Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-05

expected that the position will be ten
dered 10 A. ID. Knight, who was con-
uected with the road at Jacksonville
some years ago as chief clerk.
superior Court is in session at Wash
in-tou with a fair attendance OF AL
t0rneys. The principal case on the
docket, and the one which, up to date,
has engaged the attention OF the court. is
that OF Col. j. Belkuap SmitG VS.. Wilkes
county, Col. Smith Is suing i2e county
for $1,000 damages, which he claims mas
been done MIN by the coun y building a
bridge over Little river, near his gold
stamp mill; the SAID bridge he alleges to
have been built 50 low as 10 ObsrTuct the
current OF the river. Two days were
suent on this case, and the jury came in
ednesday morning with verdict in
favor OF the county.
At Gainesville all the prisoners, except
lad, VINO escaped from jail have been re-
captured. The report that sam Jack
son and Jim Baird only went out in the
yard and returned TO their cells was a
mistake. They went about a mile, and
when first seen by the officers were leis-
urcly walking back toward town. lobe
Jackson refused to 20 out, and tried to
persuade his brother Sam from making
the attempt TO escape. He gave the alarm
that the prisoners were leaving. Deputy
Sheriff Tom Roberts shot one of the ne
grOes, sentenced to nine years, before he
could stop him. He is not seriously hurt,
though. lobe Jackson was carried back
to the Dade coal mines Monday night.
X. "A. W hite, Of Chipley district. Harris
county, has gathered from his brag acre
,, 400 pounds of seed cotton, and ne thinks
DC Will get 100 pounds more. He has
eleven acres from which he has gathered
nearly ten bales. There is some more in
the patch, which Will run the crop up to
ten bales and a fraction. Five thousand
pounds Of lint cotton from eleven acres is
handsome crop and SHOWS the pOssiDli-
ties of Harris county land when properly
cultivated. Scrap Goodman, in Chipley
district, Harris county, has an acre in
cotton from which he has gathered $500
pounds Of seed cotton, and he will get up
wards OF 100 pounds more. Il. b. MObley
mas an acre aud a quarter in cotton al his
home place in Valley Plains district Of
Harris county from which he gathered the
FIRST picking. made two weeks ago, 2,05S
pounds of seed COTTON.
TIE Recorders insinuations against the
purity of Americas society are creating
a sensation IN that pretty little town.
The last issue of the Republican says:
IAN article in the s nday's Recorder is a
most ungenerOus reflection on the morals
and the character of the respectable peo-
pie Of Americas. Nay, more. 1t is a SIAN
der upon the good names of the far
daughters of our little city
that cannot be substantiated. .
II Macon was stirred from centre
to circumference by the publication
OF a SANDER in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
which gave the names OF Its victims,
then how much more horritied should the
people OF Americas be when the whole
social fabric of her citizens are i'm
peached, and accused Of being more
l"prOus than the vilest dens--or on par
with them-that exist. Look at the ar
ticle in any light, it is a vile Islander.
aud the traducer should be made to feel
the scOrn OF the community he 50 Wiley
ISLANDERS.