The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-15
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


GEORGIA
The Central railroad has opened tele-
graph Office at Sharpsburg.
Only four men who were In business al
Athens before the war are in business there
now.
The total returns of white and negro
property in Marion county Is 1900, 1903
being $116,5 more than the returns Of
1891.
G.. V. Market Of Hawkinsville dropped
dead Friday afternoon while en- route for
Atlanta on the Central railroad. He was
troubled with dropsy.
Jim Corbett, the slugger, will pass
through Atlanta on Sept. 2, in a special
car, en- route to New Orleans for his SCRAP
with Sullivan on Sept. z.
Hsmp. Catesof Catesville, Burke county
was playing in a game Of base ball last Sat
urday and in attempting TO throw the ball
his arm broke and fell helpless to his side.
James II. Brown, near DAhlonega, found
a bee tree few days ago and obtained
fifty pounds OF honey. He found another
and In 10 was a large black snake nd q
swarm Of bees but no honey.
Daniel V. Kemp has entered suit against
the Atlanta Consolidated Bottling Company
for $15,0 900 damages. Kemp was engaged
in fastening corks IN bottles when one Of
them was forced out and struck him in the
eye, causing it's loss.
The trustees will have 10 pay for the main
tenance of the confederate home at Atlanta.
Twenty-Five dollars each is the amount
asked from them by President Calhoun. 1t
goes for taxes, insurance and a Waterman.
It may be decided TO sell the home.
A negro woman of Macon is doing a
thriving dairy business by milking other
peoples COWS. She drives the COWS into the
yard and milks them nearly dry aud then
lets them out. The consequence 10 a number
Of people In that locality are complaining
about their COWS not giving enough milk.
Chief Joyner has a letter from gentle
man in New York inquiring as to the ad-
vantaRes of Atlanta as a location for a fire
apparatus factory. The gentlem an himself
is very favorably Impressed with what he
has heard Of Atlanta, and Chief Joyner's
reply to his letter viii not decrease that I'm
preston.
Mr.. Young, who runs the Grand View
hotel at Tallulah Falls, owed his street tax
to the town. Mr.. Robinson, who presides
over the destinies Of the town OF Tallulah,
took 1t into his head that he would collect
that tax and Mr.. Young wouldn't pay it.
SO Mr.. Robinson had him put in the Gala
boose, where he remained uBtil he procured
the certificate Of a physician that he was
unable 10 work on the roads. The question
may be tested as TO whether a man can be
imprisoned for non-peyment Of street tax.
The board Of education Of Bib county ia
still at a loss to know what to do about the
East Macon school The teachers and pu-
pills will be Obliged to be accommodated
when the schools open, and for this reason
the school building will have to DO ex-
tended. The extension, according to the
plans, will cost no less than 81 600 and the
building committee has on hand only
$1,000. The board has thought OF every
way possible to get the house built, and
now they have found it necessary to ask for
more money. This step has been decided
upon, and the county commissioners will
be approached on the subject next week.
John Parker Of Shoal Creek district,
Lumpkin county, was arrested by his bonds
men last week in Anderson, s. c., aud
brought back to Dahlonega and lodged in
Jail Parker was q fugitive from Justice,
having left his securities His crime was
burglary at Teal & Adams gold mine some
years ago His securities were John
Stringer, E. e. Kenemore and Allison
Stringer. They went to Anderson, found
Parker and started him on his way to Geor-
gia in short order, and the prisoner is now
peeping through the bars TO await hearing
at the October term Of Lumpkin superior
court.
One Of the strangest freaks ever seen In
Augusta is now on Reynolds street, Just
above Centre. Friday morning a negro
woman living there gave birth to a child
that had no brains. The body was formed
perfectly and the head to just above the
eyebrows like that Of any other child
There was no forehead, however, and from
above the eye the head sloped backward
nearly TO the neck, and it was also covered
with short hair. The monstrosity only lived
few minutes after birth. News Of 1t,
however, spread over the city. 1t was
seen by several of the physicians, who pro-
nounced it the strangest thing they had
ever known.
Brunswick Times: The work on the bar
is going along as finely as could be wished.
There has been no weather since the BLAST
ing begun to prevent the work, and the sea
on the bar has been remarkably calm for
the past two weeks, which has been a god
send to Col. Goodyear in his undertaking.
Those employed at the work report that
during Friday 700 pounds Of dynamite were
exploded. Nothing but 50-pound cartridges
are now being used and the explosion
OF each OF these teara a hole In the bar
about twelve feet in diameter and from two
and a half to seven feet In depth The
earth from this excavation Is thrown I'D
into the sea and is washed outward and in-
ward with the tide. Soundings upon the
bar prove that the earth Is broken by the
rough all of this scattered earth will be
worked of Every night tho dynamite
feet. which is composed Of the tug u Dart,
the schooner Minnie and the sloop in which
the dynamite is carried, comes into the
sound opposite Jekyl point, where the
Minnie is left. Here she anchors for the
night The dynamite sloop is brought up
to the city and the supply OF explosives is
replenlshed.
Macon Telegraph: The planters may
make more cotton this year, but will get
less for it per bale. The outlook is FOR a
lower opening market than was ever before
known. IF it opens at 81 cents In Macon
on Sept /, it will surprise me-" said an old
cotton man 10 the Telegraph yesterday.
''The fact is the market in its present stage
is on the down grade, with little hope for a
reaction before the staple begins coming
In. You see, we date our cotton season
down here from Sept /, say, aud the pres-
ent market is influenced chiefly by the stock
on hand, supplemented by the prospective
supply and demand. The market lust
at this time, you will observe. is
active. with New York quoted
at cents. That means cents in Sayan-
nah and about ca In Macon for middIings.
Just let the crop begin to pour in aud
somebody is going to get scared, in my
opinion, and down goes the market, A
feeling Of confidence may arise later on.
and hope for 1t. but right at the start
buyers are going TO feel their way aud low
mr. NRfl