Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
WIFE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
liz TOTD IN PARAGRAPHS.

~ pntnnm Going Down to Their
caves-Formine Landlords PrOtee-
ttva Association at Macon.
GEORGIA.
rho corn crop of Macon county was
-,I,nted in the main, last week.
P1r a4iourned term of Appling Superior
,CiIl be held on the first Monday IN
june. ...,.o4 60 no
straight out municipal ticket Is 10 De
~ in The field by the Prohibitlonlsts OF
GreesbOro.
rsllnlab Falls has been incorporated
ID CounciImeu elected, who are greatly
improving the place.
Elbert county has 1 ,499 white children
in school, while there are ,0'O coloI
majority of Il in favor of the coloreo'
Sbumate Bros, of Villa RIGA, have
closed out their store and have tnelr goUuS
hacked and marked to Birmingham, Ala
bow from the Georgia factory brought
q catfish into Athens Friday that Welgneu
twenty hounds 1t was sold at ~ Genus
per pound. h,
l. :. Virgins, Of Brunswick, has Deeh
appointed United States mail messenger E
on the Macon and Brunswick Lhe' Inc
Job pays $500 per annum'
+. NJ. FELTON, sold 81 bales of cotton
Wednesday at Mai w ~FF--
ures, but be will take the chances on rlse
with the balance OF his crop.
Mr.. Durham. OF Charleston, S. c., has
,ooved 10 Athens and rented the Franklin
property in CObbham. MIR. Durham Will
nrobably 20 into the cotton business.
John c. DeLoach, the oldest man in
RuIloch county, being 80 on March Is, and
Greatly loved by all who know him, is Sc
Tlously sick and not expected to live.
At Athens there is a great deal of sick
ness on Foundry street, something like
congestion of the brain. 1t is thought to
he caused by guanO stored at the Georgia
depot.
At Homer Tuesday morning Thomas
Higgins, prominent citizen who lived
in the lower edge of Franklin county,
dropped dead on the court house square
OF heart disease.
The champion debaters at the univer-
sity. at Athens, are trying to determine on
question for debate. 1t is thought they
will decide to discuss the Educational
Qualifications to Vote"
Mai. j. Z. Starks, an old citizen of Fort
Gaines, died Thursday. A slight wound
on the hand ended in erysipelas, but his
condition was not thought dangerous
until few hours before his death.
An Athens drummer came very near
being shot at Point Peter in Oglethorpe
county, by young man who had been
crossed and mistook the drummer for the
fellow that married his sweetheart.
A negro child, two months old, at
Woodstock, Oglethorpe county, was be-
ing nursed by a sister, a few months
older, when the nurse let the child drop
and dIslocated its spine, and it died next
day.
c. S. Bailey, former inmate, says the
Fulton county poor house is badly con-
Quoted under DR.. Hope, whom he accuses
Of feeding the inmates poorly and whip
ping, not severely, however, a white
woman.
Ben Brooks, colored, has Just been
lodged in jail at Lexington. He is from
Walton county. He confessed to the sher-
if of Oglethorpe county that he, about six
years ago, attempted or committed rape
upon the person of a young white girl in
Walton county.
At meeting of a number of property
holders at Macon Friday an association
was formed to be known as the Land
lords Mutual Benefit and Protective AS
ISOLATION. The object of the association
is to protect the landlords from injury and
loss. The real estate agents are all in
terested in the movement,
At the beginning of last week from forty
10 fifty RATS day came into the market
at Darien, and prices fell in consequence
sufficiently to make cutters grumble some
what Now the supply has come to a
sudden stop, however, and any timber be-
mind, if dropping in gradually, will prob
ably realize the good old prices.
For several days the Governor has been
considering an application for executive
clemency in the case OF John Drake, col
ored, of Epson county, who is sentenced
to death on the gallOws Friday next, for
she murder of his wife. Friday the Gov
ernor concluded his investigation of the
case and declined to interfere with the
judgment of court.
A petition numerously signed by the
people has been presented to the grand
Jury OF Hart county asking them to re-
commend that the ordinary refund to H..
K. Anderson the money for which he was
responsible as tax collector which was
taken from the ordinary's Office by burg
lars. The amount was in the neighbor-
hood Of four hundred dollars.
The Town Council of Carrollton has re-
Gently in connection with the assessment
Of taxes had census of the population
AIKEN, and it was found that there were
l,05l souls in the incorporate limits. The
amount of real estate and personal prop
erty upon which taxes were paid last
year was S2lS,000. besides about $4,000
which has never been given in.
1t has always been understood that
there was not another known shaking
rock in the world anything like the one
near Lexington, save one in the northern
part of Scotland; but Nat Arnold, OF
OglethOrpe county, says there in another
on his place. His is a fiat rock on another
fat rock, neither as large as the shaking
rock here, but it will rock more like a
cradle and nearly as much.
sncethe excitement over granite in Ogle-
thorpe county has been at such heat, peo-
pie all over the county are examining the
rock upon their place. Nat Arnold has
ON one of his places near Crawford a
quarry that is receiving attention from
men who are acquainted with the bust
ness, and it will probably be opened at no
Instant day. 1t is the old Day quarry
which in years gone by was successfully
worked on a small scale.
Col. T. r. Willis is an applicant for
the Enthusiastically at Washington. The
other gentlemen who are applicants for
ne position are Maj. j. r. Andrews,
Messrs. IT. Anderson, b. r. Jordan,
IT., Marcus Pharr, Jr., and w. W. Rich
srds. The present incumbent, Mr.. Geo.
w are, has not yet decided whether or not
ne viii apply for re-appointment. His
commission expires in July and IL is not
at all probable that change will be
made before then.
The poles are in position, and the work