Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,.s.xvS OFTHE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Pest in a FighU with a Huge Snake
Near Butord-The Ivey Murder
rrial Continued UntiI November
THE Win OF Oarlen's Popular Col
ored Man.
GEORGIA.
The Uplands Hotel at Eastman has been
closed tor the summer.
The cornerstone of Oglethorpe's new
court house will be laid to-day.
The Effingham County Sunday School
Association viii hold It's annual celebra-
ton at Springfield Wednesday, June 3
The meeting Of the Dodge County Sum
dav school Association last Sunday was
very thinly attended, and consequently
undressing.
viii Malone was given four years in
the Georgia penitentiary at Atlanta on
thursday as punishment for his assault
ilDon England, several months ago.
Hawkinsville's brass nand has been en-
gagged to play in Grants Park, Atlanta,
for a season of sixteen weeks for
5000 week. The band is composed of
twelve members.
The Adelphean Society of Wesleyan
Female College gave a pleasant enter
tainment in honor of the birthday of
George |. Seney. the liberal and progress
gtve benefSctOr's day.
An architect from Chattanooga, EN-
Moved by the Board of Commissioners Of
Gordon county to examine the work on
fine foundation of the Jail, says that it
does not come up to the specifications.
Jefferson superior Court convened on
Nav u. Several minor cases have been
disposed OF. The case of the State VS..
Miss Elvira Ivey for the murder of Jack
No
vember term.
1t is very likely that new town will
spring up at Duckett's Mills, Gilmer
county. The tract given by Mr.. Duckett
to the road for the location of the depot at
tts present place is now being run off and
town lots will soon beOn the market.
The annual meeting of the Young Mems
Library Association at Rome occurred
Thursday. From President Rounsaville's
report it appears that there are 1900
volumes on the shelves; 1926 me mbers are
enrolled, and there is a balance of $3.50 in
the treasury. Five thousand books were
in circulation during the past year, and
the library is in prosperous condition.
At BufOrd, Thursday, while Miss Annie
Lee Garner and Miss Bradley of Atlanta,
who is stopping at the Garner House,
were taking their morning walk, they
discovered snake near the town line.
They concluded to give him battle, and
armed themselves with rocks and sticks
and charged upon him, and continued to
fire until he was entirely dead. They
then brought him to town. After the
yardstick was applied to him he proved
TO be seven feet long and of the coach
whip species.
There has been a somewhat singular
fatality among the eX-Secretaries of the
Executive Department of Georgia, COM
mencing with the administration of Gov.
Cobb in '5l, and up to the provisional gov
eminent in 1865. William Steele, W. w.
Paine, Arthur Hood, l.. II. Briscoe, b. b.
DeGraffenried, Mark d. McComb, II. II.
Waters. J. BulOw Campbell-are all dead,
and nearly all died young, comp ratively.
NAL FL. j. G. Williams, VINO was with
Gov. Brown, is the only surviving ex-Sec-
rotary of the eX-department in the period
mentioned above, and the Major has been
for years confined to his bed.
Among the delegates attending the
Grand Council of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, now in session in
Macon, is Col. I. W. Merrin, whose first
visit to Macon was on April 10, 1865, as a
prisoner of war. He was captured by
Wilson on his memorable raid through
Alabama to Macon, where he was stopped
by the existing armistIce OfJOhnstOn and
Mississippi battery, and was taken by
Wilson at Columbus, Ga, firing the last
gun at that place. He is now citizen of
Plant City, Fla, and this is his first visit
to Macon after receiving his parole there
twenty-one years ago. He is an old news
paper man, and is now publishing the
South Florida Courier.
The will of the late Henry Todd, col
Ored, of Darien, has been opened. He be-
queaths his entire estate and revenues to
his wife during her natural life. At her
death the estate shall be converted into
cash. Five hundred dollars of the money
shall be spent in purchasing a bell for
and in repairing the cOlOred Baptist
church. sufficient amount shall also
be appropriated tor the erection OF a
school for c0Ored children. The balance
is to be distributed as follows: Ten per
cent to The white Presbyterian church:
hve per cent. to the white Episcopal
church, five per cent. to the white
Methodist church, ten per cent to the col
ored Baptist church, ten per cent. % per
cent. each) to two cOlored Methodist
churches, nve per cent. to the cOlOred
Episcopal Church, five per cent. to the
white school in Darien, five per cent. to
the cOlOred school in Darien, twenty
per scent. to his brother-in-law Frank
Cardone, twenty-five per cent. appOr-
TONED to relatives in st. Augustine and
Jacksonville, Fla. The wealth of the de-
ceased Is estimated at from 100000 to
$4,000. Executors appointed are Adam
Strain, James X. Clarke and II. Hunting
ton. Mrs. Todd is the possessor Of con-
siderable wealth in her own name.