Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-14
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
W. Fl. Huguley & Co. have opened a
bank in West Point.
Atlanta pays $4,000 interest on her
public debt per annum.
Covingtou is now receiving from 26O to
$50 bales of cotton per day.
Augusta is discussing tne advisability
of organizing paid fire department
The Methodists of CovinGton are get
ting ready to begin work on their psrson-
age.
The white public schools in Brunswick
contain about 800 pupils, and the colored
about $50.
An effort is being made to organize an
assembly or lodge OF Knights OF Labor in
Covington.
The farmers say that most Of the cotton
crop of Southwest Georgia has already
been marketed.
Col. Bob Hardeman's new residence in
oxford is about completed. 1t is the
finest residence in the town.
Emory College expects large number
OF students in the chronological depart
ment during the coming term.
The total vote of Newton county on
Wednesday was only TO, or about one
third of the entire vote of the county.
There has not been 81, 900 worth of prop
erty sold by the Sheriff in Hart county in
two years, and the jail fees have not been
500 during the past year.
The survivors of the Delhi Rangers,
known as Company A. Fifteenth Georgia
Regiment of Volunteers, will hold re-
union In Wilkes county next July.
Newton county will have fully twenty
I've candidates for the various county
nf uyhn uin riG Fort in
coming primary election on Nov. q.
A man at Flovilla has a scrap book
containing the marriage notice OF all the
women he has ever loved, and he sits out
in the moonlight and reads 1t and criee.
W. Fl. Nally, of Connors district, is said
to be the best farmer in Douglass county.
He made this year 1914 bushels o! oats
TO one acre and he has ten acres of cotton
that will make twenty bales.
Post Office Inspector Booth has receiv-
ed information that Addie Fuller, the ne
gro school marin, who was arrested at
Buena Vista, charged with raising a
money order from 81 80 to So 30, has been
sent to jail in default OF 5000 bond.
The outgoing train from Brunswick on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia, jumped the track near the cemetery
Monday morning. Hon. c. Symmes,
who was on his way to Appling to hold
court, was delayed in consequence.
A meeting Of prominent citizens Of At.
'lanta was held in the Chamber of Com
MERGE Tuesday for the purpose of arrang-
ing for the reception of the National
Prison Reform Association, which Will
hold congress there for week, com
mencing Nov. 8.
At Athens Sunday morning the barn OF
Rev. H. r. Barnard was burned to the
~ ~ i
good work in protecting the other build
ing. The stock was rescued, but some
cotton and hay were destroyed. 1t was
evidently the work of an inceadiary.
AT Forsyth on Friday morning last
Messrs. Huddleston & Stephens broke the
ground preparatory to erecting another
splendid store. The building will be 100
feet long and So feet in width, and when
completed in accordance with specitica.
tions will be one Of the best business
buildings in the city.
Capt. Tom Eason, one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens of Greene coun-
ty, died at his home in White Plains
Saturday morning. He was stricken
with paralysis a number of years ago,
and has been in failing health since that
time. He was Captain of the Greene
Rifles during the late war.
At Macon Tuesday night Monroe Logan
and Jim Harris got into a dispute on
Cherry street and Harris struck Logan
over the head with an ak helve, making
two ugly wounds that may prove fatal.
Logan was carried TO DR.. Walker, and
was bloody as a beef. Harris was locked
up by Officer JEFF johnson.
The city authorities OF Marietta have
ordered an election for Councilman on
next Friday to ill the vacancy occasioned
by the change CT residence OF Mr.. T. II.
Cheek, one of the present members. Col.
Il. W. Glover, travelling passenger agent
of the Marietta and North Georgia rail-
road, will be candidate tor the position.
During the last week Capt. II. X. Ber-
nard's house at Athens was broken into
three times. The first night the thieves
stole all OF his provisions, and the next,
not satisfied with taking his eatables, re-
turned and carried of his crockery and
some siIverware. The door was locked
three times one night and opened by the
thief.
Four members of the Atlanta police de-
partment appeared before the Board of
Police Commissioners Monday night,
charged with violating the rules OF the
department. The accused members rep
resented every rank in the force from
chief down to supernumerary. All of the
charges were somewhat trivial in their
mature.
At the Roman Catholic church at Rome
sunday morning the Ri. Rev. Bishop
Becker, OF the diocese of Georgia, preac he'd
an exceedingly able sermon. His subject
was the Roman Catholic church, which
he la strong language held up as the
mother church. After the sermon the
rites of confirmation were administered
70 Miss Jennie Berry.
J. II. McElnurray, OF Taylor cocnty,
died from the effects OF a wound made by
Henry johnson, colored, a tenant on his
place. johnson struck him on the might
Ol Sept. 80 with q rock on the back OF his
head, fracturlng the skull. Johnson is a
blue-eyed mulatto, about six feet hieh
and weighs about 175 pounds. He made
his escape and is now at large.
Four trunk factories in Atlanta employ
three times as many people and pay out
four times as much for wages as a one
hundred ton Iron furnace. In addition
these trunk factories paw more profit aud
do more business on one-sixth the capital
it would take to establish an iron furnace
Could ANYTHING more strikingly demon.
strate the immense value of small indus.
tries?
X. l.. Foreman brought in a spider ia
Washington on Saturday that made
every body shudder to look at it. He
had large head, a dangerous looking
mouth and a general savage expression
OF countenance that made the bystandere