Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-13

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GEORGIA.
There is enough idle capital in La
Strange to start a half dozen small fact0'
ries.
Rev. j. Il. Dixon, of North Carolina,
has accepted the call of the Presby terrain
Church of Gainesville.
Rev. J. A. Wynne, OF LAGRANGE, has
received call to CLAYTON, Ala, and has
gone down to see about it.
The type now in use to print the jack
son Newsis the same as that used by
Fitch in 1866 when he started the Griffin
Star. II has been in use ever since, and
stIll makes clear print.
Four stables, two cribs, two barns, sad
die house, tool house. fowl house ana
everything contained therein were burned
near Bailey a few days ago. Moses w.
Spence, TIE owner, loses : 900.
Rev. B. W. Bussey, or Americus, has
accepted the call from the Baptist Church
at New Orleans. DR.. Landrum, his
father-In-law, is at present pastor of the
church, but is Incapable of performing
The duties by reason OF Ill health.
Hawkinsyiile came near experiencing
another serious cOntlagratiOn on Saturday
night last by the eXplos on OF a Kerosene
lamp IN tue restaurant OF the Boon
Brothers, who occupy the large wooden
EbGuCtuEC hUONH as luc &LdNDccH Dull0-
ing. The flames from the burning oil
spread rapidly over the room, but were
fortunately exunguished before any dam
age was done.
1t is said that bill will be introduced
in the present Legislature to aboliah The
Department OF Agriculture. Toe move
ment is said TO originate in the southeast
ern section OF the State. and the m0Yants
allege that the department is useless ex-
peDse to the State, from which it derives
DO benefit. The champions OF the de-
partment declare that this annual attack
ss legislative chestnut that comes up
every term and Is each year overwh helm
ingly showed under.
Within the last five years John W. Cof-
fee, OF Pond Town district, Dodge county,
has been burned out not less than FIVE
times. Mr.. Coffee has been thorougbly
satisfied from the first that these burn
ings were the work OF incendiaries, and
while he has suspected Dave and Harry
Reeves, colored, as tue guilty parties, he
has never been able to catch up with
them until one day last week, when, by
the aid OF detective ingenuity, he sue
ceeded in getting them to admit their
guilt.
About FIVE years ago an agent for the
southern Baptist Theological Seminary
solicited subscriptions to an endowment
fund Tor that institution in Oglethorpe
county sThe Baptists res pended literally.
giving their notes for sums ranging from
50 to $50, payable in yearly miscellaneous.
After the f1rst payment on these notes
many forgot or neglected them, and 80 the
other day they were forwarded to law
yer in OglethOrpe, with instructions TO
collect, and this fact is considerably
troubling some OF the brethren. They
amount In the aggregate to about $1,000
lu
ties.
The Presbyterian Synod met at Sparta
Thursday. DR.. Stricker reported a reso-
luton from the Committee on the Semi
nary, approved by all but one member,
instrGcting the Board OF Directors to
meet on Dec. and request DR.. w oodrow
TO resign, and II he refused that the com
mittee proceed to vacate the chair of Per-
kIns Professor, and make such other ar
engagements to I'll the same as may appear
suitable. DR.. Woodrow spoke in opp0si-
lion, DR.. Rogers supporting the resolu-
hon. DR.. CIsby, ReVs. w. A. Miner. ].
il. CARTRIDGE, John w. Taker and others
took part in the debate Dir. " Woodrow
replied. a division was taken late at
night 1t resulted: Ayes 56, nays 8.
Conductor Loftain, in charge OF
freight train number %, bound south, was
standing beside "a car at Fort Valley
Tuesday night, while the engine was
drilling number OF other cars on TO a
side track near by. When the train
finally started forward, the wheels of the
car BY which ne stood passed over tor
pedo lying upon the rail, placed there
with malicious intent, causing it to ex-
plode. a portion OF the deadly missile
struck Mr. Loltain upon the kneecap.
completely SCATTERING 1t, and rendering
him for while well nigh insensible. He
was put aboard the train and brought on
10 Americus, where DR.. Fort, " no had
been wired for, met him at the depot and
attended his wounds.
A big case was taken up in the Superior
Court at Macon Thursday. The SUIT is
brought by X. A, Harris, ct al. vs., George
i. Harris, Harding T. johnson, ct al, 1t
being bill for relief, etc. The suit in
wolves the block containing the Campbell
Il Jones warehouse, on Poplar street,
valued at about $4,000. The complaint
Is that when the property was sOld, some
years ago, at public cutlery, George T.
Harris told bidders that he was bidding
1t in for the benefit OF the estate, and that
he got it at reduced price. 1t is further
claimed that Mr.. Harris bid it in for him.
self, and then sold 1t, making quite con-
siderable profit thereby. The case is a
very interesting one, and it is presumed
that it will take some time TO conclude
the trial.
AT Macon Thursday the case OF John
Y. Wood, Of Warren county, vs.. the Gem
trail Railroad and Banking Company, was
concluded. The jury was out one hour
and returned a verdict for the plaintiff OF
$2,20o. The case will probably 20 to the
supreme Court. In the testimony Wood
stated that In 1888 ne was bringing a lu-
matte named Morgan Clamer to Milledge-
Vile to the lunatIc asylum. A baggage
master named Fritz Meankln, employed
on the road, he says, tormented the luna
tic until the latter was in q perfect rage.
BY some means words sprang up between
Wood and Meankin, and the latter struck
Wood on the head with his lantern. Wood
threw up his foot TO ward of the blow and
struck Meankip. Wood then sued the
Central Railroad and Banking Company
and was represented by Bacon & Ruther-
ford. Thursday the case resulted as an
nounced above.
The Moore-Llttle tragedy received more
attention from the grand jury at Macon
Thursday. The jury was examining wit
nesses all day. The court house was
crowded, and all SORTS of rumors were
afoat regarding the matter. Prominent
men have been before the grand jury, and
II IS supposed that q diltgent inVestlgR-
ton Of the affair Will be made. One man
was heard TO remark Tuesday that he
knew a good deal about il, aud that he IN