Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08


der at Eastman.
GEORGIA.
The first number OF the Hampton En-
teT'DriSe is good one.
Another loan association was granted a
charter at Atlanta Saturday.
It is said that there are very few pro-
fessional gamblers In Athens.
Erastus Kirkland died at Macon Satur-
day night. He was prominent mer-
chant.
Al. Martin and A. D. Skellie are an
nounced as candidates for Mayor of Fort
Valley.
NC. Green and NJ. L. Cooper are an
nounced as candidates for Sheriff of
Houston county.
A Flowery Branch man has discovered
plan by which he can make good whisky
in an ordinary coffee pot.
Pat OConnOr, of Atlanta, has applied
for patent on hustle, that is said to
give graceful hump to the female form.
The friends Of Capt. II. Il. Carlton are
urging his appointment as one OF the
commissioners of the Psychological
school.
There we're about 90 applicants for the
position Of night-watchman of Quitman
on Wednesday. Stalnaker was the for
tunate man.
Three fourths of the marriage licenses
issued by the Ordinary of Brooks county,
during the present year, have been to col
Ored candidates.
Ed. Bolton, cOlored, of 0glethorpe coun-
ty, who was reported killed by Turner
Latimer cOlored, was badly hurt, but is
now up and doing we'll.
Alter d. Prices death at Lafayette a
warrant was sworn out by his son, charg-
ing Upson Powell with murder. 1t was
executed by Sheriff Foster Monday and
the committing trial began.
There is a great deal OF speculation
going on in Athens in cotton futures. Up
to the present time the majority has been
losing. One buyer purchased large lot
Monday and has struck the rise.
Mr.. Ponder, Coroner OF Brooks county
and a well-knOwn citizen, went to preach
ing last Sunday. He reports that the
preacher prayed that all vice and sin and
''morality'' might be banished from the
land.
W. j. Smith. of Waycross, has cat
which plays the piano. This is quite a
curiosity, and he says the eat is very fond
OF music. He will amuse himself for sew
eral minutes by drumming on the instru-
ment.
Gen. A. r. Lawton has declined the in
VitatiOn of the literary societies of the
University of Athens to deliver their
annual address at commencement. W. r..
Hill, Of Macon, has been chosen in his
place.
Quitman's projected booms just at this
time are numerous and gigantic, tO-wit:
The new hotel, the COvingtOn, Macon and
Quitman railroad, the Monticello and Quit
mon connection, the artesIan well and a
big watermelon crop.
George Washington, who killed his wife
near DR.. Hitch's, in Brooks county, about
three years since and was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary, died about two
years since, but his friends here have just
been notified of his death.
At WarrentOn +. L. Howell, dealer in
groceries, furniture, etc, has made an as
signment to James Whitehead. His lIa-
bilities are 81, 300, and mis- assets SO, 800.
The cause for assignment was the general
depression in trade and poor collections.
There Is an agricultural club at Flint
Hill, just in the edge Of Douglas county,
near the Carroll county line. At their
meeting last Saturday vote was taken to
find out how many of the club would use
guano the present season. According to
the vote only two will use guanO.
DR.. Nell, of the State university at
Athens, organized the class in parliament
tary law Thursday. The practical sci
ence of parliamentary law was taught in
the University of Georgia before it was
in any other college in America, and some
of her graduates have been very fine par
liamentarlans.
Col Gambler has succeeded in securing
q daily mail from Alpharetta to Duluth,
with special service commencing at once.
He is also endeavOring with strong pros
poets OF success to secure new mail
route from Jacksonville to j JOhntown, thus
supplying a hitherto neglected section
with mail facilities.
Lew Zeieler, of Valdosta, was repairing
a barn in NslldOsta last week and got into
q bed of rodents. Two-thirds of them es-
capped, but nevertheless be soon had a pile
of flesh on the ground made up OF 63 rats
not miee--and many of them had tails
nine inches long, and they measured IS
inches from tip TO tip.
Rev. William b. Walker, rector of the
Church Of AtOnement, at Augusta yester-
day morning severed his pastorate, which
be has filled for nearly nine years. Mr..
Walker leaves for Connecticut, where he
has accepted an important charge near
one Of the larger cities, and where he will
labor in an old New England community.
Jere Jourdan, who lives a few miles
north Of Carrollton, on the Villa Riea road.
saws that be has had three bee gums OF
lately. Tney make their nests in the bot
tom of the gums and with headquarters
established there, make raids upon the
bees and honey in the gums, until they de-
strOy both bees and honey.
Great interest has been manifested in
Dodge county during the week in the
trial Of PeytOn +. Etheridge, charged with
the murder Of DR.. 1. W. Tucker, near
Chauncey, on Feb. %, 1888. Argument
closed, and the case was given to the jdry
saturday afternoon. 1t remained out un-
Ill midnight before arriving at a verdict.
verdict Of ''nOt guilty. was rendered.
While some men were shooting game
near Aston WelbOrn's, near Cumming,
Frank Duncan loaded his rifle and thought
that he mad lett the hammer down, and
threw the rifle ON his shoulder. Andrew
Pirkle WAS standing behind him, and the
loltne Of the gun caused il to fire, and
struck Andrew Just above the right nip
pie, ranging under the shoulder blade.
Il is dangerous wound, though not Goa
sidered fatal.
John ". Merritt, Deputy United States
Marshal, was shot and killed at Lula Sat
urday by John Coffee. Coffee went into
the boarding house of Logan and said to
Merritt: II want 10 see YOU" They
walked out, turned between the houses
and Immediately Coffee fired five times,
one shot entering the heart and the others