The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Floyd County's Tax Collector Way
Laid and Robbed Of $3oo-The Pros
porous Condition of Athens-Tobacco
Culture Around whiRham- Bruins
wick Preparing for the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows.
GEORGIA.
A branch of the North American Invest
ment and Deposit Company Of Dubuque,
Ia, is tn be established at Athens.
When the executive Office at Atlanta
closed Saturday 1851. GOO had been paid out
IN widows pensions since the first day Of the
month.
The tax assessors OF Columbus completed
their work and squared up their books Sat-
urday. The result shows an increase in the
taxable property of the city Of 1871, 945
over that of last year. The total amount
is SO, SIS, SIS.
It said that two energetic farmers OF
Lee 1unty having been troubled with rats
eating the watermelon seed planted i'll their
fields, have bought between them a carload
Of rat terriers to keep off these pests and pre-
vent invasion on their early vines.
The WhIgham Grit says that over twenty
tobacco barns are being built IN that vicin-
ity, most of which will be large structures.
The same paper states that hundreds OF
acres of tobacco will be planted in and
around Whigham the present season.
At Macon, Saturday, Judge Miller or
dered the distribution OF the funds In
the hands of w. B. Carhart, re-
ceiver Of the shoe firm Of Wright. Harley
& Co. rhe creditors received Is per cent.
The total amount distributed is 81 900.
The liabilities were about SIG 900.
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lodges, independents Order Odd Fellows,
of Brunswick, are already arranging for
the hospitable entertainment of the grand
lodge of the state which is TO meet here
next August, the second Monday. The ses-
sion Of the lodge viii be for four days.
There will probably be between 300 and
400 members In attendance.
DR.. ]. w. Johnston OF Scarboro had the
misfortune TO loose his barn and it's COM
tents by fire last Wednesday afternoon. 1t
was, perhaps, the finest barn in the county,
and contained all of the doctors grain and
forage. The loss is 81 200 to 81, 500. The
insurance ia about one-third the loss. The
cause of the fire is supposed to have been the
careless handling of matches by l4year-
old negro boy, who was in the barn short
while before the fire.
Athens Banner: Clerk Mitchell Is get
ting up statement of the assets and liabil.
titles of the city OF Athens, and, although
it has not YET been completed, the facts
show up well for the city and for the men
who in the past have managed her finances.
The total liabilities OF the city amount to
500, $50 aud against this the city owns
property to the amount of S75 900 Ia round
numbers. This for city OF 1900 inhaoit,
ants and tax rate Of l per cent. and an
assessed valuation Of over $4,000, 600 is a
splendid showing.
Lumpkin Independent: The guano trade
is greatly reduced in this section OF the
country. To every wagon load that is seen
going out of town this year at least ten
loads were carried away last year. This is
another indication of the stringency of
money matters. Ii 1t were not so, the
guano dealers would buy more largely of
it and the farmers would use it more freely.
AS it has heretofore been used almost exclu-
sively on cotton, 1t indicates that the acre
age In cotton will be largely reduced this
year, and this is as 1t should be.
The promoters of the Atlanta and Chatta-
hoochee electric railroad, which runs from
Atlanta to the Chattahoochee river, have
decided upon q somewhat novel enterprise
to induce travel over their road. A theater
is to be erected on the banks of the river,
with restaurant attachment and other at
fractions of summer resort nature A stock
and Atlantians and visitors to the city will
be given season Of summer opera. 1t is
to be a sort of inland seaside resort, with
bathing in the impid waters Of the Chatta-
hoochee.
Athens Hammer: People are figuring now
in regard TO the increased values of real
estate in the city and the increase shat
Athens will show up for the year when the
tax assessors make their returns after
April l. Right here the exact figures In
regard to the increase for 1891 will be read
with interest. The total increase for 1891
was 1856, $50. This was divided among
races as follows: Whites, $8S,57l; colored,
sS5,015. The total assessed valuation of the
city for 1891 was Sc. l23, 443. It will take
pretty lively move to reach an increase of
$500 900 this year. but she may reach It.
Highwaymen held up Tax Receiver III.
r. Boyd Of Floyd county Saturday night
and robbed him Of over $780, 1t was done
within 100 yards Of the corporate limits of
Rome, in the Fifth ward, between and Z
o'clock Three men bounced upon him In
the dark as he was driving home in his
buggy all alone. He cannot identify either
one Of the three men, but thinks two were
negroes and one white man. There is no
ciew to who they were. Mr.. Boyd Is a
cripple. and 10-year-old child could almost
rob him. The money was in leather
pocket book in bis inside vest pocket. The
robbery was committed not over $50 yards
from Tax Collector John J. Blacks resi-
dence
The commitment trial of Robert Collins
for the killing of Dave Rives in Baldwin
county on Tuesday, Jan. %, was concluded
at Milledgeville Saturday. The case was
tried before Notaries G. w. Caraker and
James A. Green. Collins rode about two
miles to overtake Rives, and expressed his
intention Of killing him. The evidence
drawn out from about twenty witnesses
goes to show that the killing was premedi-
tated murder, and bail was refused the
prisoner. Probably more interest has
been shown in this case than in any killing
that has taken place in Baldwin county in
ten years. Both the deceased and the pris-
oner belong to the best families and the best
legal talent has been employed by the
friends Of both parties to carry the case to a
final termination. On account Of the inse-
curity of the Baldwin county jail. the pris-
oner will bs carried to Macon to await the
coming July term OF the superior court.
FLORIDA
A new hotel has been opened at Indian
Beach
Ward McAllister will arrive in So Au-
gustine toward the end OF this month.
George NJ. Pullman aud his party left
Tampa for st. Augustine where they will
stay for some time at the Ponce de Leon.
r. B. Brooks (coloredl, editor OF the
Florida Ledger, has been appointed in