ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ilawkinsville is having all the houses in
the business part of the city numbered.
Glanders havo broken out among Texas
ponies on J. M, Tift's plantation near Al
bany..
Two negroes have been arrested at
Washington for putting a crosatie on the
railroad track.
There is considerable excitement near
Antioch over the discovery of a gold mine
in that section.
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An o Engh^ ic acvisany at of Brunswick establishing looking a
steamship hue from that port to England,
1. W. Dorland, of New Jersey, has
bought 1,700 acres of land, lying in the
lower portion of Thomas county and part
ly in Brooks.
Moses Green, a colored bar-keeper, was
shat in the head at Macon, Thursday
night, during a Republican ward meeting.
lie will not die.
Fayette county has appropriated $7,500
toward modernizing its court house, ch nig
ing the court room to the second story,
with the offices below.
On Friday morning last the steamer Tar
Heel sunk in.the Ocmulgce river on its way
from Brunswick to Abbeville. She was
loaded with local freight.
Gcorge Wave, who i 3 well know at
Washington, went in with a syndicate iu a
land deal in North Gerogia. He has just
sold out at a profit of £4,200.
The Ordartown Standard, the new semi
‘Weekly, lias bought the Ccdartown Adver¬
tiser's £lw'ei and good will, and will pul
ior.th their first issue next week.
The amount asked for from Scriven
county for the purpose of aiding in the
building of the new railroad from Atlanta
to Savannah—£30,000—has been raised.
Five miles above Davisboro Friday Rich
nioml Hill, colored, 70 years old, in the at
tempt to cross the track, was run oyer by
the east-bound passenger train and killed.
There is a gentleman in Brunswick wlio
does not intend going home to sec his
mother until be can ride on steel rails to
Waycross. He has been wait ug just five
years.
The best paid colored woman in Georgia
is one who cnoksjor the Capital City Club
in Atlanta, whose salary 7 is SI,500 a year,
besides being given an assistant at a salary
of £1,000.
The sheriff off Butts county has arrested
the two negroes, Bob and Will Jester, who
murdered a negro man named Ben Lovett,
near Towaliga, in Butts county, some time
last summer. They are in jail.
There were C35 bales of cotton sold in
Cutlibcrt Wednesday. Arthur Hood and
J. J. McDonald were the sellers and J. L.
Sanders was the buyer. Tho prices paid
were 0c and 9jc. Tho two lots brought
about £30.000.
Friday night the kiln for drying lumber
at Bailey's mill, at Job, Sumter county,
was entirely consumed, burning up some
12,000 feet of lumber. The kiln belonged
to Mr- B. F. Nyscwander, who is running
a planing mill at that place.
Maj.-Robert R. Terrell, a prominent cit¬
izen of Bain bridge, 7 who was stricken with
apoplexy a. day or two ago, is dead. Maj.
Terrell was G3 years old, had held many
posititions of trust and honor, and was a
member of the State Legislature of 18G0.
•The Couuty Commissioners of Hancock
have corohienced suit against the bondsmen
■ef cx-Troasuer George R. Brown. It is
not known how much he is short, but the
suit is for something over £11,000. the
whole amount paid to him by the Tax
Collector,
•R. L. Green, of Mitchell county, has in
vented and will apply for the patent of a
plow which, if he realizes his expectations,
will revolutionize farming methods. This
pIow promiscs > witl1 olw nllin and two
muIes > t0 do the work of four mulc3 and
four laborers -
A ne 8 r0 named Redmond Clark was
struck !j " atrc, , ;:llt car at Amencus Satur
day and knoca.. d off the tiack. lie was
considerably frightened, but as soon as he
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Ai a. Subers. of Macon, has received a
letter trom a man iu Brazil who says lie
, eft Macon in 2853, and has been an exile
ever since. He says his age is 78. He
tel 1 * Mr. Subers where $15,('00, stolen
,r °m the express company, is hidden in a
sunken steamboat near that city.
A party consisting of two men, a wo
man and three children, while crossing the
s ivannah rivJfr at Bister’s Ferry on a bats
tean, were capsized and all except one of
ibe men were drowned. They were all
colored. The remains of one of the party
was discovered on last Monday on the
banks of the river,
Thesecond excursion from Connecticut
to boom | njK cities of the South under the
auspices of the Post's Southern Bureau
aiJ a in charge of Editor li. T. Sperry,
reached Rome Saturday afternoon, March
31, after dinner, and left In the evening.
Short stops only are made in the various
c R‘ es - i ho.party consists of capitalists,
manufacturers and journalists.
