Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-05

GEORGIA.
Butts Superior Court meets next MOI
day, March s.
The Athens merchants are cutting INTO
Atlanta territory.
Corn planting will soon be commenced
In Newton county.
Newton Superior Court will convene on
Monday, March 10.
There is a great demand for houses in
Athens down town.
The Americas fremen have been re-
keved from street tax.
Miss Carlton, of Athens, lost 500 worth
of flowers by tine cold spell.
Deep Step is the name of new post Of
fee in Washington county.
Just at present there is considerable &C
tlvity in real estate in Macon.
The streams have been as low through
February as they were last fall.
The pyrOlusite manganese property
near Gainesville was sold Tuesday.
Mr.. d. Rhodes has shipped 2.IO0 dozen
eggs from Hawkinsville since Feb. q.
Augusta fishermen are now catching
plenty of shad in the Savannah river.
Tae Brunswick Band ball came of
Tuesday night and was decided success.
MIR. Finch, of Atlanta, has sold his
house on Peachtree street to Il, 7. Phil
lips tor $40, 800.
DIR. J. w. Lee, of TalbottOn, says that
BUR Georgia cOllard is a sure preventive
Of hog cholera.
DR.. Burroughs. of Brunswick, says
that So, 900 would not cover his loss by the
recent burglary.
The first quarterly meeting for Butler
circuit will be held at Butler on Saturday
and Sunday next.
Little Matte Bradield, of LaGrange.
Jumped from a chair Tuesday and trac-
tured both ankles.
Judge POttle was insured in the Legion
of Honor for $4,000, and this amount will
soon be paid to his children.
Walter F. Stewart, son of Elder Bennett
Stewart, OF Butler county, has been APP
pointed Postmaster at Butler.
Brunswick is sadly in need of good
system of drainage. 1t will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 to give it to ner.
The brick having arrived for the Bruns-
wick Light and Water Company, opera
tons VIII be commenced at once.
6. w. Barrow, of Lee county, brought
some hne potatoes to Americus Tuesday.
Eight Of them made more than bushel.
The State Treasurer has issued the first
registered bonds under the recent bond
act. G. L. Swift got them, $1,000 worth.
A Banks county man is reported to have
killed thirty-One COWS in thirty minutes,
by feeding them corn soaked in strych
nine.
J. G. Zachery, formerly of Atlanta, is
doing a capital law practice at Washing
ton, ID. c., and has bright future ahead
of him.
Gastritis is now very prevalent through
Northeast Georgia among the children.
1t almost amounts to an epidemic in the
counties below Clark.
The Messrs. scofeld have rented Mr..
Moss hotel at Tallulah Falls. 1t is re-
ported that they Will also run hotels at
Gainesville and Mt. Airy.
At recent meeting of City Council of
Americas 1t was agreed to place gasoline
lamps over the city in place of the kerO-
sene affairs now in use.
The grand jury of Fulton county has
lust elected Malcolm johnson, Adam S.
Pool and NJ. DObbins district school COM
missiOners for Fulton county.
A burglar made an unsuccessful at
tempt to get into the safe in Mr.. Gill
reath's store at Macon Tuesday. He es-
capped under fire of the night Waterman.
Mrs. Judge Allen Fort, of Americas,
received recently from China an exquis-
lite pair of baby shoes and splendid pho
togTaph Of the donor, Miss Laura Hay
good.
An Ebert county man has been making
sugar from the juice of the common ma
pie tree, and thinks large quantities Of it
can be made If the proper means are
adopted.
Mrs. GunneIs, wife of Rev. Joel d. Gun
nels. and sister of Rev. II. Il. Parks, pre-
siding elder of the Atlanta district, died
at her home near New Salem Church, in
Banks county, Monday morning, Of
paralysis.
Hon. j. e. Dart has secured the appoint
ment Of custom house inspector for
Brunswick. His rank and pay will be the
same as a deputy collector. Jacob Beach
has been appointed to the position by Col
lector Dart.
Monday night the banking house of j.
W. Wheatley & Co. at Americas was en-
tered by burglar and an effort was made
to break into the vault, but without sue
cess. The burglar was the one captured
in Fort Valley.
Those who have in private seen Mr..
Doyle's statue of ex-senator "Ben" Hill,
at Atlanta, are much pleased with it, and
pronounce it striking likeness. An
orator has not yet been selected nor q date
set for the unwilling.
A woman on the Central railroad track
near Macon had a close call Monday.
She was walking on the track, but for
some reason she did not hear the approach
ing train. and the oowcatcher Just took
OFF the skirt of her dress as clean as a
whistle.
Secretary Bayard, il is said, has offered
H. W. j. Ham an appointment, and with
the view Of getting Mr.. Ham strongly en-
dorsed for the position, petition is now
being circulated about the State house
and United States government building
IN his behalf.
Work was yesterday begun on the ex-
tension of the Metropolitan street rail-
waJ OF Atlanta from Fair street, down
PARK street to Grant park. The extern
sionwill be completed by April /. The
ground has been granted for stables and
cars "a Fair and Park streets.
Solomon Cohen, who came to Americus
In 1885, left Tuesday for Pennsylvania,
wherehe will reside hereafter. He has
been Identified with Americas for over a
quarter Of century, has reared children
and grandchildren there, made, aud lost
aud made fortunes.
Dr.. Henry X. Branham, formerly OF OK
lord, Ca, but now a resident OF Missis-
uppi, has received an appointment as
shlef clerk in the Deed Department OF the
Agricultural Bureau at Washington, ID.
2. Dr.. Branham is a brother-in-law of
The secretary Of the Interior.