The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-09

capita per diem to feed and maintain
them
Bills to the amount of s.. 900 were passed
upon and ordered paid.
A bill for $50, sent in by r. T. Higgins,
for bringing Scott Bacon, colored, his
wife and two children, and the unknown
sailor from the bark Harold, which had
been referred to the coroner and sent
back approved, was ordered paid.
The bill for the storage of Mr.. Hover's
stomach came up, but the solicitor gen
eral being absent it was again deferred.
The minutes were corrected so as to
make the resolution providing for semi
monthly meetings read in case the bust
ness before the commissioners made it
necessary.
NJ CARTHY's FENCE.
1t was just one of those 'mishaps"
that will happen in the course of a
lifetime, where a Mccarthy is con-
cerned.
Some time ago, when the convicts were
at work cleaning out a drain on the Wa
tiers road, that ran through q piece of
land belonging to Pat Mccarthy, and
upon which he has a small truck farm, it
is charged that they tore down fence
which protected his land and farm from
the stray cattle, which had since tres
passed upon the land and destroyed part
of his crop.
Mccarthy said he had complained to
Maj Blandford and has asked that the
fence be repaired, but that he had got no
satisfaction. During the meeting Nc
earthly came in and in his own dramatic
way explained the situation.
The commissioners discussed the
matter pro and con for sometime. If the
fence was On the right-of-way of the
canal it had no business there and the
county d11a him M T c inn for
its being torn down. 1t was claimed also
that there was no fence there to speak of,
and that the only thing that could be
called fence was q few rotten boards
nailed to few posts which would soon
have fallen from decay anyhow.
MIR Mccarthy claimed, however. that
he had fairly good fence, and that it
answered every purpose, which was
chiefly to keep the stray cattle OF his
crops. 1t was on his own land, and had
been torn down by the county convicts,
who had neglected to replace it. After
discussing the matter for some time, it
was finally decided to award Mr.. McCar-
thy s. damages, and everybody was sat
ished.
A petition from Mr. Craig, to have a
certain drain out on the Montgomery
cross-road opened up was referred to the
committee on drainage, with power tC
act.
THE ENGINEER's REPORT.
The reading of Maj. Blandford's report
was the only other thing that came up
with the exception of the proposed bill &c
allow the commissioners to- condemn
rights-of-way for drainage, which has
been prepared by County Attorney Saussy
In his monthly report Maj Blandford
referred to the matter of the filling up Of
the pond on the White Bluff road at the
crossing of the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad. He said that severa
| propositions had been made to Mr.. A. r
Lawton, Jr, who was acting as agent for
Gen. Lawton, but they had all been de-
clined.
Mr.. Lawton had suggested, however,
he said, that the commissioners have the
pond filed up, and they would be allowed
to take dirt from a hill on Gen. Lawton's
place with which to do the work. He re-
ferred also to the depletion in the chain
gang on account of the large number OF
discharges and few additions, and also tC
some extent on account of sickness among
the men, which he said, had caused the
work to go on rather more slowly than
usual.