The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Georgia Cotton Seed Going to China,
Atlanta TO Have Base Ball This Sum.
mer-kewards offered for Offenders
Against the Law-Hotel Guests Who
Thought They BAD Wife Beaten IN
Their Midst.
GEORGIA.
Tax q. fas. have been Issued against about
$50 delinquent taxpayers Of Newton county.
The street car strikers OF Atlanta have
started their line of hacks to down the Con-
solidated Street Car Company.
A reward of $500 has been offered for the
arrest OF Henry Daniel. the negro that muir
dered Thomas A. Adair, at LOthia Springs,
about a month ago.
A day or two ago forty-three sacks, con-
tanning 1900 pounds Of cotton seed, passed
through Rome on their way from Mont
Romery, Ala. 20 an 9TH ,lal IN China The
seed went through via the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad.
At Atlanta Monday the sheriff levied on
the stocks Of the Armour Packing Com
pany, the Atlanta Beef Company and the
Nelson Morris Beef Company, to satisfy a
tax Fl. IA. for $500 special tax. The payment
of this tax was resisted last year aud will
be this.
The governor has offered a reward for the
arrest and conviction of Barney White and
Bob Beverly, believed to have been IN the
crowd that lynched old man Larkin Nix in
Mitchell county IL is 5000 each. The
men have fed. These are the only two in
the mob who haven't been arrested.
A lonesome scene is that around the Con-
federate Home at Atlanta. The magnif-
cent building, now completed, looks blank
and pathetic. 1t has recently teen rein
sured, and is in charge now Of Thomas O.
Ozburn, an old confederate himself. lt is
safe in his keeping. Last week, however,
he was sick in bed. Some vandals took ad-
vantage Of his being away TO shoot at the
water wheel and spring box, and some
other slight damage was done.
1t seems that the Fulton county alliance
has been doing some things Of which the
public generally was not Informed. This
weeks issue of the Peoples party paper
says: "a resolution indorsing Livingston
was introduced in the Fulton county alli-
ance by Brother jackson. and received three
votes, most OF the members not voting. A
motion to reconsider the resolution to in
dorse was then made and carried, with but
one opposing vote, that Of Brother Jack
son."
Steve Postell of Atlanta thinks base ball
Is "a gon this summer for Atlanta. He says
about the players to be had for a southern
leaRu6s lDere never was uetleF LlIne IOE
a minor league movement. The formation
of this club league from the league and as
ISOLATION has thrown lot Of good men on
the market, and good players will be cheap
Three years ago we had some men here we
didn't pay over $50 and $50 month, and
they were splendid ball players. We can
get them again" The Atlanta people will
form a stock company with $4,000 capital.
They have an option on good grounds, have
interested one of the Atlanta street railway
companies, and it looks as if the move
ment would succeed.
Hereafter the state supreme court will
meet at II q. M, adjourn at 80 p. m e.,
meet again at 3 p. N. and adjourn at $50
The court has just published this rule:
Rule 45-ln compliance with the act Of
Sept. Z, 1891, criminal cases reaching here
during term and before the docket has
been closed, will be in order for hearing on
the tenth day exclusive of Sundays after
their arrival. As soon as the bill Of ex-
ception and transcript of the record are re-
ceived by the clerk, be shall give notice by
mail to the counsel for theH plaintiff in err
ror and to the solicitor general or county
court solicitor concerned, and in capital
cases to the attorney general, Of the day
OF the hearing. Cases arriving after the
docket of a term has been sclosed will be
heard at the next term in advance of all
other business, and in the order OF their
filing in this court y