Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
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GEORGIA.
,-obia the nine-year-old son of Judge
,,61geii Cobb, OF Athens, died Tuesday.
The authorities of Appling county have
.sroTtised their old court house for sale.
mo Hinson. colored, of Gainesville,
% sbot in the left shoulder while trying
20 escape with stolen horse day or two
ago. :. p,,..,...,. Ill, - oo,
Ia two new parsOnages, one for the
pun aajdino elder of the district and the
PPtSor for the pastor Of the church there.
The town of Bowman has Just been or
Med under a charter granted by the
sa,norior Court, and elected Hon. A. j.
md Mayor and Mr.. K. II. Glenn Re-
corder.
Al brunswick Jeter 81 Bush's wharf,
90 600 square feet surface, was finished
at saturday. 1t is built for vessels to
iay alongside and not across stream, thus
'reventing the filling UP of the river
front.
A military company has been organized
IN Greensboro. The people have taken
Mold OF the enterprise with spirit, and the
local press desires that the company
sbould be for the county as well as the
town.
HIT. Mcdaniel, surveyor public lands,
Montana, executed his bond at Atlanta,
Wednesday, before Col. Buck, clerk of the
United states Court. He and his party
will leave Tuesday or Wednesday for Hell
ena, Montana.
The reason jefferson Davis did not stop
of Dawson, as was expected, was the fact
maj he had received a telegram stating
that the ievees on his Mississippi planta-
tiOn we're broken by the floods and he was
compelled to hurry home.
Judge Walker, of Monroe, has a Span
ish dollar made IN 1918. 1t is rusty and
worn but the marks on it are distinct.
The Judge got it out OF the bank at
Athens, where it was representing a gov
ernment ST., and that was what 1t cost.
At the meeting of the City Council of
Griffin Tuesday afternoon, the case
against Alderman Wood, charged with
dlsorderly behavior and misconduct, was
continued until Tuesday, May Is, on &C
countot the absence of Woods lawyer.
Fifty wears ago it required a whole
week to make the trip from ToccOa to Ell
bertOn and back. Now we can go and
return in as many hours. Then shere
we're only seven houses on the route.
Now there are seven towns and $50 set
dement's.
By direction of Gov. Mcdaniel, COM
missions were issued Wednesday to the
following Notaries Public: A. A. Collier.
1l2lst district; II. II. Rouse, S67th dis
trlct; 5. ID. Parker, 1124th district; g..
Champion, 1044th district; all of Worth
county.
The turpentine business is on boom in
Mcintosh county, between Darien and
SapelO bluff. Maj. MOnger, six miles
from Darien, and Col. Brown have struc k
H,,o ~ bor
new crops, and their product is princi-
paly water white and window glass.
A party in Athens saws if Clarke county
will vote back liquor that he will pay
$1,000 for license, provided only two are
issued IN the county. He will also open
on Broad street, without screen, and
have a separate door for the whites and
blacks. Another party proposes to pay
$4,000 for an exclusive liquor license.
The present organization OF the South
ern Rifles, Company A, Fourth Georgia
Regiment of Volunteers, G. S. A, con-
template having reunion of the men,
bers of the old company at Talbotton in
June, and to celebrate the occasion with a
grand barbecue. The company will be
presented on that day with the company's
banner, handsomely painted.
George Brown. OF Lawrenceville, went
out in the woods near home to try mis- pis-
tOl. He snapped it to see if it would fire.
As no report came he concluded 30 look
down the barrel to see if it was loaded.
Just as ne got the barrel within range OF
his eye 1t fired, and the ball struck be-
tween heright eye and nose and glanced,
coming out IN the corner of his eye.
Architect d. B. Woodruff, superintend-
ent OF the public building to be erected by
the Federal government in Macon, says
that the work will probably begin Mon
day. A force of hands will be employed
and put to work on the excavation. He
mas instructions to advertise for bids for
the contract of putting up the building,
de will do this at once, and as soon as the
contracts are awarded the work will be
pushed forward.
K. y. Adams, OF IrwintOn, has a whet-
stone which he says is petrified hickory
winch belonged to his grandfather, and is
lou years old. He also has one OF the Origi-
nal copies Of s.Cruden's Concordance to
the Holy Scriptures" by Alexander CRU
den, A NJ, published in 1888. He also
owns a book of sermons by Ebenezer En-
skine published in 1717 at Dunfermlne,
scotland. Mr.. Adams grandfather came
over with Gen. OglethOrpe and settled at
Savannah.
In Milton county one OF Judge Nesbit's
seehiYes produced six pounds of honey
ID single day last week. He weighed
tne hlye In the morning before the bees
uad gone ont and again at night after they
were all in, and found the increased
weight Of the hive to be eight pounds. He
weighed it again next morning and found
tne weight only six pounds greater than
lhe morning before. He says the two
pounds lost in the night was due to evap-
orsuon' the honey when first made being
quite watery.
Az Darien the funeral OF Henry Todd,
aged 90 years, worthy cOlOred man. was
tue great event of the past week. The de-
ceased had by economy and prudence ac-
eumulated considerable wealth, and
throughout his whole career he distin-
gulshed himself for scruDulOus honesty.
me whites respected him, and amongst
tue c0lored people he was beloved on ac-
count OF his many acts of philanthropy.
o,A OF the most prominent white citizens
scted as pail bearers at his funeral, viz
a. =. willy, y. =. Champency. Louis Col
a. Adam Strain, James Walker and A.
t. Dimmock.
Rather a sensational affair occurred
near Gilesville, Bibb county, Sunday at
serhoon. A young man out there has
oegh paying his respects TO young lady,
Sggu tue mother seriously objected TO his
ltanees. Sunday be called at neigh
~ house, where the girl was stopping,
uu lnok her out for a walk. Very soon
.ls mother got wind of IL and. armlng her
wv with cane, she laid In wait for the
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