The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-03
GEORGIA..

the Tax on their Extra Land Hold
ings.
GEORGIA.
Griffin is to have tournament on July 4.
The Voolfolk trial commences at Perry,
Houston county, to-day.
A railroad from Albany via Newton 10
Bainbridge is under discussion.
Among the suits in DeKalb county is one
for boarding and training pointer dog.
A subscriber Of the jackson Herald has
stopped his paper because it wouldn't rain.
The state, says a prominent official, ex-
poets to sell Q old capitol building for at
least $l25, 600
A heavy frost is reported to have been
formed in White county on Wednesday
night of last week. 1t is probable that
serious damage resulted to crops.
A colored man by the name of Abednego
Young was in Eutonton last Tuesday, who
is slowly turning white. He was very sick
last year with typhoid fever. When he
began to recover, white spots showed them
selves on one side of his face and ear and on
different parts of his body, which are grad
ually spreading. and the prospect is that
eventually, if be lives long enough, he will
become wholly white. His card growing
out of the spots is white, otherwise it is
black.
Notice is given that application will be
made to the general assembly Of the state of
Georgia, to meet in July next, for leave to
introduce bill ito establish a school dis
trict in the county of Stewart to be known
as the Lumpkin Public School district; to
define the limits OF said district, to estab-
lish a system of public schools therein, and
to provide for the maintenance of the same;
to create board of education for the gov
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powers and privileges, and for other pur-
poses"
The wholesale business of WHY & Green
of Atlanta is pc manently closed. A short
time ago these gentlemen found that they
'.sere unable to meet certain financial obi
cations and the business was placed in the
hands of Maj. w. J. Tanner, as receiver.
The stock of goods on hand at the time
of the failure mas been disposed Of in the
best manner possible, and Saturday the
house was fl ally closed. Messrs. WHY &
percentage on their obligations out Of the
proceeds of the sale Of their stock, all of
which goes to their creditors.
There is a rumor at Atlanta that the
Georgia rail say will reduce its fares to and
from Decatur aud intermediate places to
cents, or street care fare. The fare now
charged for a round trip ticket to Decatur
is So cents, making it Is cents each way. Ii
a monthly ticket is bought he fare is re-
duced to about II cents n the round trip
or cents each way. A three months ticket
still further reduces it to about 10 cents for
round trip. Ii will be seen, therefore, that
a reductlol to street car fare would be a
considerable one. II is, perhaps, TOO great
a reduction to expect of a railway, unless
forced to it by the fear of a new line run
ming in competition.
A 6-year-old child in Augusta, the son of
d. Bennett, can now hear as well as any
bright young fellow, for such the little boy
is. For years he could no hear the slightest
sound, and on occasions drums were beaten
within a few feet of him to test the hearing.
Not many weeks ago the parents were sur
piised to hear the child address its "papa,n
and it was soon known that the little one
could hear the slightest sound. Every hing
possible was done for the child before, bu.
nothing benefited him. Those familiar
with it believe that a miracle has been
worked in the case. The child is a smart
little one, and is lionizsd in the neighbour
hood in which the parents reside.
The Atlanta university authorities had
consultation Saturday with Comptroller
General Wright and Tax Collector Stewart.
and it is understood that they win not re-
sist the collection of the taxes which have
been demanded Of them. No tax is i'm
posed on their buildings and grounds used
for school purposes but it was found that
they owned about fifty acres of surplus land
inside the city, which is very valuable. The
taxes on this property has not been paid for
several years, and will amount to several
hundred dollars. The Clarke university
and the Atlanta Home Insurance Company
have not yet come to 8 decision IN their
cases. The Home is waiting for the at
torney generals decision.
Warrenton Clipper: Last Tuesday night
at 2:20 o'clock, when honest men were en-
joying their needed rest, some villain, with
evil design in his heart. approached the
bed room window of Mr.. L. B. DuBose
and fired heavily charged shotgun in tie
air. he loud report awoke every inmate
of the house and many of the neighbors.
Surprised and frightened at this unexpected
attack, they knew not what to expect, but
there was no further demonstration. Ms.
DnBose at once sent little negro, who was
sleeping in the house, for Ed Cody. who
soon arrived, but the miscreant had taken
his departure. Daylight revealed no clew
but few tracks in the sand about the
house. The tracks we made by No. 6
shoe, and it is the opinion of all who have
examined them that they are the tracks of
q white man.
There is an old man on the upper Savan-
nah, living on the Georgia side of the river,
who has not lived in a house since the earth
quake Of 1886. An old oak, with inviting
limbs, has been his place of abode siuce the
shake-up refe red to. During the earth
quake his house was stirred violently, the
chimney tumbling in, and he ran from it
III fright, and has never returned TO it A
negro was employed to bri e him from the
building such articles as he needed, and he
has built himself sleeping place in the
limbs OF the tree, with a stout canvas as his
only shelter from the rain. His cooking is
done on the ground, and his recention no IN
is the grassy spot under the shade of the
oak. The least rumbiing viii cause his
precipil ate rush to terra firma, and he will
instantly jump TO the ground at the sound
of thunder or seeing flash of lightning.
Said Thomas Jaynes of Albany: II would
rather run a two-horse farm than work for
a salary of 500 per month in Albany.
About five years ago / had been merchaa.
dising in Dawson. Burglars broke into nay
store through the trausom and literally
ruined me. | came back to the country
without dollar. My wife had sixty-five
acres of land upon which we settled. /
could not buy mule on time to cultivate
my crop without good Endorsement which
l obtained, and started to work. After
terward / bought farm of over 800 acres
on credit, which | have since paid for: and
now work four mules and make forty or
nifty bales of cotton Annually. Ny boys
are growing up and help me on the farm.
i am now worth over 81 0nO n va ano1rt,