The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31
GEORGIA NEWS.
Told by the CONSTITUTIONS State
Correspondents
And Gathered from Our State Exchanges.
A Mirror of the Happenings of the
State for the Past Week

Georgia has shipped north this year 800 900
watermelons.
.-Darling Couch, young man living near seno'a,
was killed by lightning during thunder storm.
The council of Sandersville decided, last
Friday, that ginger tonic produces drunken
ness, and the sale of it in that town must be
stopped.
becue given by the people of CarteIsville Saturday
July 81 Public speaking was one of the main
features of the occasion.
Tile motion for new trial in the case of Tom
voolfolk, the notorious murderer of nine people
which was argued in Macon July 81, before Judge
Gustin, was overruled and the case will go to the
supreme court.
,-Albany, Georgia. now has ten artesian wells
from which the water flows at the surface
The tenth one just sunk is 734 feet deep and
flows ia gallons per minute.
Good crop reports come from all parts of the
state, and If there is no disaster in the future
Georgia farmers will haze a great harvest.
The State Horticultural society will meet at
Thomasvile next week. A very large atten-
dance Of delegates is expected and Thomas
vile is taking measures to entertain them.
The Courant says rumor is current on the
streets of Gainesville that Major Charles II.
Smith (Bill Arp, and his son had made sale
of Alabama mineral lands amounting to
$4,000.
Vineyard Spalding county, on Tuesday and
another one on Wednesday. The Griffin News
states that carload is worth $500 net at the
lowest prices they have yet brought. This
shows what the growers arc doing.
LAST Sunday evening an electrical cloud of
large dimensions passed over Stewart. Fine
fains fell everywhere. During the storm,
mule belonging to n. I. Spivey, in the western
part OF the county, was struck and killed by
lightning.
Peaches from the country sell in Brunswick
at fifty cents per peck. At the fruit stands
aice ones bring as high as fifteen to twenty
Cents per dozen. The low country peach crop
has not been as bad a failure as some points
higher up tie country.
when the engine first passed Greenwood, in
Qconee county, there was a little black steer
standing In front of a store. The steer saw the
engine and after curling his tail over his back
made for the woods and his owner has been
looking for him since, but he has failed to
appear.
Jack Ford, colored farmer in Worth
county. while drawing water from his well to
water his mule, was fred upon by an enemy hid
den in ambush and nearly cut in two. Nine
buckshot entered his bowels, and he died in
stantly. He was unpopular with many negroes
In the neighborhood.
Judge Joel Branham has retired from the
race for congress i'll the seventh district. The
Judge had fiattering assurances from friends
all over the district, but private and personal
reasons rendered it necessary for him to retire.
Judge Branham is one of the purest men in
Georgia, and is well worthy of congressional
honors.
LAST week very queer thing occurred in
the case of the young son of Mr. Ruff Viii
liams, of Milledgeville. The little fellow had
5ust como out of the river where he had been
Bathing, and sat down on the bank. His COM
panionS started off and he called to them. On
their return they discovered that the boy was
blind.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of the state
will hold its annual meeting in Gainesville
August 10th and 10th. Friday night, at reg
N}ar meeting of Airline lodge of Gainesville
arrangements were made to tender the men,
bers of the body an excursion to Tallulah Falls
On the 18th. The grand lodge is from 200 to
300 strong, composed of representative Odd
Fellows throughout the state.
Willie Jenkins, of Sandy Ridge district, in
Henry county, killed white crane that was
nine feet high, wings twelve feet long. He
dried one of its thighs and made cudgel of it
with which he knocked a mad dog into pie
The wings are now on exhibition at his faith
srs residence. The beak was four feet long
and hard as Steel 1t is used as rock drill.
The Sandersville Argus says: We have ad-
9ed to the adornment of our sanctum's wall
She brush Of a genuine red fox, the trophy Of a
chase had by w. Gordon Smith and Gideon l..
Mathis last Saturday morning. The pack con-
sisted Of only five dogs, but the catch was
thin an!Mhour from the jump, and the chase
all that could be desired by huntsmen.
.-On last Friday afternoon youth named
Underwood was drowned in the Coosa river,
just below Howell's landing, He was just
seventeen years old. The drowning occurred
Rt Thomson S bar, just below Howells land
Ing He got beyond his depth or took the
Cramps and carried down the river. His body
has not been recovered.
lone of Griffins society bellies has proven
shat social duties and domesticitv need not
conflict Chn has only do bTp
and seventy jars of jelly but has canned all
ut the fruit needed for the use of the family,
besides attending to her social duties, which
Arc anything but light. Says the Griffin News:
''There is one thing certain, the society belle
bf Griffin has nothing in common with accept
ed society girls, but makes better wife than
Bhe does sweetheart"
THE Catoosa Courier gives young men this
good advice
Young man. don't go west That idea that you
Fan do better there than here is misrepresentation
pr facts. The west is full OF men who are waiting
Tor something to turn up. If you ever succeed any
where 1t will be by hard work, and the door to sue
pess is as wide open to you right here in good old
Georgia, as anywhere else on Gods green earth.
Remember, there is moro in the man than in the
land
DIR. J. r. HUMPHREYS, of Acworth, is the
owner of large, vicious, New Foundland dog.
He is also the guardian of very sweet and
intelligent niece of some sixteen summers.
Monday the young lady pumped some flee
powders on the dog, and turned away with a
caressing word and stroked the dog gently on
the head. As soon as the ladys back was to
che dog, he seized her arm Just under the
shoulder, and terribly lacerated the muscle of
the arm from shoulder to elbow, and also
wounded her in the hips. While she is resting
comfortably, she is seriously hurt The people
generally demand the life of the dog for his
crime.
Here is a COOL idea: Judge Jesse P. Will
son, of Greensboro, has hit on practicable
scheme for perpetuating the names Of the con-
federates of Greene county by means of an
authentic register of the names and rank Of
zach in the late war. The list will lie made
complete, if that be possible to do, which he
will endeavor to secure from survivors Them
selves their own record, and from reliable
sources that of the dead. The roll viii be
made public record in his Office.
There are crops in Georgia that pay better
shan cotton. See what is being done in pota-
Goes and melons:
Mr.. F. a. Morse, of Milton county, dug his
Irish potatoes crop last week, and gathered
200 bushels OF one acre. He shipped them to
Atlanta where he realized one dollar per
bushel for them.
Iovndes county clears this year on tho yva-