Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THIS TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Habersham county has balance OF 81
d65 81.
Morgan county VIII Note on Che loc"I
option on May D.
wilkinson county Is out otdeot, ana mas
a surplus of $4,000.
W. A. Eady, of Villa Rica, has sold out
his stock Of goods to A. 5. Johnston.
The ouano sales in Murray county have
bean heavier this season than usual.
The Grand Jury of Whitfield county is
pleased with the effects of the prohibition
law.
The Georgia Medical Society is IN ses-
sion in Augusta. About 100 physicians
are in attendance.
In Webster county there are 10 white
and II colOred schools, with 495 Wnlle ana
500 col0red scholars.
The Harris County Sunday school AS
sociatiOn will meet in the baptlst church
at Hamilton the 1irst W ednesday IN May.
The young men of Decatur nave organ
lied a 'young mems prayer msetlug,'
which is held on Sunday afternoons al ,
O'Clock.
The case of Sykes, for the killing of
John Moon, in Athens, when called, found
the defendant absent, and the bond was
forfeited.
J.E. Robo.As lost - head of sheep in
the late fresh It in Gordon county. They
attempted to cross slough and were
drowned.
The Academy fair to be held in the
McDonougR Destitute, Bailey, Ga, Fri
day, April 80, will be an exceedingly
pleasant event.
-Four thousand dollars are annually ex-
tracted from the taxpayers pockets to
litlgate the crimes growing out of the
liquor traffic in Laurens county.
Deputy Marshals &. W. Grant and
Morris destroyed large distliery and
captured three men in Mud creek district,
Habersham county, Wednesday.
Albert knight, Swede, is in Jail at
Rome for entering houses, ransacking
drawers and overturning furniture. He
stole nothing. His sanity is questioned.
The blcyclist WHO'S travelling from New
York to San Francisco on his bicycle for
wager passed through Falrburn last
Sunday evening. He is Il days ahead Of
his time.
At Decatur Wednesday there was a
heavy wind, rain and hail storm
lasting about thirty minutes. The
ground in many places was covered
with hail.
Lewis Mason, a colored man working
at Dopson's mill, on the WithlacoOchee
river, was drowned the other day. He
down the river.
Louis Bilups, living on Mrs. M. E. Mar
tins place, near Athens, had his house
burned Sunday evenings 1t is not known
how it caught on fire, as the family were
away from home.
Mrs. duBicnoN. wealthy lady of Bald
win coun = SEQ is an enthusiastic pro-
hibitiOnist, ordered all her tenants who
favored the whisky traffic to leave her
premises without delay.
The celebration OF the silver wedding of
Judge and Mrs. Joel Branham at their
home at Rome Tuesday evening, was one
of the most brilliant social events that has
ever taken place in the city.
There is much dissatisfaction among
Griffin merchants that the contracts for
the Georgia NJ dland should be given to
convicts instead of free labor, as it was
supposed by them 1t would be.
Al COnyers a few nights since some one
mallciOusly threw rock through one of
the large windows in Stewart Bros store.
After breaking the glass window it struck
showcase and damaged it considerably.
One of the witnesses before the Clarke
county grand jury against "blind tigers"
stated that he went into a certain house
and paid 81 80 for Il ''lamp.' but when be
carried the package given him home it
was found to be bottle Of liquor.
Tits said that some colored women went
TO the cOlOred cemetery at EatOntOn last
week, unearthed the coffin of a child that
bad been buried but short while, opened
the coffin to look at it, merely to crafty
their curiosity, but did not again bury it.
Forsyth county is a dry county. No
license has been issued to sell spirits in
any quantity in six years There are 80
churches located over the county, consist
ing of Baptist and Methodist. The county
to- 81 ,kf ii g,,4 a.,
ury.
1t is suggested that the city of Athens
take, say, $4,000 stock in the fair grounds
to aid in their completion, and in con-
sideratiOn therefor the company proposes
to open the grounds free Of charge TO the
citizens tor plcnics, drives and a public
park.
1t was reported on the streets at Athens
Wednesday that a committee went before
the grand jury and preferred charges
against several OF our leading citizens
for buying votes at the last municipal
election. BY the way, several Of the &C
cused are serving on the jury.
DR.. Hunnicutt, Of Athens, has a large
vat, some or feet deep, in which he i'm
merses the PANELS for his Georgia fence.
Wednesday while one Of his workmen
was engaged in drenching the slips, he fell
into the vat head over heels, and came
lime to wear him white again.
A COW belonging to Mrs. Julia Parten,
of Monroe, is the mother Of a remarkable
calf. II is totally blind, yet, just where
the eyebals shoGlc be found, bunch Of
hair an inch and a half long grows straight
out. The animal is likewise hairlipped.
Its mother came into the world already
marked-with a smooth crop of each ear.
The Brunswick Rlfemen have decided
not to 20 10 Savannah on May |. There
are several new members i'm the company
whom it would be necessary to have well
drilled in order to make creditable ap-
pearance, and as it has been found impos-
sible TO get the entire company TO turn
out Tor drill. the officers have decided not
to enter the contest.
The prohibition party of Macon county
may now De considered as organized.
Already there has been some work done
by the district committees Of MOntezuma
and Marshalville district. The election
takes place May 3, aud the prohibitiontsts
want TO have a regular May day picnic OF
1t. There is no evidence yet OF any Or
ganization on the part OF the ants.
f. Swami, OF Lexington, has an old
buggy and Sc. OF harness that he bought
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