Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-07

AT Monroe.
GEORGIA.
oconee votes on prohibition May 20.
Marietta will invest $4,000 in high
school for girls.
The Griffin Sun now appears as daily.
lis neat and newsy.
Con Henry X. Jackson, of Savannah,
Minister to Mexico, is in Athens stopping
with Col. Pope Barrow.
Active preparations are being made to
entertain the delegates to the Sunday
school convention which meets in Macon
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week.
Il Omer Commandery of Macon viii
attend the meeting or the Grand Com
mandery Of knights Templar at Augusta
on May 10. II is probable that the Macon
knights will also enter the drill.
Sheriff Dan Davis, of Webster county,
in irving to arrest negro man last FRI
dav nIgnt. got into a scuffle with him,
snd wa. thrown down, resulting in dislo-
eating his right knee and fracturing the
bone below II.
Al cambridge thief fshed the pants
of r. D. Beverly through partially open
ed window, and distracted $40 in money.
MIR. Beverly had fallen asleep, leaving his
lamp burning, thus enabling the thief to
see how ana Wnen 10 nSH.
At Monroe Mary Crew, a colored girl,
Is raving maniac from religious excite
ment, She Joined the church few days
ago during a revival and has been totally
deranged ever since. Efforts are being
made TO get her into the asylum.
Alta called meeting of the City Council
Tuesday afternoon the Board OF Alder
men requested the Mayor to invite Presi-
dent Davis to visit Americas on his re-
turn trip from Savannah to his home. and
to extend to him the hospitalities of the
city.
At Calhoun the County Commissioners
have eusag,d J. A. Farleigh, an architect
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, to ms pect the con-
struction of the stone Jail now being erect
ed by Mcdonald Bros, and to see that the
plans and specifications are strictly COM
piled with.
At Monroe Tuesday John P. W. Clegg
had the misfortune to have his dwelling
and contents burned. Mrs. Clegg was the
only person at the house at the time. She
saw the fire on the roof when it started,
but being unable to climb a ladder, she
could not get to it. No insurance.
Seventy is the total number of barrooms
and beer saloons In Atlanta. On March
the total number reached 103. Thirty
three OF the dealers in the family dis
turber concluded that it was better 10
shut up shop than TO wait till prohibition
did it for them. The 20 licenses under
which liquor and beer is being sold expire
ON July l, and they cannot be renewed,
as the local option law goes into effect at
that time.
The following Notaries Public and JUS
tees of the Peace were commissioned
Wednesday, by order of Gov. Mcdaniel:
William NJ. Turner, 50 district, Emanuel
county; j. G. Nichols, $50 district. Pike
county, in place of W, NJ. Hartley, re-
signed; Thomas A. Pate, 408 district,
Gwinnett county, in place of John M.
Arnold, resigned; C. b. Poole, 1897 dis
tricJ, Gwinnett county. The last district
is one newly established.
At Columbus there were % arrivals of
boats at the wharf during the month of
April, from which $1I5 was collected as
port dues. SiXty-eight parties were tried
ia the Mayors court during April, 40
fined, % discharged, and l bound over.
The fines collected amounted to $50 70.
There were So interments in the cemete-
ries there in April, 10 of which were white
and 10 colored. There was only death
in the city hospital in April.
The City Council of Athens has asked
the Mayor to investigate the report ''that
certain of our citizens have been, and are
now making a practice of moving out OF
the corporate linn Is of the city of Athens
periodically, and thereby evading the just
and lawful payment of city taxes, and
thatsuch action is not only wrong In prin-
ciple, but works a hardship and an in
justice on those OF our citizens who remain
in the city and pay their taxes"
jesse Cook was found guilty of murder
at the last August term ofTaylor Superior
Court. By the faithful efforts of mis- at
torney, Col. Wallace, his case was car
ried to the Supreme Court. That tribunal
has confirmed the verdict of the court be-
low, and about next September Jesse will
pay the debt to the laws of the State. 1t
VIII be impossible for Judge Willis to re-
sentence Jesse before August unless by
special term of the court, which will
not likely be held.
The following notice appears in the
Douglasvlle Star: ''Certain unscrupu-
lOus women who have no regard for truth,
nave, with view to injuring my sisters
business, circulated a report that she is
stuck mp and does not respect country
people. This is a false and malicious mis-
representation, whose author is as deceit
full rs she is ugly. My sister especially
soliclts the patronage of people who live
in the country. and | guarantee that she
will give them every attention and cOur-
tsy. John K. Brantley."
AT Fort Valley the Georgia foundry and
machine shops have been sold to Major
STERLING Neil Tor S2,2OO. The original cost
OF building and plant was something over
$4,000, and has been built about one year.
1t was a JOINT stock concern, but the
stockholders built and expended too much
for the amount Of stock paid in. TWAS
run in debt in its infancy, forced
iuto the hands OF receiver and
sold at great loss to the entire stock
holders. Major Neil expects to rent it,
AT Macon Tuesday night Mrs. Kinchen
Taylor, of Byron, through mistake, took
dose Of morphine tor quinine. Mrs.
Taylor keeps a store in Byron, and last
evening she sent down TO the store to her
son Charlie for vial OF quinine, and
through mistake he sent morphine, and
Mrs. Taylor, not looking at the label, took
the medicine after tea, and in few min
utes she found out the mistake, and at
once sent for physician, who by hard
work succeeded in saving her life. IL
was narrow escape.
BY direction OF Gov. Mcdaniel, State
school Commissioner Orr has issued COM
missions 10 ifiy-twO newly-elected mem
beers Of the Boards of Education in the
different counties. When the boards
were organized some OF the members were
elected Tor two years and some for four.
This was done TO keep experienced men
10 ONCE. Since the organization members
nave been elected every two years TO