The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-26

Farmers War Experlences-Georg
Reports Bring a Handsome Pre-
MUM at Americas.
GEORGIA
A horse and mule suffering with gland
ers were killed in Floyd county last week.
II is rumored that T. ]. Fuller of Black
shear is a candidate for postmaster at Way
cross.
Commissioner Henderson says that all the
indications now point to good fruit yoar
in Georgia
Albert Campbell Of Macon caught a cat
fish weighing twentv-eight pounds out of
Tobesofkee creek Saturday.
DR.. S. S. Adams, who has practiced
medicine for ifty-one years in Thomasville,
died Saturday IN his 10Th year.
Col. F. Young of Pennsylvania, formerly
manager OF the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, died at Thomasville Friday.
Clay counUvs treasurer Was enriched $400
last week by fines imposed upon gamblers
who publicly ran their business in Fort
Gaines last year
The actual cash subscription to the fund
for the location Of the experiment station
in Bibb county has reached "a 900, aud that
with very little canvsssing.
The farmers Of Crawford county are
fair. the roads are being put in splendid
order, and everything is fourishing.
Mrs. Sarah Clay and Mrs. Antoinette
Ector OF Meriwether county received re-
Gently the pensions granted for the services
OF their husbands in the Mexican war.
Rev. Sam Small says that constant speak
ing almost every day, for the past two years
or so, has strengthened his lungs improved
his general health, aud given him better
muscle.
There are now ninety teachers in the pub
lie school system of Bib, who draw on AN
average eacl month 81 200, and who teach
$500 child en-. OF this amount 81 200 goes
for the country districts.
The measles, which has been almost
epidemic at Waycross for several weeks
past, has about disappeared, and the health
Of the city generally is much improved
with the opening spring weather.
John NJ. Coker is having the ground
broken for an elegant store builiing on the
corner Of Loyd and Hunter streets at At
lanta. II will be 26x70, two stories high,
and will be a very handsome building.
The Randolph Agricultural Society. at its
meeting last Saturday, offered a premium
of $40 for the best yield of corn on an acre
of upland in the county, the yield to be not
less than forty bushels and as many as ten
TO enter the contest.
There are four white military companies
in Atlanta, and every one of them is flour
ishing. They are busy making programmes
for the summer and where trips and drills
have already been determined upon, the
companies are busy preparing for them.
At one Of the colored schools in Atlanta
the children are having a re uIar picnic
over the peculiar pronunciation of their
northern teachers. The smaller pupils are
kept in an hour later every afternoon as a
punishment for openly laug Ching at the in
structors.
All sorts Of cures have besn suggested for
the liquor habit, but a Georgian some years
ago tried an original scheme He sarted out
for trip around this world, and went
straight on, never stopping a day in one
place He completed his tour, and turned up
at home-drunk!
Lawrence S. Cherry died at his residence
In South Macon Sunday morning. Mr.
Cherry was thu brother Of Judge w. A.
Cherry and belonged to one Of the Oldest
families of the city. He had been in bad
health for some time, but his friends did
not think him seriously i'll.
Mrs. Thomas A Hendricks, accompanied
by her sister, Mrs s. A. Herman of Omaha.
Neb., arrived at Macon Saturday night and
are guests of the Hotel Lanier Mrs Hem
bricks has been spending some time in
Ihomasville. and is stopping few days In
Macon on her return home.
The Taylor County Manufacturing Com
pany has perfected arrangements and will
commence at once to erect telephone line
from Reynolds to its factory some three
miles from town. 1t viii probably be ex-
tended to Hicks Mil aid Garden Valley,
and be used by the public generally.
L. Baum, Of Baum & Bro, OF Toomsboro,
was in NJ con Sunday night and reported
at the police headquarters the robbery of
the firms store at that place on Saturday
night. The warehouse Of the Central road
was also broken open and considerable
taken therefrom. Among other things the
burglar secured were three open face nickle
watches, S25 in money aud some jewelry.
Gov. Gordon has received a letter from
st. George Tucker c. Bryan stating that
during the late war Lieut.. Hicks, OF the
Third Georgia cavalry, army Of northern
Virginia, became a prisoner and surren-
dered his sword to Capt. Anthony A. CLAY.
OF the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania, army OF
the Potomac. Clay wishes to restore the
sword to Hicks. Mr. Bryans address is
Birmingham, Ala.
The room furniture of the late N. A.
Smith OF Americas was sold at auction on
the public square Saturday morning. In
the afternoon his valuable library was sold
at his old Office building. The furniture,
pictures and library all brought good prices.
The seveuty-six volumes of Georgia Re-
ports brought the handsome sum of 1861.
1888 more than a complete new outfit Of
the same number Of volumes would cost
Steve Postal Of Atlanta made new
suggestion Sat lrday. I'VE are all
the time talking" be said, about bringi ~
people here to see Atlanta. That is all
right, but we siould not forget that there
are other cities in the country. WHY not
every year send an excursion party of our
prominent citizens to the leading western
and eastern citiesl They would advertise
Atlanta, and come back with ne y ideas,n
After all, why notl
Broad street., at the corner of Marietta,
Atlanta, is nothing short Of a Waterloo for
heavy wagons. Here it is above every
place in the city that they come TO grief
There are three street car tracks at that
place, and in some way or another the
wagon wheels become twisted in crossing
them and the axle snaps short Off at the
shoulder. Four wagons have been broken
down there in TIE last week almost in the
same spot, and others viii be broken in the
near future in this wagon pitfall
, AT the recent city tax sales at Atlanta,
Col. j. n. Batema bought lot for So
which was described as "lying in land lot
AZ, ward 4, on 40-foot street, containing
ll4xl65 feet" and sold as the property Of
lsham Teasley Col Ba eman couldn't find
the property, aud refused TO take it. Frank
y. Rice has since informed him that the
same piece Of property has been sold for
taxes every year for the past fifteen years.