Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDAAND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT gTYPE.

Cholera cutting on tie forAers
Around BenvIlle-An ldNewspapeI
File Found at WashinaoT
GEORGIA.
The Salvation Army is iov heading to.
ward Georgia.
The Mcdonald conventin aeets On Sat,
Urdsy, Sept. 4, next.
Madison, Morgan countyis fixing up a
big political barbecue.
Fountain camp meetings. now in pro.
gress in Wilkes county.
Atlanta is shipping SINE of her bar
room fixtures to Washnton.
Washington's authotitss have recently
taken i'll $500 for barron license.
The first oysters ofthe season were
brought to Brunswick lst week.
There are now in oGrse Of erection
over $4,000 worth Of lew buildings in
Athens.
The reunion of the cd Irwin Artillery
will take place il Washington on
Sept. IA.
Win Pucket, the artersville Marshal
who killed Bryant Shetland, has joined
the Baptist church.
Whit Long has sid his interest in his
store and business It Carrollton to his
partnHr, Harry Stewart.
A protracted needing has been in pro-
gress at the Providence Methodist church
at Lun1pEin durinsthe past week.
The old hotel at Camilla has been torn
down by B. r. Bay, who will use the
tlmbers IN erecting his storehouse.
One hundred shares OF $50 each is the
basis on which M6onough's new school
will be built. Nelly all the shares are
already taken.
Isaac Jobden, N old and highly re-
spected citizen, ded at the home OF his
daughter, Mrs. Iarnes, in Quitman, ON
Saturday last.
Rev. Lewis j. Dawes, for two years
pastor Of the Methodist church in Wash
ington, died in Gainesville on last Sun
day, at the parsonage.
The primary election in Stewart county
for member of tn. Legislature wilfoccur
next Friday. BOthcandidates are making
an active canvass of the county.
W. n. Woods, formerly of Rockdale
county, has purchased an interest in the
business of Fl. j. Copeland &c Co. and will
make McDonOugh MS future home.
James Fl. Worrill, of Talbotton, is a
candidate for Solicitor General of the
ChattahOOchee circuit, He is in every
way qualified for the Important office.
A substantial bridge has been erected
across the railroad on the lower Columbus
road just beyond II. @. Feagin's, in Stew
art county, where the railroad first eros SEES
it.
The Ordinary gives notice of the adop-
ton of the stock law by Acworth district.
1t will go into effect six months from now,
giving everybody full time to get ready
for it.
A protracted meeting will be held at
Spring Hill Methodist church, in Thomas
county, beginning the third Sunday in
september. 1t will perhaps be continued
for two weeks.
Ben Holmes. of Bellville, Thomas
county, has lost over one hundred head of
hogs by cholera. George PolhiIl has lost
about fifty. Nearly all Of the farmers have
lost more or less.
4 large rattlesnake passed through jeff
j. Zeigler's yard at BelIville, Thomas
county, last Sunday. After killing a cat
In the yard it passed on to a tenants
house and was killed.
W. E. Alexander, OF Henry county,
saved fifty wagon loads of corn forage from
three-fourths of an acre of ground this
year, besides feeding his mules on it sew
eral weeks while green.
The caterpillars which have been seen
In the Bellville neigh borhood, in Thomas
county, for month, have not made any
Roadway. 1t will soon be too late for
them to do any damage.
A few days ago Henry Stevens, of the
Ath district OF Stewart county, killed an
owl that measured feet IL inches from
tip to tip of its wings. The claws of the
owl were l n inches long.
Quitman Free Press: That the action
Of the Camilla convention on Tuesday
last gives general satisfaction there can
be no doubt. Mr.. Turner is the choice Of
the people and the people will support
him.
one or the negroes who committed the
ourglaries in bonneville some time since
has been captured at Blackshear and a
portion of the goods recovered. Another
one was traced to Jacksonville and there
lost track of.
=, The beginning oftbe fall term in Young
female College, at Thomasville, has been
postponed until Sept. 10. The postpone
Ment was rendered necessary in order to
make certain changes and alterations in
the school rooms.
-, The boys of st. Joseph's orphanage at
Washington enjoyed an excursion to
eharony on Tuesday. They went down
ana returned on special trains. The eX-
cursion was gotten up through the kind.
ness OF Rev. Father O'Brien.
The farmers of Houston county who
WISH 10 join farmers agricultural soci-
g.y are requested to meets at the office of the
rOrt valley Mirror, for the purpose of Or
sshization, the adoption of rules ana reg
ulatiOng. and auch Othar actiOu oo m n .,
occur.
sAlonzo Baker has resigned the position
Vi express agent at Thomasville. His
Lneslgnation went into effect on last Satur-
Jay T.. ). Remington, for several years
past with the Texas Express COMPANY,
p ptu headquarters at Laredo, takes MIR.
baker's place.
81, 4. !. Hill, OF Washington, has just had
sue good fortune to clear $1,000 on the
n t. IN Central railroad stock. He sold
~ SS shares at the highest point reached,
fw,' ana " shares at $l06 30. He un-
oaued at very oppoTtune time, as the
sale. "''0- A0 'A""0 'no
billie Brooks, of Acworth, has a
speckled hen which will be % years old
Iva neAt March. Last year she Matched three
n meiers OF chickens, but this year she has
oaIy iaid two eggs, and they were both
pecularly shaped-being about the usual
retired list. P-"0S" y" O"e
., a trunk was stolen on Thursday night
D p , iSsI week from the residence OF Miss
ne Gems at Washington. II was
ii s n" tuesday on an adjoining lot, which
h. LOW vacant. The trunk had been
~ Nhen open and an AK was living by