Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-24

GEORGIA.
There are three vacant stores in Lump
kin.
At the First Baptist church at Rome
last Sunday night, six converts were bap-
tIsed by Rev. G. <. Wright and admitted
to membership to the Second Baptist
church.
Mai. Eben Wilkinson reports that ter
rapins were rained down,at his fathers
place near w ashingtOn, and now comes
Bill Smith, who says that a two-pOund
turtlefeIl in his yardon Thursday during
q heavy ram.
q. 7. johnson, formerly a wholesale
grocer of Atlanta, who mysteriously LETT
there some time ago under peculiar cir
cumstances, was seen in Greensboro a
few days since. m0stprobably working
his way back gradually.
Last Friday the hands of W. d. Burt. in
Marion county, captured an alligator Az
feet long on the Geneva road. The anil
gator wasa-distanceo OF two or three miles
from any branch. The negroes have
show every night-at the expense of the
alligator, which they have tied to a tree.
Amanda Neal, a-cOlored woman living
in one of Parker'slwoocent tenement houses
in WaycrOss, smOthered her four months
old infant. TO death on Tuesday morning
last. 1t was at first thought by some that
it was intentionally done, bat upon in
Vestigation it was ascertained that it was
accidental.
Two white tramps chased two little
white girls across the fields nearly to
Norris street, East Macon, Tuesday even
ing. A white man saw them, and, head
ing off the tramps, collar the largest,
youth of perhaps 10, when she latter
drew a long knife and, breaking loose from
his capt0r, took to his heels. Both es-
capped.
Father O'Brien has 81 boys at the
Catholic orphanageat Washington, and
has passed u months without finding it
necessary to call in a physician. Within
the last 10 years about 700 boys have had
homes at the Orphanage, and only two
have died during that.peri0d. These two
were in bad health when they were re-
ceived.
On account OF the present political eX-
element and the primary election TO be
held on that day, it has been thought
proper to change the time of the unVeil-
ing of the monument erected to the
memory of John Il. Hart, atRome, Colonel
of the Sixth Georgia Cavalry. The I'M
yelling ceremonies, therefore, will not
take place on July 8, as heretofore an
nounced, but on July 10.
On Friday of last week the body of the
negro boy, Jim Brown, was found in Mr..
MoOre's mill pond at Washington. When
the miller went to the head of the race to
hoist his water gate he discovered an OBJ
ject floating on the water and resting
against the gate. An investigation quick
lV showed him that it was the body of one
of the missing boys who were drowned on
Sunday, June 6. The body was very much
dec0mpOsed.
Mr.. Burkett, of Dry Branch, Bib
county, reports that a woman on his
place was picking gooseberries Tuesday,
when feeling a sting on her hand she saw
to her horror that a large cOpperhead
mOccasin had bitten-her. The arm began
swelling, and soon the entire limb and
body were terribly swollen. DR.. Rice
was sent Tor, and he prescribed whisky,
which she took infarge- quantities, which
soon relieved her, and she rs getting well.
The village and vicinity of Crawford,
on the Athens branch of the Georgia rail-
road, are suffering from an unusually
fatal form of measles. On the afternoon
of last Thursday J.. b. Poyner died. and
at 4O'clock on Friday morning his sister,
Mrs. w ilkins. died-botn from measles.
This lady and gentleman are.both natives
of W'ilkes county. On the preceding
week eight negroes died from the same
disease on the plantation of Frank Ed
wards, near Crawford.
The teachers in the Athens public
school were selected Monday. They are
as follows: W. L. Clay, principal gram
mar department; Misses Lizzie Bacon,
Mamie Bacon, Mamie Kennard and M. J.
Roper. Primary department: Misses
BfolIie Bernard, Mary Bromley, Florrie
Carr. Annie Linton and Gussie Noble.
Mr., Clay, the principal, is.a-young gentle,
man who graduates from the university
this year and secuFed the position, after
examination. over a number OF gentlemen
very much Older than himself.
Jack Ryan, colored restauranter of
Atlanta, has on exhibition war relic. 1t
tsaan old Confederate shell, sCill loaded
and capped. The shell was unearthed
Tuesday on Ryan's hot, at 2l9 Fort street.
Ryan is having well dug, and when the
laborer was tearing up the earth, about
three feet below the surface, his pick
struck the shell. At first the man thought
he had hit rock, but in few seconds he
dug the she'll out. 1t is one of the conIcal
shaped missiles, and, though heavily coat
ed with rust, the cap was easily found.
RYAN was offered $40 for the relic in two
hours after finding il, but declined to sell.
The factory people OF East Macon, liv-
Ing as they do, In asort OF vii hage tothem-
selves, have long desired place Of wor-
ship convenient to themselves and rather
apart from existing churches. Various
efforts have been made toward the con-
summation of this desired end, but here
tofore they have proven rather ab0rtlve.,
The owners OF the East Macon factory APP
pear able and willing TO erect such an
edifce for the convenience OF their en-
ployes, under certain restrictions. IL rs
now said that the twOyoung men who are
holding the holiness meetings are hard at
work trying to establish an organization
strong enough to warrant the erection OF
church. They seem to be succeeding
very well, and in ali probability the church
will be built next winter.
At Atlanta, in front of Detective jones'
residence, on Gullatt street, is small
pond, surrounded by low fence. A few
nights since a young man was passing
there, and, hearing rustic, looked IN tbat
direction and observed a woman carry
ing a small bundle come swiftly toward
the pond. The young man sprang over
the fence to Investigate. AS he ap-
preached the woman faced him, with pis-
tOl drawn, demanding what he wanted.
He responded by asking what she
was doing there. She answered
that it was none OF his busi-
ness, aud ordered him TO jump the fence
before she killed him. Being unarmed
be obeyed, and as he jumped he heafd
splash, and the woman sprang away. ne
attempted 10 follow her, but she turned
the tables on him and pursued him al
most to the heart OF the city. Tuesday
reporter aud this young man went 10 the
DOnd and dfeeovared unmiatakable signs