Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-19

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.Abk Aiaepn. Wednesday, Officer Allen
Jone 6tNe sted Thomas Smith ON the
ehaEHe 4f Passing counter cit coin. Smith
wofkeX "a several dollars on the citizens
0l N4toA. He registered at the Com
merEialf0 Thomas Smith and sister, Sa-
veanaiI. mad claimed New York as his
h6fue& VI hen arrested he had 81 % on his
pefs0ng The girl smelt danger and
Skipped. Smith is confined in the city
hail.
At Hawkinsville Wednesday the hull
house OF the OIL mill caught ION fire from
= defective tlue which came from the en-
gihe room, and before aid was rendered
the h0il house was ablaze. As the hull
room Is adjoining the engine room the fire
foufshtits way in there, doing great dam
age Owing to the energetic response of
the bremen the fire was soon overpowered
and a great calamity was prevented. The
oil mill is surrounded on all sides by
houses which are inhabited.
The Metropolitan Street Car Company
of Atlanta is breaking a lot of Texas po-
MES by making them pun street cars.
This is an excellent way to break bucking
ponies, and it also affords infinite amuse-
ment to the passengers. A lady or gent
gets aboard OF the car, and is not in any
particular hurry about arriving at their
destination; regular Mazeppian steed
is hitched to the car, and all along the
line there are stoppages, and lots of fun.
All this any citizen can get for the small
amount Of cents.
The mad dog excitement is at a high
pitch at Lumpkin. A negro woman was
badly bitten by dog last night, which is
thought TO have been suffering with
rabies. The dog was killed at Lumpkin
Wednesday. A calf in town has de-
UnlOnnh u Qan1inn M hudrnphnhSa
and is attracting considerable atten-
ton. A rabid dog was killed at Richland
Sunday, and two or three others that
acted strangely We're killed at Lumpkin
Wednesday. Within the past eight
months at least fifteen dogs have been
killed in Stewart county that were sup
posed TO have been rabid.
Rev. D. W. Martin filed suit against
Col. George W. Adair, IN the Superior
Court at Atlanta Wednesday. He wants
So 600. He says that on June 3, 1882, he
employed Col. Adair to sell at public auc-
ton a portion of Is acres OF land lying
partly in and out of the suburbs, as he
was obliged to raise $3,3S0 to pay the pur-
chase money Of said land. He says that
Col. Adair fraudulently failed to sell the
land, although ne advertised it to be sold
ON June 2, 1882. Petitioner on account of
the failure was compelled to borrow 81, $50
from his brother. l.. F. Martin, and gave
him a deed to the land, allowing him to
permanently retain One-half the land by
the conditions OF the loan-thereby losing
| So, $50 on the land.
Georgia Visage, the woman who was
jailed at Macon on a warrant taken out
by Mack Bros. Feb. 4. was released from
jail on a writ from Judge McManus,
through her attorney. Col. Robinson, We'd
nesday night. She had never had a COM
mitment trial. The truth of the matter is
the woman was arrested without suffi-
cient proof, and she had an offer made
that IL she would acknowledge and say
she was sorry she would be released.
This she refused to do, as she could not
write, and was clearly not guilty. Judge
McManus granted the writ of habeas
corpus, as ne knows the woman and is
aware Of the fact that she cannot write,
aud consequently could not have written
the order which was an alleged forgery.
The recent light between the police and
party OF negro thieves in Tybee, a Ma
con suburb, has induced Chief OF Police
Wiley, OF Macon, to consider the neces-
sity Of arming the police with rifles, to be
used in case of emergency. When the
| fight mentioned occurred, much difficulty
was experienced IN obtaining guns. TAose
in the possession of the volunteer mill
tary companies are not allowed to be
taken frem the armOrles except by order
of the commanding officers. and it is not
always possible to find the officers in time
of need. Chief Wiley's plan is to have
the City Council purchase a small num-
Der of rifles, aud to keep them in the sta
ton house at the City Hall, subject to his
orders. He will bring the matter before
the Council at its next meeting.
Conductor Francis, of the Air Line road,
was seriously hurt by two men at Flow
cry Branch, Wednesday. When his train,
the $40, reached Flowery Branch two
men and two women got on board He
asked for their fare, the women paid. but
the men refused to do so, when Conduc-
tor Francis stopped the train and put
them off. AS he started to step back on
the train one of the men, Bud Canning,
struck him on the side of the head with a
brick, knocking him under the tram. 1t
was Just pulling out and had not a drum
mer pulled the danger signal and stopped
the train the conductor would have been
run over and killed. Revenue Officer Car
ter arrested the men, John Orr and Bud
Canning. by name, and carried them TO
Gainesville and jailed them. Conductor
Franc g wound is serious, but not neces-
sarily dangerous.