The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

The september Report of the Commits.
sioner of Agriculture to Show q Fall
ing of in the Condition of Cotton-An
Unjust Ordinances in Favor Of the
Rackmen OF Atlanta.
GEORGIA
Can't. NJ. N. Maddrey OF Athens died
Sunday.
Judge E. A. Miller died at his home in
Buens Vista on Monday afternoon Of apo
plexy.
Wynn and Caldwell, who left Augusta
Friday on their transcontinental bicycle
wheels when thirty miles west of Augusta
and will be delayed several days until the
damage can be repaired.
Thers are in circulation in Brunswick
several hundred silvsr-plated l-cent pieces.
They are being passed for dimes, and at
glance they eau scarcely be distinguished
from dimes. Some sharp is plating the cop
pers. At the postoffice several of them have
been taken in and complaint is heard among
she merchants and at the banks.
While attempting 70 steal ride on
freight train al UpatOie, few days ago,
VIII Davis, 9 lS-year-old negro boy, met
with an accident which necessitated the
amputetion OF his left leg, below the knee.
Davis was playing around the depot when
the train arrived, and thinking IL would be
fun to steal short ride, attempted to board
one Of the cars as the train moved of.
Washington Chronicle: Reuben II. Call
laway had a mule and road cart, that had
been driven TO town by one Of his hands
stolen from the pump on the public square
Saturday night On Sunday be sent men
on mules out every public road, and one of
the men soon got on track Of the cart which
was built narrow gauge. He tracked 1t to
negro cabin near James Armstrong; and
found tue mule and cart. John Jones and
Bell Sims, two negro men, were arrested
and charged with the offense
The Septamber report OF Commissioner
Nesbitt will be ready for distribution in
day or two. The cotton average will be
TN as against SO in August, This low
average has been brought about by the
heavy rains of the last five weeks. The
average by sections is: North Georgia 50,
Middle Georgia Sl5s, Southwest Georgia II.
Southeast Georgia 70, East Georgia ~.
Corn will be abundant. The average by
sections is: North Georgia 92, Middle
Georgia 90, Southwest Georgia 9512 East
Georgia 100, Southeast Georgia 1917. Hog
cholera is largely prevalent.
Atlanta Herald: There is an ordinance
on the statute book Of the city under which
q cabman can have a citizen arrested IL
there is the least squabble over fare. It is
the rate Of fare, but negro can swear that
he carried his passenger farther than the
passenger says he did, and under the law, IL
a complaint is made, the policeman Is COM
PEELED to arrest the passenger. Sometimes,
In order TO get business, cabmen will make
contracts which are lower than the maxi
mum rate allowed by law, but after re has
performed the service agreed upon he can
laugh at your contract and demand all that
the laws allow and you must pay it or suffer
arrest. DR.. Dan Howell has just brought
test case in the courts.
The prisoners at the Jail at Athens tried |
to have another wholesale delivery Sunday |
night, and six Of them would have got out |
had it not been for the watchfulness of
Sheriff Weir. The Jail has lately been
finished up in what was thought to be very
safe style. but it proved not 60 be, as these
six negroes got an old tin spittoon, tore it
into pieces and commenced saving through
the wooden wall, and had got hole large
enough for them to crawl through, but day
light coming, they stopped, leaving a thin |
brick wall that they could push through |
with their feet. Sheriff Weir went to the |
jail to give them their breakfast aud, sus- |
pecting that something was wrong, made |
the prisoners go in their cells and looked |
them in and then commenced an exgmina.
ton and found the hole with box sitting
against the wall covering 1t,