The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-21
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

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GEORGIA.
There are 6, 600 children Of school age en-
rolled in Whitfield county.
The city council Of Carrollton has had
planted 100 trees on the different streets Of
the city.
1t is said that a state bank is an assured
fact as everything is ready for organization
at Gainesville.
There are ia children attending school
in Perry. ~ at Perry High School and y at
private school
During the year 1889 the ordinary OF
Whitfield issued a marriage licenses, about
equally divided between the two races
There is a house in Canton with six rooms
in It; il each room there is a fireplace and
vet there is but one chimney 10 the house.
There are in Perry forty-six manageable
Young ladies, twenty-six manageable
young men, eighteen widows and only two
widowers.
A Dalton man is doing quite nice bust
ness in walking canes, which he cuts from
the Chicamauga battlefield. He has now
on his book an order from Illinois for fifty
Of these canes.
At Gainesville this week the drug firm Of
Dixon q Osin dissolve Or. }. w. Osn
selling bis interest to DR.. f. z. Dixon. Dr.
Dixon will continue the business and Dr.
Oslin will look after the sick.
Whitfield county begins the new year
auspjciously. The county is not only out
OF debt. but there is a surplus OF about
s., 900 in the treasury. In the course Of
human events it is probable that this sur
plus will be expended III building a new
court house
There were only eleven f. fas. levied and
advertised for the sheriff's sales that took
place in Houston county last year. At
least one-third Of these were settled or
stopped by claim. before sale day, and there
were no sales at all on about half Of the reg
ular monthly sale days,
At Midwife Allen w Jones has sold his
mercantile interest to r. NJ and j. J. MUIR
phree, and the style of the new firm will be
r. NJ. Murphree & Bro. Davis & Marks
have sold their mercantile interest at
Smart's mill, seven miles southwest Of Mid
vile, to Joseph Phillips.
"a young gentleman procured a license
from Ordinery Stephenson Of Hart county
recently to marry a certain young lady
The next day another young man got a
license TO marry the same young lady,
which he did and left the party Of the first
part minus bride and the license fee.
Frank Pruden, the 7-year-old son of Col.
W. II. Pruden of Dalton, who lost a portion
of his left arm by the explosion Of Il gun on
New Years day, is on deck again, as bright
and handsome as ever. Like an old vet
eran, Frank occasionally feels the nervous
twitching of the fingers of his amputated
hand.
The new city council seems determined to
give Hamilton a faithful administration.
Instead of imposing city tax for the salary
of a marshal, about the only expenditure
connected with the city government, the
amount has been made up by subscription,
thus avoiding much trouble and expense.
Hamilton is dry" town, and has no rev.
enue from special taxes.
Sy Carswell, an old colored man, living
on the plau tation of John F. Burke. near
Irwinton, lost one Of his hands while at
work at a sawnill on last Friday. He and
other hands were placing log on the car
rage for the purpose Of saving it, when his
foot slipped and be fell, his right arm strik-
ing the saw, which was In motion Luckily
he escaped being cut to pieces, and his hand
was not cut off by the saw, but was after
ward amputated
There is living in the southern portion of
Baldwin county a widow lady who is the
mother of seven daughters, but has no
Sons. She owns some land upon which she
IS
crop. Last year one of the daughters went
20 the woods with an axe and cut out and
made plow-stOck, fastened on a plOw, and
with little steer plowed the entire crop,
making seven bales of cotton and consider
able amount Of vegetables.
Two young men, brothers, named Wilson,
were out for a duck hunt near the mouth Of
Brier creek, in Scriven county, aud had
gone out on the water in a bateau. The
younger one, in reaching out to draw his
gun to him, took it by the muzzle, aud the
hammer catching against seat in the
bateau, discharged the gun, the entire
charge striking him near the breast and
passing through his body, killing him in
stantly. He was buried at jackson church.
At Americas, several negro boys got a
goat on the bridge over Muckalee creek,
Wednesday morning. and were trying to
force him to jump off into the water The
billy reared uyon his hind legs and butted
the largest boy so heavily in his stomach
that he was knocked clear off the bridge
into the water He would have drowned
if the other BOYS had not pulled HIM out
while billy walked TO the side Of the bridge
and looked complacently down at his dis
comftted tormsntors, and then walked
proudly away.
During 1883 the expenses of Houston
county amounted to Sl4 Asa 63, which
amount was paid out by the county treas
urer on proper vouchers, and officially ac-
counted for in his report OF this amount.
81 Cos was paid on the debt created by put
ting steel cells in the jail About the same
amount yet remains TO be paid. Last year
$500 Was borrowed for the county. and it
IS almost certain that another loan will have
70 be secured this year However. the
treasury contains s., 0OO more than was on
hand year ago.
+. F. Ruftin, ex-commander Of the signal
office at Charleston, and a member Of Gen
Beauregsrd's staff. is at Atlanta, after an
absence Of thirty years. He has been re-
ported dead, but is on the contrary very
much alive. He is a survivor Of the Walker
ex2edition, and has been at sea for years.
during which time be has Travelled all over
the world His mother whom be has not
seen in twenty -one years and two brothers
whom he las not seen in tweaty-seven. live
in Atlanta. His homecoming, though 50
long delayed, is very pleasant one after
ell these years Of wandering.
Last Saturday Mrs. McQuaig, wife Of
Joseph McQuaig, Of Waycross, was scour-
ing up room at their residence, when. to
get II out Of the way, the shotgun was
placed against the wall IN the passage. A
little ll-year-old boy picked up the.g1a and
told his sister Emma l3 wears old, that he
would shoot her, playfully pointing the
weapon al her. The girl jumped behind the
door aud attempted 10 peep around at the
boy who held the gun, the muzzle toward
the ground. At this juncture Emma fell
down on the floor she is a cripple aud can
hardly stand at best and it is supposed this