Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OFTHE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAG RAPHS.


School in Perry.
F.s. Davies has been elected Treasurer
Of DOoly county.
Laurens county Superior Court con-
venes in Dublin next Monday.
a clock 100 years old was sold at auc-
sion al Brunswick Saturday.
l.owndes county has q post office named
Miss Annie. Alex, Nicholson IS MISS
Annie's master.
The party of Ohio farmers soon coming
10 Georgia are to be invited to inspect
DOugherty county.
a license Of $l00 on each pool and 6il-
lard table is being considered oy the lily
Council OF Lexington.
Tv " is to have anew depot and ware
house soon, with waiting room accommo-
dations for the travelling public.
The town council OF Elberton has raised
the license on billiard and pool tables TO
$40. and the owners Of the tables refuse 10
pay it.
oh. Houser. of Houston county, gath
cred several tons of ice from his mill pond
last week, and packed it away for use
next summer.
Carpenters are at work in the Perry
Baptist church. The plastering overhead
has been removed, and is being replaced
by plank ceiling.
st. John's Episcopal Church al Macon
is being finished, and will be ready for
use ia few DAYS. Bishop Beckwlth will
preach the sermon OF dedication.
}. w. Gum, of Dooly county, was in
Americas on last saturday and snapped
horses nineteen times. He succeeded III
getting up SIX swaps at Vienna, thurs
day.
A rumor has been published to the
effect that Father Kirsch, of Atlanta,
would receive the appointment of Bishop
of Savannah. Father kirsch says that he
knows nothing of the rumor. 1t is al
most undoubtedly untrue.
The grass in the Confederate cemetery
in Marietta caught on fire FRIDAY morn
ing from a spark from a passing engine,
and the big blaze lighted up the town and
called out the fire engine. The decaying
head boards were burned and other dam
6ge was done.
Arrangements for the erection of the
Third Christian church in Augusta have
about been completed, and the structure
will probably 20 up within short time.
The ground has been secured in the neigh
borhood of the orphan asylum, and conVe-
nient to the street car line.
Tuesday night the Brunswick Riflemen
took formal possession of their new arm
Dry, and in celebration of the event in
vited their friends to a spread. The new
RrmOry is located on the second floor of
the Burford Tabby building, directly over
the store Of j. P. Harvey Co.
At Macon, Thursday, officer Holmes,
who has been on the lookout for Jim
Young for some days, found him in Eodd's
harrOom. on Firth street, where he was
arrested without trouble. 1t will be re-
membered that Jim is the man who shot
q hackman in the back some days ago.
Alexander Gum, who works with A.
7. Harris, of CrawfOrdvilie, it IS said,
will drink three gallons OF butter milk at
one time and never feel bit out OF order.
he offers 10 drink a half gallon OF any
Kind of whisky that anybody will furnish
and walk as straight as if he had not had
thing.
The case of Edward p. Wetter VS.. the
United Hydraulic Cotton Press Company,
from savannah, Will be argued in the Su-
preme Court at Atlanta to-day. AS Chief
Justice jackson Is disqualified to sit in
the case, the Governor has appointed
Judge Marshall j. Clarke TO preside in MS
place.
The store of F. NJ. Morris, at Brooks
mills, just beyond Woodbury., IN Merri-
wether county, was burned Saturday
night, causing a loss of $1,000. The door
was found broken in and the fire was evil
IDENTIFY the work OF an lncendlary. There
was some insurance, but the amount is
not known.
Revenue Agent Colquitt, assisted by
several revenue officials. made raid
near Rabun Gap junction Monday night,
and after destroy ing a still arrested Nor
wood Rudisll and John I. Rhodes. The
party decamped for Gainesville, where
Commissioner CASTOR examined them,
and they were bound over.
bus. Thursday, Judge Willis granted a
new trial in the damage suit of Ferguson
against the Columbus and Rome Railroad
in which the plaintiff got a verdict Tor
$1,000. He refused a new trial in the case
ri A. Illges against AmOry Dexter. The
court adjourned to-day for the term.
Sixty feet OF the bridge across South
river, at Pamela, fell in on the night of the
18th No one was on it. A man on horse
back had just gone off. Travellers were
put to great deal OF inconvenience, no
bridge being nearer than three miles.
Col. L. III. Clarke is constructing a ford,
but if the river rises it cannot be used.
At Americas Thursday, T. B. Hayes,
the Webster county bigamist, was before
Judge Fort and plead guilty. The evil
dence against him was positive. He was
confronted by the gentleman who per-
formed the ceremony when he married
MS Ufbb vic anu Tue ICCnbes ne was re-
mRnded to Stewart county Jail TO await
his trial.
T. w. Wigly, farmer who resides near
AcwOrth, attempted to take his own LIE
by shooting himself Thursday. Being
lOiled in this, he obtained a razor, made
two ugly wounds in his neck, one on
either side. No cause is known, except
that Mr.. Wigly mas been in bad health
tor several months. The wounds are Sc
rlOus, but not necessarily fatal.
The cold wave in the COhuttahs drove
many of the wild animals inhabitng those
mountains to the valleys below in search
Of better protection and more food than
Z could be found in the rocky heights In
some instances the deer, driven desper-
ate by the paugs of hunger, would APP
proaeh near enough To the farm houses TO
pc captured with but little difficulty.
Americas Roc0yder: But one thing
marred the pleasure Of the evening, and
shat was thr dIssracelul conduct OF the
Dand. The dance began az $780, and at
II they began complaining, aud at
stopped IN the middle OF Virginia reel,
he closing dance. with the remark that
they could not play all night. The fair
name Of our sister city OF Albany will
soon be dlsgraced by such set OF I'M
gentlemanly scOundrels, if they remain
there.