Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
ruE VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOID IN PARAGRAPHS.


..tempt to Overpower the Jailer at
,,aconand Release the Prisoners.
GEORGIA.
Dorian claims to have felt an earth
make shock few DAYS ago.
'Tb4 Oswichee and Columbus gun clubs
III baya a shooting match at Star Park,
Coinmbus, on Wednesday
.rleast twenty-five or thirty new resi-
soncas are going up in different parts of
CoInmbus. besides innumerable tenement
Sonses. Columbus is questionably on
boom,
- tho Brunswick and Western Rail-
go company for $500 damages. 1t
I'm looms that his wife fell from the train
oCCiIa in motion and received severe in
The Central line of boats ON the Chatta-
n hnochee give notice that on and after
sng. the rates of freight charged will
10 On a basis of zoe. per barrel, This
iooks as if the trouble on the river was
about at an end.
Toare is q man in Athens who is in the
habit of selling domestic wines to minors,
and few days since he sold two little
sofoo!boys a quart and they got drunk on
Il He will be presented to the grand
ury and prosecuted.
There is an overwhelming sentiment in
ayor Of Athens appropriating $4,000 to
he school of Technology, but the danger
. q to get the votes out. About ten DAYS
before the election warm contest will
he made. and the friends of the measure
are hopeful or success.
Since prohibition does not forbid the
sale of domestic wines, thousands of gal
ons of wretched stuff, made of blackber-
-ies. has been put up in the country, and
will be sold in Athens by the quart
on big days. All Of it is as black
as ink and thick as Cruel. A man must
be hard up to drink it.
At Augusta there were twenty-seven
deaths last week-slxteen white and
eleven colored. one from opium eating.
Ofthe whites four were female adults,
eight male children, four female children.
OF the cOlored three were male adults,
three female adults, two male children
and three female children.
Tom Frierson, Of Butler, is on a visit to
Athens after an absence of more than
twenty years. Re meets only a few peO-
Die " HON he once knew, and says that the
town is so built up and changed that he
cannot recognize familiar places. He
went to the old WilkersOn spring, but it
was hard work to find this once familiar
spot.
Jaler Birdsong was attacked by George
Caldwell, stout negro, in the jail at
Macon Sunday, The Negroes object was
TO OYeIpower the jatler and release the
other prisoners. A desperate struggle
ensued between the two men, and was
ended after 10 minutes by the almost ex-
bausted taller drawing his revolver and
shooting the negro in the uhign.
At Augusta there are fOrtY-nine prison
,NF4 ai.rhf xzTh - nd 81
ored. OF these eight are women and
fortv-One men. Six Of the number are I'M
,er 81. One is held for murder, five for
ielOnies, and the remainder for minor
Ctfenses. The jail is as neat as a pin, and
the inmates speak highly of their kind
treatment at the hands Of the Jail au-
thorites.
A party is now ready to go to Athens
and establish the electric light, if he can
get the proper announcement. 1t is his
Intention to secure as many private con-
sumers as possible, and have the machln-
cry in perfect operation by the time the
eity's contract with the gas company eX-
pres, when the city can do away with ges
ior street Lighting purposes and secure
the electric light.
A party of hunters, headed by Fl. A.
Ledbetter and W. A. STROLLER, of Albany,
eDjOyeta regular oid-fashiOned deer drive
Saturday. The drive was made on the
Beall place, just across Jordan's ford, at
POINT well known to old hunters. Sew
eral deer were jumped, but it fell to the
fortune of Willie Strother to kill the only
one brought down in the party, which
highly elated the young man.
A good lawyer says that even in the
event of Ordinary Thrasher, OF OcOnee,
appealing TO the Supreme Court. that the
sale Of liquor can be stopped in the county
Until after the decision is made. In view
Of this tact, it is reported that the Ordi-
lary will declare the result "wet." An
appeal viii then be made, when Judge
Hutchins will appoint three Justices OF
;Ge Peace to recount the vote and declare
The result.
Willis Price, of Macon, has a game
rooster whose latest feat is the Staying Of
rats. He losses them up with his bill and
transhXes them with his spurs as they
come down. He had terrible battle with
large Norwegian rodent Saturday, and,
although the rat fought vigorously, he
was mastered by the rooster in short
ofder. Whenever pigeon alights inside
the warehouse he makes for him, and he
never tails to Kill the trespasser in a few
minutes.
Dahlonega Signal: Marriages will hap
. pen wherever there is man andwoman, and
Lumpkln now puts up one that takes the
cake. David d. Sargent, aged 50, and
MISS ME- Barrett, aged SO, were married
at the residence of Allen Stringer on We'd
nesday last, nine miles from here. Mr..
/ 9flnser is Justice of the Peace. We
.ope Inc young and happy couple will
1dVe nothing 10 mar their future happi-
u5Ss' and viii guide over LIES rough
seas with an easiness which VIII bring
much Joy to them.
Joe hlng, an old and much respected
,uzen oil Harris county, has, for the last
we've months, suffered no little FROM u
uucerous tumOr on one Of his eyes. The
IoWtl covered almost the entire sight,
fTIu prolruded to such an extent that the
nus could not be closed. A week or 50
~ ne consulted DR.. Bullard, of Column
ous' VINO advised an operation as the last
aesVII Mr.. King is over 50 years of age,
- DC readily consented to an operation,
TMnu WIN the assistance of DR.. Sherriden,
VI, builard performed the tedious and
r .eiGaie operation with the most happy
:rAt Columbus Saturday Policeman
n''u arrested Silas Harris, a convict
"uo ESCAPED from Pounds camp, on the
'osEa Midland and Gulf railroad, about
OcIocN Friday afternoon. He had
br ~ Anadowed and followed to the city
Ht shores, of Nance's district. He
Fl 80 o' 'oolsh enough TO walk the public
s5os ana streets with part of his