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

A jail Delivery at Fastman-More
Tax Returns - Condition of the
Crops.
GEORGIA.
The county court Of Tattnall has been
abolished.
The adjourned term of Jasper superior
court will open Monday.
The Covington Enterprise wants New
ton county's debt bonded.
The Fayette county Sunday school cele-
bration wall take place Sept. ).
There are rumors of another ice factory
being put up in Townsville at al early
day.
The Dolly county tax returns for this
year show an increase of S473, 497 over last
year.
A meeting Of the Middle Georgia Horti-
cultural society will be held at Vineyard on
Tuesday.
Phillips Legion and the Fortieth Georgia
regiment will hold reunion at CarteTsvllle
next Wednesday.
The tax returns If Spalding county go
''off" S25 96l. showing IS, ll9,Ss9, against
$3.093 ops for last year.
The Statesboro Eagle says that the people
of Bulloch county can no longer safely leave
their store doors open at night.
The clerks in the Southern Express Com
pary's office at Augusta have contributed
$l7 toward the Jefferson DAVIS monument
fund.
There are several Bulloch county farmers
buying land It move on 70 in Wayne county.
They are all first class men and well to do
farmers.
GAINESVILLE has new hook and ladder
company 1t is composed Of colored citi-
zens from to 10 years old. with turnout
about four feet long.
Amos P. Hart, an old citizen OF Bullooh
county, died last Friiay. he tad passed
three score and ten yesrs. A widow and
several children survive him.
Will Sims of Meriwethsr county sowed
IL bushels Of wheat. He reaped 2015 bush
els, after feeding away twenty-five Shocks
He says that Is better than the sub-treas-
ury.
Perry Journal: So far the sale Of water
melons has brought less than $500 to Perry,
though 5000 would not be more than fair
price for the carloads that have been sold
and heard from.
The Troup County Sunday School Asso-
chiffon will hold Its annual meeting at the
Methodist church in Hogansville on
Wednesday, Aug. 26. This meeting will
elect officers for tie ensuing year.
Willie Redding of Conoochee Is but
u years old is six feet high and
weighs 30 pounds His father also has
some size about him, as he is cons derably
over SIX feet high and weighs BIS pounds.
Eastman TiBles-Journui: Monroe Hin
son Of Hazleh lrst. has the finest cotton Ia
the county. The cotton is not quite seven
weeks old, and will average four feet in
hight. M. Hinson is not a farmer, either.
Tax Receiver Albert Smith OF Barlow
u cd 4 g..
1891. There are ,, COS polls. The total val-
uation Of all property is "a, 295, 0l9 This
shows a gain in valuation over last years
return of SIS, sos.
Vienna Progress: There is a new post
Office In Dooly county. hich will be known
as Tippettville. Il is eleven miles east from
Vienna, near the Wilcox line. The old
Office Of Holt, just over the Wilcox line, has
been discontinued.
Henry Strickland, who lives about three
miles east OF Reidsville, Tattnall county,
caught an owl ii a steel trap one day last
week that measured five feet and nine
inches from tip to tip. He also killed four
teen opossums the same day.
Some Of the best farming lands in Georgia,
are in Oconee county, aud upon these lands
are exceedingly fine crops. Ths corn crop
IS simply magnificent, while cotton is at
least breast high Co a six foot man. Both
crops are excellently fruited.
Perry Home Journal: The famous self
elected negro constables of the lower Four
tenth district Of Houston county who re-
Gently sold" prisoner for 81 we're in the
county court Tuesday, but no law TO fit the
case could be found aud they were released.
The late excessive rains raised the waters
of the Oostanaula river TO a much greater
hight than has ever been known before.
7 pf
dated last week, and all the low land crops
along the river and creeks have suffered
severely.
Lively bidding Is going on among the
furniture and carpet dealers for the contract
to furnish the Empire hotel OF Dalton.
Firms in Dalton, Chattanooga and Atlanta
are figuring closely on the Job. 1t will re-
quire about Sc coo to furnish the hotel in
firSt-class style.
J. G. Brown Of Houston county has re-
celved returns for several carloads of mel
ons. The highest for one car was S24, the
lowest 40 cents in postage stamps Mr. Brown
has decided not to ship any more melons
this season. He SAYS hog AID hominy will
be his crop for another year.
Cartersville Cotrdnt- A nlericdn: Wednes-
day afternoon a man named W. II. Living
ston, who was in the city attending court.
fell suddenly. and when approached was
found to be dead. His home was about five
miles from Anniston, Ala, but he was visit
ing friends in Barlow county.
Waycross Headlight: G. W. White. mn
In the Lynn settlement, has one of the best
cane crops we have see this year. He will
make fourteen or fifteen barrels of svrnn
and quantity of other sweetening. as his
wife and daughters were busy last week
preserving and canning peaches.
The headstones for the graves of the con-
federate dead in Myrtle Hill cemetery at
Rome arrived and will soon be set up. The
Ladies' Memorial Association has worked
long and faithfully to this end, and the
Tribune thinks the citizens should now
assist them in paying for the slabs.
Swaiusboro Pine Forest: Cotton is
growing finely now, and though young and
behind the average of last year, it gives
promise of a good crop. The farmers IN
the vicinity Of Conoochee have the best
corn crop they have ever made, and it is
safe to say, no western corn will be used by
them this year.
Tee Abbeville and Waycross railroad will
be completed to Swan, Irwin county, by
Oct. l. This road is now being operated
only thirteen miles. from Abbeville to House
Greek. Its running expenses are $500 per
month. During the month of June its
freight and passenger traffic amounted to
81, 700, leaving net profit of 81, 800.
The report of the register of vital Stats
tics of Columbus for July shows that there
were thirty -six deaths during the month.
OF this number sixteen were white and
twenty coiored. The record of births
shows forty-eight births for the month
twenty-fonr white aud twenty-four coll
ored. The death rate is 232 per loo per