Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-09
GEORGIA AID FLORIDA.
NEWS OF riIf.TWD So "i,-' HOHD
IN P.KAaiN W.T..

he Established 1T ChrtrrsNt4".
GEORGIA.
MANY citizens around Barnett ars going
20 Florida.
-Sandersville owes only $50. Sanders
VILE is stiil in want of a bank.
J.F. Lingo has purchased the lrwinton
Appeal trom toe MessFs. Morris.
Col. Avery Is reported to have sold out
nearly DIS entire interest in The Atlanta
Capitol.
Several loads of wateTmelons of fair
quality have been offered Tor sale in Perry
this week.
Capt. Harry Jackson says he will not
Tun for Msvor OF Atlanta under any cir
cumstances,
A citizen Of Irwin county was in
Hawkinsv.lIe last week with Sl,oOo In
$40 gold pieces.
1t is reported that the knights OF La
Dor will put out a full ticket for county
officers in Clarke.
Some of CrawiordvIle's carpenters are
contemplating going TO Charleston next
week in quest OF employment.
The music lovers OF ThOmasyille have
formed an association to he known as tie
Townsville Musical Association.
Fayetteville has Row five stores, two
churches, one schoo!house and black
lished.
Application will be made to the next
Legislature for the repeal OF the act es-
tsblishing the stock law in the Hawkins
vile district.
The Albany News faVorS the establish
rnent Of the whipping post, and thinks
that drunkenness should he made crime
and be punished.
Hawkinsville's total receipts OF cotton
ny wagon TO Saturday nisht last we're
5.59l bales for last week l, 1l3 bales; for
Saturday last $50 bales.
AbiIl will be introduced in the next
Legislature to provide for the creation OF
~ board of commissioners 10 look after
the roads and revenues OF Pulaski cOun-
ty.
prominent farmer Of Pulaski county
has gathezed this year ffty-hve bales OF
cotton from a nve-mule farm. He has
made plenty of corn, too, and will get
few more bales Of cotton.
Dougherty Superior Court ia in session
now, Judge B. B. Bower presiding. The
docket con tains large number OF cases
10 be disposed Of, and the session will
continue for three weeks.
A. w. Turner's ginhDuse, on the Fur
Tough place. Calhoun c0uCty, was burned
Wednesday ,cOnsuming ten bales Of cotton.
The washsrw0men bad a fire near, and
sparks from the same >gnlted the house.
Superior Court for Whitfield county
convened at the court house on Monday
last, with his Honor Judge Fain on the
bench. AS the dockets are light and de-
void of important cases, short term may
he expected.
The Augusta Chronicle notes the fact
that "a family once employed at the Au-
,eusta Factory earned Sl33 a month. On
n strike they draw 81 80 week. They
are still out because sub0rdinated to the
will OF other people"
Cartersviile Is TO have a female college.
The citizens have already subscribed Sl0.-
OG0 Sam Jones 8 10 be paid the monu.
mental Compliment OF having 1t called
s'rhe Sam Jours Female College" Work
is to be commenced sncn.
Perry Home journal: A we'll equipped
bank in Perry would be worth more to
the business men of the town than the IN
vestment Of an equal amount of money
ii any other enterprise. The capital SO
invested would surely yield excellent
p'oits.
John L. Anderson, Of Pulaski county.
made this year slxty-eight bushels Of
wheat on four acres, and then planted the
land in peas and inside twenty tons of fine
pea~vine nay. Toe season for harvesting
crops OF all kinds has been all that could
be desired.
An attempt was made Saturday night
10 burn the residence OF J. w. kives, at
Ora wfordviIle, bT ripping oil the weather
boarding and placing between it and the
ceiling lightwoUd torch. Mr. Rives was
absent from bone, but happened to re-
turn ia time 20 save the house and furni-
ture.
The following ciiiZr- VI Houston
tcounty a'c entitled. 'rr he laws OF
f,...tt
being manned C"n'cherJ,2 soldiers: B. f.
Avant, lost an ARIA; &. .. Brown, lex:
Jesse A. Barker, leg: J. g. HaucOck. arm :
g. w. Miller, ley; w. T. Sorrell, arm
Jefferson Self. leg.
Reports reached Athene Wednesday OF
an explosion il GAINESVILLE. WhIie q
bonfire WAS burning in the public square,
luilt by friends Of ire sUccesstul Frank
lin county candidates. some one threw n
cartridge or dynamite lnmb into the
flames. An explosion followed, and
Senator-el4ct Lewis DAVIS Is reported
seriously hurt.
Col l.. A. Hall, OF Eastman, received a
letter one day last week from the Dade
county coal mines, announcing the death
ofOliyer Copeland, who did on Aug. >
last. Copeland was one If the Eastman
rioters. This is the second nt the rioters
that has died--John Kellum having de-
parted this life In the early part of this
year.
Mat Wershsln, the negro who was sho
at Walnut Grove by DR.. Wayne swords
10 dead. Swords was drunk and had hat
a fuss with drunken negro very mucf
like Worsham. WorshRm came into the
store where swords was. ami he though
he was the negro be had been fussins
With. As Worshsm approached him hC
shot him down. Swords made his escape
A colorcd woman named Floyd. Twins
five miles from Jesup, had narrow es
cape fTop being burned To death on Sun
day last. Her clothing caught fire ant
as che started TO run she was seized aut
held by "A boy while her hrother, Franz
hcRimmen, tore the blazing clothiu.
from her persuu. She esca ped almost un
injured, but her brothers. hands wcr,
badly burned.
In digging a well FOR the Crown Cotton
mills. at Dalton. the yyorkmen encount
cred. at the depth of twenty feet, what q
first was presumed TO be limestone roc K
but which. upon examination, proved I,
be very fine quality OF vAriega'ed mar
BILE. IL is generally believed that thi
marble exists in iDexhaustible quaniiue
for "A c0nsiderab bile rad US above the Crow
mills. aid taat IL properly developed vii
prove big bonanza.
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