Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-15
EF0RGIA AND FLORIDA.
xEys OF THE TWO STATES
Il = MD IN PARAGRAPHS.

n easket- Weaving MechAho
- Geniuses of Morgan county
p' ,,teced MoOnshiner Arrested AFTER
an wears of Liberty-A Frost Bitten
it.o,,re..' Terrible Plight.
GEORGIA.
,;-octors OF the Newman National
lle I've I've declared II 4 per cent. SENT
Arr ,Jr.. formerly teacher in the
a. ~ sch ola In Americas city, mas
oIocted superintendent OF the new
many Academy.
' 20 nog.son on Monday little Blakely
~ a., son of Mr.. Gibson, while standing
tne piazza of his father's reSiuence'
.I iastantly killed by lightning.
T.o old tanks below the depot at
l,aricns are being torn down. An extra
W ank has been put up at the depot, making
Y sGe water supply there Io'ooo g@iIons'
~ lanes Flndley, the man who was con-
81 ,ictpd of firing barn IN haOuH county,
# ~ Trbo cave the revenue officers 80
bl nv tronble. has been pardoned, and Is
s soa, at his mountain home.
Isl ,,.ora il a great mortality among the
,ro nonuIation of Morgan county. AL
~ eyerv day some member is buried.
e. daath rate among this population for
" rast few months has been marvellous.
A. Atlanta the police are in hot pursuit
- disorderlv gang Of negro women who
X .Sroonode the streets at almost all hours
t,no night. The better class OF the col
.'d citizpns of Atlanta indOrse the work,
.4 r7any of the street walkers are being
srrasr4d and sent to the city works.
IN MAO meeting of the Grand Lodge of
cdo3 rnmDIars of Georgia will take place
T. ColnmDus. beginning on July 20. This
fnaatiuy will be representative OF every
oIya in the state. There will be present
Il Won't zoo delegates. 1t will be very i'm
ooftaut gathering
Fourteen bridges of W ashington county
& wore washed away or rendered lmpassa-
N. hv the late disastrous freshet. OF
aosn KittrelPs bridge, Lamar's w alker's
Xiii bridge, keg creek on Linton road
End News bridge have all been given out
81 or are now repaired.
Mai. Jonn f. Jones, Assistant Secretary
& hi state. is making preparations to organ
lie An artillery corps TO be known as
+ ETbe Atlanta Artillery" HepropOses to
& sseeure at least 100 members. Adjt. Gen.
M hahn A. stephens has promised TO equip
The new corps with battery of twelve
guns.
There is a suspicious case about three
miles from Madison, closely resembling
small-p0X. DR.. Knight is attending 1t,
End the premises have been quarantined.
The patient is Mrs. NJ. V. Clark, and the
umnt0ms have been manifest for several
iays. Her condition Tuesday was re-
ported some better.
81 The Cotton States Life Insurance Com
papy. of Macon. has employed Capt.
Harry jackson as its attorney. He is
hooking into the refusal of the Governor
r 10 grant the company license TO con-
tnue business. The refusal was based
zhaiuly upon the failure of the company to
make It's annual returns in 1884, 1885 and
DISC.
Washington Chronicle: The Gazette
wants to know why the Chronicle said
Dir. Blackburn last week. aud failed to
show another man the respect of giving
him a title. The reason was plain enough.
4#Ine other was Democratic edltOr-the
Y other a southern Radical. This eXplana-
4 tOn will satisfy the readers Of this paper.
"a Washington Chronicle: A man from
AZ Lincoln county was talking with corner
yardstlck handler one day last week, and
n durng the conversation tae old man from
M Lincoln said to the clerk: II hauled the
4 brick to build that store and l am Is years
e Old." That store has only been there
about eighty years hasn't it?" the clerk
& asked him. About eighty-seven, il my
recollections serve me right" the old gen.
& teman SAID, and passed on, unconscious
Il Of the mistake that he had made.
At Americas Saturday the old artesian
derrick was pulled down and the fence
s torn away. Monday the recovered piping
aud casing was being hauled to the depot
where 1t will be shipped to Leesburg, as
A the city authorities have sold it to that
v place out OF the total amount of piping
snd casing }, $50 feet have been recovered
Leaving loss 10 the city of l $40 feet, 420
oi which will be used in casing the we'll
FOR toe use of the pump. Considering
eyerything, Mr.. Sloan mas done good work
70 save the amount he did.
telegram was received at Columbus
s Tuesday from the builders at Jefferson
VIE, md. saying that the steamer Pacto-
lIs was successfully launched on that
Jay and now floats on her future element,
thing Of beauty. The PactOlus is a new
Steamboat being built at Jacksonville,
md, Tor company IN Columbus, and is
80 ieet long, % feet beam and 4 feet
lOld' with tull cabin and texas. The
steamer VIII have carrying capacity of
aoOul 100 bales OF cotton. and will be
nAlsDed about Aug. l, when she will be
Immediately brought to the Chattahoo-
Chez river.
several letters from the mail of the
Suuheh oregon were received in Macon
tuesday,, each having label stating the
SLIc umstances by which it was delayed.
ohe was received by Mrs. Jacobina Far
mer' dated at Portobello. Although the
anleiope bore marks OF having been in the
"aef, the letter was intact, not line
sgIuE blurred. Mr.. w. c. Tur-
pa received a letter from Queens
~"L Ireland, which was mailed
s W. march I. The paper and original
st ,aIp on TINS letter are both in a good
q b ,o'9 ol preservation, but the address is
\ hardly legible.
Omcers Hamp Wood and Dan Thomas
NJ hal. :, STARTLED by the cry OF "Murder!
nelp" While on their beat on Fourth
sso!@ at Macon, at late hour Tuesday
sno p running to the corner Of Fifth
~ - ue streets they found Henry Stove
rod eugineer on the East Tennessee
IN 10y iyiuS In the street bleeding profuse-
fsco iI n several wounds in the head and
Moo ne lie was almost strangled by the
W. s, ouO tley turned him over and he
u tben' ,Sl. S,nllnclently recovered TO inform
| nJoyeSi u at I'm Nolan, a blacksmith en-
" Kim 49,. Wy the Central Railroad, had got
wba1 1G SN ana was beating him dreadfully
NGS.d us IN. outcries raised the alarm. He
rs u oo' Tell the origin Of the fight.
& gir Ia morrison Berry, the 1l-year-old
n ioo r"uO disappeared from her home,
N sftas,lOOnpson street, at Atlanta. Friday
M AT ban IN mas been found and is again
uato,o uoihe' The child, according to her
. had seut, went TO see some relatives who
"A wbe, zen hvlng on Haynes street, but