The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Dog That Gets Drunk.
GEORGIA
According to Indications the coming fal
and winter will tie one Of the busiest Cal
houn has ever known Crops all over To
county are unusually good.
McRae dirt is getting precious. Lots IA
the business portion of the town are offer
ing at IS per running foot. and nobody /
anxious To sell at these figures.
Farmers will raise more corn in Whitfield,
county this year than has been raised AM
year since the war There viii be we!
allied bins when the harvest is told.
Judge Crisp has gone TO Kansas City
where be will deliver series OF speeches Oh
the political issues of the day, and will
make tour of other Missouri cities
Whitfield county shows as large al in
crease in taxable property thi year as any
of the tier Of North west Georgia counties,
except Polk. uhoss increase IS nearly $780,
O00
Hay-making seems to pay around Macon.
7. J. Lane, who has farm in the swamps
not far from the city. will harvest 10000
pounds of Bermuda grass bay from thirty
five acres this season
The shipment Of cotton from Hogansville
from Sept |. 1890, to Aug. l, 1891, has been
far above the average oi many years past
Depot Agent Daley reports llO27 bales
during the eleven months
Pike county court was held in Zsbulon
Monday and Tuesday, dispensing with
consider bic amount of business. Judge
S, Pope presided. with Col. J. J. Rogers
performing the duties of solicitor
Mrs. James Ais lbro ks is in possession Of
perhaps the oldest Bible in Troup county
1t has been handed down through FIVE suo-
cessive generations, and how much further
back is unknown. 1t is doubtless over 100
years cid.
Another big suit for damages was being
tried in the Augusta city court Thursday.
Il was the case of James Chisholm VS. the
Augusta and Summervilis Railroad Com
psny. The amount of damages asked for
was $1,000.
The Wilcox county commissioners have
fixed the rate of taxation at per cent for
county tax. This, with the state tax, will
probably make 10 per cent. the rate Of taxa
tion for the present year. A slight increase
over last years rate.
Planters from various sections Of Telfair
county say that the corn crop is excellent.
and that cotton is promising If they can
only have alternate sunshine aud showers,
but that either. without the other would
prove disastrous TO tire orop.
The finishing touches are being pnt on the
new building at the Academy for the Blind
at Macon. All that remains to bs arranged
is the fixing Of some gas fixtures. wire
guards for the windows. etc. The scadsmy
will open egain during The first week in
September.
Jesup Sentinel The railroad authorities
have dumped thirteen carloads of melons
into Phtnholloway creek The melons were
shipped and returned by the consiZnees.
81 in No I'd
nothing but mushy mass. which had to be
got rid Of
Work on the cotton seed oil mill at Jack
son has been suspended for the present
Owing to the strlngenoy of money matters,
and the probable Inconvenience to some 10
pay up all their stock this fall, il was deemed
best not to complete the mill for this season
The buildings will, however. be finished at
once
Henry Mcdowell OF Griffin has q diminu.
tive dog that lie rapidly developing into q
habitual druukard He pays daily visits to
a bar, and greedily laps the drippipgs from
the beer kegs until be gets so full that he
Gao scarcely walk. lie is a fat, chubby
little fellow, aud staggers with good.
humored grace.
The sealed verdict of the jury in the case
of Mrs Mary Cecilia Henry, who sued the
Georgia Railroad Company for $4,000
damages for the killing of her son, Mat
Henry was opened Thursday morning in
the Augusta city court. The verdict was
IN favor OF Mrs. Henry and gave her S., 900
with interest from the time the accident
occurred.
Chattanooga Menus: 1t is reported that
large reward has beea offered for the arrest
OF the murderers of Mr.. Pogue, who was
killed in most brutal manner at his home
near Spring creek church, Cherokee county,
a few nights ago. 1t is now surmised that
he was murdered to keep him from report
ing tie actions Of certain men who had been
selling whisky in that vicinity without
license
If the reports Of our exchange are a guide,
there Is much dissatisfaction among the
farmers of the state in regard to their cot
top and watermelon crops. Many will re-
duce their acreage Of both next year. Cot
ton has sold during the past week as low as
cents and the melon market has been
glutted. One paper says an acre OF grass
win now yield crop of hay more valuable
than cotton or watermeons.
GAINESVILLE Gazette: There was farmer
In town few days ago who was talking
about farming. Said he: 81 now raise cot
TOD 10 get seed for manuring my corn, and
raise wheat to get the straw to uss at
camp meeting" If thisiis TIE real reason, he
must certainly be doing we'll, for he is put
ting his products where they will Jay him
best. Farmers must learn that they need
not raise SO much cotton when the seed is
more valuable than lint
Dalton Citizen: After all. sh, peach
crop lacks good deal of being o failure in
this section. We notice quite quantity of
very good peaches coming into town. They
sell at from 50 cents to 81 per bushel
w lille not so fine as when the season is fav-
orable, still the fruit will do quite well for
canning and preserving. In the mountain
orchards where the cold weather prevented
premature budding, the peaches this year
are said to be unusually fine.
Deputy Marshal w. L. Poore of the
federal court returned to Macon Wednesday
from Florida. He was down there on bust
ness, he says, when he received copies Of
newspapers containing attacks on him, and
he decided to come back and face the music.
Mr.. Poore says that be is ready and willing
TO submit to a fair and impartial investiga-
ton of his connection with Beauregard
Scarborougb's death, and that he nastsned
his return to Georgia on that account
A voluminous bill Of exceptions has been
filed in the federal court at Macon by Des-
sau s. Bartlett, defendants counsel in the
famous conspiracy case against Luther A.
Hall, John K. Lancaster and Louis knight,
This is an Important step to ward making
an appeal to the supreme court OF tie
United States. and shows that the attor-
neys are going 70 make stubborn fight yet
in behalf of the four men who have already
served seven months of their sentence IL tht
Ohio penitentiary.
Fort Valley Leader: We bad permission
70 look over the books Of Fort Valley
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