Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-19

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Wounded at Macon in a Midnight
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GEORGIA.
There are two vacant stores in Buena
Vista.
The belled bIzzard has turned Up in
Maine.
The corn crop yield in Marion county
will be good.
The work on the new Baptist church at
Buena Vista is progressing.
The Knights OF Labor are getting
strong mem bership in Waycross.
Caterpillars are doing some damage to
cotton on the river farms near Mllledge-
vile.
Judge Kiobee adjourned DoOly Superior
Court from Monday last TO Monday next,
Sept. 90.
The bulk of the cotton crop in Marion
county will be picked and marketed by
Oct 10
An Athens cotton buyer Friday shipped
$50 bales OF cotton via Chester to Liver
pool, Eng.
Taliaferro county farmers have resolved
not TO pay more than soc. per hundred for
picking cotton.
Another new enterprise in EatontOn is
the clothing establishment OF John w.
Adams, manager.
A new shoe and hat house has been
started IN Hawkinsvlle by w NJ. Taylor,
j. p. Watson and L. S. Lewis.
The material has arrived for building
the iron bridge across the Satilla river, at
the site of the old Cason bridge.
The Altamaha River Convention will
meet this year on the first Wednesday in
November, either at Lumber City or Haw-
kInsVille.
Calvin Moore. of DeKalb county, has
sent the Agricultural Department a
mammoth squash, which tips the beam
at III pounds.
At the conference OF the Hartwell Meth
odst church on Monday NJ. ID. Smith was
Unanimously recommended to the quar-
terly conference for license to preach.
Aleck, the colored mail carrier between
Buena Vista and Geneva, has travelled in
buggy about 10000 miles in the past
two years, and has never rode on rail-
road train.
John d. COXwell, a Wilkes county
farmer, living near the Lincoln line, will
make about 1000 bushels Of potatoes. He
dispOses of them readily at from Toe. to
81 per hushel.
The Georgia railroad has extended it's
FAST mail service to the Washington
branch. TO take effect on and after Sun
day, Sept. 10. Washington will be
reached at 1886 p. m.
An amateur and an expert fisherman
report some mysterious fish in the OhoO-
pee river. They say that these fish man
aged somehow, in nibblIng the bait, to
bite the hooks in two just above the bend.
The bids for building the hotel at Eaton
ton were opened Wednesday evening.
Two bids were before the committee. c.
( ID. Leonar d's was the lower of the two,
and to him the contract was awarded at
t0,A35.
Barlow Hargraves, OF w aresboro, went
TO Waycross day or two ago to have his
baby's teeth extracted. The baby is only
two months old iand was bornI with two
teeth, which were so sharp that they cut
Its tongue.
The Friendship Baptist Association
meets at Union church, eight miles from
Buena Vista, on Wednesday, Sept. 20,
( Delegates travelling by railroad viii be
met by conveyance at BueDa Vista on
Tuesday afternoon.
The autumnal equinox will occur on
Wednesday evening next about 10
O'Clock. The day and night will be of
equal length all over the globe. We may
look for raias and severe galts about the
time the sun crosses tue equinox.
A barbecue was given at Fellowship
".
which was attended by at least 200 peo-
pie rom all parts of the country. 1t was
a sunday school barbecue aud several
SUNDAY school classes were in attendance,
At Atlanta Monday will be a great day
Tor the cOlOred military. There will be
an Interstate prize drill at Athletic
park, under the auspices Of the Cover
nOr's Noiunt' cTs and the Fulton Guards.
A large number OF companies are ex-
pected TO compete Tor the prize.
A young lady in Waycross received
letter one day last week from a man in
1 Florida, whom she has never seen or
heard of, proposing marriage TO her. A
mutual TREND bad spoken OF her in such
glowing manner,that the gentleman in
question thought that she would make
him the wife that he needed.
A cow, which had been bitten by a
rabid dog some weeks ago, on Spring
creek, in Decatur county, was attacked
with hydrOphObia last saturday, and had
10 he killed. W. II. Mock, of the same
community, has fourteen head of stock
cattle similarly affected that will In all
PROBABILITY have to be killed.
The building boom has struck Albany.
ann IL is a substantial evidence OF her in
creasiug prosperity. All over the city
cottages, and in many instances hand
some residences, are being erected.
Progress ana Albany are Synonymous
terms, aud the indications are that the
city will continue in its onward strides.
A protracted meeting has been in pro-
gress at Excelsior since Saturday. The
church has been greatly revived. Three
were received by letter Monday night, on
Tuesday Mrs. 6. Nj. Scarboro was
baptized aud yesterday morning at 10
O'Clock Mrs. X. }. Williams, Miss Hol-
llingsworth and c. G.. Bennett were
baptized,
During the absence of the Governor no
business is beng transacted Mt the execu-
tive office beyond the issuing of few
commissions. Friday w. 2. White was
commissioned Notary Public tor the
l523d district, G.. M, OF Monroe county.
a. +. Andrews was commissioned No.
tary Public for the 276th District, and w .
II. Stovall for the 2Slst district OF Morgan
county.
The commissioners appointed By the
last grand jury 10 arrange for the estab.
lishment OF poor house and farm for the
paupers Of PulasKi county will hold IA
meeting on Tuesday next, Sept. q, at the
Office OF the County Judge in Hawkins
willie. Thu commissioners are X. w. An.
derson, d. G. Joiner, j. Il. Oberry, and
Jacob Mas, who, with the County
Judge, are empowered to act for the
county.