Savannah morning news., 1886-04-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THENEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Fall into a Deep Well in Pulaski
Conuty and Miraculous Escape
from Iniury-BaTnett's LOVe-siCl<
swain LiecoVers from the Wound
in His Foot-Trouble Over an Is
tate Sale at Macon.
GEORGIA.
The Undertakers' Association OF Geor-
rta will be organized at Atlanta May %.
Can't. Ed. L. Wright and Daniel Meyer,
botn OF Albany, will remove to Bruins
wick.
Clarke county farmers are all hard at
work planting corn and cotton. The
wheat crop looks very poor.
Twenty.three of the merchants of Ath-
brs nave signed an agreement TO close up
their stores at o'clock p. M, after
May /.
The police of Athens intend to use every
means possible to enforce the Sunday law
and see that the stores are kept closed on
sundays.
AtAthens Long & Co., Charlie D. Long
and Cosby E smith comprising the nrm,
have dissolved partnership ana reured
from business.
On April 2S one OF Brunswiek's most
hmiable and accomplished daughters Will
be led to the h7menial altar by Savan-
nah gentleman
There are four new buildings going up
On Lumpkin street, at Athens, which will
be handsomely painted and add to the APP
nearance OF that street.
in Oconee county a sufficient number of
names has been secured to the petition for
an election on prohibition, and that the
election will be called in forty days.
An Athens merchant, who started on a
capital OF $1,000, the first year dId a busi-
ness of 500 600. Since prohibition went
into effect his business has far exceeded
this.
The commissioned officers of the Colum-
bus Guards have resigned IN order that
the company may be thoroughly reOr-
ganized, which will be done next Monday
night.
At Atlanta there is trouble in the office
Of the WorELn0 World. George Florence
fled a bill in the Office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court Wednesday asking for a
"eceiYer.
There is a freshet in the Altamaha
which is alarming all the farmers near
the river. Some say that the freshet will
be equal to the food of Al, known as the
"HarrisOn freshet."
P0ntoon bridges will at once be estab-
lished across EtoWah river at the foot of
Howard and Broad streets, Rome. This
is temporary arrangement until the new
iron bridge can be built.
Twenty-Five bales Of cotton We're re-
gently shipped from Brunswick direct to
Barcelona, in Spain. This is an unusual
occurrence, yet will no doubt be repeated
frequently in the future as ''direct trade''
Increases.
An election is to De held in Glynn
bounty on April "a to determine whether
an additional TAX of q Of 1 per cent. shall
levied n az
The additional tax, il agreed to, will be
for future, not present use.
Willie Cosby, who was shot in the foot
recently at Barnett, while trying to ar
range himself for an elOpement with one
of BaTnett's fairest daughters, is again
able to be out and look for better situa-
ton for the second trial.
poverty Hill" is the name of the place
tver the branch in the western portion of
Eastman, where two editors, two LAWYERS,
a school teacher and a retired merchant
have invested IN lands, upon which they
expect to build at an early day.
Banks county is entitled to the next
Senator from the district composed of the
counties of Hall, jackson and Banks.
DR.. Lockhart would like to go, also DR..
Chenault and many others. Tom Critic
will probably make the race for the
House.
At Atlanta the Office of the Adjutant
General is undergoing repairs. While this
work is in progress Col. John A. Stephen
manages to occupy himself by filing
acquisitions for cartridges, which are to
be used by military companies on Memo
vial day.
On March 81 little Dorrill Mann, the 10
year old grandson of Judge Darling
johnson, of Wilcox county, fell from a
china tree, crushing his skull. The little
fellow fingered in great agony for two
days ana nights, when death ended his
sutferings.
The civil side of the Superior Court at
Atlanta was engaged Wednesday upon
the case Of Mary f. Tatum VS.. the Gate
City Gas Light Company. She is sueing
for $4,000 damage on account of losing
an eye in the gas explosion, which took
place on Decatur street, July %, 1884.
A remarkable incident occurred at
GAINESVILLE last Tuesday. A horse be-
longing to J. l.. Kennedy had been suffer-
lng for some time with what was sup
posed to be dIstemper. During a violent
ut of coughing the horse cOughed up a
silver quarter which had lodged in some
unaccountable way in its throat.
John Sanders, of w Warrior district, Blbb
county, was arrested Wednesday at the
instance OF Rogers, WOrsham ~ Co., from
whom he had got guano, giving a mort
gage on mule. He sold the mule, failed
to come to time and was arrested. Not
being able to give the necessary bond he
was turned over to Deputy Sheriff O'Pry,
who has him in custody.
There is hitch in the building OF ST.
montOn's bridge between Clarke and OcO-
nee counties. The law is that the con-
tractors will have to give a guarantee
that the bridge will stand for seven years.
This, Of course, will stop the building. A
gentleman OF Clarke county says he will
give the guarantee il the counties will
give him $l,s00 profit on the building.
AT Atlanta, Wednesday, suit was filed
by Lila Brown vs.. the Western and At
lantic railroad il the Superior Court for
10000 damages. The declaration recltes
Mat the lady was about to step from
uain at MclVOr station on March II,
1856, when the train gave a jerk, throwing
aer into a deep gully. She sustained in
,ernal injuries which destroyed her health.
ohe is % years old.
Miss Emma, little daughter OF Matthew
Clarke, Of Eastman, narrowly escaped
oeing seriously burned Sunday morning
While building a fire. Among a heap Of
waste paper on the hearth lay parcel Of
gunpowder tied no IN cloth, which ignit-
lng flashed a fearful blaze INTO her face
and all about her, setting her hair on fire
and blstering her hands, arms and face