The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TEE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Water Flooding Cellars at Macon.
A Shameless Instance OF Lswless-
ness at Sparta-A Safe Rsided Twice
on the Same Day.
GEORGIA
The increase in Eloert's taxable property
lie near Sl5O,OOO.
A negro was Drained with q picket by
another negro in Emanuel county Friday.
September will usher in another industry
for lagrange, and one that is much needed
the LRGrange steam laundry.
Albany wants the free postal delivery
system and claims over 5000 inhabitants.
The census OF 1890 gave her 4,O0s.
Stiles Scarlet Of Wayross had the mis-
fortune of losing house on Hazard Hill by
fire on Sunday. Value 5000, insurance S4O0
Maj. Thomas H. West, a wealthy aud
highly respected citizsn Of Csrrollton. Is at
the point Of death. Maj. West has been a
citizen Of Carroll county for sixty years.
1t Is said that E. n. Camp, who has about
thirty acres in grapes and other fruits at
Moreland, Coweta county, has refused Sl0,-
600 for the same. A few years ago this
same land could have been bought for about
$40 an acre.
Minnie Frazier Ccolored) Of Blowing
Spring, Walker county, killed her husband
last July by shooting, Being indicted by
kus Jury AOI Nub AukuSb bcIL LIS sue
was arrested Saturday by Sheriff Foster
and placed 10 jail
Master Frank Mooty Of LsGrange, while
sitting in a window Of the telephone office
Oh other day, was knocked cut by the fall,
In Of the sash, aud he fell about twenty
Ieet Co the ground. Though shocked and
badly scared. he received no other injury.
W. T. and Walter Dennis of Talbotton
have put up this season about l 200 jars and
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fruit, and are still canning. They intend
TO exhibit them at the state fair, the Chat
tAhoochee exposition, and also at the worlds
fair.
Will Castleberry, a negro drayman. while
driving on Wall street, at Atlanta, Friday,
knocked down and ran over Patrolman
Mahaffey. The patrolmsn was not hurt in
the collision and he arrested the negro and
had him locked mp at the station house. A
case Of disorderly driving was entered.
Wesley Houser reports boil worms on his
old place Just west Of Fort Valley. he was
out there Tuesday and the field of Mr..
Adams is badly infected with them and
that Of w. L. Houser, just across the road,
shows signs of their destructive march.
This worm is more ruinous to cotton than
the caterpillar and if they continue TO in
crease hardly halt a crop will be made.
The reunion of the Twenty-third Georgia
regiment at Kingston on Aug. 81 was a
grand success. The entire population OF
the town and vicinity was present, and the
tables we're groAning under the weight of
the magnificent dinner. The address of
DR.. r. B. Headen of Rome was very good,
and J. M. Davidson's recolleotions of the
part he took in the battle of Resaca were
very amusing.
During the month OF August there was
shipped from Darien, coastwise and foreign,
3 ,456, 963 feet of hewn and sawn timber and
lumber. During the month there was
measured at the public boom $500, 900 feet
Of square. scab and sawn timber. This
does not include the sawn timber and lum-
Der which came in during the month and
was carried direct TO the private booms and
lumber yards In Darien.
In Chattooga thrifty farmer had a IA
vorfte goat that was the mother Of two
kids. His son also had something he treas
ured-a beautiful pointer. But sad to say
one day one of the kids was missing Its
owner was satisfied that the dog had made a
meal Of it, There was death in store for
him IL 1t could be proved. To get the proof
blue stone was used as an emetc But
though the poor canine almost threw up his
dew claws. he failed to bring up any kid.
While the farmer was about to admit that
the wisest of men sometimes make mis-
takes the glad news was brought that the
hid had been found.
EOIh v dAlC1 A~BuQbT. 11OuuhI
last n. b. Smith, who lives about FIVE
miles northeast Of Fort Valley. brought to
the Leader office one Of the largest apples
we believe was ever grown. 1t was OF the
Queen variety and measured I51< inches
thick and weighed ~ pounds. 1t was per-
fectly formed, though a monster. Mr..
Smith says he has had a great number from
the same tree Of an unusual size. The
Leader proposes to send this apple to Maj
w. L. Glessner, commissioner Of immigra-
tion for the Georgia Southern road, and see
If he cannot preserve it in some way aud
send 1t to the worlds fair with the exhibit
from Georgia.
A shameless instance OF lawlessness oc-
Cured about uightfall, on Thursday fol-
lowing the political meetings in Sparta. A
couple of men in q buggy, drinking and
disorderly, drove out Of town on the SAM
dersville road. When opposite the Metho-
dist parsonage, occupied by Rev, Z. Cook
and family one of them pulled out pistol
and shouting, This is the way I'd do the
black men ~ fired three times into the house.
One OF the balls went through the weather
boarding and the plastering and fell upon
the floor of the bedroom. MIRA Cook was
standing 10 front OF the house at the time.
Suspicion rests on two young men from
Warrington county.
Julius Mabry (colored) CT Chickamauga,
who had been bound over to court for
bbehliuS SOIlo CHECKS was released tuesday,
as no true bill was found against him. After
he was turned out he showed several parties
a $50 bill. 1t was found out later that the
money had been taken from John Hixon,
who had been confined in jail before he was
sent to the asylum. Saturday Julius was
arrested at Crystal Springs by w. NJ Foster
and Il. E. Watts under the charge Of simple
larceny. Before bringing him back TO Jail
he was taken to Get Up, where he had left
the money at Harve Shahan's store. Find
ing he could not pass the bill, the negro had
torn Ii in two and thrown it down. Mr..
Shahan preserved the pieces, pasted it
together and turned 1t over to the officers.
From early morn to dewy eve an ebony
niped has pumped water out of the cellar Of
the First National Bank, corner Cherry and
Second streets at Macon, and still the water
flows in in undiminished quantities. This
bank Is not the only one that has suffered
from this water mystery, but the Empire
Store, Hollis & Burden, Smith g. Ellis, have
all had to pump immense quantities of
water from their respective cellars. The
origin OF this mysterious flow remains in
the dark, and it may be necessary to dig
treach along Second and Cherry streets TO
find the source. The water has been running
In the cellars ever since the latter part OF
July, and the amount Of damage done is
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