Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-01


crops.
GEORGIA.
The LAGRANGE Female College COM
,,eneement will begin June 6.
The recent rains benefit Warren county
g. 00O bv increase of the Oat crop.
Irons in Burke county are reported as
looking and doing well since the resent
rains.
The physicians OF jackson. Banks and
Madison counties will meet in Harmony
Grove on Thursday, June 3.
There was a lady in ithonia last week
from Warren county VINO had bearC on
her chin eight inches long. 1t was re-
markable sight.
l. H, Parnell has sent to the Vest
Point Press office the first ripe peach Of
the season. MIR. Parnell made his irst
shipment Saturday.
G. W. johnson, of Lithonia, Is getting
ont some granite blocks Is feet long and
Is inches wide, to be used on the ceme-
terry lot of John Shipley, of Conyers, Ga.
Tom Crumley, the little negro boy who
was so severely kicked by horse at
WaynesborO last week, having his skull
near the right eye crushed in, is up walk
ing about.
There is a corn famine in Athens now
road gauge delaying freights. One firm
in Athens had calls for LOCO bushels of
corn Saturday that they could not fill.
S.H. Venable & Co. will soon move
their forces of workmen from LithOnia to
Stone Mountain. There are quarries
enough at Litbonia to furnish a good
many States all the stone they need for
years to come.
AtMacon, on June 10, at the Academy
Of Music, Miss Jessie HaFdeman will
give IA farewell benefit concert, the pro-
ceeds to 90 toward the first payment on
the handsome new organ for the First
Baptist Church.
At WavnesbOro j. II. Wilkins has COM
menced the erection OF dwelling house
on tue south side of Peace street, near his
park. j. O'Byrns is having a dwelling
house built on his lot in the upper part of
the city, near his residence.
Scriven Superior Court, Hon. R. W.
Carsweil, Judge, presiding, closed It's la
bOrs Friday and adjourned after session
Of six days. y o cases Of any general i'm
pOrtance we're disposed of. Four negroes
were, convicted OF misdemeanors and one
Of felony.
Q. w. Scarborough, of Enterprise, SUM-
day killed hawk that has been stealing
chickens OF him for years. He measured
One claw measured ~ inches long. He
SAYS 1t has frequently carried away full
grown hen for him.
Athens Banner w atchman: Samuel F.
Wood, of this county, sowed ten bushels
OF wheat and will make 80. He prepared
his land properly. On an average we do
not believe that Clarke county will make
her seed wheat back. Spring oats are
just as fine as the land can grow.
Near Pinson's Store, " ednesday morn
ing, Mrs Fred Jackson, while going home
from one OF her friends, was suddenly
seized and pulled in the woods by six ne
gro men. Screams were heard by gen.
tleman passing, who ran to protect her,
but was too late to catch the negroes.
At Rome Mrs. j. NJ. NJ. Caldwell is
dying. This lady is well known through
out the South, being the wife of Rev. j NJ.
NJ. Caldwell, President of the Rome Fe-
male College. She also has been identl-
fed with the college since it's organiza-
ton, nearly so years ago, and no woman
is better known or more beloved.
Judge James IL. Rogers, of Sparta, has
twenty-one bee hives from which he is
now reap1ng the sweetest sort of harvest.
Tie took sixty gallons from a portion of
MS colonies on Tuesday. He ships to
various points, and fnds the business
both pleasant and profitable. In spite of
all his shipments he still has a fine guam
tity on hand.
Chief Wiley, of Macon, has received a
letter from the City Marshal of Admission,
Ala, asking for the arrest of George c.
Gresham. There is a reward OF $50 offered
for bis capture, and the boys are on the
alert. He claims to have represented a
large millinery establishment in Chi
cagO, but his misconduct in Alabama has
IN a
VIM. A. Martin, living near Sparta. re-
ports an enormous fall of hail on his place
on Wednesday night Of last week. In
some places the drift was four feet deep.
ON sunday morning Mr.. Martin gathered
up a bushel of the hail and took it to
sparta. His oats were destroyed. In
some Of his fields not a stalk of cotton was
left standing, and his corn was stripped
OF its leaves. Fencing and trees were
blown down.
A negro named Butts died at Culver's
pond, Hancock, on Sunday, very sud
denly. In company with several others
ne went down TO the pond to so in bath
irg, 1t is said that he ran for nearly two
miles before reaching the water, and
Owed in without waiting to cool off. lie
came out and dived in twice more. On
coming out the third time he sat down
and died almost instantly. 1t was case
OF congestion.
Col. John y. Munnerlyn, of Waynes-
Doro, on Monday last removed snag-a
piece Of pine--abOut five inches long and
very near an inch thick, from the leg Of
one Of his mules. This animal was used
m hauling timber to his saw mill at
Munnerlyn. 1t was snagged some five
weeks ago, aud has not been in work
Ing condition since. The Colonel had the
mule sent 10 his home and removed the
splinter HIMSELF and thus saved the life
Of the animal.
On Jackson street, Athens, a large num-
ner OF chickens are raised every year.
Inc most Of them are game. and the
mothers Of the little chicks will fight man
or beast 20 protecttheIr young. Saturday
large rat ran out near the Banner
" alchman Office and an old yellow hen
oi the shaYe-neck variety concluded that
ief brood was In danger and made for the
RAJ 4 terrible fight ensued, but the hen
came of victorious. The rat was Killed
ABOUT as quick as terrier dog would do
the work.
Mercer University boys OF Macon feel
Sonhdent that they can down Athens
Doys IN the diamond field. They were TO
nave went u Athens Saturday, in re-
sponee 10 n challenge from those boys,
"a which it was stipulated that they
SHOULD play az the latter city. The chal-
ifuge and acceptance were published,
uul the faculty OF Mercer decided that In
consequence OF the examination now IN
pIosress, and the approach Of commence