Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE November 5, 1887
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Savannah Morning  News November 5, 1887
                           NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                                5 NOVEMBER 1887
     James B, Holden, of Eilijay, stole from the post office in that place a
check from the Unites States pension bureau in favor of Mrs. Margaret Colbert,
and had it cashed after forging her name to it. He is now in jail awaiting
trial. The penalty is from five to twenty years imprisonment.
     Hawkinsville had received up to Tuesday night 12,494 bales of cotton. The
merchants say they have never had a better trade, and their collections were
never batter. Te colored people have more money than they have had any year
before the war.
     Brunswick will henceforth be the point of communication for Nassau with the
world at large, and will thus be brought twenty-four hours nearer than
heretofore. Reports for the Associated Press have always been sent to
Jacksonville or Key West and from there sent to New York, They will now be sent
to Brunswick.
     At Lincolnton Thursday night J. H. B. Matthews better known as Boots
Matthews shot and killed in cold blood D. C. Snelson in the post office.
Matthews is about six feet high, dark hair, dark complexion, and about 36 years
old; has a slight limp in his walk. One hundred dolars is offered for his
arrest. His weight is about 160 pounds.
     John McCrimmon, a private in the Forty-ninth Georgia regiment of
Confederate troops died a few days ago at his home in Telfair county. Private
McCrimmon , was the soldier who fired upon and killed Gen. Kearney, of the
Federal Army while that officer was riding into the Confederate lines through
mistake one night in Virginia.
     Artesian well No. 9, at Albany, is now making satisfactory progress, work
having been resumed. The owners propose to carry it to a depth of 800 feet. The
flow now is fully twenty gallons, and it is confidently expected that it will be
over 100 gallons when 800 feet is reached. Such a flow would be sufficient to
supply Albany with water if it was husbanded.
     At Lexington Tuesday much valuable land was sold at public outcry before
the court house door. The Carter land Lot No.5, 100 acres was bought by James M.
Smith $710.00; lot No. 4, 165 acres for $1,565.00; Lot No. 3, 118 acres to B. B.
Williams for $1,450.00; Lots No's. 1 and 1 to James M. Smith for $925.00 and $
875.00. The Burt Land, being 80 acres was purchased by A. D. Matthews for
$325,25; The Maxey land was sold to J. M. Maxey for $1,500.00.
     Sam Jones [colored] was in Macon Thursday with his load of three bags of
cotton. Sam has lived for years on land belonging to Mr. Tinsley, a few miles
out of town, and averages fifteen bales of cotton a year which he always carries
to Willingham's warehouse. He carries on his crop without borrowing, does not
owe a dollar, and has money in the bank, and a few days ago completed a church
in his settlement, for which he paid cash. He is a quiet, peaceable and
industrious individual and deserves much credit for his method of living. 


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