Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-04
.r0RGIA AND FLORIDA.
~rWs IN TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

low Escape from AOss - AA0 ~
Tel BIaze at LOuisville-One of the
saits Against the Georgia Pacific Com
sromised for 81, 900.
GEORGIA.
,.,. froight department OF the street
ii,road at Athens will be leased.
49, the railroads agreed to take voters
a. nan,a and carry them back to their
% NJ free of charge, yesterday, the day
our Lection on the bridge question.
, ch is an old gentleman in Terrell
~ who saves matches by lighting
" nine With his spectacles, which are
go MS sun glass.
rv-Goy. Boyuton, OF Macon, is presid-
at court at Dawson this week in
~ nj Clark's place, who has gone to
Sonmpus to hold court.
cov Mcdaniel issued the following
ao,rnissions Wednesday: Charles j.
|I Oi1 Notary Public for the 3i9th dis
,r,rt Dodge county; John W. burden,
kntorv Public for the 395th district,
I,U'onueI county; r. M. Brown, Justice
u the Peace for the 9th district, Wash
|ingtOn county.
Coot Pitcher, of Schley county, who has
oiwavs been an unbelieVer in mad dogs,
a. ANYTHING else of that sort, was in
smericus Saturday, Dragging on mad
alt he says that dog bit the calf and
n nineteen days it was rabid. He penned
i mn as a show, and says that when he
ieG home that morning they were shoot
|irg all the dogs in the neighbOrhOOd, as
many of them had fought the dog that bit
The calf.
Nessrs. MiddlebrOoks e. Edwards, at
4ornevs for Mr.. John Bryant, of Oxford,
,.lxr bY,,.
l n the collision on the Georgia Pacific rail
Rad on Dec. IA last, some time ago iu-
ffjmted suit against the road for $4,000
damages. Last week they compromised
1 ne matter for 81 600, ana the money was
had over to them by the railroad authori-
lies. MIR. Bryant was very painfully in
hired in the accident.
There will be a reunion of Confederate
veterans at Palmetto on July "A next.
Fney will meet in the grove on the west
side OF town. Committees have been ap-
bointed and arrangements are being per-
fectetI 10r a successful and ENJOYABLE Oo-
casion. There will be a basket dinner
shd plenty provisions for all. The pro-
gramme has not been made out. Capt.
George G. Looney, Of Florida, has been
detected as orator of the day, but it is not
known yet whether he Will accept.
S. F. Price, of Albany, upon waking
Monday morning found a COW revealing in
bis green garden. 1t proved to be one be-
longing to Mrs. Carrie Hill, which seemed
very skillful IN lifting latches, and had
for two successive years destroyed Mr..
Prices garden. He shot it through, and
sent Mrs. Hill word to let the butchers
buy it and procure another, and he would
pay her the difference. Mr.. Price had
given notice to Mrs. Hill that he would
Kill the COW If it raided his garden again.
A colored woman in Schley county hired
her little S-year-Old son. Butler Ross, to a
'OOred man named Wilson, as a nurse.
IN Saturday night. May -. Wilson whip
ped the boy Butler for killing a chicken
n a kitten, and the little fellow plan
led and executed a terrible revenge. On
tuesday evening, May %, while the par
,nts were at work in the field, he says he
et fire to the bedding in the cradle or
rib in which the child was sleeping, and
,Hrned the child up. On being question
ID he first stated that he did the deed, and
hen denied it. He was tried for the crime
md exhibited the most brutal indifer-
nee, both tor the deed and for any pun
shment that might follow. On account
4 his age and size he was acquitted. He
s said to be the smallest murderer eyer
ried in the State.
The Louisville Hotel, kept by Mrs.
Prescott, in PInetucky, caught on fire
rom two kerosene lamps which were set
m the corner of the sideboard in the
1t was just before supper,
md cat went TO fight a dog and pulled
If the lamps, which broke and set the
Dom on fire. But for the presence of
mind of a few gentlemen throwing quilt
N 1t and smOthering it out the hotel
would have been burned. 1t came very
rear being serious, anyway, for Prof.
4ruber and family were boarding in the
louse. His little daughter, Marie, s years
I'D, and the prOprietor's little daughter,
10 years old, were upstairs when they
heard the alarm. They were most
,trangled with the smOke and gas. They
Jumped for their lives from the twO-stOry
and saved themselves from
A Macon correspondent writes: What
,ver doubts may have existed heretofore
rs to Sawyer's sanity, there can certainly
De no doubt now that the old mans rea-
ION has been detbrOned. In a hot, close
ell at the Macon barracks he is confined,
with nothing but vile Odors, sitting air
iud not brick walls around him. In his
Vutly cell ne pIedcues, raves duu ma
angues imaginary juries, and goes on at
1 lively rate. The old man is really an
inject Of pity, and as one gazes through
ne bars at that haggard face and Wild
ooking black eyes, long beard and dis
leyeled hair, it is enough to cause thrill
If sympathy TO penetrate the hardest
leart. A few years ago this man was do
NJ well in the world, with a wife and
wO promising children. Now he IS rap
dly lapsing into imbecility. his wife and
property gone and the guardianship of his
children vested.