Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
ScWsOFTHE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

Little Girl Crusneu TO OeaLn DY Log
atGreeDsboro.
N1 GEORGIA.
N. C. Lee has opened mattress factory
IN COyln@ton'
Lexington could raise $4,000 for rail-
road if necessary.
A Campbellite preacher is evangellzing
the upper part Of Oglethorpe county.
The jail at EatontOn has been COM
nln4d. and the Sheriff will soon have the
kl,.
Nlle.ieulhs OF the seed oats sown in
ugIelh0, pc county this tail will have to be
Imported.
Jesse Cook, the Taylor county wife
Murderer, has been sentenced to be
hanged sept II.
AIeal estate man says by Christmas
property IN Athens will be % per cent.
higher Than now.
The WASHINGTON Baptist Association
vail, at its next meeting, be invited to
meet with tle Sparta church next year.
ia the County Court at SwaiusOOro last
week there were eighteen convictions.
Thirteen OF the number were tor gam
bliug.
This week quite commOdious church
building will be finished at Burt's chapel,
better known as Burt's academy, in Sim.
stun district, OSlethorpe county.
At Adarsville j.. b. Gardner has erect
ed new gin house where he mad one
burned last year. He will have the best
machinery placed in position by the time
the crop comes in.
Hearn & Co., agents for the Dupont
Powder Company, have erected maya
zine just beyond the limits of Eatonton,
and deposited in it, TWO or three weeks
ago, 5000 pounds of powder.
In Jefferson county, r. l.. Gamble, Jr.,
and A. S. Smith were Friday nominated
as Democratic candidates tor the Legisla-
ture. Tarver and Brinson, Inde pendent
candidates, are running against the regu-
lar nominees.
In Wednesdays primary. d. n. Smith
was elected over II. +. Carswell for Sem
atOr from the twenty-1rsu Senatorial dis
trict. Hon. B. Fordham defeated Hon. j.
W. Lindsay, former Representative from
Irwin county.
The Senatorial Convention for the Sew
enteenth Senatorial district of Georgia,
met in Millen on Wednesday, and 1t be-
ing Bulloch's turn, under the rotation
system, j. +. Brannen, the choice of that
county, was unanimously nominated.
The friends of Hon. w. P. McClatchey
will urge his name for nomination for
Senator from the Thirty-fifth district
They hold that Cobb county is entitled TO
the next Senatorship, In that Fulton and
Clayton had the last two, Coils. hoyt and
1igner.
A few days ago Mrs. Lowery, of Snow,
DoOly county, attempted TO commit sui
eide by taking morphine and strychnine.
Before taking the poison she wrote her
obituary. AT last accounts it was thought
that the doctors would pull her through
all right.
On Tuesday Pope Barrow, counsel for
the Oconee prohibitionists, made his ar.
guments before Judge Hutchins, at Mon
roe, but his Honor withheld his decision
until he could hear from MIR. Thrasher.
The impression is that Judge Hutchins
will sustain the decision of the Ordinary.
A call has been forwarded to Rev. Mr..
Greer by the Presbyterian church, of
Cutnbert, for his services as pastor.
signed by every member of the church
who is at home, except tour. A petition,
signed by nearly every citizen of the
town, requesting him to return, has also
been sent him.
Caleb Cunningham, the murderous
negro who at cambridge some weeks ago
shot at, with intent to kill, a young white
on Friday night last arrested on the very
spOt where the murder was attempted Dy
Deputy Marshal Powell and turned over
to the Sheriff.
Paul, an eleven-year-O son of Rev. j.
Fl. Ellis, while in the otficeAf the Cedar
town Advertiser Monday, Stood too near
the Gordon jObber, which was running at
lightning speed, when his clothing caught
10 the cogs of the wheels and his leg was
drawn up and severely mangled just
above the knee.
Mrs. j. A. Woodall. living near Canton,
went to bed last Saturday night with her
t1ree-months-old babe, and awoke few
hours atterward to find her baby corpse.
No inquest was held over the dead body,
but, as there was no marks or bruises on
IL, the suppositIon is that she lay upon
and suhOcated it.
Jackson Herald: Married. Aug. IT.
1856 Mr.. T. j. Brown to Mrs. NJ. G. Haw-
klns, w. b. Patrick, Esq, officiating. 1t
VIII be remembered that these parties
were once husband and wife, but on &C
count Of the return OF the lady's former
husband, who was supposed to be dead,
lhey had to separate.
The business men OF Calhoun have
made up purse for the best yield of
wheat as follows: For The best yield on
one acre, SIS; second best yield on one
acre 50; for the best yield on five acres,
s1; second best yield on five acres, So;
gpen 10 all farmers in Gordon county.
llis offer is made for the crop OF 1887,
One day last week Thomas Amis brought
Lexington nugget Of ore he had found
I'd branch on mis- place, which WAS pro-
Inouhced by those VITO saw il 10 be silver.
mere IS some kind OF valuable metal in a
~uge OF rock ON his place. The nugget
rwuhd has been sent to State Chemist
"AIte TO hnd out what it is and It's value.
81 the upper ferry near Montezuma,
Nuere excavations are beng made for the
heN Terry, some wonderful form atoms are
"uhQ IN the rocks and dirt, which prove
v'nciuslVely that at one time where we
Nv" reside was the deep blue sea. George
NpIrls has perfectly formed petrifed
bark
Mrs. Fish, OF Montezuma, was bitten
~ something on the finger Monday night.
w. ingram thinks it was snake. Az
w. Ielirlng she felt something bite her
tser' when she became very much
.sntened and ran into her daughters
,y'm' when the party returned to see
NAV II was, 1t dropped Oft the bed, max
bo1onoise Ike snake and darted into \
-Oie III Tue hearth near the mantle.
Joel Miller's saw was running through
to ,Ok yne other day at the mill at Carroll
w"s "rneh, AZ point which in the tree
"5 MY ieet from the ground, II struck
tb NE zee oil iron Embedded in the log near
a.