The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-02

tural Society will be called t. orde,I, II
| Athens by President John 0. Walden o
| Cedartown. There have been sPg ISIlI
pa delegates to the convection ENSiJ
thing indicates a convention Of undsual IN
/ terest and business. Matters ~ HllA.'i az
/ will be discussed by the delegates; INV
rrra,t Teal If work will he done IN the con
venuion.
r.cnest WAS sent in TO Judge Ev,
Thursday nv number Of the mem osrs q
the AuTugt, ba. asking that the 'rlaI OF
isigatad civil cases. which are SET LOT Tue
! Aue,,,s+ form of the city cOu I, be postponed
NATL the November term. Inc Request
will no doubt be compile Wltn' u Il 1ht
Au-ust term will BE- confined % crlinlha
bysI1ess ami civil cases, u which no deIeis-
is made
tion that Adam Hamilton tcoloredl oil the
Callahan district. in this county, Is the old
ct scpo5Ibov in the state. He IS close on 20
NJ yea-s Of age, Is reg Ilsr at endant OF
one II our public schools, and 10 Is said he Is
| n faithful student. and IS slowly but surely
| ma ,teriug the rudiments OF the various
/ branches Of knowledge taught In our public
schools.
The Griffin canning factory IS now run
ming % its utmost capacity, ca Mug corn,
beals, okra, etc., besides peaches, apples
and berries. The tomato crops Will be
ready for the cans in u week or ten DAYS,
when things will be in a rush. ABOUT 2OO
acres have been planted IN matOes here
for canning, and as the crop is always
large, it will put the factory to strong
test 70 handle them.
Dad son uudiSonian: Free schools.
E ec.rc lights. A mammoth hotel, A
twenty room boarding house. Several new
dwelling houses going up. Such are SOME
OF Madlson's improvements The Madison
variety works are still booming. Chairs by
the hundreds are being manufactured daily,
and still the demand is fully equal 20 the
supply. The cityis, indeed, in prosperous
condition, with d bright future.
Thursday morning while Mrs. Thomas l..
Tate had left her home, on lower Broad
street, Columbus, TO visit near by, white
tramp entered the house and sto.e a toy
bank belonging to little son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Tate, which contained Sl2 % IN small
coins, that had been saved up for several
monthS. A servant In the house saw him
when he entered, but it seems that she did
not interfere. The officers are az work on
the case.
Gainesville Eagle: Gainesville has never
had boom nor does she want one. she is
contented with heilthy, steady growth,
and this she has. Gainesville does not de-
pend on outside capital 10 help build her I'D.
All her improvements are made by homo
capital and enterprise. Those who had the
sagacity and foresight to invest in Gaines
vile real estate few years ago, and have
held on 10 it, have in most cases more than
doubled their money.
Greensboro HsrdId-Journdl: Clinton
Daniel brought to Greensboro last Tues
day one Of the finest stalks Of corn we have
ever seen grown in Greene county. The
stalk verify looked like q young tree, it was
so strong and hardy, and measured trihe
over twelve feet in hight. 10 has four we'll
developed ears ON it. Mr.. Daniel expects
to have plenty OF corn this year. and If all
is like the stalk be brought In fifty bushels
per acre will be about the yield.
The tax books for this year::show very
gratifying increase in the taxable property
Ia Lowndes county over last year, in spite
Of hard times and low cotton. The total
returns last year were 80, $50. oil. This year
1t is Is, 200, 62S-showing al increase Of
s210, III This is a very fine showing.
Every district in the county shows an in
crease. The number of polls are 2,O04-an
Increase of seventy -one. There are four
.een lawyers, thirteen doctors and two
ientista
Thomaston Times: Tuesday night some
me entered the room where J. w. Var
trough and wife were sleeping at DIR. Her
ing's. aud stole his pocketbook. containing
about SO, his collar and cuff buttons, knife,
pipe and tobacco. Access to his room was
gained through an open blind, and a barrel
placed under the window. The thief left
Mr.. Yarbrough's shirt and cuffs in the
barrel. He was evidently familiar with the
location. The same night the hen rooSt
and smoke house of L. w. Brannen was
robbed. Also the hen houses OF DR.. j. w.
Suggs and J. W. Ford.
The Gainesville Eagle, after announcing
The divorce proceedings of the present term
If Hall superior court, comments as fol-
ows; docs ii not seem that our divorce
laws are be, oming rather lax4 1t was once
the case, in the south especially, that it was
not a very easy matter for those who had
pledged their tloth TO be released therefrom
except on strictly scriptural grounds, and
not then until the most positive evidence
was adduced, inculpating one or the other
Of the parties. and in that case the criminal
one was forbidden to marry again. But OF
late years the law has become less rigid and
now courts and juries are permitted to dis
solve this. the most sacred OF all contracts
on frivolous grounds. By collision prooi
may be manufactured and divorces OBJ
tanned. Isn't it about time to get back tC
fret principlesi What say you, Solons Of
Georgian
Athens Bonner: Thursday morning five
of the alarm boxes were burned out by q
strong electric current. 1t all happened il
this way. Up on Milledge avenue the wire
of the fire alarm system runs very close X
the guy wires of the electric car line. Righ
in front of Lucy Cobb Institute it touched
one of them Thursday morning. In a mo
ment the alarm bell rang one peal. ant
shortly afterward the chief of the
department found that FIVE of tn,
alarm boxes had been burned out
The heavy current of the electric lin,
had gone through one OF the guy wires. anC
when the fire alarm wire came in contact
with it, the whole current rushed into tn
boxes. This was too heavy for the ap
paratus to stand and the coils were burnet
out. Chief McDorman went around to al
the boxes and examined them at once.
was found that no very great damage haC
been done, but that by the accident th
whole systom had been thrown out of gear
He at once o, dered new apparatus from New
YORK, and it will arrive in few days.
FLORIDA
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