Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-18

gagged in its department of the court
They nave already returned about thirty
/ tue bills. most oitnom being mlsdenean-
( orE, and large lNajority OF them tor sell
ing liquor contrary 10 law. The Jury and
+ people seem determined To give IN" law
D ull trial, ana see whether or not 1t Will
stand the test. No intoxicated men have
been seen in ElbertOn this week, though
the crowd has been large each day.
Within the last twelve months "a much
as $4,000 has been expended in JaGrauge
in building new houses and IN improving
old ones. Mrs. Thornton il putting up
handsome business house at "A cost OF
about $4,000; j. &. Forbes ~ Co one at
about 50, 900. l.. X. Bradteld has Just
duished by far the handsOmeSt building
in the place, and is now doing wholesale
business, with y. r. Hutchinson rs a part
ner. Judge 3. G. Terrell, the richest man
in Troup county and the most generous,
has bought the Frank Frost house, ana
along with three other buildings Of
bis, In which j. \. Cooper and the Clark
Bros. are doing business, and IL now nav
ing them repaired with iron fronts. Dr.
Galloway, }. }. Truitt II. G. Butler and
J Ellis have had residences put up from
$4,000 to 50, 600 each.
Crawfordville Democrat: While in
Langley, ;. c., during The earthquake,
Miss Leila Anderson, OF this county, came
Yery near being washed away with that
famous Langley dam and bridge. She and
seven friends and relatives had been to
camp meeting that night and on their re-
turn they reached the bridge or dam
when they had to cross just rs the earth
quake struck them. They were in two
vehicles. One portion Of the party had
Just driven across and the buggy in which
Miss Leila was mad started on the other
end when the snOck came, and drove the
dam asunder. None of The party were
hurt, but they had TO go ten miles around
the pond before they found whether or
not the others were drowned. A few sec
Onds earlier or a iew seconds later would
have been the deaths of tour persons and
their horses.
Guvton Chronicle editorial: This day is
the anniversary OF the battle of Sharps-
burg, Md, Sept. II, 1862 just twenty
four years ago we waded the Potomac
river, and under the fearless Wright and
immortal Lee we contributed a private
soldiers mite to the glory which crowned
the Confederate arms on that blood
stained field. Having been wounded and
left lying between the contending lines OF
the two armies, we were fully i'm
pressed with the fact that the terrible
war then being waRed could not end short
of suhjugatiOn. Time has not deal more
leniently with me than those who partici-
pated with me in those stirring days, and
yet | can scarcely realize that twenty
tour years have passed. such a period,
even under ordinary circumstances, must
bring many changes, but when II has as
a prelude four years OF wars bloOd!est
work, the intensity OF change is made
more apparent.
Americas Republican; Seven or eight
years ago the Republican published an
account OF "A rattlesnake on Jim Murray's
place 40 large that it tore down his fence,
and where it crossed the road the track it
left looked as II flour barrel had been
rolled over it. A few days ago negro
man saw the snake asleep, and picking
up a fence rail attacked IL and succeeded,
after long fight, in killing the monster.
Messrs. Tom and Jim Murray both
say it WAS seven feet seven inches
and IA halt in length, Il fraction
over six inches in diameter, consequently
eighteen or twenty In circumference;
had double fangs, the longest being one
and a half inches III length, and contained
enough poison to kill adOzen or two men.
in striking the snake with the rail some
OF the rattes were brOken off and lost.
This 10 about the largest snake OF the
kind that has yet been heard FROM, and
the Murray family now feel safe in regard
To pigs and other little things in their sec
,iUn.