At Harmony Grove several leading bus
incss men have put their heads together
and decided to establish a bank, Already
§12,000 have been 1 subscribed, and there is
very little doubt but that the necessary
amount, $25,000, will soon be raised and
the bank put in operation in time for the
falt business. One or two capitalists will
also build a cotton compress in all proba
bility before the next' cotton season opens,
A day ‘ or two ago W. J. Hunter, who
bi , s cha ge 0 f Mr. Barrett's farm about oue
and a na jf m p ( , g f rom Waynesboro
ploughed up au old cap bombshell on
that part of the place known as “sugar
bill." The shell is loaded, and was doubt
less used in one of the skirmishes around
Waynesboro during the late war. 'There
have been several other shells found, but
none ef them were loaded.
Cbarles Rutherford, who was implicated
hi the killing of Clem Bush near the cem¬
etery at Yv’aymesboro three or four year
ago, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Zorn
with the assistance of J. II. Ivey, on Mr,
Grehier - S lace uear Storey’s mill last
Tuegdfty ni „ ht A rewavd of onc h uu drcd
dollars has teen offered for bis arrest and
safe delivery. At the time of tho murder
Sam Williams was arrested by Mr. Zorn
as one of the murderers, lie was tried,
convicted and hung.
Considerable excitement was created at
the East Romo depot Tuesday night by a
man who narrowly escaped being run over
by a passing engine. The man was walk¬
ing up and down the track in front of the
depot, when his foot became fasteued be¬
tween tho plank flooring
and avail. He could slip his foot along,
.
but could not pull it out. He frantically
called for help, und several seeing the ap¬
proaching engine ran to help him. Tho
engine was stopped in throe feet of the
man . Two negroes ‘succeeded in pulling
his leg out of his hoot.
Dr. von Don Hoff extracted a pistol ball
from the eye of a little negro child at
Athens, Wednesday. The child wasplay¬
ing with a 22-calibre pistol and it acci
dentally went off, the ball taking
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Dresses made in the LA LLSI STYLES, apS
between the eyes and burying itself under
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Mrs. Leithia Rogers, of Dodge county 7 ,
mct her death in rather a strange and sud
den manner on Monday last. On Saturday
previous she complained of feeling unwell;
Sunday she was induced to take some pills,
which had been purchased of some peddler
passing through the neighborhood, and on
Monday morning-she was taken with a
burning sensation in the throat, which soon
penetrated the stomach, and she died before
medical aid could reach her.
Mayor Dunn, of Brunswick, has re
ceived a telegram from Hon. T, M. Nor
wood, to the effect that Brunswick harbor
was remembered in the river and harbor
appropriation bill, reported by the commit
tee to the House, to the extent of $35,000.
dbe telegram also stated that a sub-com
milteo of the House Committee on Public
Buildings usd Grounds bad reported fnvor
ably to the full committee the bill for a
public building at-Brunswick.
'A’Jtia is rto Accident.
John Allman, a son of A. A. Allman
and who was living near Trion, on D. F.
Allgood’s place, was shot on Thursday ol
last week under singular circumstances.
He was showing his father, who had called
in, a self-acting revolver, which he wished
to sell. H's father took it in his hands,
ignorant of its dangerous nature. As he
to,,ched tIle tr 'gS er H <lid its work »» d
fired > tho bal1 striking his son just in fiont
of tb « car - The jaw bone was shattered
and the temporal artery cut. He had bled
about a gallon before Dr. Rudicil reached
him and stayed the hemorrhage. He was
unconscious until next day but is now im
proving and bids fair to recover.
Next week wo will print another piece
of news just like this.
ISrown’s IProjjosiit Sen.
At Albany'Wednesday, Enoch S. Brown
proposed to the City Council that if the
city would furnish an eligible lot and put
an artesian well on it, lie would erect a
hotel to cost not less than .? 100,000, pro¬
vided the city would, in addition to fur¬
nishing the site and artesian well, exempt
tho property from taxation for a term of
ten years. Council decided that it had no
authority to appropriate money or levy a
tax for such a purpose, but resolved to
make an effort to meet Sir. Brown’s prop
in another way,
■Biidgi; Sjjiscli.
On Thursday night about 200 armed
and masked men rode into the town of
Ilaynesville, Lowndes county, Ala., forced
the jailor to surrender the keys of the jail
took out Calovvay, the negro who murder*
ed Mr. Mitchell Gresham near Sandy
Ridge, and hanged him to the limb of a
tree in front of the court bouse, also rid¬
dling him with bullets, The murder of
young Gresham was a brutal and cause*
less one.
A tlruasL,
Dr. Pridgcons is a preacher of very 7 pe
culiai notions. He lives about eighteen
miles from Athens, Some time ago he
announced that on a certain day he would
preach his own sermon, He has had a
piniecoffin made, and when he preaches
the funeral sermon the coffin will be plac"
ed in front of him Hundaeds of people
from all parts of the country will attend
the meeting.
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