Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

4 Stock of Goods Spirited From
store at Griffin Between Suns
The Controlling Interest in the
Athens WaterwoTks Reported Sold
Indictments for Buying Votes at
Athens.
GEORGIA.
MANY farmers in Houston are plOwiRg
corn this week.
The architect for Oglethorpe's new
pourt house will be paid $500.
The question of sinking an artesian well
In Perry is again being discussed
There will soon be three book stores
and music houses opened In Athens
The old home of Grier, the almanac
man, is near sharon, Wilkes county
lime Thomaeville will vote on the ques-
ton of bonding the town for water works.
The CITY Council of Fort Gaines is ne
gotiating for the purchase OF nre en-
CINE.
Clarke county farmers are complaining
bitterly OF the dry weather anu nara
lands.
Judge H. M. Holtzclaw, of Perry. gath
cred a few ripe strawberries from his gar
den last Tuesday.
IhlE4
Olanted in melons in Terrell county for
market. One or two parties planted last
week.
Mrs. Mary f. Pittman, wife Of Elder
W. E. Pittman, died at Ty-Ty Thursday,
after a prOtracted illness. She was Mr..
Pittman's third wife.
What few oats there are in Terrell
county have improved to great extent
since the rains. They have taken on
quite quick growth.
Parties coming from Jones county
Thursday report a fire raging Wednesday
night few miles north Of Clinton. No
particulars could be gathered.
Augustus new gas company proposes
to light the street lamps at $12 so per post
per year-a saving OF Sand to furnish
tbe ciUizens at 81 per 1000 feet.
The premium lists for the next fair of
the Agricultural Society are in the hands
of the printer, and will be ready about
May 10. The premiums call for $4,000.
The last little squirt in the price of cot
ton nearly cleaned out the stock at Daw-
son. One hundred and fifty bales will,
doubtless, cover the stock yet on hand.
At Macon Col. Wiley has issued his or
der calling out the battalion for parade on
Memorial day. AS the day is a holiday,
the companies will appear with full ranks.
Thursday penitentiarY companies Nos.
2 and we're authorized to establish new
camps along the line of the Georgia Mid
land railroad. They will be established
at once.
Gainesville has been selected as the
place of holding the next annual reunion
of the old Eighteenth Georgia regiment,
which will take place on Friday, July 30
next.
In excavating for a foundation for the
court house at Cuthbert a soft place was
found, which had to be dug out. 1t re-
quired 81, 300 worth of brick to fill the
cavity.
In the prize drill of the Macon Cadets
Thursday night Private Cliff Locke won
the round-trip ticket to Savannah. Pri-
Yates Derry and Reid were the last to fall
out of ranks.
petition to incorporate the Oak Lawn
post office, in the route from Feagin to
Perry, has been numeroUsly signed and
forwarded to the Post Office Department
at Washington.
Jonah Daniel, colored, who lived near
Richland, lost his house by fire Monday.
None Of the furniture was saved. Two Of
his children were in the house at the time,
one beng just large enough to pull the
other out in time to save it.
The largest cat fish ever brought to
Perry was shown last Saturday by ne
gro man named Slepney Durham. The
fish in question was about three feet long,
weighed y pounds, and was caught on a
set hook in the Ocmulgee river.
The City Council Of Dalton has organ
lied a regular fire department. They
have purchased a well-appOinted hook
and ladder truck, with three dozen rubber
buckets, and have also put the chemical
Grn I'm m vvn I'M
Monday noon, while the hands were at
dinner. Mr.. Wilson's saw mill, three miles
south of Richland, caught fire, it is sup
posed, from the slab pile. The wind, be-
ing very strong, blew the fire among the
lumber and sawdust and the mill was de-
strOyed.
So far as heard from the fruit crop has
AOt been seriously damaged in Barlow
eounty, although there is little COM
plant in the upper portion of the county.
Wheat is damaged considerably, with
hardly prospect for half a crop. Oats
are doing finely.
The Dawson Manufacturing Company
is now making a lot of walking canes of
old plank and post taken from the stOckade
at AndersOnville. They are shipped
North, where they lind ready sale at from
81 to So apiece as relics of 1.-THE late I'M
pleasantness."
Griffin is soon to have another daily
paper. The prospectus of the Griffin
Daily Sun has already appeared, and the
paper will be Issued as soon as the press
and material arrive. 1t will be an even
ing paper. }. T. Waterman is the pub
Usher and proprietor.
w. Il. Stewart, an old and highly es-
teemed citizen of Americas, died Thurs
day, aged 63 years. He represented sum-
ter county IN the Legislature several
years ago, and was Tax Collector at the
time of his death. He was a good Con-
federate soldier and lost limb in the
service.
Col. 9. NJ. Wiley, OF the Second Georgia
Battalion, has sent the tents to Savannah,
10 be used by himself and staff during the
Chatham Artillery Centennial. His staff
Is composed Of Lieut.. Wilson. commits
sary, Lieut.. Wrigley, Surgeon Gewinner,
Sergt. Maj. Etheridgo and Adjt. Hugue-
min.
There is a strong movement ut Atlanta
10 organize into associations of different
kinds for the purpose Of meeting and pay
ing respect TO Hon. jefferson Davis on his
visit here. 30 many have grown up since
the war. or were too young for the service,
who are excluded from joining the assoc
citation OF Confederate Survivors, that IL
Is suggested that an assoc iatiOn be formed
NJ the sons Of Confederate veterans.
famous nimrod, In the person Of Eli