The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-18

tions extend back to before the war, rernem-
ber that the clav and hummock lands OF
Southwest Georgia sold for from IS TO S25
| per acre, with more buyers than sellers.
| Then cotton aud tobacco making with
| slaves was very profitable Since the war
! the same lands have sold with difficulty at
| one-fourth these prices and even less. A
| turn has come, and they are now rapidly
| tending upward Yet, to-day, they are the
cheapest lands in the world at the prices
asked. in Great Britain on one hand and
Japan on the other, farming lands average
| $500; in the North and West, S25 10 500;
here, with better climate and more varied
| production, the average for ordinary farms
is 81 to So.
Postmaster Hardeman, Of Macon, has re
| ceived a circular letter from the Second
| Assistant Postmaster General to this effect:
! IF you have received a circular signed q.
d. Jackson q Co., Unite States Mail Con
tractors, inviting proposals for transporting
! the mails on route No. 1888, from Macon
| to Knoxville, included in the miscellaneous
| advertisement of Feb. |, 1888, you VIII
| please forward the same at once to this of
| flee. This circular was wholly unauthor
| lied and unwarranted, and is an lmpudent
and arrogant interference with the excu-
sive authority and functions of the Post
Office Department, and the firm of Jackson
& Co., has been 50 notified Bidders under
| said advertisement must make their offers
to the department and not to the said Jack
son Or any other person or persons"
Banbridge Democrat: A remarkable
phenomenon may be seen about two miles
this side Of Cairo on the line Of the Savan-
nah Florida and Western railway, near the
caste II line of this county, and consists of
the frequent and decided swelling. as it
were, of the earths surface at a point inter
sected by the roadbe1 of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway. We CLEAN
the particulars from Hon. ID. A. Russell, the
attorney for the road in this section, who
gathered them from Roadmaster Campbell,
of this road. Mr. Russell says the Road
master reports that the earth and the track
of the road at this point for a distance of
20 yards, raises twelve inches occasionally
how much they would rise were they al
lowed to remain undisturbed. No cause is
known for the phenomenon.
At Albany, after the death of j. W.
Cooper, a sum of money amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars which he bad been
known to have been possessed of before his
demise could not be found nor any trace of
it. He had received a check for 1864 from
the government for back pensions OF this
sum 500 remaining in cash had disappeared.
The heirs could find no clue to it; 50 five
days after party repaired to the cemetery
and exhumed his body, hoping to find some
trace of the missing cash. The coffin was
dug up and opened, and the pockets of the
suit in which the corpse was shrouded were
searched for the receipts or other papers
showing how the money had been disposed
of. This proceeding was without avail, as
no papers could be found. The deceased
had died very sudden. 1t was thought that
the pockets of the suit might not have been
examined before shroudng him. He left a
farm near the city and some city property,
so that he left his widow comfortably pro-
vided for.
Jonesboro NetCS: On last Monday a
stranger stepped into j. J. Hanes' store and
asked to be allowed to pay up his account
Mr. HaneS did not know the man, but upon
inquiry found that he was once a school
boy here in Jonesboro and claims to have
bought suit of clothes from Mr.. Hanes
while but boy and for which no had never
paid. Mr.. Hanes had no account of the
clothes; in fact, the debtor stated that the
clothes had been bought twenty-eight years
ago, and then it was remembered that the
books in which the account had been kept
had been burned by Sherman's army during
the war, but Mr.. Hanes remembered the
transaction, but told the gentleman he
could not accept PAYMENT but the debtor
was persistent, said that he had come some
little distance to pay that debt, with inter
est, and must do 50. Mr. Hanes agreed to
accept the principal, which was paid, and
to-day Uncls Josh is the proudest man YOU
ever saw, to know that there is man in
Georgia SO honest as to insist upon paving a
debt of so long standing as to be utterly
worthless in the eyes of the law.