Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS or THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
.sarrow Escape near Sparta of
Passenger Train from a Terrible
PIunge-A Lady Rescued from
Drowning at Sparta.

Plunge-A Lady rescued from
Drowning at Sparta.
GEORGIA.
II IA said that there is one case Of men
nights in Macon.
The brick for the new hotel in Eatonton
will be purchased in Macon.
Frank HUMPHREYS, the Baldwin county
murderer in Jail at Macon, is better, but
will not live much longer.
Col. Charles &. Jones, Jr., of Augusta,
has beer made a Fellow of the Royal
Italian Society Of Learning.
A. L, Ellison, the asylum beef con-
tractor, has sustained quite loss by haV-
;ng cattle drowned III the swamp below
&lledgeyille'
The railroad situation OF Americas has
reached that point which iully Jus6ihes
the citizens to take action in the matter
vi erecting 3 cotton compress.
St. John's chapel, East Macon, is to be
dedicated by Bishop Beckwith in May,
nroylded the small debt on the property
can be liQuidated. 1t is now ready for
services.
An ordinance by Alderman Cooper, OF
Atlanta, changing the name Of Bell street
n NiIIedge avenue was carried Monday.
Thisls the principal street leading into
Grant park.
Capt. j. J. Battle, executor on the es-
tate OF the late Lawrence Battle. of
GAINESVILLE, has made the heirs-at-law of
said estate $50, 900 in the last eight years
from capital of IS, 900 farming.
At Harmony Grove Sunday, George
Hawks was returning home and met the
tram. when his horse stood on hind feet,
fell and broke his neck. He was poor
man and the loss will fall heavily upon
him.
At Atlanta Monday, Maj. Lamar Cobb,
treasurer OF the board of trustees of the
state University, deposited with the
treasurer $1,000, and received in exchange
a tifty-year per cent. certificate Of in
debtedness.
A Macon mar whose apartments are on
Third street keeps the floor OF his room
covered with empty oyster cans. He de-
clares that be detests dogs, but must
have some protection from burglars. The
empty oyster cans form tirstrate burg
lar alarm.
At Macon Sunday about 200 feet of the
foundation slid out from under the East
Tennessee road near the cemetery. The
track is still there, however, and forces
Of hands are at work on both ends of the
road, and they hope to get the track ready
for trains by Thursday.
It is reported that John Carr, of Sparta,
who was convicted at the last term of
the court of assault with intent to kill.
and who was out on bOad, pending the
decision of the Supreme Court on an APP
olication for a new trial, has fed to
greener fields and pastures new.
During the food last week a north
bound train was blOckaded at Eastman.
In order to reach Macon the passengers
went to Jesup and then to Savannah,
where they took the train on the Central
railroad. reaching Macon Sunday morn
ing. 1t was a roundabout journey.
Monday just outside the city limits of
Macon, in Sandy Bottom, John Howard
and a dTayman named Floyd fe out
about the formers wife. Howard knocked
Floyd on the head with an AK, making an
ugly wound, from which death may re-
suit. Floyd shot Green Williams about
similar row some time ago.
Wednesday morning five or six aquatic
birds. unknown to that immediate sec
ton, were picked up in the streets of
ValdOsta. They made no effort to d
when caught. 1t Is supposed That they
were driven from the gulf, and fell here
from exhaustion. They were web-footed
and resembled the bluepete seen about
our lakes.
Last week was reported the mysterious
manner in which Howard Irby, of the
Glade. transferred certain property be-
longing to Tiller Bros. & IrbV. Mr.. Irby
has amicably settled with Messrs. Tiller
Bros, and though they have finally dis
solved partnership, Mr.. Irby going to
BairdstOwn to live, yet the friendship and
good feeling heretofore existing between
them is still cherished by each.
At Greensboro, among those who
worked for the cause of prohibition, were
a number of regular drinkers. Some OF
them were quite prominent in the con-
test. and the whisky men have formed
boycott against them. The liquor men
say that they cannot buy any more
whisky of them, and when one presents
himself at the bar he will be told that the
barkeeper "dOes not consider it to the dry
mans interest 20 drink whisky" and he
Will be refused.
The Observation-Disclosures OF Baldwin
will contest the decision Of Ordinary
Sanford in the courts, claiming that his
action was unwarranted. They teel con-
fdent that they can MAKE a strong case
Of il, and will fight il to the last On the
other hand, President Solomon Barrett, OF
the Prohibition Executive Committee, re-
ceived telegram Monday from the New
York state Temperance Union instruct
Ing him 10 draw on them for Sl,400 to de-
fend the cause OF prohibition in the COM
ing contest.
Monday party OF Macon boatmen went
nYe miles down the river to recover an or
gan lnhl tue UOO0 washed out OF mouse
IN East Macon. They found it in Dead
river, at the same time picking up a clock
That mad also been washed awav. On
their way Oack to the city they discovered
an ancient relic Just below the site of the
GA Georgia railroad bridge. II WIS the
nul! 0f a steamboat. 1t lay near the bank,
ine bottom partly turned up. II was
ahou; ~ ieet long. IL was supposed that
II was all that remained Of the Goddard,
steamboat sunk more than 40 years
ago.
most remarkable escape from drown
ing was that of Miss Eliza MOate, OF
sparta, on Monday. The factory branch
is usually little, tnread-liks stream
Where II crosses the public road; but
Mondays rains had swolieu 10 10 an angry
'orteut when the young lady attempted
TO cross itOn the fOOt-iog, which was I'M
DER water Whether the ioO'-log was
1oaiin2, or the swiitness OF the stream
made ntr footing unsteady, is not known.
n any event. She tel in, and was washed
doWn stream, through fence, and under
bridge, distance Of more than 100
Yards. Sue was finally rescued.
Henry Hoover. a white man living near
tne OcOnee river, near lrwintOn, took
boat las thursday, presumably tor the
purpose o. getting out OF the swamp an
OK that bad he1N CAUGHT there by the
rising OF be water. Before leaving home