The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-08

Story From Fannin COunty-Bibh
County and the City Of Macon in
Good Financial Condition.
GEORGIA.
The new Methodist church at Dixie, in
Brooks county, will be dedicated to-
morrow.
The Talbotton market is glutted with
eggs at 10 cents per dozen and chickens
are plentiful at 10 cents each.
Alex Wells, a negro preacher, has been
Jailed at Forsyth on "a charge of setting
fire to a church from which he had been
ousted as pastor. He denies his
guilt
The Macon wheelmen now have their
club room open and supplied with litera-
ture A janitor has charge of the ma
chimes II is located adjoining Hotel
Lanier.
A telegram has been received in Macon
announcing the death of DR.. karlOW Holt
at Chicago, whose skull was recently
crushed by the explosion Of saltwater
fountain. The body was to reach Macon
last night for burial
The post Office at Page, in Cherokee
county will be discontinued on and after
July IS, and mail to that Office will be
sent TO and delivered from Keithsburg on
from the Page Office.
An unknown crank at Columbus keeps
putting letters IN the postoflice addressed
to all kinds of people. One was addressed
to Jesus Christ, another to the UNITED
World States Union Christian Demo-
crat Law Leaders"
Gov. Northen has offered $50 reward
for the unknown murderer who assassi-
mated J. w. Price, on the night Of oct. 10,
last, at Williamsburg, in Calhoun county.
Price was shutting up his store, when
fired upon through the open door Nine
teen buckshot entered his head and neck
w e. Butler collected through the JUS
tice court at Ellabell last Saturday a
claim against d s. A. Smith for IS 81
The defendant settled the debt with
cent Coppers. After counting out 800
pieces Mr.. Butler decided not to count it
as he said, from the size of the pile, he
thought it must all be there.
Bib county, with a taxable assessment
or valuation of property Of $50 900, 600 ac-
cording to the returns of last year has a
bonded Indebtedness Of only $4,000
This is all the debt of any kind that she
has These bonds of $4,000 are the Jail
bonds, S. 900 of which are due January,
1894 and $1,000 January, 1895.
At Columbus, Wednesday. Clarence
Smith narrowly escaped serious acct
dent at Mrs. l.. L. Davis boarding house
on First avenue. He went TO move a pis-
tOl that was in his trunk in order to
make room for something else, and acct
dentally struck the side of the trunk,
causing the pistol TO be discharged the
ball taking effect in the fleshy part of his
forefnger.
The old courthouse, which has done
duty for Terrell county for over thirty
II. I
the county commissioners and was bought
by Mr.. Rainey for the city of Dawson.
The building will be removed and made
TO front on johnson street and will be re-
modelled and converted into a city council
chamber and used for the home of the
city fathers and the city officers ana as n
public hall 1t was a good purchase on
the part of the city authorities.
Macon's sinking fund commission has
gradually funded and retired bonds of the
city until the entire bonded Indebtedness
of Macon is only $50. 600. The assess
ment or valuation of city property last
year was about Sl5,000,00 Hence, it APP
pears that Macon can issue $500, 900 more
bonds and remain within the seven per
cent law fixed by the constitution and
beyond which a municipality is not al
lowed to go. The city of Macon is in a
splendid financial condition. She has no
other debt than the $4,000 of bonds al
luded to-
While the way freight was going from
Tennille to Oeonee Wednesday two
colored boys were captured by conductor
j. w. Bridger. One had broken the seal
of the window and gone in the car and
had broken open box of merchandise.
1t is not known yet whether or not he
had thrown off any goods. Virgil Brown
was found in the box. He says his home
is in Hawkinsville. Ira Brown was out
side near by on a bumper with a pistol on
his person, supposed to be on guard. He
says his home is in Augusta. Conductor
Bridger saws he win send them back to
Tennille and refer charges.
The Washington Gazette says that
there are many people in Wilkes county
who have memorials of revolution ances-
tors In that county, in the court house,
at Washington, there is an old book now
more than a hundred years old, contain
ing the records of the first courts held in
Wilkes after the revolutionary war On
one yellow page there is inscribed the
judges charge to the gradd jury in 1854
just a hundred and nine years ago. IL has
his signature, George Walton" This
was George Walton, signer of the decla-
ration of independence. In the charge
he tells the people that this was not his
first visit to Wilkes. Fourteen years be-
fore he had been there, and had seen no
human beings but savages. He goes on
TO speak with surprise of the changes and
improvements, and he uses these very
significant words: Notwithstanding a
seven or eight years war in which you
have greatly distinguished yourselves"
A story which rivals Poe's BLACK Cat,
comes from Fannin county. A negro
there was greatly annoyed by a brindle
cat that followed him to and from the
fields and, indeed, wherever he went.
Even in his dreams the cat was with
him, and it was nothing unusual to
awake in the morning and find the feline
on his breast The negro became super
stitiOus' and decided that he was "con
iured" Then it was the cats
death seemed necessary to the mans
peace of mind. He caught it by the hind
legs, dashed its head against a tree. and
left it dead by branch. But, THAR night.
while the negro was addressing himself
to sleep, he was encountered by two gilt
tering eyes at the foot of the bed Then
he heard familiar whine-and re-
proachful whine az that, 1t was the cat
the brlndle cat-come to life again! He
leaped from the bed, and fed shrieking
from his cabin; and now there is one ne
gro missing from Fannin county, and at
night, around his deserted dwelling, above
the wailing of the wind can be heard
the rasping new of that cat of
the brindle color mourning for its cruel
master, with eight lives still left it