta about Juiy-10
and wilkspend tue summer there. The
companies were there last year.
At Atlanta there are 200new revenue
cases en- the docket to be tried at the Qc-
tober term ofthe court. Judge McCay Is
still absent at Cumberland Island. The
hearing of the Fi$zsmona case has been
adjourned to next Tuesday.
1t has been decided to discontinue Pho
Mono College at Macon, owing to a lack
az patronage. 1t is probable that the
building and grounds will be sold. There
are bonds to the amount of $4,000 out
standing, with a floating debt of $4,000.
The City Council of Columbus, O., on
Monday awarded the contract for paving
High street, in that city, with Georgia
granite, to S. b. & W. H. Venanle and
George w. Foster, of Atlanta, at So IS
per yard. The contract amounts to.$l03,-
1853 81.
Fred. eKrogg, an engineer, who was in
iuFed in a smash-up- on the Atlanta and
West Point railroad year or more ago.
and got a verdict for $4,000 damages,
Wednesday had hrs victory postponed by
the grant OF new trial in his case bv
Judge Van Epps.
There is more building and improve
ments now going on in Athens than ever
before, as demonstrated by the fact that
Ii is hard to get a carpenter or brick ma.
son to do days work. This summer a
great many fine public buildings and
stores and handsome private residences
will go up.
Col. E. L. Shubrick, assistant principal
keeper of the penItentiary, has returned
from ap inspection of the convict camps
in the lower part Of the State. He found
them in very good order. Dr. w. f. West
mOreland, principal physician of the pen
itentiary, accompanied Col. Shubrick and
was much benefited by the trip.
One day last week Lge Pickett and
George Cheek, of Ben Smiths district, in
Gwinnett county, concluded they would
cut bee tree that they had been watch
ing for some months, and accordingly did
80, but instead OF finding a mint of deli
cious wild honey stored away in the
cavity OF the tree they found that mon
ster black snake measuring about feet
had 'sbeat 'em to the tank,' and bad
robbed the tree of its honey, leaving moth
ing but mass of hard, dry cemb. His
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the boys returned home somewhat disap-
pointed.
On Saturday night, at about O'Clock,
two colOred women were passing an old
house near the Methodist church at Cart
ersVille. One of them, having walked to
town and back, complained of being tired
and said she muSt rest. She took q seat
on the steps of the old house. Within
few minutes her-companion noticed that
she had thrown herself into a rather
strange position. and upon tryingtO place
her in one more comfortable found that
she was dead.
Thursday two negro men, Peter Cam
mon and-Charles Williams, living on Dan
Fourt's place, in the Seventeenth district,
got into a dispute about a pig, and one
killed the other. 1t seems that Charles
had married Peters daughter, and Peter
gave her a pig. Her husband missused
her, and she took her pig and returned to
Peters home. Charles followed and de-
manded the pig of Peter. He replied that
the pig was his daughters, and that he
had nothing to do with it and was not 60
ing to have a fuss about it. AS he was
turning away, Charles drew knife and
commenced cutting him. He was cut In
several places, one arm being nearly sew
cred. He died Saturday.
Eb Williams, a drayman, who has been
working for the East Tennessee read at
Atlanta, broke his left leg below the knee
Wednesday. Williams was unloading
some lumber which he had hauled away
from the depot, and while lifting piece
from the wagon slipped and fell. In fall
ing, Williams managed to get under the
piece of timber which dropped upon his.
leg, causing fracture Of both bones.
Williams was taken to his home on Me-
chanic street, where his injuries were at
tended.
At Macon Wednesday a lad named
Herman Jones fell from the second story,
of S. WaXelbaum a. Sons wholesale house
through the elevator well TO the basement.
lie was standing near the well, the ele-
vatOr having gone to the third floor, and
in some way fell, striking crossbsr or
rail, which was broken to pieces. He fell
upon the basement in a heap. Mr.. Bob
Lumpkin happened to be in the basement
and went to the ladiat once. DR.. Mettau-
er was summoned, who made an exami-
nation aud found that while no bones
were broken the boys body had received
several severe bruises. He was taken in
a hack to his home near the Vineuile
branch. The escape from serious injury
was a miraculous one.
Jester Murley, a 10-year-old boy Of At
lanta, who ran away from his parents
two weeks ago, returned to his home
Wednesday night. The boy says that he.
has been in Tennessee. The night he
LETT home be and his companions secretly
entered box car on the Western and
Atlantic road, in which they rode to
Chattanooga. They then made their way
to Nashville. Here Murley became tired
OF the ties and started back home. HIS
return trip was a lonesome one. and he
was comDeiled to walk about half the dis
lance between Nashville and Chatta-
nOOga. Friday morning be left Chatta-
nOOga for atlanta on foot, and walked
every foot of the way. He says he Will
aot run away again.
The fact was reported TO Coroner B. B.
johnson, at Hawkinsvile "A day or two
ago, that the corpse-Of a negro man had
been found entangled in some vines In
The mouth of Big creek. The Coroner
empaneled a jury and proceeded TO the
spot Tor the purpose OF holding an IN
quest. The jury, after a thorough in
lestigation OF the matter, rendered Ver-
uiet 10 the effect that the deceased came
70 his death from causes unknown 10
hem. 1t is supposed that the body had
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