Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-07

gan CouDty-A Culored Girl Bitten By
Rat at Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
Athenian epjcures have been eating
steak from 81, 600 Jersey COW.
DR.. Thomas :. Mitchell, OF Hamilton
has decided to locate in Columbus.
The new bell for the Alpharetta Baptist
church weighs. with fixtures Tor hanging
it, 700 pounds, and cost $3.50.
Mir. Calvin Brown, of ptdEe county.
during the month Of DC OAer killed ~
partridges, 81 doves ana 10 squirrels.
Rev. Or. h. c. Hornady, Of Sonola, will
return to Atlanta to 1--we next wear. He
has nor accepted call to Conyers, as
reported.
Friday, at his home near Hollywood,
in Richmond county. J. &. Greiner. an
old and respected citizen. was found dead
IN bed from natural causes.
Hamilton McWhorter. OF Lexing-
ton, with his brother Nason, has pur-
chased his fathers tract OF land near
Penfeld, aggregating 4, 600 acres.
Though this has not been good apple
year, Gainesville handles more than she
ever did. Chestnuts are very plentiful.
and the merchants are shipping them
freely.
The gin house on NJ. r. Sanders planta-
ton, in Chattaboochee county, was de-
strOyed by fire day or TWO ago. together
with three bales of cotton. 1t is not
known whether there was any insurance.
Gov. Mcdaniel has approved the action
OF the county authorities in laying out
two new militia districts in Meriwether
county, and has numbered Jones' Nh S
district 1,400, and Lone Oak district as
1,401.
49, NJ
Greensboro, have elected Prof. r. y.
Means, Of Butler, as President for the
Gext eighteen months, and Mrs. &. d.
Gravity, of Starke, Fla, principal Of the
female department.
Miss Lala Jordan, of Washington. has
little baby shoe which was worn by
President CleFeland's wife. while an IN
FAINT. 1t was given 10 Miss Lalla when
she was in school at stanton, Va, 10y a
cousin OF Mrs. Cleveland.
Villa Rica is on a cotton boom, and
there are no cars TO ship it of.
The stock on hand Is 1000 bales, and
eoming in at the rate of 80 bales a day.
Both warehouses are fun, and 400 bales
are on the depot platform.
The barn and stables OF DR.. II. J.
Smith, o. jacksonville, we're destroyed by
fire last Tuesday evening, with the con.
tents, about lO0'bushels of corn, and lot
of fodder. The cause of the fire is un-
known; there is no insurance.
B. B. AmOss, OF Gainesville, has
gathered between 5000 and 1000 pods of
pepper from two stocks. 1t is what is
known as the " bird pepper" and can,
by planting it in boxes and protecting it
during The winter, be kept in bearing for
several years.
Esquire Mcdaniel. of the Second district
Of arfr ~. o.
in 1897. Mr.. Mcdaniel has a thirtv-gal-
lon wash-pOt that has been in use over
one hundred years. IL was a gift to lis
wife's mother in 1863, and was presented
TO Mr.. McDaniel's wife In 1649.
At the January election the Issuing OF
$4,000 in bonds to pay for Oglethorpe's
new court house will be submitted to the
people, and as it will only require two
thirds OF lO4 notes.-the total number cast
at the last general election-there is no
doubt about their being issued.
One day last week J. o. Steward. of
TsiIaferro county, while putting up some
Tatters, received a very severe wound on
the head by one of the rafters falling
from above and striking him a heavy
blow. 1t knocked him senseless for a
while and left an ugly wound on his head.
A few days ago the foreman of the
work on tue NJ. and y. railroad received
orders TO notify their men that on and
after Nov. wages would be cut from 81
20 soc. per dav Several men Quit the
work, but the greater portion, taking
their situation into consideration, re-
turned to work.
One Of the substantial farmers of Cobb
county went TO Marietta the other day
and bought SIX rocking chairs, one for
each OF bis family. When he carried them
hon an hnF 70 ta1r
wagon and place them on the veranda Of
his house, his astonlshed wife thou yht
that he was going to open furniture
store.
Henry Weems, an East Tennessee rail-
road freight train hand, was knocked of
box car Friday morning while passing
under the bridge near ROsalaud, about
three miles from Atlanta. Special Watch
man John w. Lyman happened to hear
him yell and ran to him, picked him up
and deposited him on the platform near
The track. He was seriously hurt.
Walter Fl. Levy, an Augusta young
man, has had a very successful career in
California, holding Office almost ever since
his arrival there. First, he was Prose
cutting Attorney of the Police Court, az
terward Assistant District Attorney, two
years ago be was appointed Judge by
GOv. Stoneman, and on Tuesday last was
elected Judge by four thousand majority.
Abner Phillips, formerly living near
Milton, but now deceased, had born "a
him 10 sons, To all OF whom he gave nsmes
beginning with the letter A, as follows:
Alpheus, d; Andrew, d; Albert, living In
Colorado; Allen, d; Aston. d: Almond
d; Ambrose, d; Abel, Alfred and Aaron,
d. Those followed by the letter are de.
ceased, but ali except Aaron lived to
manhood.
Dawson journal: Last Sunday some
person in the Methodist congregation SC
far forgot prOpriety and good breeding as
10 ring chestnut bell. We have heard
some express a determination to learn the
guilty one and have he or she 20 answer
in court to the serious charge OF disturb.
ing public worship. In EatontOn il cost
one party only $500 to ring a chestnut bell
during church services.
Charles II. Baker, Of Savannah. who
visited his son, who is a student OF the
Bradwell Institute at Hinesyille, last
week met with an accident which came
near being serious. While chewing cane
he was stung by a yellow jacket on the
tongue. Bis tongue and throat swelled
up TO that extent as TO give him greatau.
nOyance. CamphOr water aud more
sGgar cane restored him.
James Truett. of Harris county, had q
tooth that gave him a great deal OF an.
noyance. He dlsllked to nave II pulled,