Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-01

earth. fortunately the train was
unniBg at high rate of speed, and
Smith escaped with a few bruises and
he slight rents in his clothing.
The Dayton coal and iron company
bmmenced shipping ores from their
hines about five miles from Sugar Valley
asst week, and are averaging about i've
Fcar-loads per day. and expect TO increase
TO eight or ten. They ship to their fur
naces at DAYTON, Tenn, on the Cincinnati
Southern railway. They have a well
equipped branch road, with engine, ETC.,
from the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railway out 10 the mines, and
have over 2.000tons of ore on side OF track
ready to ship. The beds are said to be a.
most inexlaustible, and of the very finest
| quality.
Athens RdnneF- Waterman: The cutting
serape tina we published yesterday morn
ing was atW oodville instead of at Craw-
ford, and tie fight was between two ne
! groes. Mr Bud Michael saw the one cut,
and saws II was a terrible wound The
| blade of a lrge knife was broken off, after
going throigh mis- face near the nose and
penetrating through the roof of the mouth.
DR.. Durhal was trying at the time to get
the blade OF. After breaking the knife
the other ngro, with the part of the blade
left in the hndie, also cut him seriously
in the ches The negro who did the cut
! ting was a2estea.
A thief etered the residence of J. A.
Branner, Summervilie, Sunday night
while he al his family were away, and
J carried ola valise containing his note
case, leda, county treasuTer's books,
etc. He Cried his books, notes, etc,
home within on Saturday night, where
{ | be could qetly look them thrOu. b, and
3 when he W. ready to retire for the night
placed the all in the valse and set 1t
out in ID hall. Sunday morning he
missed theahse, and after searching all
. day arouu own some one of the search
ing party ind the note case under a pile
OF lumber.ld some of the books near by.
: The traaser's book with some Others
J.. are vet ming, but Mr.. Branner hopes
= to find the
Often SO, man with fast horse runs
WITH the tan at TennIl on the Wright
!, Vile and snnille- railroad to test the
" speed of tnag. Night before last engi-
neer Coateaw horse on the track run
ming ahes of the engine. Mr.. Coates
y thought h,4W man on the horse, and,
G. suppOsing was racing as usual, ne put
on littieore steam. As he gained on
n the horse saw that it had no man, and
n then he ben to slacken up. Before he
Of could do sHe horse fell in trestle and
e. so fastene, at he could not get out. 1t
" was then possible for the train to be
Al stopped IL he, and 1t ran over the horse.
r. severing head from the body and
ne | thrOwngt front truck wheels of the
engine frohe track. No serious dam
~ age resultslowever.
IN W alteS..e s, a convict working IN
ON Garrnv's quad on Anderson street, at
10 1.isnta, ca e within an ace of losing his
life Wednes Az by being buried under
pile of dirt. The convict squad was work
ing in GU about 10 feet deep. Jones,
with other was digging the dirt awav at
the base. nne top of the cut Overhung
the bottom and after the earth became
damp iron the rain it gave way. Jones
failed toesape from the falling earth and
was cOYeed completely up. The other
cOnVicts cyan an effort TO find him by
sticking heir spades gently into the
earth. Alter finding the buried man the
cOnvicts emOved the dirt from his face
with the. hands, enabling him to breathe.
They u threw the dirt of his body.
When hes was released from his grave
he fou Han ankle badly sprained, other
wise gyas all right. When the dirt was
fret r knved from his face he was almost
Tn k.lary OF the Mayor OF Augusta has
been kduced from $4,000 to $500 per
year nd that of the Recorder from 81 200
to &fper year. The Clerk of the COun-
cilpt 81 900 a year, and several hun
draA) in perquisites. Among other
chakes IN salaries the mounted police
werT reduced. Formerly they received
S7Abnd $l44 for their horses. They were
loed 500 for their horses in future.
| Thd allowance of $l44 a year to the
| chH and each OF the leutenants
| of bolice for their horses was with
| drlwu. The salaries of Assistant En-
| ii GER and Inspector of Water Works
wire raised each from ST20 TO 5000 The
sdary of LamplIghter Of the Second Diyi-
sbn was raised from $1,000 TO 81 800, and
| o. the Third Division from $500 10 500
he sa AIRY OF the Market CLERK was fixed
! q 5000 and allowed to select his deputy at
300 The JaIler's salary was raised from
800 to $1,000. The CITY Sherif's salary
! Eas fixed at $1,000, formerly being $500,
| With $3.50 for clerk expenses.
A sensation was created at Acworth
! Wednesday by the narrow escape OF two
young ladies from being burned to death
on the streets, and two gentlemen being
seriously burned in eXtinguishing the fire.
The ladies' had met at the hall of the Ac-
worth Amateur Club to decorate it for an
entertainment. Misses Jennie and AddIe
Stokely, sisters, left the hall together to
90 home. AS they passed out of the door
they locked arms. At the same time some
one threw lighted tirecracker at them,
which exploded near them, but they gave
it no thought, and proceeded together to-
wards home. When they had gone some
200 yards, j. J. Northcutt and j. S.
Collins, who were just behind them, dis
covered the ladies' clothing in a blaze.
They sprang to them, aud soon succeeded
in tearing away the burning fragments,
and relieving the young ladies from
almost certain death with few serious
but not dangerous burns. The gentlemen
had their hands very badly burned.
FLORIDA.
Haines City continues to improve.
Pensacola has no market building.
New Irish potatoes have made their APP
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