Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-14

Liceuses on "a High PlHne-rwp boy =
Killed by Eating yellow jasmine near
Irwinton-D cath OF Tom" Scales at
Augusta.
GEORGIA.
Athens will soon have six drug stores.
Baxley turpentine stills will fire up
This week.
Gen. Longstraet voted SWEET" ticket in
Gainesville.
The LaGrange Light Guards have not
disbauded as was reported.
The Epson Guards Of Thomaston have
reOrganIZed and will at once uniform and
commence drilling.
Several hundred dollars have been sub
scribed toward erecting public school
building at Kingston.
Twenty-tour hundred applications have
been sent in to Postmaster Renfroe for
positions in the Atlanta post office.
H. q. Curry, Of cambridge, has set out
over 700 LeConte pear trees this spring,
and over 2l,0OO cuttings in his nursery.
Two small boys, sons of Milton Bell and
y. q. Lindsey, living near IrwlntOn, died
Friday from the poisonous effects of eat
ing yellow jasmine blossoms.
There was a heavy white frost at AL
bany Thursday morning, and ice was
quite plentiful. 1t is feared that the
peach crop is seriously injured.
A Worthwhile lady, in Butts county,
killed hawk with a pistol. The hawk
had caught chicken and flown, and was
pursued by the lady to the woods.
TIE number of defaulters on the tax
book for the year 1885 in Putnam county
is $50. The amount due by them is about
$500. Ofthese over $50 are negroes.
W. A. Powell, of Washington county,
has patented a garden hoe, the blade of
which is swung in the centre and sharp
ened at each edge, so as to cut each way
by pulling or pushing. 1t Is very light.
An order for 81 900 worth of pumps
have been given the Rome company which
recently bought the rights. This is about
the first order that has been given them.
The pump will be made by the Rome Ma
chine Works.
A consolidation OF the returns shows
that there we're 2,239 votes cast in Hall
county. OF these the Prohibitionists got
934, and the anti-PrOhibitionists 1,305,
giving the latter a majority of 81. The
dry men carried only three precincts In
the county.
Dute Kitchens. who killed a negro at
Worthwhile, in Butts county, about six
years ago, returned last week and gave
himself up to the Sheriff. The case will
be tried at this term of the court. He be-
came tired of ram bling over the country
aud concluded to abide the result Of fair
trial by twelve of his cOuntrymen.
At Marietta, Friday, Joe Haywood, the
negro who has been in Jail, charged with
numbering Charles Howard, the negro
Waterman at the Marietta and North
Georgia shops about a month ago, was
liberated by order of Judge Brown, as no
sufficient evidence for his conviction was
produced before the grand jury now In
session.
The celebrated Bush Zouaves, of st.
Louis, are expected to pass through Ma
con next month en- route to Montgomery
and Savannah, to participate in the prize
drill to take place during the Chatham
Artillery's centennial. An effort will be
made by the local military to have them
stop at Macon for the purpose of having
them give an exhibition drill.
In Greensboro last Monday night, while
placing a pistol under her pillow, Mrs. A.
L. Griffin was accidentally shot by the
hammer of the pistol becoming entangIed
in the bed clothing. The ball entered the
hip and ranged downward, and is not
considered serious. Mrs. Griffin keeps a
pistol under her pillow at night because
thieves recently tried to break in and
rob her bOuse-
John Coffee, who killed Deputy United
States Marshal Merritt al Lula last Satur-
day night, and for whom $1,000 reward is
offered, kept W. l. Tuck's bar, above
Crawford, for several months last year.
1t is thought he passed through Ogle-
thorpe county the first of last week with
some apple wagons, but this is not defin-
itely known. Sheriff Maxwell has his
eyes open for him.
Thomas A. Scales, the young man who
attempted suicide at the Globe hotel at
Augusta a few weeks ago, died Friday
from pneumonia, which was complicated
with other serious symptoms. No man
was better known in Augusta than Tom
Scales. He was pre-eminently a society
man, and was first in all measures look
ing to the entertainment or pleasure Of
The young society people,
The mica mine which is now being
operated in OcOnee county promises to be
the best in the State. A sample has been
sent to Commissioner Henderson who
prOnounces it the finest and the best he
ever saw. The amount taken out each
day is worth $3.50, and the expenses are
less than 80 a day. The quantity OF mica
is inexhaustible. There are also large
quantities Of asbestos being taken from
the mine which is in great demand at
lucrative prices.
The Executive Department has issued
neat little pamphlet containing list OF
outstanding rewards, offered since Jan.
], 1893. They number us and the sum
total of the rewards is $14,9OO, ranging in
amount frOm $50 TO $500. In 70 cases the
rewards are offered for the arrest OF MUIR
derers. the remainder being for burglary,
ABDUCTION, assaults. arson, rape, bigamy,
forgery, etc. But one of the crimes for
which these rewards are offered was COM
nitted in Fulton county.
The City Council Of Gainesville held an
extra meeting Thursday night to consi-
der the license question for barrOOms.
Thev decided to grant license and put
$500 tax on retailers. $3.50 on whOsesale
liquor dealers, and the same amount on
druggists. The restrictions on barrooms
are stringent. They have to close at 10 p.
M. and not open before daylight. No
minors are allowed TO even enter these
places, and II they attempt, the barkeep-
ers are 70 expel them at once.
The undertakers Of the State who were
at Atlanta attending a course Of lectures
on embalming, delivered by Prof Clarke,
of Springfield. III, have returned home.
The professor came TO Atlanta for the pur-
nose OF embalming the body OF J. Pierce
Weaver. He is an expert IN embalming,
and as soon as his presence was known
The updertakers sought the opportunity OF
hearing him. u is said that his subject
was demonstrated by two eOrpses, which
- ,htatuad for him without much