Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27

Near Wainwright.
GEORGIA.
Court convenes in Echols this week.
A bycicle club is in process of organlza-
tiOn at Brunswick.
The election for Mayor and Council
men OF CArrollton comes OF Saturday.
Smithville boasts that only one white
person has died in that place within the
past year.
Nine new members of salem church
were baptized Sunday morning last by
DR.. Gibson.
Charles Stern has presented to the
Jewish synagogue at Athens an organ
costing $l02
Mr.. Tom Eason of Neville. Ca, is a
candidate tor solicitor General or the
lOcOnee circuit.
B. j. Sirmaus OF DUPONT has rented a
store in Valdosta, and he Will move TO
that town TO engage in business.
The cholera is again ravaging the poul-
try wards about Americus, and there
seems to be no remedy 10 prevent it.
Col. W. Z. Smith. of Albany, will be a
candidate Tor the Presidency OF the next
State Senate. Col, Smith has been noml-
mated Tor the Senate from the Tenth dis
trlct, aud Will, OF course, be elected.
The Democratic Executive Committee
OF Ogleth0Tpe county will meet in Lex
fHgton tomorrow for the purpose OF a
thorough organization and To consider
some matters OF importance to the party.
Sam Green, the colored man who was
shot in the leg in difficulty with Capt.
IS. w. Brooks at Qutman, died on Tues
day last. After thorough investigation
tue cOroner's jury rendered a verdict OF
accidental shooting.
In hA
year have been reduced from 45 to 20
mills. The county Is out of debt, the
taxable properly has increased $4,000,
there is healthy surplus in the treasury,
and no unusual expenditures ia view.
John W. Harren, OF yadosts, had four
sows winch brought lOtty-stX pigs last
spring, and he has raised torty-one Of
them. They will make tour thousand
pounds OF pork by next February If he
has no bad luck with them from now on.
Monday Col. Olive shipped for Thomas
Amis several pieces OF ore from the lat
ter's piumhago mine, near Lexington, to-
;geLher with some quartz which is thought
TO contain silver, TO Commissioners Hem
derson 10 Atlanta, for the purpose Of being
assayed.
Fort Gaines was almost totally depopu-
lated on sunday last on the occasion OF
1.-THE dedication OF the new Methodist
lchurcn at Button and the third quarterly
Injecting Tor the circuit. IL was the most
kpreteDsiOus occasion of the season for
that circuit.
T. At the last meeting Of the Council OF
tCarrollton a resolution was passed rec
kOmmending To the Legislature the passage
Vol bill for the enactment OF "a law for
public school system for Carrolltens The
resolution has been signed by the Mayor
land a copy of it has been engroesed by
1.-THE Clerk.
Rev. A. G. 2. Dodge of st. Simon's has a
hpair of travelling bags that have been
kreat travellers. One has gone over 40, 900
miles. The other at least -, 900. Both OF
them have made the entire circuit OF the
earth. In one an ink stand was cOrked in
China two years ago and opened at Fred
,nrika last sunday.
Mrs. Jane E. Bertling, formerly Mrs.
Kemp, OF Athens. died Wednesday night,
latter u short Illness. Sue lett an estate
valued at about $l4,0I0 which she gives
smosty To her Dieces. Her husband was
nlot gwen dollar. Her first will gave
lDr. BertlinE some properly, but after their
"trip TO Europe she made new will.
Friday an Athens family placed a can
sof salmon near the fire to melt the solder.
iIhe steam that generated exploded the
can with sound like the discourage of u
musket, scattering tue contents all over
the room and tearing the can 10 pieces.
Had not the cook just left the room she
would have been IN danger OF serious
accident.
Americas Recorder: This is the season
poi the year when The mind of the average
imam Is filled with terrible forebodings,
and he is harassed with the thought that
Hhe rent In the dome OF his pants is below
1.-THE tail OF his coat, and he involuntarily
Socks over his shoulder to see if anyone
hs near, and buckles up mis- suspenders 80
Ftnat his pantaloons chate his elbows.
l.. d. Clodfslder, a farmer in jackson
county, tried to commit suicide by jump
Dng into well. He was rescued from
browning, and in a day or Two alter
wards tried TO jump into another one. but
was prevented. He was then confined in
Ethe Athens jail, where he tried to Kill
himself by turning on the wafer spout.
fInIs time ne was saved by the Sheriff. He
1las since been carried to the asylum.
A. V. woods chicken farm near
brunswick is still in statu quo, ready for
big work another season. Mr.. Wood de-
pended ON eggs from the North, but found
khey were not reliable. The eggs from
his own farm hatcned out 80 per cent
and Of these nearly all were raised. whilst
pof the others only probably 80 per cent,
matched, and only part OF these lived In
huture he Will depend on his own stock
of 800 hens for eggs for his incubator.
At Athens an old white man named
West, printer, who came from Atlanta
with Pledger, aud has been at work on
IBIS paper. the Athens Blade, went crazy
over the earthquake, and has refused to
sleep in a house since. spending the
nights in q pine thicket near Barberville,
He save that the Lord handed him TO
convert the world, and ne goes from house
no house, with Bible IN bis hands, read
hng 10 the people and exhortIng them to
Nee from the wrath 10 come.
Franklin News: Jimmy Leake showed
aus some peculiar Chinese manufactures
"a few days ago. One OF the articles is u
piece OF very light metal, slightly resem-
bling the American dollar. This is ghost
snOney. 1t is kept by the heather celes-
pals and dropped when a death occurs.
etis believed to satisfy the spirit OF the
departed, and the dropper will never be
tormented by its apparition. He has also
b Chinese coin, pen, and specimens of
their hieroglyph pho chirography. The com
ts Of peculiar shape, with "A square hole in
the middle. The pen is IA reed, with hair
5nserted la one end. the articles were
brought from China by Mr.. Leake's
cousin.
A party calling himself Lieut.. Mitchell
has been IN Americas for day or two,
claiming to be under orders from the gov