The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-13

hearts Photograph Badly Mutileted
by the FumiEating Ofacers-A Relic
OF the Aborigines Found in Warren
County.
GEORGIA.
Jesup wants a livery stable
John Mahony, grocer of Augusta, died
sudd My Thursday.
Rye in a few pasture lots in Perry is up
and growing nicely.
The bulk Of Houston county cotton VIII
be barve-ted by Nov l.
The Christion church convention assem-
bes in Griffin next week.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of electric lights in Athens.
Numbers Of peach trees in Perry and
vicinity were in full bl9ou last week.
The criminal docket of Sumter superior
court will be taken up Monday morning.
1t is reported that The grand jury in
dicted several negroes in Fort Valley for
selling whisky.
Fort Valley claims to have more babies
under IS months old than any other town
IA Georgia of equal population.
DR.. Hammond, an Old aud highly
respected former citizen of Dalton. died at
his home in Murray county last Sunday,
DIR. j. ?. Holmes is having the lumber
placed on the ground preparatory for erect
Ing nice residence for himself at McRae.
Mayor Dunn of Brunswick has written
out over $500 permits, health certificates,
passes, ETC., since the quarantine was put
on.
A considerable number Of alliance men
are opposed to holding the Houston county
fair (aext year. in either Perry or Fort
Valley.
Mrs W. A. Ridgeway of Cuthbert, find
ing large snake on her premises last week,
got her pistol, and at the second shot killed
the serpent by putting bullet through his
body.
Emory College at Oxford opened We'd
nesday with a large attendance Of students
and entered upon the fifty second year of
its existence under very favorable aus
pices.
The small schooner Gull lost one of her
masts at Brunswick Wednesday night dur
ing the gale, for such the wind was The
small boats in the harbor had rather a
rough experience trying to keep on their
feet"
Hon. r. B. Russell, member of the legis-
lature from Clarke county for several years
past, has been very sick with the fever for
the past week. He is thought to be improv-
ing now, however, although he is still con-
fined to his room.
A very active trade in real estate has
sprung up rapidly at Brunswick In the past
few weeks, and the Brunswick Company
most especially has made numerous sales
This means large number of new houses
to be erected during the winter
Since 1881 the number of true bills found
by the grand juries Of Houston county have
steadily decreased. In 1881, the last year
of legal whisky selling in the county, the
and 1v~fa l. H..
This year there were only 80 true bills.
Only 400 votes were polled in Newton
county at the recent election, although
there were 1900 registered voters in the
county. The Enterprise says that 700 col
cred voters are registered in Newton, most
OF whom viii vote the republican ticket on
Nov. 6.
Baldwin Bridger, highly respected and
prominent citizen of Wilkinson county,
died on Oct. 10, at his home near Gordon,
with typhoid fever, after being bedridden
thirty-three days. His sons, DR.. II. B.
Bridger and Linton Bridger, have each
been confined several weeks with fever.
On last Sunday, Mrs. Rowena Hasty, who
lives few miles above Dawson, gave
birthday dinner and invited all of her chill
dren, their children, and their children's
children. There were present in all ut din
ner seventy-fve people, and Of this number
forty-five were the descendants of Mrs.
Hasty.
Atlanta is to have another bank at an
early day. 1t will throw open its doors for
business Nov. !. The new enterprise will
be called the Traders bank, and il will be
located in the new six-story building of Z.
T. Gould, on Decatur street, opposite the
Kimball. The bank will commence bust
ness with capital Of $500,00O.
City Sheriff Jones Of Augusta remarked
Thursday that his income was cut off one
third by the prompt payment of taxes this
year. Thursday the last installment of CITY
taxes fell due, and defaulters were yerv
few. Besides the regular collection, 800
600, or about one-half of the special tax for
food repairs, has already been paid. The
citizens have four months To paw It. The
collector says the big taxpayers have NOT
yet come, and among the first to respond
are poor people land colored property hold
ers.
A number Of Augusta merchants have
fine farms near the city. Some get good
income from their places, others plant for
recreation, and others because they have
the land. The river farms have suffered
severely for three years. The overfows
seem to have been perennial. Dykes are
ruined, crops torn up and stock slaughtered.
The Eve, Campbell, Kirkpatrick, Hickman.
Walton, McWhorter, Capers, Warren,
Phinlzy and other tracts below Augusta
rival Mississippi bottoms. When they do
make crops they are fine ones. But the in
undations are terrible to think about
Tennille Enterprise A certain we'll
known drummer visited a Methodist meet
ing not long ago, and owing to the unusually
long service, he fell asleep About the close
of the service the preacher was making
some proposition, and remarked that all
who wished TO go to heaven to stand up
All except the drummer rose from their
seats. Then the preacher said that all who
wanted to go to hell to stand up. This
woke the drummer. He stood up, rubbed
his eyes and looked around and said, direct
ing his remarks TO the minister: 81 did
not hear what the proposition was, but il
seems that you and l are the only ones that
have accepted"
Mrs. Georgia Watson, who conducts a
milk dairy on Whitehall street, Atlanta, has
filed suit against the Markham house for
$500 damages. Mrs. Watson is repre-
sented by w. 4. Meyers, and claims that
she had n contract with the Markham
house to furnish cream for table use from
last August until August 1889. She claims
70 have kept up her part of the contract and
supplied cream every day until the 9th of
October, at which time the proprietor gave
notice that he wished no more Mrs Wat.
son claims to have been damaged fiji.
teen hundred dollars by the violation of the
contract, and asks the courts to give her a
verdict for that amount.
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