Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-27
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
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GEORGIA.
The Grangers hall, at Green's Cut, was
burned one night last week.
lobe jackson, the Gainesville dyna-
inter, was still at large Monday afternoon
lat ) O'Clock.
The shops of the Brunswick and West
ern railroad, in Brunswick, will be rebuilt
Immediately.
The Griffin Manufacturing Company
made a shipment OF 100 bales OF sheetIngs
to Shanghai last week.
J. H. Brown, wanted at Terre Haute,
Ind, for alleged financial shortcomings,
has been arrested at Atlanta.
At the election at Milledgeville Monday
for or against the artesian well the vote
was: For we'll l02, against well 40.
Fifteen new boys have recently matric-
ulated for the spring term in Emory col
lege, making about $50 on the roll.
Mrs. Henry Willis has been appointed
POstmistress at OglethOrpe, ana will take
charge as soon as her commission arrives.
Ordinary w. H. Ramsey's books show
the number of marriage licenses issued
for the year 1885 in Murray county to be
49,.
The people of Jesup, by a popular sub
scription, have collected money for the
establishment of an iron and brass
foundry.
Mrs. Sarah Boisclair, an aged lady of
Augusta, died, on Saturday last, IN Barn
well, 5. c., at the residence of her nephew,
William HaygOod.
DR.. A. Coleman, one of the oldest and
most highly respected citizens of Reyn-
Olds, died in that place on Sunday Of
dropsy of the chest.
Ten negro hands on the COvingtOn and
Macon railroad struck Monday, because
a negro boss was placed over them. They
wanted white man.
Robert Berner, of Forsyth is being
strongly supported at Washington, d. c.,
for Attorney of the United States South
ern District of Georgia.
The Southern Cadets, of Macon, have
unanimously elected Rolf Sims their Cap
tain. Mr.. Sims has long been a member
Of the Macon Volunteers.
Col. L. c. Bower, prominent lawyer of
Blakely, mas sold his handsome residence,
and rumor says he will remove to Califor-
MIA.
A nominating convention was held at
Washington Saturday to select candidates
for Town Councilmen, to be voted tor on
Monday, Jan. %.
A negro man was taken to the poor
house in Baldwin county Tuesday who
was a most pitiable object. His feet had
nearly fallen of from being frOst-bitten.
The Dawson variety manufacturing
company moulded $500 pounds Of iron on
Wednesday last at their foundry. A
number OF visitors were there to watch
the process.
A peculiar fact about the names OF
creeks in Coffee county is, that they are
all numbered-the Seven-mile, the Nine
mile, the Seventeen-mile, the Twenty
nine-mile, etc.
Commissions were issued by the Gov
ernOr on Monday to +. 5. Dawes, treas
urer of the county oil DOoly, and to Frank
Porter, Justice of the Peace for the 292d
district of Jasper county.
CARING s. Brown have made definite
arrangements TO take charge of the Lanier
house, at Macon, on April 20. Architects
are getting up plans for remOdehng the
building on grand scale.
The Atlanta University was paid by the
State $4,000 Monday, the annual apprO-
priation by Georgia for the maintenance
of that institution. The money was paid
TO Prof. Bumstead, treasurer.
Work on the new Methodist church at
Dublin commenced Thursday. The
church, if built according to the plan
submitted, will be one Of the handsomest
structures in any small town Of the state.
Some parties living two or three miles
from Dublin have been endeavoring to
obtain sufficient signatures to petition
in order that they might procure a license
TO sell liquors, but have met with d
failure.
1t is likely that a new hotel will be
built at Washington sometime during the
present year by private capital. If built,
the house will contain twenty-five or
thirty rooms, and have modern cOnYen-
fences.
An Emanuel county negro was at the
Waynesboro depot one day this week,
and purchased a ticket for some point on
the road, and stood gazing at the cars,
forgetting TO get aboard, until the train
was gone.
A little negro girl about u years old
was burned to death on Luther Boynton's
place, near Sunny Side, Friday. She was
playing in straw 6eld that was being
burned off, and caught on fire from burn
ing straw,
The State Lunatic Asylum was paid its
November allowance of $l4,5S3 80 Monday
for the support of the institution for that
month. The amount was paid to T. 7.
Wilson. treasurer, through the Atlanta
National Bank.
The County Commissioners have failed
10 make an appropriation for continuing
the lighting Of che Bibb county jail by gas,
and consequently JailOr Birdsong has to
carry a kerosene lamp when making his
POUNDS at night.
Judge 5. y. Dickinson. Of Sparta, Wis,
owner of the plant Of the cambridge Lum-
Der Company, whose splendid mill was ac-
cidentally burned a year ago, is in Balm
bridge on prospecting tour, with view
10 rebuilding the mill.
The Governor has paid a reward Of 500
30 Capt. P. 7. Ennis, Of Baldwin county
for the arrest Of ana delivery to the Sher-
ih OF Washington county OF Neal Taylor,
who is charged with the murder Of Sol
smith, of Washington county, in Nov,
1895.
a negro woman was shot Sunday night
on the plantation Of DuBose Hill, near
Little River, IN Wilkes county, By a boy,
who aimed the weapon az her, not know
ing IL was loaded. The ball entered her
cheek bone directly under the eve. and
made a painful, though not dangerous
wound.
M John Walton has closed a contract for
amonumant % be erected over the graves
of General and Mrs. Robert Ioombs az
Washington. The monument VIII be
draped shaft OF italian marble and viii be
% feet high. II will be made In Italy ana
will DE here next fall.
AT Atlanta Monday Justice Rhea rend-
cred bis decision iB the case OF b. VI. Che
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