Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-19

GEORGIA.
# Annie is the name of the new post once
Min Lowndes county
A clock 150years old was sofa al @ucVion
I'm Brunswick saturday.
"a There has not been prisoner Ia JAN at
madison for several weeks.
Amt silvia Dwite, a colored woman OF
4 Rnrle county. is said to be $50 years old.
q The teachers Of the public schools in
PulJoch county were paid Cd last Mon
On Jan. Is r. O. Dieuis, the bigamist,
q will stand his second trial IN sumter
county.
The snring term of the High school at
Excelsior opened Monday with q Ialr al-
tendance.
The river at Macon Sunday was still
quite high. but was not out OF us banks
4 All the ice had disappeared.
The Hancock county pOOrhOuse and not
q the new iail. as has been reported through
q out the State, has been destroyed by fire.
Onite a number of families have recent
q Nv moved to Bulloch from wilkinson
county. and report many more desir0us 10
follow them.
/. Smith. OF Wilkes county, has gather
ed twenty bushels of chutas from one-halI
acre of land, hes Ides fattenIng good many
head of hogs thereon.
The Mace selected for Emanuel cOunty's
court house. in the event of its removal,
will be called Clifton, in honor of George
Clifton, the oldest surveyor IN the county.
Green Jackson was jailed at Statesboro
SATURDAY. His Otlense was the theft OF
four pairs OF pants from the store OF SIM
mons a Waters. The Jail IS now COM
f0rtably full.
A Chinese laundryman at Macon has
received from friends in China several
Chinese water lilies. They are quite pref
ty, and grow in water which Is entirely
free from earth.
Frank Blyley, the Atlanta undertaken,
81 who was thrown from wagon few
n evenings ago and had his temple bone
broken, is very low. Fears are en6er-
/ tained that he will notrecover.
t. j. Grier's application for pardon has
been sent TO the President by Hon. Geo. I.
Barnes and senator Brown. Grier viii
"a be remem bered as a mail clerk Of Athens
" who opened letters going from other young
men to his sweetheart
q Dahlonega SigRai: A well known law
8 yer of this place has novel way of catch
lng partridges. He says that while hunt
& Ing recently his horse stepped into cOvey
Df twelve partridges, the animals feet
q holding them by the tail until the hunts
man dismOunted, when he caught six OF
the cOVey.
Thursdav night the Jail at Warrenton
was again broken and one OF the inmates,
Stony Chapman, charged with burglary,
Escaped, while the other inmate, lsOm
Davis, charged With assisting to break
jail, remained, aud was found quietly
waiting for his breakfast next, morning
BY Sheriff Shurley.
In Rockdale county the amount OF
county funds received to this date is
nj Dn
oil pauper fund received $l,264 81, amount
on hand 1854 a. Amount Of Jury fund
seeei we'd e $50 %, amUunton hand $lS2 40.
4 u af amount OF funds received $6,33l "a,
total amount on hand $l,6l5 81.
negro boy named Ben Broomfeld,
living at WaTrentOn, died Saturday from
a wound produced by the discharge OF a
pistol which he had concealed IN his
pocket While unloading some wood The
weapon was accidentally discharged, and
produced a slight wound in his arm,
which, through mere neglect, resulted in
his death.
Greensboro J0UTHat: Mr.. Joseph Da-
wilson, the polite and efficient railroad
agent at W00dyille, has A badge of 1871,
with an eagle emblaz0ned on it, over
which are the words, Zee it, Tip" and
portrait of Gen. William Henry Harrison,
with the legend, "COme it, Tyler" under
H. 1t is priced very highly as a souvenir
Of the greatest Wing and Democratic
campaign in history.
Miss Polly Seago died in Rutland dis
trict, of Bibb county, Saturday night.
Miss SeagO's death was the result of
rather q singular accident. Saturday
morning at o O'Clock she started out OF the
house to go into the yard. When she
placed her feet upon the steps they gave
8way, throwing her to the ground. She
fell against a stone pillar and fractured
ol-rrl no ~ tsl
night, when she died.
II is generally understood that l.. NJ.
Jones. recently elected Chief OF the Ma
con Fire Department, will refuse TO &C
Cept the office unless the City Council
will pay him a salary Of $500 per annum.
TIE Council, it is said. will not paw $500
AS the income Of the city is not sufficient
10 warrant such a salary, even if the du-
ties OF the position were OnerOus enough
4f 10 justify Mr.. Jones' demand. b. II.
Smith, second Assistant Chief, is men
toned as Chief JOnes's successor.
Calhoun Times: Z. T. Gray, whom every
one knows is n good farmer, says that he
made this year - bales of cotton at a cost
Of $21 a bale, and sold it at an average of
$50, leaving a clear profit Of SIS per bale.
Some of the cotton was damaged bv the
Hood, which brought the average down
a lower than 1t would have otherwise been.
All the work was done with hired labor.
lie runs four plOWS, and besides the cot
ton made LOO bushels of corn, about 300
bushels of which was also damaged by the
fou0.
Judge T. &. holt died suddenly at Hol-
ton Sunday. Judge Holt and his wife
drove from their home, near Ninevilie, to
attend the services at Damascus church.
AT HoltOn they stopped at Il. j. DOzier's
house 10 make "a short call. When they
got ready TO 90 on TO the church they
walked out TO the gate, where Judge Holt
stopped and gave MIR. D0zier and his fam
ilv an invitation 90 call on himself and
family. Just as lac uttered the last word
of the invitation le fell TO the ground and
expired in family. Judge Holt had been
in bad health for some time. lmmedi-
ately preceding his death, he said that be
felt unwell, but nobody dreamed that he
was 50 near his end.
j. r. Armstrong, N Augusta, passed
through Atlanta Sunday on his way TO
Chicago 20 attend GO Icil Of the State
delega .es or t1c irish National League or
America, when 10 VIII De decided men 20
hOid the general International convention.
Nj. Armbtr0ng stopped 10 Atlanta 10 con-
hnlt uugh 1lcGeeyer who was recently
elected as a delegate from tho Atlanta