Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-22

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EibertOn Ends in the Deputy's Arrest
Horrible Suffering of aD xasane Man,
Who fled to the Woods near Knox
vile.
GEORGIA.
The ouitman academy now has a regu-
lar attendance of 11S.
W.D. Purcell OF Banks county, weighs
2S4 pounds. He is the largest man in
Banks.
The Albany Medium demands that
chicken lights in that city on Sunday be
prohibited.
The work of codifying the city ordinan-
ces of Albany is finished, and council at
its next meeting will receive bids for
printing them.
A man who lives in Harmony Grove
and who served four years IN the late war,
says he did not see buzzard during
the whole time OF the war.
Flint river is reported as being nearly
as low and clear as during the summer,
and if it don't rain soon the Montezuma
boat will have to suspend operations.
Judge John d. Cunningham, manager
of the celebrated fruit plantation at Or
chard Hill, says the recent severe weather
did not iniure the peach crop prospects.
At the sale of unclaimed freiQhts In
Fort Gaines last Saturday, Joel Porter
bought a box of drugs for - %, and on ex-
aminati found them to be worth $63 90.
The Town Council of jug Tavern
PLANTED out white mulberry trees on the
streets, and are now making each man
take care OF the trees In front Of has dwell
ing.
Miss Ann league attempted suicide at
Dahlonegs Saturday by taking laudanum.
A lovers quarrel made her wish to
shuttle of the mortal coil. She will re-
cover.
In cambridge, few days ago, while
mi king fractions COW, Mrs. d. X. Jones,
proprietress of the Jones house, was Sc
riously gored aud had one of her thighs
broken.
Hugh Henderson, who committed sui
eide at his home near Maysville, had 81
000 buried under bis house. The money
has been dug up and turned over to his
relatives.
At Harmony Grove DIR. l.. G. Hartman
extracted a tumor from a mule belonging
TO w. e. Hood on Wednesday. The tumor
when taken out weighed four pounds. The
mule is now improving.
Wednesday, about noon, the drill in the
artesian well at Americas broke of at a
depth of about l,725 feet, and since then
boring has been suspended. AS soon as
possible Mr.. Sloan will get to work again.
Marcus Jacobs has sold all of his real
estate and personal property at Harmony
Grove, and intends to cross the Atlantic
ocean in March or April to pay his
parents and kinsmen visit, after an abb
sence of ten years or more.
DR.. S. d. Rambo, of Brazil, is now in
Button with the home folks. after an alb
senee OF ten years. During that time. he
has been remarkably successful with his
pro ession, accumulatIng the snug little
sum of $50, 600. He will, on his return to
South America, remain i've years, and
then. come back to locate among his
friends.
On Thursday night as the train was pass
ing BTonwoOd station. just below Smith
vile, the glass water qua on the engine
burst, and startled Bob FlournOy, who
was on the engine. He stepped back upon
a stick of wOpd, which turned and threw
him OFF the engine, breaking his leg badly,
( and it. is feared that 1t will have to be
taken of.
At Valdosta, Monday night, Lewis
Bray, white. and Allen Greg, negro boy
Is years old, were playing billiards, when
a dispute arose between them. Greg
drew his knife and advanced on Bray.
BRAY drew his pistol and fired two shots,
one ball striking Greg In the forehead
and glancinQ out. The wound was not
serinas one, but would have been fatal II
tie ball had struck the bead In the centre.
Both parties were arraigned before the
Mayor next day. Bray was fined SIS and
Greg $40 for disturbing the peace and
quietude of the town.
Spencer, recently arrested at Madison,
Fla. is the One-armed negro who lived at
Troupville, Ga. He got into a difficulty
at TrOupville with Henry Bull, and while
Bull, who had two arms and was able
bodied, was advancing on his antagonist,
Spencer shot him in the f1eshy part of the
thigh. The wound was not thought at
fret to be serious, but after few weeks
Inflammation set in and be died. Spencer
was not known as "a desperate charac-
ter" The trial, however, will show
whether or not the shooting was done in
self defense, as claimed by Spencer's
friends.
Perhaps the very latest phase of tine boy
colt business makes its appearance in a
small town not a hundred miles from
Greensboro. There Is certain cigar
dealer who has beautiful and winsOme
daughter. A young man of the place paid
her attentions and won her affections, but
the old man objected and forbade the
young man to his house. But nothing dis
mayed, the young man organized a club
OF sympathiZers, and they have boycotted
the old mans misunderstanding to buy
cigars of HIM unless the barricade be
raised. At last accounts the old man was
growing weakened.
r.. j. McAfee was put in iail at Knox
vile as a lunatic. He pleaded so earnest
ly and nationally to be taken out of the
cell that the sheriff took him to his own
home 10 sleep. At about II O'Clock he es-
capped in his night clothes. He was found
by Mr.. Stenson in the woeds, ten miles
south of Knoxville, Saturday, in
most pitIable condition. His
whole body was lacerated and bleed
ing where he had been torn by
the brIars; his shirt was entirely torn of
Of him, and what few strings were left he
had tied around his feet, which we're so
bruised and torn that they had swollen TO
nearly three times their natural size. He
says that the reason he left is because he
thought that a posse of men had made a
plot to kill him that night, and the Lord
told him TO get out of their way, and after
be left he thought they had hounds after
him and he ran In all OF the water that he
could IN order to battle them.
Considerable excitement was created at
ElDerton Friday, by ID. g. McCrosky, Of
TOccoa, who arrived with a warrant, is
sued by the Coroner OF Habersham coun-
ty, and an appointment as deputy Sheriff
made by the Coroner, attempted to search
the dwelling houses of some of the citl-
zens for Fred Freeman, CHARGED with the
murder Of young Mauldin 10 Toccoa. He