Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-16

GEORGIA.
,,r,nkin wants a telegraph line.
snmfer county has new post office
named Job.
lodge OF Knights of Pythias will be
oroanjzed in Darien shortly.
IL. Caldwell died at Atlanta sun
Adv night. He was aged So years ana
was widely known.
The CITY Fathers of Darien will elect a
BOARD of Health and Port Physician at
their April meeting.
The gates for the whitehall street cross
ing will reach Atlanta about the mluule
Of this week, and will be swung ABOUT 1ne
last of the present month.
The physicians having charge OF tne
free dispensary do not like to have thelr
medicine shop called Tree oisPe D. d.,
They have christened it the Atlana rory
clinic.
Prohibition has been in effect IN Lump
kin for week. and to all appearances
works finely. There were no drunken ne
oroes on the streets last Saturday night,
and the town presented quiet ana Or0erly
appearance. =.
AtAtlanta DR.. J. j. Caldwell, who is Sc
wears of age. is thought to be dying.
Owing to his age there is little or no hope
entertained of his recovery. DIR. Caldwell
praeticed medicine for years in Pike and
Spaulding counties.
Hon. Seaborn Reese will be candidate
for reelection to Congress. His present
opponent for Congressional honors Will be
Hon. William H. Mattox, of Ebert, who
is at this time the only outspoken candl-
date against Mr.. Reese.
In an alteration between r. NJ. Tison
and w. j. Williams last Wednesday
night in Kelly's barrOom at Bruins wick,
Williams fired shot at Tison which took
effect in the cushion of the billiard table,
instead Of his body, as was Intended.
For the first time in ten or twelve years
IL becomes necessary to levy tax upon
the town property OF Lumpkin, as all ex-
penses OF the municipal government have
heretofore been paid by the whisky tax.
The tax will probably be One-half of per
cent.
DR.. L. S. johnson, who lives on the cor
ner of Second aud Boundary streets, on
Windsor bill, South Macon, was stabbed
in the shoulder and painfully injured on
the leg by a rock by three negroes Sunday
night, whom he ordered away from his
front gate on account Of their eUTsiAg.
June Gordon, colored Justice OF the
Peace of the Twenty-secOnd district OF
Mcintosh and a school teacher of that
section. stole from the store of Henry A.
We'll g. Bro, at Bainbridge, on Thursday
last. in broad daylight, can of lard He
acknowledged it, but said that he was in
toXicated. He has not been arrested yet.
The grand jury, however, will investigate.
The presentmentsOf the grand jury of
Greene county show that for the past year
the expenses of running the public
schools was st, $50 20, and that the amount
now on hand, after all expenses have been
paid, is $725. The school statistics show
an increase of attendance over any preVi-
Gus year. The number of white pupils
has been 1,149, eOloRed 1913. Fhe total
number of white and colOred, 1852. The
latter number is greater than that Of 1884
by SS4 pupils.
ToceOa NeacS: The stampede from tho
church last Sunday night when the alarm
of fire was sounded was quite a remark
able occurrence. The people passed out
of the church with the utmost order and
quiet. A number of men went off and
left their hats in the church. Everybody
was out and the lights eXtinguished in
about five minutes after the alarm was
sounded. Neither rain, snow nor storm
can prevent or break up a meeting in
TOeeoa, bat q cry offire did it with phe-
nominal success.
Several weeks ago two coiorsd boys,
Frank Simmons, son OF Israel simmons,
IL
left Darien in small beat for the oyster
banks. Nothing was thought Of the long
absence OF the boys, as they were in the
habit of going off without leave of their
parents and coming at will. Friday morn
ing the body of boy was found in the
river In Long Reach. a short distance
from Darien, and on examination it was
found to be that OF the lost boy simmons.
The other boy is stin missing.
Leary Courier: Many thousands of bar
rel slaves are now being brought to Will
liamsburg and this place from the white
oak hamm0cks of the surrounding coun-
try where they were rived. Quantities OF
cedar is also being brought to these places
Tor shipment to the Northern markets,
Judge Beck, of Morgan, is engaged on a
tremendous contract for slaves, to be
shipped direct to Germany, where they
will be used in barrels for wine and beer
The cedar will go principally into the
manufacture Of furniture, which COM
maDds high prices from the fact of the
high polish II is susceptible OF. 1t seems
that the hard woods OF Southwest Geor-
gia are coming into notice.
At Atlanta Sunday Bud Dunaway, a
young man about town, while under the
influence of liquor, sat down on the end
Of crosstie near the Fulton County
Mills, on the Georgia road, when No. 5, a
freight, struck him in the left temple,
crushing his skull. He was taken to
Atlanta in the cab, and carried in hack
10 DR.. WestmOreland's office. on Marietta
street. Drs. w estmOreland and Howell
refused to treat him, on the ground that
the Georgia Railroad paid 40 bills for the
attention Of physicians to people injured
by II. He was then taken TO the station
house, and word was sent to Agent War
rem, Of the Georgia road, that a doctor
was needed. He replied that the Georgia
road made no provision for engaging doc
tors in such cases. Dunaway was then
removed TO the Bay Street Hospital,
where he lies in "A critical condition.
Montezuma Record: Montezuma can
make a better showing. commercially,
than any town TO its population, or even
those with much greater population in
The state. She has already received this
season nearly $4,000 bales Of cotton, and
has i've months yet to receive the scatter
ing cotton In the radius Of her territory.
Oi the amount already received, there is
nearly one-fourth OF 10 now in store in the
warehouses by our farmers, merchants
sud the bank, who are able ~ hold IL tor
better prices, and besides this the town
mas done as much business as in any year
Of its history. Mr.. Lewis pays insurance
on $4,000 worth Of cotton. MOnteZuma
can Just feel her importance as a cotton
market aud commercial centre, where 1t
Is known that she is rated rs the eighth
town In the State with amount Of cotton
l. a. Ill a.. a.