The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF The TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS,


Obese Rival Dams Built by Peavers
Endangering the Eealtl Of Macon.
GEORGIA.
A new hotel is to be built at Carro.lton
this summer.
Tom Mallari Of Dorchester has sold his
LeConte pear crop at s. per tree
A county anch Of the farmers alliance
has been ORGANIZED ia Randolph COMFY.
Twiggs county viii elect delegate, to the
guberna orial and congressional couvea-
tions to-day.
J. S. Neidlinger Of Guytoa has just picked
a cantalOupe weighing Seve .tee- pounds and
three ounces.
There have been fewer sheriT-s sales in
Houston county this yeac than for a mum
Der of years previous
f. S Welions, clerk of the Houston su-
peri0r court, has a razor that was used by
his father during tie war of 1872.
Watkinsville has secured about forty
carcasses for the railroad barbecue Trey
are not going to stop until they get 100.
If TIE seasons are favorable during the
next five or six weeks, the best cotton crop
for several years Will be harvested IN H9us
ton this year.
Railroad Contractor Macheu's pay roll
for the COvingt0n and Macon road amounts
to 800, 600 month. He pad out $1,000
between Athens and Madison Tuesday.
Judge John r Clarke has been selected
by the law faculty of the state university
TO deliver a course of lectures next year be-
fore the students Of that institution at
Athens.
A farmer of Walton county, on being
asked how the crops Of his section of the
country were getting along, replied that
the corn crop was very fine, but the cotton
crop was exceedingly poor.
S. E. Knighton of the Tenth district of
Randolph county brought to Cuthbert one
day last week two bales of cotton of last
years crop, and sold it for cents per
pound Very few farmers are able 10 hold
their cotton 50 long
The sinking fund committee of Bruins
wick for 1883 have utterly failed to secure
any sealed Uid,n for the sale Of the Bruins
wick bonds, although they have advertised
for some for two months. Parties owning
the bonds think thev are too good an in
vestment 20 part with.
A mule belonging to J. j Bradley of Ter
rell county fell into a well on his place one
day last week, resulting in the loss # its
life. The we'll was fifty feet deep, and as it
was found impossible to extricate the mule,
it became necessary to kill it where it had
fallen. The well was then filed up and the
mule left in it,
At Milledgeville Wednesday a very queer
thing occurred in the case Of the young son
of Ruff Williams Of that city. The little
fellow had just come out OF the river, where
he had been bathing, and sat down on the
bank. lis companions started of and he
called TO them. On their return they dis
covered that the boy was blind.
Gus Haynes, a negro, was arrested at
McRae last Tuesday, by N. j. Chamcey,
FOR burglarlzinR the store of j. &. Marcy.
at Billiards. station, last Sunday evening.
OF the things stolen the following were
found In his possession: One pair shoes,
one overcoat, one gold watch valued at
about goo, and a suit or two of clothing
One negro shot another at Browns camp
on the new railroad just below Friendship
church just across the Florida line last
Saturday. negro was eating a piece OF
cake. Another negro asked him for
piece and was refused He then said that if
the negro didn't give him a piece he would
shoot him, and did so. The shot took effect
III his left shoulder. The negro claimed that
he did not know that the gun was loaded.
A joke is told on a clever farmer. living
few miles north Of Americas. A few DAYS
ago while walking through the woods near
ms farm he thought he discovered den of
young Mexican lions. fastening home he
secured his gun, carefully loaded it with
buckshot, returned to the spot and with a
regular "buckague" feeling began searching
Tor the young lions, when he found in their
stead couple Of young American huzzards
Appling county's tax digest for 1888
makes the following showing: Polls white
l,U99; polls, colored, 7Sl; total polls, $50;
numner acres Of land, 6sS, 7GS: value Of land
S432, COS; town property, $50 $50: money
S1l5, 735; merchandise, $57,S househol
furniture, S63, 72I; jewelry, So 1877; stock If
all kinds, S25l 1876; tools, S24, 932; other
property, Sll9,059; total value of property.
II, I5l 90 ms is an increase over last
year of Sl0s,7
DR.. Won Donhoff, assisted by Drs. Will
ingbam, Wade, Hale, Faust aud REYNOLDS
performed a very difficult operation at
Lexington Wednesday. 1t was the removal
from the person of Miss Patton of an
abdominal tumOr weighing eighteen
pounds. The tumor had been DEVELOPING
four years, and consisted Of the womb
which had undergone diseased changes At
last accounts the patient was doing very
we'll, and it is probable that she will re-
cover.
Sheriff McGregor Of Montgomery county
arrived at Macon Thursday with William
NJ. Dewitt, white prisoner, charged with
larceny from tile house, for safe keeping.
Dewitt, VINO is quite a young man. saws hs
Is from South Carolina; that he was work
ing LOT MI. sharp IL the saw null BUSH
ness in that county, and that while at Mr..
Sharp's house he went into a trunk and
took SO therefrom. He says he does not
know why he took il. The money was re-
covered and Dewitt arrested and commit
ted.
Last Sunday, Immediately after service.
people living in the vicinity OF the ProsDv-
teran church, at Dalton, were startled by
a most terrific crash, as if some lunar vol.
cano had hurled a mammoth boulder down
upon the surface of mother earth. But.
upon investigation, it was found that the
noise was due to the falling Of the Presbvte-
rian church bell, which rested upan an
open work wood tower near the building
about 80 feet in hight The bell weighs
some 800 or 1000 pounds and, in It's descent.
played havoc with the wood work of tho
tower. The accident was due to the rot
ting away Of the cross beams which sup
ported the bell.
The Bib county commissioner held a
meeting Thursday for the purpose Of meet
ing committee Of aldermen from the city
council in reference 80 a nuisance existing
on the city re -erve below Macon On this
reserve the sewers empty and all the Fl IN
ana garbage OF tho town is dumped The
beavers have damned up the outlets 10 the
river. and thus the decaving vegetation
directly under the SUMS rays is a means of
causing much sickness The matter was
complained { % the council bv the uro-
prietors Of the brick yards, and the com
mittee was appointed 10 confer with the