Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-22
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
From the suburbs and outlying dis
.ricta-Of Macon come most encouraging.
yeportssof' the condition ofthe crops.
g. L. Carson, of Harmony Grove, killed
on owl ON last Monday morning that
measured 4 feet 4111 inches from tip to
tip.
At Lithonia half a dozen quarries are
beino worked with large fOrees.of men.
Nuulbers-of ScOtchmen are arriving every
day-many direct from Scotland. The
rock businesseis on a'big boom.
For some time ghost has been troub-
ling the quiet citizens Of Center. This
ghost appeared at all hours of the night
and in all kinds of garb until the people
were afraid TO get out Of doors for fear of
seeing him.
Miss Florence Greer, at Chalky level,
owns a~pair of two-year-old twin Jersey
beifers so perfectly alike thatthey are I'M
distingHishable. The young lady takes
great care of the pair and proposes to eX-
hibit them at theAn State fair at At
lanta.
Cotton fields are grassy in the vicinity
of Athens, but farmers are toiling vigor-
ousIy. Those who planted as greats num-
Der of acres as they could cultivate in for
mer years now confess themselves some
what "OvercrOpped." Showers are ire
quent and grass and weeds grow apace.
A man named Ennis was arrested at
Macon Saturday by Officer Kennedy for
drunkenness. He found him staggering
a long the street car track on Fourth
street. When arrested he claimed that
while he was drunk he was not drunk on
the sidewalk but kept in the middle OF the
road, which he tried hard to do.
A large copper cent of the date of 1917
was found Saturday at Chalky Level, the
old homestead of the late Corporal Greer.
The penny was very black, but fresh and
unworn as when it came from the mint.
Pennies have never gone into use in that
latitude, and this was thrown away
seventy years ago, no doubt, as soon as it
reached Chalky Level.
a. j. McCray's gin house, at Sparta,
caught fire in an unknown way about s
o'clock on Monday night. The lint was
hanging abOut'On the sides of the house,
and the fire flashed over it as if it had
been powder. The fire was discovered
before it made much Roadway, and was
eXtinguished- 1t is thought to have been
caused by rats ''foolIng" with matches.
Cadet George +. Cooper, OF Americas,
who has been attending the naval schOO,
at Annapolis, Nd, recently graduated
and has been assignedStoduty on the Van
dalia, Capt. Harrison, new at the Brook
lyn navy yard. On first entering the
school George was in cIass-Of 90, only %
of whom graduated, and he was fifteenth
in his class. This is pretty good show
ing for George when it is considered that
over go per cent. of the class was left
behind.
The report has gone abroad that the
Southern Female College at LaGrange
would not have any commencement this
year, owing to sickness in the college.
This is a mistake. There is not any sick
ness in the college at all, and the most
that there has been was little local
trouble. 1t is absolutely certain that the
commencement will take place. The
commencement sermon was preached
Sunday by the Rev. j. II. Fitzpatrick, ID.
ID. Already a great many visitors have
arrived.
A rumor spread on Fourth street at
Macon Sunday night that man had been
killed on the Virginia, Tennessee and Geor-
gia Airline, near the old rock mill. Off
GER johnson, who wasi in the nelghborhood
looking for some dis0rderly negroes, saw
several lanterns huddled together in the
direction of the locality in which the ac-
cident was supposed to have occurred,
and this lent color to the report, He,
with Officers Baughn and Wood, went to
the scene, butthe lights proved to be fam
beaux used in Oiling uD locomotive that
was standing there waiting to go out.
No accident had occurred.
Two negroes became involved in a dis
pute at a church supper in WarrentOn on
last Sunday night, which terminated in
rather serious affair. Soon after the dis
pute one of the party left the church &C
cOmpanied by negro woman and came
in the. direction of town. When they had
reached the street near the Warrenton
hotel footsteps were heard behind them,
and moment later the negro was faced
by his late adversary, who demanded a
settlement Of the difficulty which had be-
gun at the church. One word brought on
another until a fight ensued, in which one
Of the party was badly cut In two places
and the Otner knocked down.
Fort Valley, Ga, several weeks ago was
startled by the news that three residences
had been broken into atnight and various
articles OF value distracted from each.
Rev. NJ. f. McCOok, the Methodist pastor
there, was one of the sufferers by these
burglaries, as were also Mrs. Royal and
Mrs. Drabnett. A few nights before the
Methodist and Baptist churches were both
entered and fine clock and other articles
stolen from each. The burglar who is re-
spOnsible for all this deviltry has been
ascertained on indubitable evidence to be
one JACK Coleman, n cOtOTeu ClJlZeu OUT
recently returned from the county chain
gang. He was captured on Saturday,
and will, in October, at the Superior
Court, be authorized to spend a term in
the penitentiary.
Hatch Evans, colored, who was SEN,
enced TO serve twelve monthson MeRee's
chain gang for rObbiDg passenger at
Waycross, on the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad, December last, and es-
capped after only serving eleven days, was
captured last Tuesday near EnVille and
brought TO JesuD securely manacled.
Evans is notorious thief, and generally
worked passenger trains, getting on at
different stsaions along the road, nipping
whatever he could get his hands on and
departing with the plumber. lie is the
same party who, with man by
the name OF West, was arrested last
fall for stealing a watch from passenger.
The watch was recovered, but Evans was
acquitted through an error IN the Dill OF
Indictment. He was taken back 70 the
chain gang and VIII receive double dose /
Tor escaping.
People passing along Mulberry street
at Macon Sunday have noticed the China
men at work in the laundry formerly Kept
by Sam Lee. The doors were always
thrown wide open, and Lum Tum, Wun
Lung and Sing Song or whatever their
names might be, were seen in scanty cos
tune at work on their washee. Last sun
day they seemed to have discarded more
y their costume than usual, and Omcer