The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-19
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Georgia On Marriage and Divorce
The Oldest Horn in Carroll County.
GEORGIA.
Davis Gammage is a candidate for the
Legislature in Macon county.
1t is suggested at Rome that DR.. J. B. s.
Holmes residence in that city be turned
into a club house.
1t is reported in Athens that the mules in
Oconee are dying of a strange disease. One
farmer lost three
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of
sea island cotton was sold in Valdosta on
one day last week.
Hon. Thomas d. Fite, of Gainesville, is u
candidate for solicitor general of the circuit
in which he lives. So far he has not had
much opposition
Barlow has the naming of Senior from
the forty second this year, and Solicitor
General Watt Harris is out for the nomina-
ton. There are several other candidates.
Prof. Coffin, living at Penfield, in Greene
county, last year made over $500 from a
quarter Of an acre planted in cucuInbers
They were made into pickles ana sold.
Hon. Tom Miner will oppose Judge Fain
In the race for the judgeship of his circuit,
and it is said by some of the Barlow people
that the judge will have all he can handle.
A celebrated lawyer of Qutman is ac-
cused of spending much money at the stick
rack game recently. During the time he
was pitching the rings, he kept boy hired
to watch for his wife.
Representative Foute. of Barlow, was in
Atlanta last week on business He says he
has not made up his mind about standing
for the Legis nature. but if he does, Dr. Eel
ton will stand with him.
N. Bell has probably the oldest blowing
horn in Carroll county. 1t belonged to his
father and his father has been dead fifty
two years He don't know how long his
father had it before his death.
Hon Carter Tate, of Pickens, the repre-
sentative from his county in the last Legis-
lature is running against George Brown,
the representative of Cherokee, for solicitor
general of the Blue Ridge circuit.
Hon Armstead Richardson, of Cedar
town, was i'll Atlanta Thursday, looking
after first class outfit for a new semi
weekly paper, to be started III Cedartown
He says the citizens there have raised 81, 900
in cash and organized a company to adver-
tise Cedartown.
The Dugar Engine and Rod Company,
who own and control important patents
locomotive driving box, connecting rod,
etc, is preparing to put machinery at
Cedartown for the manufacture of certain
of these speoialties. A large part Of tire
lower floor of the Touring mill building of
the Cherokee Iron Company has been Sc
cured.
Indications so far point to large fruit
yield in North Georgia. The season has
b EN- propitious to the orchards in the low
lands The best posted fruit men and
farmers say that the trees have not put
forth sufficiently to be seriously injured by
the cold. II t e weather continues as it
now is the probability is that the blooms
will be late.
Hartwell Sun: 1t will be remembered
that Fred Douglas turned his back upon
the charms Of the women Of his own race
and eSpoused a white woman Notwith-
standing this, the Augusta Sentinel colored)
dubs Freddie 1.-THE uncrowned king" of the
negroes in America. A kings wife is always
queen. Now, is Fred Douglas white wife
the uncrowned queen of American negroes
Referred TO the committee on WOOL
II. ID. Dickerson, a book seller of Atlanta,
concluding that he was not selling books
fast enough turned his stock over to an auc-
tioneer and ordered him to sell to the high
est bidder. The sale began at ruinQss
prices, and as the buyers appreciated a bar
gain, books, stationery, jewelry etc, were
going rapidly, when an officer appeared and
closed the doors. A friend of Dickerson,
seeirg how things were going, supposed that
he did not know what he was about and so
secured the issue Of the restraining order.
James T. Hanks, who lives Just across
the Savannah river from Hartwell, near
Hollands store, thought that his dog
evinced signs of hydrophobia from its
actions. Mr. Hanks confined the dog at
once, and last Saturday the dogs madness
presented a spectacle horrible in the ex-
treme An old hat was thrown in the dogs
prison, and he Immediately grabbed it and
continued to bite it until Sunday morning,
when death came to the relief of the poor
canine. There is said to be quite number
of dogs supposed to be mad running at large
in the western portion of Anderson county.
w. S. Waudy, who is connected with the
United States Bureau of Lab n, has arrived
at Atlanta for the purpose of obtaining sta
tistics of the marriages and divorces in
Georgia from 1867 to 1886, inclusive. The
work of gathering these statistics has been
prosecuted throughout the United States
since August last, and reports have been
made from all the States except Georgia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, kentucky and
Texas. A part OF Georgia, including Full
ton county, was canvassed a few months
ago, and Mr.. Waudy will examine the
records in counties surrounding Fulton.
The statistics are.being gathered for use in
Congress to enable that body to legislate in
diligently on the Dolph bill and other SINH
lar bills providing for a constitutional
amendment making uniform marriage and
divorce laws in all the States
Rome Tribune. The Tribune had a
pleasant call yesterday from Mr.. Lillard, of
New York, who is an amateur collector of
archaeological and geological specimens
found in the United States. Mr.. Lillard
travels for publication which is issued in
the interest of druggists. In his trips he
makes note of and visits collections of
relics Of the mound builders and Indians.
Also. he is interested III collecting American
gems and curious geological formations.
The archeologist visited the collection
of Indian relics Of George and Pennng.
ton Nixon near the city and obtained
several rare and valuable relics. On this
trip Mr.. Lillard was especially anxious to
find the fragments of meteoric stone which
fell near Summerville on the place Of John
d. Taylor. If anyone can give any infor-
nation or history of meteors which have
fallen in this or Chattooga county the Tri-
bune would be glad TO hear from them. In
speaking of the precious gems of the United
StatesMr Lillard said that therewas no doubt
but that there were MANY diamondslnGeor-
gia if the people only knew how to fad them.
In the rough they were very different from
the brilliant gems which the lapidist makes
them. He said that a diamond found near
Dalton had been sold TO Tiffany q Co. for a
considerable sum.
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