The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Newman to have an Electric Li9h
Plant-AuYusta's Confusing Times
Bibb County's Confederate Vessr
ens-A Shooting ARRAY at Macon.
Cotton Picking Machine to be z.
hib!ted st the Augusta Exposition
An Unfortunate Farmer.
Upson county commissioners will erect
bridge across the Cobb and Riviel
branches near Thomaston.
John Cook Of Columbus killed q man
moth owl in Harris county a few DAYS az,
His owlsaip measured I feet : inches frog
Tip 70 tip Of wings
A Perry lawyer told US yesterday that tn
litigation between white men IN Houston
woald not furnish a decent support for one
third Of the Ia yyers IN the county
Houston county now has the right 70 Is
eablish and maintain. by taNsuoa, system
Of public schools. The oil. 70 tins elect In
troducsd BY Hon. R y. HoltzclaT oscame
law lsSt week
1t not known that the Perry Rifles VII
enter any military contest this SEASON, onu
il can be safely calculated t1at Inc ooys
will make their press1cs let a. one OF more
Of the fairs this fall.
At Darjen Mack Brown ,colored was
wavlaid bv s colorei man on the road on
Safurdsv night last, and received quite q
bsatinc over tbs head. Ben Washington
is said 70 be the man who did the beating
The cotton crop in Houston county has
been SERIOUSLY damaged within the last ten
DAYS bv excessive rains The open staple
was blown out and stained, and the grow
ing plants caused to shed blooms and young
bol!S
Hughey Irwin, the negro who attempted
to kill Officer Guyton Of DArien sometime
ago, had preliminary hearing before Jus
tice Bond last Monday. In default Of $500
bail he was committed TO jail Oh the charge
Of an assault with intent 10 murder.
The rains last week were very extensive
and considerable damage was done around
Lincolnton. Bottom corn was badly in-
jured in places, bridges swept away, etc.
Wsshouts occurred on some Of the railroads
and travel was more or less delayed.
At East Point colorsd man working at
the saw works fell in the tempering tank on
last Saturday. But for the fact tnat Jack
Rush grabbed him as he went into the hot
oil be would have been burned to death. As
il is, he loses the skin off of one foot and
ankle
At Griffin, Friday. Arthur Fleetwood, q
boy about Is years Of age, was accidentally
shot in the head. He, together with several
others, were III the marble yard handling a
parlor rife. accidentally discharging it. The
wound is painful but not serious. as it is
only flesh deep.
On Thursday evening last small cyclone
passed through that portion of the county
between Dublin and Turkey creek. A large
number Of trees were blown down, and
crops damaged to some extent. The same
afternoon lightning killed three cows on
the place OF j. r. Stinson, two miles from
town.
Conyers Solid South: We have remark
able stalk of cotton grown by Asa f. Sims
The stalk has on it forty-three bolls, one
bloom and one form. The bolls are all past
tie shedding age and the remarkable thing
about the stalk is that it never has throw
of a single form. The cotton is of the silk
variety.
colored fisherman of Brunswick was
heard to remark that there never had been
season when the waters were so full OF
fish as now. He also stated that the yellow
tail. so plentiful in the waters as far back
as can be remembered. is, in a measure,
disappearing, and that the croaker seems to
be taking its place in numbers.
In Walton county George Rocks lcolored)
was convicted Of voluntary manslaughter
few DAYS since. Sentence had not been pro-
nounced on him Wednesday. When the
officers went to bring him up to the court
TO be sentenced, they found that the bird
had flown. Officers are in pursuit and will
catch the escaped Jail bird if they can.
census report just received in the con-
troller's office shows that Georgias per-
centage of increase in tax valuations is ex-
ceeded by only one state in the union
Texas. This is q good showing for Geor-
gia. Seven years ago the total tax valua~
ton was only S290, 600, 600, while the returns
now show total tax valuation Of $44S, 000,-
600.
Oscar Swafford was taken from Alpha
retta to Atlanta, Friday, by Capt. William
BULGE. Oscar pleaded guilty to burglary,
and his father paid 300 and costs and re-
leased him. The revenue court is now after
him with a sharp stick, but Solicitor
George Brown SAYS he will not be found
guilty of any offense. The Alpharetta Jail
is now empty.
The election in Lincolton on the question
of issuing bonds to build school house was
held last Monday. Twenty-seven votes
were polled, fifteen in favor of bonds and
twelve against. Owing to the clause re~
quiriug two-thirds majority the PROPOSE
ton was defeated, and if a new school
house is built it will have to be done by
private subscription.
Augusta is confronted and COMPOUNDED
with the entangling presence of three times.
They are city time, 10Th meridian and Goth
meridian times. The Savannah river is the
dividing line between the 18th and Goth
meridians, and Augusta being on the SOUTH
ern side is properly in the 90.h time. There
IS now movement on foot to have council
adopt the Goth meridian time.
Macon Telegraph: A business man in
the lower portion of the CITY, having no
Office in which to place teleOhone. decided
TO have one OF the instruments mounted on
fence post until he could build an offioe.
He was seen standing by the post in the
rain. holding an umbrella in one hand and
the ear-phone in the other, talking away
as though it was as good an arrangement
as he wanted.
Some of Morven's Brooks county, pro-
gressive farmers are trying their hand at
raising rice, and are making dig success
of it. Frank Jones SAYS there viii be at
least l, 600 bushels raised there this year
and that lots of 1t will make 30 bushels to
the acre. The kind planted is called the
country" or highland" rice This rice is
quoted on the market for rough 81 05@
1 1919 per bushel.
Darien Timber Gazette: Henry Howard,
the robber, is still at large and a fugitive
from justice. Towards whereabouts are
known, and in ell probability he will be
brought back to Darien in time TO stand
trial at the November term. Joe Simmons,
another robber, is still in Jail in default Of
a 81 900 bond. His wife was here a few
days since aud tried to secure bond for
her husband, but she did not succeed.
Saturday morning the main top gallan
yard of the Norwegian bark Hilda, lying a
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