Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-06
GEORGIA.

County.
GEORGIA.
Albany has ten firms of cotton buyers.
Cedartown will soon have cotton
compress.
Kit Warren has taken editorial charge
of the Macon News.
The Conyers OIL Mill will be ready for
operations in the course of thirty days.
A Jail is almost useless in Miller coun-
ty. 1t stands empty nearly all the time.
One hundred and forty bales of cotton
were sold in Quitman on Saturday last.
The prOhibitionists of Oconee county
will contest the decision of Mr.. Thrasher,
the Ordinary.
Never before in the history of Quitman
has there been so much business enter
prise as at present.
BIB. Askew, of Leary, is contemplat-
Ing a large shipment OF native hard woods
TO foreign markets.
DR.. W. A. Howard, resident physician
on st. SimOn's Island, died on Wednesday
last, after an illness of several days.
Miler county is pretty well stocked
with hogs, and several offerings are made
to sell, where the parties are overstocked.
At Brunswick Messrs. Jeter 81 Board
mans hands have finished laying the
water pipes, and started on those for the
gas.
The fourth quarterly conference of Up
son circuit will be held at Bethel church
on Saturday before the first Sunday III
October.
Messrs. Johnson and Atkinson, of
Brunswick, killed half bushel of rice
birds last Thursday in the rice fields OF
the Altamaha.
The attendance at Bluff Springs camp
ground in Epson county was unusually
large this year. The crowd Sunday was
estimated at 1000.
Rev. Charley Martin began series of
meetings at the church in Colquitt last
Sunday. There is, up to the present wrt-
ting, quite an interest manifested.
P. Maxwell, the licensure of the Savan-
nan Presbytery. is carrying on a prOtrac-
tive meeting at RiceborO, Liberty county.
The meeting is now quite interesting.
A primary election was held in Schley
county to nominate a candidate for the
Legislature on Thursday last. DR.. Nc
Michael was nominated over his oppo-
nent, L. B. Myers.
J. n. Walker, of Brunswick, reports
the rice crop good, and harvesting 80 far
successful. He is hauling in his rice this
season as fast as it is cut, leaving none
in the fields TO be washed away by
lI6suelSs
In Barlow county there are two families
of the name of Dodd. They are not re-
lated, and one family is much the more
charming from the fact that 1t Is COM
posed of nine girls, while the other is
made up of eight boys.
A protracted meeting, conducted by
Rev. T. G. Tucker, assisted by Kew. r. l..
Trotter and others, will begin at Antioch
ON Saturday before the second Sunday in
September. BE wishes the active COOP
Grafton of that community.
negro man shot a negro woman on
I. n. Tillman's plantation, near VAL
dosta, last Sunday, inflicting a serious,
and perhaps fatal, wound. The man has
escaped. The trouble grew out of a dis
pute that arose between them.
The bird crop bids fair to be plentiful
this season in Miller county. Covies of
young partridges are often seen now,
and the time viii soon arrive when the
sports will be seen securing the woods in
search of this delicious table bird.
A.V. Putnam, of Brunswick, is moving
his house from its former position on New
castle street out near the Baptist church.
The ground which be has occupied has
been sold to the Oglethorpe Hotel Com
pany, hence the necessity for the move.
Prock Mathis, who lett Walker county
and moved to Texas, died from singular
cause. An insect an inch and half or
two inches long passed out OF his body
near his navel. 1t had come from the
bowels as his food passed through the
opening made by it.
Capt. Steelman, of the schooner l. n.
Kerlin, now at Brunswick, reports that
be encountered the earthquake last Tues
day night off Charleston, and that al
though in thirty-iiVe tathoms of water his
vessel seemed to be pounding upon rocks.
He had encountered severe gale only
TWO days before.
The Coles, Simkins & Co. and Bruins
wick and Western railroads new
wharves at Brunswick are fast approach
ing completion. A spur from the main
line is being put along the wharf front Tor
the benefit of expeditions handling of cot
ton. Forty thousand bales will be han
died over these wharves this season.
Qultman Free Press: Considerable long
cotton has been brought to Quitman during
the past week from Madison county,
Florida. Mr.. Joseph Mabbett bou ght the
bulk Of 1t and paid 1-16c. Our Florida
friends can get more for their long cotton
in Quitman than anywhere else. We have
long cotton gins, and our merchants are
determined to have their share of the long
cotton business.
The City Council OF Brunswick at it's
last meeting changed us contract with
Inc water company from twenty-five to
nifty hydrants, thus doubling the service.
The proposition made was to furnish
fourteen more, but the Council preferred
TO take twenty-five additional, thereby IN
creasing the total to fifty, which, accord
ing to the original contract, would change
tne cost OF each hydrant from $50 to $50.
A party of capitalists and frst-class
mechanics, composed Of gentlemen of
brunswick and CLEVELAND, have combined
lor the purpose Of forming joint stock
company to utilize the many excellent
woods in the Southern forests. First their
attention will be concentrated upon the
manufacture of Georgia yellow pine and
vsypress INTO many convenient and useful
0rms. They propose to make Brunswick
'nelr headquarters.
Last Saturday morning dispute arose
between NJ. G. Bostick and Love Levitt at
an 'gma. Which finally terminated in q
ngnt, during which Bostick struck Levitt
tWlce on the head with a club of some
hinu, making two ugly gashes on top of
n's head, and also bruising his back con-
suers0ly. Saturday evening the wound
" man went TO Alapaha and had his
Wounds sewed up. lie also swore out a
"%aFtant against Bostick, but no arrest
uas been made.
Az Alpapaha few days ago, while one
ir Il, -. N, Iatum's lutte children was eat
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