Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-25

Came 70 the Surface from Beneath
S25. 900 in Dcbts--A Spice Mortar
Made in the Time of Cromwell
Now Owned at Newman.
GEORGIA.
Clavton county has set apart the sum
of S5l5 for the support of her paupers the
present year.
Miss Folsom, President Cleveland's
fancee, is said to be distant relative OF
Or. l.. A. Folsom, of Hampton.
Dawson Williams, of Madison county,
has inst lost his sawmill and 10000 feet
of lumber by fire. 1t was set on fire by
an incendlary.
The case ct Smith VS.. Walker, which
has been pending IN Henry superior
Court tor u or 10 years, Will be taken up
again Monday.
Rev. John Coffee, one OF the most noted
preachers Of the Baptist denomination IN
Northeast Georgia, Is very i'll at ms nome
in Clayton, and his death is expected any
day.
DR.. w. Z. Gilbert, OF Blakely, some
time ago had three aged patients In De-
catur county. one "a, one So, and one 80
wears old, who told him, when he called
10 see them, that they had never taken
dose of medicine In their lives, ana urged
him not TO I'VE them any strong medicine.
Last Wednesday morning a negro girl
about IA years ola, living ON William F..
kennedy's place, in the eastern portion of
Epson county, was killed by lightning,
while in the field blowing. The horse
was first stricken and the electric current
was conducted to the plow by the trace
chain.
T. D. Phillips. one of the Oldest settlers
on the great Altamana river, says that he
recently had cut, on his land stick Of
timber 40 feet long which measured out
2,100 feet, board measure. Five men
cooked and ate their dinner standing on
the stump, and there was room also for
few dogs.
There is more cotton now held in the
country around Athens than ever before
at this season. A gentleman who last
week made tour through several cOun-
ties says he saw piled under nearly every
ginhouse one or more bales. One far
mer not far from Athens has yet 400 bales
on hand.
At Athens Thursday, before the train
on the Northeastern left, Mr.. Seney and
his two daughters amused themselves Oy
throwing a handful of pennies on the
ground to see the little negroes grab for
them. They thus scattered several dol
lars, which was very amusing to them
and to the profit of the little pickanin-
uies.
Mrs. Hafer, mother of DR.. H. H. Hafer,
of MarshallVIlle, is using daily silver
spoons that have been IN constant use in
the family for over 70 years. Her father,
when quite young man, furnished the
silver dollars out of which they were
made, and had the initials of his wife en-
graved upon them and presented when
bride.
While Ed. Colvar, lad living about a
mile from Middleton, was handling his
gun, it slipped, his hand stopping just
over the muZzle, and the hammer striking
the steps on which he was standing,
caused the gun to fire, the contents
shooting of his fore and middle finger,
and considerably decorating the flesh on
his o her fingers.
WV. Jackson, who moved from Henry
county to Pineapple, Ala, 20 years ago,
is on a visit to his old home for the first
time in about Is years. Mr.. Jackson
formerly owned nearly the entire site
upon which Hampton now stands. At
the time be left it was known as Bear
Creek and the town consisted OF about
two houses and an old bOX-car used for a
depot.
At Oglethorpe court last week Joe Nc
Whorter served on the grand and petit
juries both on the same day, a thing that
has never before been known in that
county. The grand jury lacked one man
on their body, and Mr.. McWhorter was
appointed by Judge Lumpkin to ill the
vacancy. After he had discharged the
duties of this office he was summoned by
the Sheriff as a petit juror, thus serving
on both juries the same day.
Just after the recent big freshet come
negroes working on w. j. Davenport's
place, on Broad river, in Oglethorpe cOun-
ty, found above ground a human skull
which had been washed up by the flood.
Where it came from ID not known, but it
10 supposed to have been brought to sur
face near where it was found, though
there is no known graveyard in the Vicin-
ity. The negroes claim it to be the skull
of slave killed by an Overseer during
slavery.
DIR. G. d. Smith, of Newman, has a spice
mortar and pestle cast in the time OF
Oliver Cromwell. 1t is made of bell
metal of the purest type, beautiful in de-
sign and artistic in finish, embellshed
and adorned with wreaths and figures,
showing a higher state of the moulding
art in that century than the present. AL
though it was cast 24S years ago, yet the
mortar shows but little wear by use. 1t
has the following inscription: "Henryck
Ter Horst Me Fecyt, A. d. 1882
A peculiar accident happened to a
small vearling at Middleton Friday. No.
"a East Tennessee freight. west bound,
struck it, or rather lifted 1t up on the
pilot, when il must have rolled off, its
lorelegs and one hind leg going through
a trestle, leaving the calf suspended by
one hind leg a u % short horns, wedged
in between tR- ties on the trestle, where
several train passed over it. The section
foreman being notified succeeded in
priziug it out. No bones were broken,
and il only seemed to be numb in its legs
from its three hour suspension in mid
air.
r. II. Jackson. OF Heard county, is one
man in a thousand. A few years ago he
was in the mercantile business in Frank
lin and found claims against him OF
about $4,000, or more than he had. He
closed out his business and went to the
farm and began raising heavy crops and
pushing things. He has paid up all
debls and cleared the books of all old
scores, and now owns one of the finest
river plantations on the ChattahoOchee a
lew miles from Franklin. Since h has
cleared up his debts and stocked his
arms and butt nice dwellings, be has
resumed his pastoral duties in his section
fthe county.
"Parson" Kirksey, OF Cuthhert, tells
good story on himself. In 1865 be was
appointed administrator Of an estate.
The heirs We're scattered, and he wrote