Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-22
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
oDoRGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


ia-gorrible Death of a Negro at
,.tsnta,s Guano Wcr&s-A Fatal Cut
,,orA ARRAY at Augusta.
GEORGIA.
married lady of Brunswick is grand
daughter Of the late Gen. hancock.
f3ck of wild cranes passed over
Monticello last saturday, hofthWafd
bound .,-.....-,,;,, % +,,o
II is said that the proprietorship oil tne
r-1iandg Hotel at Eastman VIII soon
change hands'
n. Ffncher, of Newton factory, has
- eirl Years old that knows the al
paabet perfectly.
It's rumored that Hon. j. d. Polhlll, OF
Louisville, will probably be in the contest
for the Attorney Generalship.
Hon. !. ;. James, of Douglas, is spoken
ocas the coming senator from his senate
rial district. Mr. James has served III the
House.
The election for mayor and councilmen
for south Rome will occur on the hrsU
saturday in April. There are already
many candidates in the field.
Maurice Gorum, the postmaster al
Sparta. is very ill, and the physicians say
that if there is not decided chahge loT
the better IN a short while he eaRnot pos
sibly live.
II is believed that the negro captured
at Jacksonville day or two ago, after
several shots had been fired, is the same
one VINO killed Marshal Allen, OF VAL
dosta, several months ago.
A Mr.. Burkett living in the north end
of Appling county, was so enraged at his
daughter going to church that he cursed
mis- Maker, and at this juncture lost his
speech and since has become entirely
helpless.
Rome is indulging in little sensation
bv the divulsiOn of marriage which had
been successfully hidden from the public
since December % last. The par
ties are John Smalley and Miss Elizabeth
W alters.
In the wear 1865 a large tract Of land,
known as the Dry Pond tract, was offered
TO DR.. T. g. Underwood, of Franklin cOun-
tb. for 5000 in Confederate money. This
included 80. ground on which ToccOa
now stands.
Capt John J. Seay says that if the citi-
zens of Rome will organize $25, 600 stock
company to manufacture phosphate and
guano and cotton seed oil, under new
process of extraction, he will head the
list with $4,000.
A few days ago as John Avery, in Ter
rell county, was going through piece of
woods to his work he was attacked by a
mad dog. Having nothing to defend him
self with, he took to tree, where he re-
NAMED till the dog LETT.
After four years of continued prayer
and effort in the good cause Of temper
ance, the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Georgia, call for their fourth
annual State Convention, to be held in
Macon, April q and y.
The mortgage system in Georgia had
showing up at Atlanta, Saturday, in the
United states Circuit Court in three suits
for foreclosures for money loaned in
Georgia by foreign citizens. AS usual,
no defense was made, and judgment was
given by default.
Several days ago Mr.. Mccarthy died in
East Macon from a wound administered
by his son good while ago. Saturday
the son, a cripple, Gene Mccarthy, died
and was buried. To the last he protested
that be was glad he stabbed his father,
and no expression of remOrse or regret
could be wrung from him even by death
ITSELF
Dan Kelley, a tramp, attempted to force
himself into Henry Peterson's house in
Brunswick, Tuesday night, whereupOn
Peterson seized a broadaX and came
down upon Kelley's head with it, cutting
a deep cash about three inches long,
leaving a slice of meat Clipped off from
his forehead and suspended by the skin
hanging over the tramp's eye.
A party of United States revenue men
on March 10 went to the house of n. NJ.
Williams, in Jasper county, and behaved
in q shameful manner, invading his
dwelling with cooked guns, using prOfane
language and frightening Mrs. Williams
and the children. They broke open the
cellar door and captured a still that had
been properly registered ''out of use."
A gentleman of Merriwether county
troubled by owls and hawks says that last
year he cut of the top of tree and all
the limbs close to the trunk. On the top
Of the tall stump or tree he placed steel
trap. During this year he caught in the
trap six large owls, two hawks and buzz
zard. The last finally broke the trap
loose from its fastenings and sailed away
with it.
A cutting ARRAY which will result In
the death of one of the partici-
pants, occurred at Augusta Satur-
day night AZ the corner OF Hopkins
ana Campbell streets, Nose Scott, a tish
peddler, became involved in a quarrel
with couple of dusky females, and Ben
johnson, a negro painter, espOused the
cause of the girls, stabbing Scott in the
back, injuring the kidneys and producing
wounds from which death will ensue.
Johnson escaped and is at large.
Morgan White, coIoreu, was killed at
the Pendleton guano works at Atlanta
Saturday afternoon. HIS neck was broken
by being caught in band. The negro
was sewing up sacks Of guanO in the third
story of the mammoth building. 1t ap-
pears that the large rubber band caught
IN the Irvine which hung around the ne
grO's neck, and, lifting him up, carried
MIN over, breaking his neck as it came
over on the floor, and dropping through
the opening into the bottom of the first
noOr with dull, heavy tnud.
At Macon, Friday night, the Georgia
Land, Lumber and Improvement Com
pany," with j. Bayard Backus, of New
York, as president; Col l.. +. Livingston,
vice president; Col. n. e. Harris, secretary
and +. {. Machen, treasurer, was organ
iled The capital stock paid in is $780,
O0O, and charter will be applied for at
once. The organization is remotely con-
nected with the COyington and Macon
railroad enterprise, and is backed by
prominent New York capitalists. Its
object is the settlement OF thrifty immi-
grants along the line Of the new road.
Al saudersviile, Julius Mandel, Of
sparta, has bought out the stock of
liquors OF A. V. Boyer. 1t seems that the
gentleman opened mainly TO secure the
Trade Of Hancock county. He has neat,
eaey-runniDg, 0ne-borse spring wagon,
Tue body box having painted upOn ~