Savannah morning news., 1886-03-20
kFORGIA AND FLORIDA.
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der Case.
GEORGIA.
rsore are eighteen widows living in the
.oaln Of Crawfordville.
rbera are barrels of eggs in Dawson
hoid at only ten cents per Dozen
soma one has stolen the door of the Bap-
.ist church at Snellvllle, Gwinnett
county. -. =
negro in Athens ate 12O eggs on
r-oeer. There was no vinegar or oIner
cbemicals used to reduce the size OF the
Dr. C. G. Whelchel, brother of the Post
master at Gainesville, has just moVeu 10
the latter city from Tellsyiile, ana VIII
practice medicine there.
Elijah Pate, of Dooly county, the ~
vear-old gentleman who was recently re,
ported as having married Io-year-olu
lady, says it is all mistake
The statute of Ben Hill at Atlanta VIII
be unveiled April a. ~, lem. Henry
Grady will be orator of the day. EXcur-
s,ons will be run from all parts of the
State.
The term of Mr.. Dekle as Postmaster at
TbomasyiIle expires on July 1 next.
Cant. H. NJ. Sapp is an applicant tor the
Mace and is already in the field with a pc
tiuon.
AtGainesville carpenters are busily at
work in the Evans, Gambler. and Dunlap
buildings, on Bradford street. ALI these
stores have stood vacant for long time,
but have nOW been rented. Ihey Will De
occupied at once.
CIV. Brantley, of Dublin, pat colored
man as &. a.piiot on a raft Of scab timber
while he came down on a sawn raft cal
culating to arrive in Darien about the
same tinIe The coloTed man arrived two
or three days before Mr.. Brantley, how
ever. had the timber measured, inspected
and sold, and fled with the proceeds $5Te.-
William Smith. the negro whowaS-kiFled
in the wreck on the East and West ran
road last week, was horribly mangled. A
fat car in tie fall jammed his body
against the engine front so violently asto
mash in the figure head. The wOrkmen,
in making repairs on the engine, have
found one of his teeth in the boiler.
The value of taxable property in Polk
county foots up 81, ,O17, ,53S. About, $S5;000
OF this amount was included by recon-
mendation of the February grand jury. on
products-Of saW-mIlls, iron furnaces, etc.,
and $4,000 Rsse on such products dis
covered by the Collector. The insolVent
tax foOts up only $27 40, whereas last
year it was more than 500.
Daniel Rhodes has shipped from Raw-
kinsville to 6ew York since Christmas
2.10O dozen eggs. He paid for the eggs
E21% cents per dozen, and packed them
here. The freight and commission for
selling in New York amounted to Two
cents per dozen, and several of the last
shipments We're sold In New York at IL
cents a-dozen, making-a clear loss.
The most important civil case tried in
Mitchell court this week, was W.-B. Pot
ter, against G. W Swindie, Sheriff, claim
ing So, 600 damages for false imprison-
ment. Some time agOsthe Sheriff arrested
the plaintiff withOuta warrant upon sus-
piciOn. He was a fugitive from Justice,
named Berry, from Louisiana. The YER
diet was $35'for plaintiff. Anew trial has
been movsdfo by the plaintiff.
Athens Bonner WGtclgRdR: w. H.
Beusse brought toour office yesterday
several punches ofsoats, that were planted
20 years ago. They are called the Italian
oats, aad cOldweather, snow or rain will
not kill them out. They can be cut three
times a year before they come tO~a head.
After they are once planted and take root
there is no more trouble with them. They
grow feet high and have good heads.
There was a lady in Athens Monday
from Lula, who says that there is a great
deal behind the scenes in the murder of
Merritt by C0tfee. She says that Coffee
has never run an Illicit distillery, and
that the tale about Merritt trying to get a
woman to give Coffee away about his
illicit distillery is all stuff, and that
things will yet come to light showing that
Merritt was trying to work the illicit dis
tinery business of Coffee so as to get him
to leave the country or to have him
arrested.
The examination for the appointmen to
the cadetship at West Point, n. Y, was
held at LaGrange Friday. The following
young gentlemen were competitors:
'Messrs. Wilcox of Coweta, r. IL. Hines of
MuscOgee, Slake OF Columbus, Pierce of
Meriwether. Brown of Carroll, Jones of
Tr0up, DoZierof LaGrange, and Cotton OF
Harris, Mr.. Hines Of MuseOgee receiving
the appointment. The following were the
board of examiners: }. 7. johnson. RObt.
Park, and o. A. Bull of Troup, and Brown
of Carroll.
AT Atlanta Thursday two brothers,
John and Marvin Sweat. who live in set
tlement near the old Exposition hotel, had
desperate fight and tried to kill each
other. The fight grew out OF a family
quarrel. Marvin, who is a one-aTmed
man, knocked several of Johns front teeth
out and received fearful blow uLder his
left eye with a rock. After beating each
other terribly the men parted for awhile.
Marvin got an ak from his wife and John
went 10 mis- home ana got a double-bar-
relied shotgun. When they came within
few PAGES John leveAed the gun on his
brother and was about to kill hIm, when
AN old man rushed between them and
knocked the weapon up. Officers stopped
further trouble.
In town not far from NJ aeon, the other
day, couple of wicked clerks carried a
barrel out Of the store and sat it down in
the middle Ofthe street. The barrel was
an ordinary barrel and was empty. The
clerks looked into it as intently as II 1t
contained a section of a ten-cent circus,
laughed and then withdrew. Men on
Doth sides Of the street saw the perform
ance and were soon looking down on the
Dare bottom Of the barrel. Each man
smiled at himself for being so completely
sold, but he would have died before CIV
ing the snap away. All day long the eitl-
zens were walking up to that barrel and
coming away smiling. Every man IN
toWn was caught and every man in town
Kept the secret 10 himself.
James Gazaway. living in the suburbs
OF Dalton, has for quite awhile been af-
nlcted with drOpsy, the pressure OF which
upon the eXtremities has produced senile
gangrene, extending from his toes TO his
knees-a horrible case OF what is called
DRY notification IL became so offen-
siYe that it was almost impossible to go
or stay in his presence. Wednesday am
putation was performed by Drs. Bivings
ana Nc Aiee, assisted by DIR. Gordon, Drs.