Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-12

EDWARD 1 Dung mas SOFA out ms lutetS
in the Greensboro Herald 10 w. T. Key
holds.
There are now four conyicts and six
teen paupers at the Clarke county poor
farm, and before Christmas only one ielon
will be left.
The cotton seed oil mill at Waynesboro
set to work in earnest on Monday last,
and is now running night and Day l. ne
seed is unusually good.
The election Of w. c. BirchmOre to the
Legislature in Oglethorpe Is considered
as an Endorsement OF the new $4,000 court
house, as it was made an issue.
The 7-vear-old girl of J. T. Smith, OF
CarrolltOn, picked l0l pounds of cotton
last Friday, Tommy, the 5-year-old son
of the same gentleman, picked s. pounds
the same day.
Mr.. Russell intends to have bill passed
through the next Legislature allowing
Athens to vote on $50, 600 to $50, 900 bonds
10 build additional school houses, as the
two now erected will not near accOmm0-
date the pupils.
Joseph Troup, col0red, OF Sandersville,
endeavored to address the colored voters
Of Laurens county upon the political
issues OF the campaign for Representa-
tive, at the court mouse on last sat
urday afternoon. There was. however,
so much disturbance created By mis- audi
ence, that it is doubtful whether or not
anyone was able TO understand what he
was saying.
A chair factory is on the tapis at Ac-
worth. Mr.. L0wery. a prominent dry
goods merchant of Summeryllle, ;. G.,
has been in Athens for several days look.
ing for a stand to open business. He has
rented Broad street store and will move
in January. Mr.. Lowery says they have
renewed earthquake shocks daily in sum-
meTville, and there were two very severe
quakes :he night he left home. All the
Inhabitants who can get away are leaY-
ing.
The contract for the walls, roof and
spire of the second Methodist church At
Rome has been let to Mr.. Joe b. Patton
at cost OfS2,625. The cost Of the whole
is estimated at about $4,000. The work
on the new building VIII begin this week.
The present church will be moved Off the
grounds a snort distance and will con-
tinue to do service to the congregation
until the new church is finished. All OF
the work and all of the material OF the
new building will be done at home.
A young white man, Bolin ChastaiU, on
his way home from ThOmssvllle IN wag-
on Saturday overlook a negro, Cain Lin.
ton, a mile from town. Chastain was
drunk and began swearing at the negro.
The negro told him to hush. Then they
Quarrelled little, when Ch6stan at
tackled the negro with mis- knife, INJECTING
two wounds IN the chest, reaching the
heart. The negro died shortly after
wards. Chastaiu took to the woods, and
has not been caught. Two boys wit
pessed the occurrence. but could not pre-
vent the stabbiGg. Chastain is the son OF
Raiuey Chastsin, Who was killed some six
years ago by one Scr0gglns. A Coroner
inquest was held. Verdict manslaugh-
ter. Ii is generally thought the verdict
ought to have been charge of murder.
AT Atlanta Saturday Special Revenue
Agent Colquitt noticed country wagon
standing in front of grocery store on
Peacntree and man was re-
moving from 1t tubs of what be
had sold as butter. Mr.. Colquitt
knew the man and knew that be did not
live In the country. Walking up to him
Mr.. Colquitt said: "Silas, how do you
sell butter?" "Forty cents wholesale
and fifty cents at RETAIL" was the reply.
"Have you moved to the country" The
man eyed him moment and said: "N oil.
born, don't give me away. Pve read
about the tax on oleomargarine and know
what you are up to. lou know this is
not butter, but my customers don't know
the difference, and am making a living"
AS the law is not in effect the officer
lsughed and told his friend to LOOK out
!.
timer, and the country gRrb of its owner
made IL regular country turnout.
Among the passengers who arrived a.
Chattanooga Saturday on the Western
ard Atlantic passenger train WAS JOIN
Williams, Il school teacher from Ring
gold, Ga, who was en- route to Mexico
He had $40 in cash, and soon after bii
arrival be purchased his ticket, and. aftel
buying some clothing, ETC., be started GU
.1s he knrt,- Y
foolishly attempted to drink all the whisky
at every saloon he passed, and to this lac
he can attribute his disaster. He wen
out on Stone Fort and stopped n
several houses OF i'll repute. Whei
near the East Tennessee yard he wa'
startled to find his purse missing and aIst
his railroad ticket to Mexico, which cos
him over 500. This brought him to All
senses and he retraced his steps, blu
couldn't remember where be had stopped
Williams had put every centof his none
in toe pOcketbOOk, and says there wa
about $3.50 stolen. He has not the slight
est idea how the money was stolen. Th
railroad authorities were notified of Ia
loss Of the ticket, and conductors on To
road over which it was sold were Ia
structed TO take it up if presented.
A restoration to life is reported at Al
Ianta from Montezuma which is creatiu
considerable interest among the dOctoTt
Or. X. o. Ingram, Of that town, VA
called in TO see a cOlored woman who ha
congestjye chill. When be reached n
side he saW that she was in eXtremis, an
turning to her husband tod him Ii
woman would be dead IN ten minute
At the same time he prepared a deeOctiO
OF brandy and aqua ammonia to be give
hypodermically for immediate relic
When ne returned TO has patiei
her pulse had ceased to bea
her heart was mouOnless, and 81
was dead. Instead OF placing the hyp
dermic syringe in the arm he IN serted it
the body Immediately over the heart an
pressed IL in slowly until it touched Thu
organ and tnen discharged q potion
the brandy and ammonia. In "A few Sc
onds the heart made a struggle TO perlor
its functions and IT was not long befo
the pulse was perceptible. The patient
now convalescent. DIR. Ingram deplar,
that the woman was dead and that b
treatment was purely an experiment.
the brandy had not been convenient Il
woman could not have been revived.
Dublin Gazette Capt. +. g. Arr
strong, who has been in charge of u
clearing boats on the Ocmulgee rive
visited Dublin this week for the purpo
OF interviewing Capt. i. 6. Henry, OF ii
steamer Laursns. IN reference to leasin