Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-18
GIGIA AND FLORIDA.
xIOFTHE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

in Bees-A Decision in a News
ger Suit at Rome-DooIy County
is Rid of a Quartette of Thieves.
GEORGIA.
prominent farmer of Hart county
sr knew until last week that Abe Lin
was dead.
be engineering students of the uni
sity at Athens have finished their sur
around Social Circle.
Farmers all complain of corn looking
d, and very poor stand of cotton. A
eat many are planting over.
Sixteen thousand dollars was distribut-
4 among the heirs OF the Richard Burton
state in Elberton on Friday last.
The fire Department. of Athens Will have
In inspection or parade as soon as the
companies can decide the time and place.
Gen. Toombs' estate will go far beyond
what has been reported. A prominent
lawyer Of Washington says it viii reach
$250,000.
The rogues who took the clocks from
! the Baptist and Methodist churches in
Fort Valley, some weeks ago, have not yet
been apprehended.
Tillman Shaw, living near Lithonia, has
a violin 1OS years old. IL produces fine
music vet. MIR. Shaw says there is one In
Henry county 175 years old.
Mr.. Carson, of Athens, mas a seventy
dollar bill of continental money that was
issued to his grandfather for services as
soldier in the Revolutionary war.
During the rendition of ''Ten Nights in
a Bar Roem," on Friday night in Har-
mony Grove, one of the audience, r. S.
Cheney, was struck with bullet, but not
seriously injured.
Mai. Bransford President OF the Macon
Street Railway Company, proposes to re-
place his present system of one track lines
and switches few and far between, with
plenty Of switches and, whenever practi-
cable, double track in the broadcast
streets.
Jim Lester, Of jackson county, was at
tackled by mad dog Saturday. He was
walking along the road, the dog met him
and at once made an attack and bit him
on the leg. Lester saw that there was
something wrong, and grabbed the dog by
the throat and chOked him to death.
Montezuma is nearly surrounded by
forest OF magnolia trees, which are bud
ding and blooming. In less than week
these great white flowers Will be open by
the thousands, freighting the air for
miles with the sweetest and most delicate
perfume.
The no fence laws are now in operation
in eight districts in Hamilton county,
in Valley Plains, the last district to adopt
the law. Land owners are pursuing
liberal policy towards their tenants who
own stock, by furnishing free pasturage,
and no doubt they will be repaid in the
long run for their liberality.
great many drammers, when trade is
duh, take the liberty of shipping goods
without ever receiving an order for them.
One OF these Hberty-taklng drummers
shipped a firm in Athens ten boxes of
tobacco few days ago, and wrote the
firm that they took this liberty. The
merchant wrote to the drummer that they
took the liberty of leaving the tobacco at
the depot, subject to his order.
The prohibition election comes off in
Oconee next Thursday and both sides are
working hard to carry it. The negro is
the balance OF power, and his vote will
decide the question of whisky or no
whisky. There has been no outside influ-
ence brought TO bear on the election The
Bsctinformed men in the county say 1t is
badly mixed, and no one can tell whether
whisky or prohibition will win.
Col. o. H. Pinnock, OF Chattanooga,
has bought the Cherokee springs prop
erty in Catoosa county, and his two sons
have moved on the property. Col. Pin
mock contemplates making the springs a
summer resort, and will at once go to
building cottages, and making such other
improvements as are necessary for the
accommodation of those who may visit
this delightful and beautiful place.
Us. Nj. Carroll, who lives with Joseph
Blanks, near Hollands store, was in
Summerville Saturday. Three years ago
q cOtton-mOuth snake bit him on the sec
tond finger of the left hand. The wound
is now healed up but there are several
large sores on his hand, and 1t is very
feverish. In winter it partly heals up,
and he can use it a little; but on the APP
preach of warm weather it breaks out
afresh and becomes so stiff that he can
do nothing whit.
Rev. W. g.. Parker, of Mount Zion,
has oats ready to cut; wheat, German
millet. cat-tail, milo maize, kafir corn,
bread corn, pop corn, Indian corn, three
kinds of ground peas, three of field peas,
four varieties of beans, watermelons,
muskmelons, cucumbers, squashes,
gourds, vegetables Ia variety, sunfowers,
cotton and tobacco. He has also joined
his wife in the chicken business, and has
been corresponding and expects to take
variety OF fine chickens to Atlanta to
the great show on Jan. 8, next.
Ordinary Williams, OF Epson county,
has in his Office an old revolutionary
sword that was used by Lieutenant Henry
Riyiere, the grandfather OF Mr.. James r.
Riviere, in the Revolutionary war and in
the British war of 1872. The sword has
engraved on the blade thirteen stars, re-
presenting the thirteen original States,
and has the same old wooden handle it
had wnen used in the two historic wars.
1t is in perfect order and has the appear
ance of having done some good work in the
days when the country demanded its ser
vice.
During the storm at SummerVille last
Friday evening lightning struck walnut
tree across the road from Il. N. Martins
house. 1t tore up the bark from near the
top to the foot, varying in width from half
an inch to four inches. In the wood thus
left bare numerous little cracks could be
seen running diagOnally across, the
cracks and hbres between them being
about the size Of the teeth Of fine tooth
comb and the interstiees between them.
No one felt the shock. but Mrs. Martin
says 1t scared her nearly 10 death.
At Rome, Saturday. in the Dwinell-
Hidell case, which had been before the
Superior Court Of Floyd county all the
week, the verdict Of the jury was an
nounced in open court. The suit was for
a balance OF $2,ll4, claimed to be due as
part OF the purchase money OF the Rome
Courier. The verdict OF she jury awarded
TO the plainNf. Dwinell, $1,000, with in