Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-19
ITEMS IN THREE STATES
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

The stock of Cotton in the Ware
bouses at Columbus-Work Before
Superior COurt-A Mad
moo Kicked to Death by Mules
a Turtle Caught While Trying to
steal a Pig.
GEORGIA.
: Davis has purchased an undivided
LaIf interest in the Albany Nel0S and Ad-
U~ertiSer.
ordinary Thrasher has issued the order
.or tho Dr0hibition election in Oconee to
come off on May 20.
The cotton factory at Athens is running
tn its fulI capacity, and has a large num-
her of orders ahead.
At Americas Wednesday the case OF
Carl Schneider VS.. A. ID. b. Mckenzie;
for SlO.O 0 damages for slander, was urea
before Judge Fort. A Verdlct lot Oh was
rendered.
Near Americas Tuesday, WINE cIeaI-
mo ont the corner of his tenclng' on ms
n1antation. L.. M. johnson accidentally
ccntbis foot, seyerInS a toe and splitting
the foot nearly ! nall.
Stewart county farmers are too busy
with their crops and railroad p~roJecJs 10
bother their heads much with pOItlcs. AS
q GENERAL thing a Stewart county farmers
head is decidedly level.
AtGrifin Friday I. J. Brooks and j. B.
Mills. composing the firm OF BROOKS ~
Mills sold their entire stock of dry goods
and groceries to Batrlck u broohs anu
will discontinue business.
The following shows the stock Of cotton
eu hand in each warehouse at Columbus
FRIDAY by actual u Lowell l,32o, Al
sion 5l3. Planters 81, Georgia 1863, WeD-
ster 1.7l2, Alabama 932, FOntalne 90
total 1858.
Pledger says it is a mistake about his
going to start a paper to try and bring
liquor back to Athens, but that mis- sole
object viii be to help to elevate his race,
and to try and advance the general inter-
est of Athens.
Prof. Lteas, of Griffin, has two Curl
ssities on his watch chain. One is the
quarter OF a cent that made Joe Browns
fortune; the other a scent piece picked
up on the battle field of Manassas after
the first battle.
Henry johnson, of Americas, is happy
oVer the possession of a piece of gray cas-
sinner left from the cloth of which the
Americas Volunteer Rifles uniform was
made, when they first LETT for the army,
over % years ago.
The Grand Lodge Of Good Templars
will meet in Columbus in July. The Col
umbus Lodge is already preparing for the
occasion, and arrangements will be made
TO entertain the visitors in a manner
ereditable to the city.
Hon. John A. Cobb and Col. G. A.
Huntington, mAea bers of the Board of
County Commissioners of Sumter, left
Thursday morning for different points for
the purpose of .Iamining and forming a
plan for a new curt house for Sumter
county, whiSb it is thought may be COM
menced this ,ear.
Mrs. Mar.;tet Dasher, of Valdosta, died
very suddenly Friday night of heart dis
ease in the Christian church of that place.
A continue meeting has been in progress
for several daTS, and she attended them
regularly. Friday night she was at the
services as usual. After the sermon, and
while the last hymn was being sung, she
was taken i'll and died in less than five
minutes.
An Americas lady, out fishing recently,
heard a pig squeaIing near the edge of a
pond. On looking around she saw that a
large turtle mad seized a pig, that was
roofing about in the edge OF the water, by
the hind leg, and was trying to drag it
into the pond. She called to a gentle
man, who went to the pigs assistance,
and the turtle was captured. 1t weighed
~ pounds, and the flesh was toasted on
for several days.
A few days ago a mad dog got into the
lot of Rube Jones, Of Baker county,
where he mad some steers and mules. 1t
bit two of the steers and then went for
the mules, but before it could bite any of
them they kicked 1t to death. One OF the
steers was soon afflicted with hydropho-
bia, and made it dangerous for every liv-
ing thing IN Its vicinity, Il had to be
killed. AS soon as the other exhibited
signs hat the disease was setting IN it
was promptly dispatched.
Stewart Superior Court will nYen
next Monday. There are Is prisoners now
awaiting trial. Twelve OF them are ne
groes and one white. The white man is
Baty Hayes, who stands charged with
the crime Of bigamy, having married a
young lady from Webster county while
already having a wife living in North
Carolina, IRON whom he had never been
divorced. Hayes trial will be an expen-
siYe one TO the county. Allth Witnesses
who will appear against him will have to
be brought from a distance.
The General superintendent, Mr.. Sadel-
Ter. OF the Southern Express Company,
and Mr. Crosby, the travelling messenger,
are in Athens looking after the stolen dia-
mOnds. Mr.. Nusselly, the messenger on
lhe Northeastern railroad, receipted Capt.
William Williams, the express agent at
Athens, for the diamonds, and was re-
ceipted by the express agent on the Rich
mOnd and DsnyIlle railway at Lula for
them. 1t has not been ascertained at what
point the diamonds were stolen, but the
suppOsitiOn is that they were taken at
Lula.
The next issue of the Americas Repubh-
can will contain the YaledictOry of Col.
Z. W. Hancock, who has been its editor
since the paper was founded in 1854. This
action is understood to be the result OF
the management OF the paper insisting
upon opposing the reelection of Judge
Crisp. The Judge was expected home
Saturday night, aud arrangements were
II progress 10 welcome him at the train
with "a brass baud and a large delegation
Of citizens, when il became known that
owing to unavoidable detention he would
not arrive until Sunday night.
About Feb. / a man by the name OF j.
C.. smith. Who worked in the marble works
0i COnuell ~ Blakely at Griffin, left for a
neighborng town TO finish a Job. While
there he finished the work and collected
about $iOOdue on it and left tor parts un-
known, leaving a wife in Griffin almost
heartbroEen with grief. The matter was
kept as quiet as possible by those inter-
ested, hoping by that means TO discover
his whereabouts and have him brought
back. Nothing was heard Of him until a
few days ago, when il was learned that
he WAS I'm Nashville, Tenn. He has been