Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
rurNnV3 OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PAR AGRAPHS

,,.u,.o Road Hands strike at Dublin
youuc Man of Augusta BOmb aVded
,.,th Bricks and other Missiles While
returning from Gala Cold Blood
cd Murder at HawkjnsviIle.
GEORGIA.
dalton needs board of trade.
chickens are selling for 10c. apiece at
Rome.
stewart county farmers are busily en-
gsyed in pulling fodder.
The Sheriff of Murray county sold about
A500 acres of land Tuesday.
some of the crack shots around Flor
ence have organized gun club.
F,fty-seyen school teachers are en-
rlovad by the Gilmer county authorities.
Thirteen applications have been made
N Inc Masonic lodge of Dalton for men,
bership.
The Crown Cotton Mills at Dalton have
shnt down tor few days, in order to put
in more new looms.
The third quarterly meeting for the
Pearson circuit will be held at the Rob-
erts church Sept. and s.
Capt, A. 9. Bell, of Americas, says he
has a cashaw vine that Is one hundred
feet long and still growing.
Cotton is growing wonderfully fast in
Whitfield county, and only needs late
fall TO make an average crop.
The ladies of Franklin have organized
a sewing society. They Will make va
rlous kinds of garments and sell them for
the benefit OF the Baptist church,
The State Agricultural Convention will
meet at Gainesville to-day and the citi-
zens are making ample preparations for
the entertainment of the delegates.
Sunday Conductor GOldsberry and En-
gineer O'Neil made the run from Char
lotte, n. e., to Atlanta, 287 miles, in
eight hoursand thirty minutes, making
forty-ive stops, and twenty minutes for
dinner.
The trustees of the Hogansville High
School have elected Prof. Frank Trlmble,
of Lafayette, Ala, for teacher next
year. Prof. S. j. Boykin, the present
teacher, has been elected teacher at Pc
rOte, Ala.
1t is said there are people living in the
Blue Ridge, Is miles above Dahlonegay
who have never seen a negro. 1t is known
that there is not a negro living within
miles of the Blue Ridge, except the port
ers at POrter's Springs.
At Dublin eight or ten negroes were at
work upon the streets at wages OF 81 per
day. The town council reduced the price
to % cents, and ali hands struck. The
strikers are energetic in their efforts to
keep others from working.
An insane tramp was found in a very
destitute condition on Mr.. p. G. Elkins'
place, near Oliver, last week. MIR. Ell
kins is caring for him and will turn him
over to the county authorities. The man
claims to be from Rochester, n. Y.
Joe Harper is an Irwin county colored
man, who is fit example for his race.
He owns good farm, three horses, yoke
of oxen, cows, hogs and sheep, makes
plenty of provisions to do him and has a
surplus OF about ten bales of cotton each
year.
Application having been made to the
Ordinary by fifteen freeholders of the
9oSth district Of Stewart county, praying
for an election for a stock law, the Ordi-
nary has issued an order that such an
election be held at Midway ON Sept. 1
next.
The contract for completing the boring
OF the artesian well at Waynesboro has
been let out by Maj. wilkins, and work
will commence in short time. He has
already spent $4,000 in the attempt, and
is yet willing for the good of the place to
increase the outlay.
The election held on Saturday to deter
mine as to whether West Point should ne
gotiste loan of $4,000 resulted in a
vote of 81 for the loan and only two votes
against il. This means that the city Will
soon have its iron bridge and the college
completed and paid for.
The Jury CommIss ioners of Clarke
county have completed their work reVis-
ing the jury boxes, and are now having a
list prepared. There are about 100 names
in the grand jury box, all whites, and 4T6
In traverse jury box, including four col
ored men. There were only 400 names in
the old box.
Saturday night Mrs. West, wife OF Rich
ard West, Esq.,, a well known citizen of
scriyen county living near Oliver, was
paralyzed. Affection has been busy in
Mr.. Vests household, he having had two
children very i'll with diphtheria, from the
effect of which one died and the other is
just recovering.
At Macon Sunday a man named Reed
said something to woman near the
corner Of Fourth aud Pine streets, and an
other man named Fulton called him to &C
count about it. The result was a fight,
In which one of the parties was knocked
down with cane. The woman was so
heightened that she tainted, and it took
Dr. Johnson, who was called, an hour to
get her straight.
sheriff Holden, OF Stewart county, has
arrested Dick Patterson, colored, charged
with assault with intent to murder, COM
mltteo upon man by the name OF
Illlan, year ago last June. In a diff
Guilty with Gillian he discharged a shot
gun at HIM, bus failed to inflict any Sc
iOns wounds, and for which crime
ne ned the county and was arrested a few
uays ago near Morgan, Calhoun county.
Zeal Butler, one of Jesup's colored
preachers, after finishing his sermon sun
gay night, went home and spied hog in
MS garden. He secured gun, killed the
intruder and buried the same. But II
vas not long before il was found out that
me porEer" was the property of one OF
1ne coiored sisters OF his congregation.
butier, however, was arrested and put
unaer bail for his appearance for mali
clous mischief.
pil'er,41z Central railroad, reJoices that
molh IS TO De begun shortly on the much
aSSgueu freight warehouse, and proper IA
SilIies are TO be given for handling the
IuOIease Of business at that point. The
noau from Oliver INTO Bullooh county,
Tossing the Ogeechee on the new bridge,
uu making direct line to tatesboro, is
so" open. This road is an air line to the
county seat Of Bulloch. and affords to a
,Sssse portion Of the people of that county
SAe shortest route TO the railroad.
.1I Al; Hurley and a friend were out
SfilIrel bunting few days ago in the
s Inns near Lumpkin, when they witnessed
o rag that looked more like an earth