Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OFTHE TWO ~ ATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

GEORGIA.
+ Coviugton needs frst-class laundry
Another bank is TO be established at
Griffin soon.
several crack shots in Americas are
making efforts to organize a gun club.
Liberty county camp meeting begins on
Friday before the third Sunday in Octo-
Der.
Rev. Louis Williams baptized twenty
nine at Twin Oak church, in Wilkes cOun
~, on sunday.
Rev. Walter r. Dye, OF Augusta. has
jaccepted a csii 10 Macon IS assistant
rector OF Christ Church.
Several par'ri yes were en- on the
square at Washington Friday morning
walking about rs if they owned the place
Tne local page Of the Washington
Chronicle - one OF he most n wsy IN toe
ent re south, the great p puiarity Of the
paper is NOT surprising.
win Wright has sold nis farm near
Ma.lorysville, containing 4GS acres OF
land, to H. NJ. Prataer for one hundred
bales OF cotton we CHING 500 pound,
each.
Mr. Terrence Walls. Of Marion ccunty,
while IN Columbus ru1s'lay, received IL
telegram from home mat his son Henry
particulars were given.
AT Miner Sidney 4. Il. Pugeley. d
nephew ot Mrs. l.. II. Rowe, had his riGht
arm and hand terrib'v mutt!alea n i"w
lays since 81 CaOG. Whites Z n, where he
vas working at the time.
As result OF last weeks meeting at
Washington. fnur were added ~ the Dap
list church Sunday. aud viii ne baptized
next sunday. The meetings will be con-
tinued through this wreS.
1t has not hnep more than SIX years
since Albany began IL paw any attention
10 Jersey cattle, tut the mi blooded ard
graded JERSEYS Of Albany are worth, Al
current nnce~, uNy $4,000.
At Macon, Tuesday. the Lanier House
fgInitnre arrvet and is be nag put in
The tidish,nV touches are heing pat an
tae building. and parties VINO have rented
the stores are getting ready 10 move into
them on Oct. /.
Mr.. Van Horn, of the Bethel church
neighborboOd, was brou gnt To Washing
ton Tuesday To be tried under a writ OF lu-
macy. lie was adjudged to be Il lunatIc,
and will he sent to toe asylum at the eX-
lense OF tue county.
A little negro boy was shot and instant
ay killed at WnIgHam, by George Bella
my, vOlng white man. Taere are two
reports OF tue occurrence: Une, that the
enOOtIn was accidental; the other that
III was wan;on, reckless murder. The
man lett town after the shooting.
| Nathan Ross, VINO lives in the neiga-
lborhoOd of Frank BANDS, In Wilkes
lcOunty. was badly cui by Albert Wade
on Sunday night at pray er nesting. DR..
Muillgan was called to attend the case,
and found that Nathan was suffering
IRON six wounds, one OF which may prove
TO be serious.
At Union Point the old Methodist
fcburch, which Tor over half cen taif = has
been one OF the principal landmarks. il
being torn down, aud IN the course Of a
few weeks IA new one will he built that
lwri be an ornament aud IN everlasting
monument TO the energy OF the ladies o.
Union Point and vicinity.
AT Sylvauia Randall Davis, colored, q
prisoner charged win burglary, was ac.
cidently shot on Yesterday IN The aldo
ameE by Willie Mills. son of Saerii Il. r.
Mills. The prisoner was in the corridor
ending TO his cell when thu shooting was
nne. Toe prisoner puts TO blame on
diils, and says 1t was purely accidental
At Lexington c. =. Shackelford Pnd
w. b. Lester have begun the erection OF
two comm0diOus storerOOms for Mr.. E.
i. Roale, on the corner OF the pubic
will soon tear down the old frame builT
ing lust west of o. II. Arnold's brick
store aud put up nice brick store in it's
stead.
Rev. L. A. Snow must have great
power with his CONGREGATIONS. He cal.
ilect'sd $50 at Bethel tor building par
k0naSe. and 500 TOR disabled preachers.
pg2rsgauns $50. all IN about teO min
ntes. lie also received four new mem.
beis. Twenty-Five accession have re.
gently been made 10 the churches ana r.
as charge In the Littl5 River circuit.
Last Saturday afternoon abnut $3.50
O'Clock, jim Moss and Judge Poole left
Washington in a buggy Tlgethsr. Wen
They were gong down the hill at the
Seminary they tufaed OUT Of the road 10
1ass wag N and ran inIo the dItcn, up
setting he buggy aud turning The occd-
PANTS out, bluisihg Judge Poole very
badly.
At Oglethorpe Monday night, VI. B. Gil
mOre's liverr stGbie- we're burned, TO-
eether with fou hugsjes aod harness
200 bushels Of corn and 10 900 hounds ~
fodder. Tho loss is ab Iut$I.2N. rlctu-
kur2Dce is 500, with the Pun iX OF Lon
don. The eau >e Oi the ire IL nor known.
Several horses were badly burned, but AL
We're saved.
The time for registration of voters for
Macon county expired on Saturday, sept.
70. Nine hundred whites and i've hun.
nred negroes registered. Al least 500 o,
200 males, white and black, Old enough o.
vote. have failed 20 register. Hon. L. A
Daniel. OF Madison county, the Demo
cratic candidate for Senator OF that dis
trict, reports negro candidate Opposing
him in Madison county.
At Atlanta Tuesday Or. Eustace Speer
who was sane time ago appointed by the
United states Court special master &c
hear and report on such suits, mainly foi
damages. brought against the East Ten
hessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
nuriDg the time IT, was in the hanGs o. q
seceiVer, WAS busy all day hearing TIE
evidence IN number 81 what IS techui
rally called intervening cases.
n. r. Tilt, Of Dougherty county, who
has great May fine bearing pecan trees.
hOtced that some OF tle limbs were
dying. lie investigated tho cause and
discovered small worm that attAcHs / he
limb short distance from the body al
the tree, and after short time literally
Eats 10 oil. He says tuat limbs an inch IN
diameter have been severed from tho
trunk by this small but voracious little
worm.
Mr.. Aleck Evans presented n curiosity
TO the Washington Chronicle Tuesday
1t was neither fish. flesh nor fowl. aud
Seemed 10 BE- cross between youns bat
and a seventeen-year locust. Everybody
gave ~ un as n cOnundrum and when A