Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT In TYPE.

y a.rO Train VVrecher's Dog Leads to
,5is Cauture-Bursiars Go to a Store
with Wagon at Roswell Junction
GEORGIA.
There were six deaths IN Macon last
week,
Watermelons were offered for sale in
McDonough Christmas.
Remington and Way are pegging away
at the Quitman artesian well.
Ouitman's municipal election occurs
to-day. There are 10 voters who have not
registered.
A warrant for murder has been issued
against the husband of the negro woman
who was last week found in the river
near LAGRANGE.
1t is reported that the m0onshlners pass
through Athens every night or two. They
are hard to catch, and but few citizens
know Of their arrival and departure.
During q meeting of the Social and Lit
erary Club of Waycross the other night,
tramp entered the hallway and stole every
Eat. cloak and OvercOat. He made his es-
cape.
The churches in Augusta will observe
the first week in January as their annual
week of prayer, and nightly union SER
vices will be held in the First Baptist
church.
A snake cooled around a rosebud was
found on Christmas day by Mrs. B. W.
Scott, at Milledgeville. They were placed
in bottle and were shown as Christ
mas curiosity.
Mr.. Waters, living near the bobbin mill,
brought to Athens, Thursday, the largest
sucker ever caught in that section. 1t
weighed 81 pounds A 3-pound sucker
is considered large fish.
At Atlanta Saturday President Root
carried the committee out to Grant park,
and suitable site was selected for the
Hill statue. The work of laying the
foundation begins to-day.
AT Wildwood, Ware county, last Mon
dav, Henry davis and John Smith had a
difficulty, in which Davis was shot in the
the thigh. He had baby in his arms at
the time. Smith escaped.
Charles Bolton, the Texas stock man
who was so seriously injured in the COLI
sion at the seventeen mile water tank on
the Georgia Pacific road, was out in
carriage at Atlanta Saturday.
The store of john Robinson. at Carroll
ton, was robbed last week OF some 500
in money and goods. 1t is thought that
the thief was shut in at night, having
secreted himself somewhere in the store
room.
Theresa, the 7-year old daughter of AL
derman N. Ulman, was instantly killed
on the Bay street track of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad by
the north bound train at Brunswick Sat
urday.
A negro girl living near Camilla an
swers to the high sounding name of Mamie
Baker, Queen Victoria, Southern Belle,
Atlantic Beauty. She is the color of the
midnight when the moon and stars are
obseured by clouds.
At Atlanta Saturday the Governor paid
rnv ard of gT00 RI I A tho
arrest of Meeks Black, and the delivery
of him to the Sheriff of Hall county, to
answer the charge of killing Jasper San
ders in December, 1884.
Five generations OF the Terrell family
dined at Col. J. Il. Fannin's, in LAGRANGE,
on Sunday last. About % persons were
present, including the venerable great
grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Terrell, who is
now far into the eighties.
About year ago Jimmie Fleming, of
Quitman, lost fine silver watch and it
was supposed at the time that it was
stolen. For twelve months the officers
have been on the lookout for it, and Fri
dav it was foundin the hands of colored
party.
Squire Tom Chandler, OF Carrollton, has
about 100 children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. He is now about
50 years old and in good health. He was
the author of the bill in 1913 to tax bill
lard tables, which has been the law ever
since. Hon. Robert ToOmbs spoke for
the bill.
Tom Madison, a negro living near Madi-
son, was out hunting Saturday, and. after
he had killed a squirrel, was standing
with his left arm leaning on the muzZle of
his gun, when his dog ran by and, touch
ing the trigger, discharged the gun. The
entire load passed through the arm near
the shoulder.
At Augusta, Madison Settle, who is en-
ployed by the Georgia Chemical Works as
a carpenter, was standing upon the roof
of one of the buildings talking to one OF
his fellow workmen, and when about to
sit down lost his balance and fell to the
ground, a distance of 60 feet, breaking his
neck instantly.
Chris. Owens. OF Dalton, the engineer
of the train which ran into the Georgia
Pacific, causing such destruction Of life,
is able to be out again. His leg, which
was so badly scalded is rapidly healing.
Will Keehlar, the fireman, is on crutches.
His leg, In addition to being scalded, was
severely sprained.
The son of Judge Parks, of Oglethorpe
county, who injured his spine by falling
from a chestnut tree some months since,
is still paralyzed from his waist down,
and is not able to move in his bed. There
IL no hope for his life, but the sufferer
bears his trials with heroic fOrtitude, and
is even cheerful in his conversation.
John Wesley Cooley, a negro in the
Clarke county chain-gang, died suddenly
Friday. Dir. Barwick, the new superin-
tendent, was having the premises cleaned
up, and when the dinner hour arrived the
cOnvicts all took their buckets and seated
themselves for dinner. Cooley got his
bucket, and Just as he started to eat fell
over dead. The doctor pronounced his
aIlment heart disease.
Archer Haeau, OF Carrollton, about
shutdown a day or two ago, walked out
into the road, distance OF some so yards
from his house. Friends saw MN throw
his handup to his head and fall. He was
carried TO the house a corpse. In the fall
the neck was broken but whether he died
from this or other cause is unknown, He
WAS Y years of age and had often ex-
pressed a desire to die suddenly when the
fatal hour arrived.
In the northern part of Terrell county
is a lone grave by the roadside. Tradition
says that some travellers many years ago,
lost an infant while encampeG there, and
burylng their darling, moved on to other
parts. A board that spauned the length
Of the grave once bore the date 1854 wbica