Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-18

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CLAW county votes on pronlOitiOn
April :. -. III, .orvona on
sardsrsville needs a bank, warehouse
and compress.
1faconites invest nearly $4,000 year
in lottery tickets.
Al Rome Tuesday Norman Barton, aged
r was married to lady of 20.
New houses still go up in Sandersville,
and are soon occupied when hnlshed.
columbus is to have new city dlrec-
tory. The work was begun yesterday
The Floyd Rifles, of Macon, has re-
Gently added eighteen new members 10 lUs
roll. o,oa
NE. Mitchell is a candidate for re-elec-
ton TO the office of Sheriff oil WILCOX
county. ~.
Josepn Fried, of Savannah, and MISS
Hattie Kuttner, of Rome, were marrleu
in the latter city Monday
The seed stores of Atlanta are doing a
much larger business TINS season IMAM
they have for many years.
II is Thought that the grand jury Will
let Athens build school house on cor
ner of the court house square.
A
pnana at the cotton seed oil mill. By
next fall a regular fertilizer factory will
be started.
Measles are prevalent in Waycross and
adjacent country, and are pronounced by
the physicians to be of an unusually ma
lignant type.
At Athens next summer Mr.. Bloomfield
will build a handsome new store for
ToOmer & HaseltOn, next the Singer Oi1ce,
20 by 100 feet.
All of the Athens merchants say they
are doing so per cent. more business than
this time last year. Athens is now pro-
hibitiOn town.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan. the authoress,
who has been living in New FORK for some
time past, will return to her old home, in
Charleston, this week.
The case of BlOunt VS.. the City Council
of Sandersville went in favor of Mr..
BlOunt to the tune of $500. 1t was dear
tall in the hole to the city.
Mrs. Burney, aged 60 years, was burned
to death in Floyd county Tuesday, while
burning trash in her yard with no one
near to render her assistance.
Ordinary Stewart, of Clayton county,
has rented the old buggy factory at Jones'
boro, in which to hold court, pending the
erection of new court house.
n. f. Browne, who was principal Of the
female academy at EatontOn when the
war broke out, is said to have been the
inventor of the cotton seed oil mill.
A gentleman in Greensboro sold piece
of property the other day IN CoVingtOn for
81 500, that he had offered for 81 800 before
the railroad boom struck the place.
The publication of the Albany Medium
has been suspended on account Of tinan-
cial misfortune. II. NJ. Mcintosh, of the
NeloS and Advertiser, IL the assignee.
Al. Harley has enjoined further buri-
ais in the new cemetery Of the Atlanta
negroes, on the ground that the grave
yard is rendering his homestead adjoining
uninhabitable.
W.B. Griffith & Co. have just made a
contract with the commissioners OF Clarke
and Oconee counties to build the Simon
ton bridge, between Athens and Watkins
Vile, for $4,000.
G. 81, Everett, OF HawkinsvilIe, has sold
his interest in the mercantile trim of c..
Il. Everett g. Co. to his partner, A. E..
Hamilton, who is moving the stock of
goods to some point below Vienna, in
DOOly county,
A drummer, stopping at the CONNER
cial hotel at Athens, forgot the day of the
week, aud took his sample case Sunday
chants. He returned after he saw the
doors were all closed.
'sNip' is the name of a new post office
which has just been established at the
residence OF s. p. Wilson, in Wilcox
county. Mr.. Wilson is Postmaster. II is
hoped that service will be commenced on
the route in a short time.
A fair for the benefit of Queen City
Steam Fire Engine Company No. 2, Of
Gainesville, was opened Monday night
and will continue until Friday night.
fhe object is to raise money with which
to purchase uniforms for the new COM
pany.
Tyler Cooper's proposition in the Gen.
eral Council at Atlanta last Monday TO
create fund of $4,000 by setting aside
$4,000 year, for the purpose of buying
ground and building city nall, Is being
freely discussed. The proposition seems
to meet with universal favor.
At GAINESVILLE, Tuesday, W. p. Bussey
q Co., the contractors, formally delivered
the keys OF the new hotel to its owner.
Mr.. Matthews, of TalbOtton. He, in
turn, surrendered them to Mrs. Reming.
ton, who has leased it for year. 1t is to
be formally opened on March 20.
Rome Courier: The Rome and Carroll
ton Railroad has not been in operation a
month yet, but the good to this town is
already apparent. A wholesale merchant
OF this city says the increase TO his trade,
and from territory he would not reach
otherwise, has already amounted to more
than his subscription to the stock OF the
70 ad.
The negro arrested last week and lodged
IN Butler Jail who was supposed to be Bill
walker, who killed Lawrence Mann last
summer. when taken to Forsyth on
Wednesday evening for identification
proved not TO be Bill. He claimed 10 be
Frank Waller, and when told that he bore
no resemblance to Bill he put on broad
grin and said: II knowed l want Bill
Walker"
In st. Peters church at Rome, day or
TWO ago, Rev. JOB Turner, a deaf mute
himself, missionary of the Episcopal
church to deaf mutes, read evening
prayer in the sign language of the deaf
mutes, the Rev. MIR. Powers interpreting.
Inc service in this language is beautiful
ana impressive. II was the first time the
congregation had seen it so said, and
many were much moved.
DR.. John Durham, of Woodvile, paid
t2O each for pair of fox hounds in Penn
sylyania, besides 50 for express. When
the dogs arrived they looked so poor and
Inferior that the doctor decided he was
badly swindled. He took them from the
once, however, and when rested tried
them at chase. To his surprise the dogs
lead the whole pack, even the most IA
nous runners Of the county.
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