Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-28


at Waycross.
GEORGIA.
Glynn Superior Court conveues Dec. 8.
A merchant in Athens sold over 81, 900
worth of coffee In one day.
Jesse Jones. a negro barber, dropped
dead at Columbus Wednesday.
Messrs. Hilton and Barnes are opening
new turpentine farm about five miles be-
low Blakaly.
John Lowe bought Robert Tomlinson's
400 acre farm, which lies mile and a half
south of McDonougn. He paid 50 80 per
acre for 1t.
Joel s. Graves, of Ty-Ty, has sold his
saw mill to A. Reiger, OF Indiana. Mr..
Graves will erect new mill at once and
continue in the lumber business.
A daily mail route will be opened on
Dec. from Elberton to the Savannah Val
ley railroad. This will open daily COM
munlcation with Augusta and Charles.
ton.
At Macon Friday Mol.ie Randall COM
mitted suicide on the corner of Fifth and
Plum streets. She was a hard drinker
and regular taker of opium. She was
originally from AmerIcus.
Rev. Henry Fielder, pastor OF tho New
Hope Baptist Church, is now at Perry
using his pulpit el0qdence TO induce the
organization of an assembly OF c0lored
Knights OF Labor there.
Lee Shackelford, OF Lexington, formerly
part owner of the Echo, is making ar
rangements 10 establish a paper at Wat
kinsville, in Ocenee county, under the
name OF "rhe Ocouee Enterprise"
The 13-year-old daughter OF Ebert
Davis, colored, a tenant on Jake Moons
plantation, a few miles north OF Colum.
bus, died Wednesday morning from the
effects OF a burn received on last Friday
G. L. Powell, at Seney the other night
lost three splendid horses. He went to
the lot In the morning and found two
dead and the other nearly dead, and after
an investigation decided that they had
been poisoned.
Last Thursday evening, about three
miles south of Summerville, Albert, son
OF Robert Loveless, caught nineteen par.
tridges In a common trap at one time, and
took them all out, without losing one. He
is not quite years old.
Henry Elliott, the Central railroad
switch hand who was injured by the
boiler explosion at Atlanta Thursday
night lost his leg Friday. The limb was
SC badly injured that DR.. Westmoreland
found it necessary to amputate it.
The gin house of f. W. Barnett, six
miles east of Washington, was burned
Thursday. Mr.. Barnetts loss was one
bale OF cotton and thirty bushels of rye,
gin and large amount OF seed. He had
just finished ginning eighteen bales. Fire
caught in lint room.
The Rome foundry and machine work!
have just manufactured a water whes
which is probably the largest ever made
jn the South. 1t is ffty.six inch whee
of one hundred and fifteen horse power
under an eight.feot head. 1t was manu-
featured for cotton factory at Salisbury
NC.
In Fulton Superior Court Friday Rhet
d U'Brien and j. Carroll Payne filed
creditors bill agains A. q. Black, a dr.
goods dealer on Marietta street. X. II
Knapp was appointed receiver, and III
case will be finally heard next week. Mir
Blacks assets are about $4,000. His liza
bilities are unknown.
Eight OF Tussahaw's crack farmers pu
up 81 each as premium for the best acr
of upland corn, and the man who RAISED
the most corn on an acre was to have tn
money. Only one of the contestants ha
been heard from vet, John r.. Williams
who had measured fifty. weight and a hal
bushels from his acre.
William Reagan, young man living
few miles below Cumming, had a marrow
was out hunting, having his gun cooked
While running down a hill after a rabbi
he fell, the hammer o. his gun hittin
against log. causing the weapon to &
Of. The shot tore the crown OFT his hat.
Curtis Capehart. or Rockdale county
about Is years of age, WAS seriously hur
Thursday morning by falling tree. HI
and Ben Whatley were passing along th
road when the wind blew a tree aoros
ka -. N-sI- NJ
Capehart and injurlng his spine. TIL
wound, though dangerous, is not consiC
cred fatal. The hind wheels Of the WACO
were demolished.
Etter e. Co., ore men OF Polk, have
large run OF orders now, and will h
able to ship, they say, 100 tons OF or
per day in a little while. In oounectiO
with the Long bed, they have also leas
on the McGhee bed contiguous, maxim
the largest body of brown hematite or
In the county. II not in the State. The
have secured also an option on the Coci
ran farm, which contains 100000 tons
ore.
II. L. Barnes. In the oyster business
Brunswick, has In actual employ twent,
two hands-ifteen boatmen and ssye
shuckers. or openers. His pay roll ruI
from 500 to $500 per month. Mr.. Barne
has n novel way OF keeping the account
OF all these oystermen. For every bush
OF oysters brought or gallon opened be hs
little brass checks, which are gwen TO u
hands. These are presented every Satu
day night, and the cash they call for pai
AS the north-bound train from AtheI
was nearing Harmony Grove Friday OF
OF the train bands discovered the body
an old negro woman lying in a ditch mel
the railroad. Upon investigation il W,
found 10 be the cook Of Mai. Hudson, wi
had been living at the house of Mr.. HUI
son for the last ten years. She was aOoj
half mile from her house, and only hs
on her night clothes. Up TO this tin
there is no light on now she came Their
Or at what time.
The legislative committee appointed
inspect the university buildings arrive
at Athens Friday, and thoroughly pc
formed their duty. At night they held
meeting at the Commercial Hotel, ar
unanimously agreed to recommend u
passage OF the bill now pending in II
Legislature appropriating $1,000 for u
repair Of the university buildings. An I
formal reception was given the commi
zee by Chancellor Nell at his resident
on the college campus.
Chief OF Police Palmer, OF Columbu
has received a telegram from an officer
Tuskegee, Ala, informing him OF the a
gest at that place OF Allen Hood, ali
George Brooks, the colored hoOdoo doot
who escaped from jail At Columbus 4 lit