The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

the same Property-The Famous
Dye viii Case at Athens TO Come
Up Again in March.
GEORGIA.
one Lexingtorian may have 20 pony mp
some income tax, but only one.
The Ohio fruit syndicate at AIineola Is
going TO plant twenty acres lu asparagus
this season.
NJ Nicholson a dry goods merchant OF
Brunswick, has sold out his business 10
=. +. LAWN.
The store OF L. IT, Hankinson. three
miles from Augusta, was destroyed by
IRE THURSDAY
Mrs. J. H. Ham. vie OF the tax receiver
OF Butts county. died her home al Jack
son Thursday.
The acreage Of rice in Worth county
this year viii be even larger than that Of
the year past
Oglethorpe farmers are not evincing
much interest iu the Cotton Growing Pro-
tective AssOc5At Ion.
The postofice az Neville, Dobbs and AL
ford, on the new postal route In Hart
county, have been discontinue.
c. W. Hasten has sold his mercantile
interests in Sumner 10 Thomos D. Smith,
and viii try farming this year.
J. B. White has sold his holdings in the
National Bank at Augusta Directors of
tngs.
The Lithonia Cooperative Granite Com
pany is finishing up a large contract of
granite for New Orleans and has another
contract on hand
Ned Howell. a negro living az Davis
camps. near AleXauderville, was shot Sat
urday night by Amos Hall, who works at
the same place. The two ncgrocs quar-
relied before the killing Hall has es-
capped.
F. H. Gaskins Of Berrien county, has
bought the places Of j. Y. and j. A. Smith
J. S. Roberts and w. A. Bridges IN the up
n ~
part Of Berrian. The amount involved in
the sale is about $4,000
Col Thomas NJ. Swift has been appointed
temporary receiver for the firm of l..
L. Stephenson q CO. OF Elberton The
appointment was made by Judge Seaborn
Reese upon the application Of NJ b.
McGinty, one Of the firm.
Another large sale Of sea island cotton
was made last week by J.. & B. u.
Strickland OF Naldosta The original
deal was for 100 bales, but new deals We're
made until 600 bales were sold. W. c.
Robinson was the buyer.
II is rumored that the big mill Of the
Hlton-Dodge Lumber Company at ST.
Simon viii soon shut down for ten months
The cause Of the shut down is said 10 be
the low price of lumber and the inability
10 operate the big mill with profit.
Mast Last September r /. N Mckse31ney OF
Thursday Mr. Loftin sold his interest in
the paper to Mr. Mckinney, and Mr.
Loftln will probably return to the west
A gentleman who is up on statistics has
calculated that the shortage in the gross
amount received by the farmers Of Ogle-
thorpe county over what IL received for
the 1898 crop is S75.000. That means $40
for every man, woman and child in the
county.
Saturday Paul, the 12-year-old son of
r. T. Jones of Canton, started hunting
in company with Albert Vaughan, and in
getting over a fence his gun was acct
dentally discharged, the load striking
his right arm near the wrist, tearing away
the flesh up to the elbow, leaving the
bone exposed.
Secretary Stafford Of the Young Mems
Business League of the city
of Augusta has received two
applications from different parts of the
west. one asked for tracts Of land con-
tanning 5000 acres and upward, to be used
for the colonization OF western truck
other party wrote for a farm of $50 or
200 acres to be used as a hay and truck
farm.
A number of young men Of Brunswick
have organized the 1900 Club" They pro-
pose 10 save, mutually, sum Of money
sufficient to pay their expenses to the
Paris exposition in that year, and they
will also take a tour Of Europe Each
week. Failure TO make the payment for
felts the amount already paid in by the
delinquent member Of the use Of the 9TH
er members.
Some of the most prominent moneyad
men Of Valdosta have organized them
selves into the Georgia and Florida Round
Timber Company with a capital stock of
about $4,000. They have applied for a
charter and permanent organization will
be perfected as soon as that is granted.
The company has recently purchased 146,-
000 acres of land in Charlton, Clinch and
Ware counties, and 123, 600 acres in Florida
They paid cash for the Georgia lands and
Sle,SOO has been paid on the Florida pur
chase.
Roswell Banner: Mrs. r. TX. Smith
found among her fathers old papers
receipt which shows how letters were
registered in lSl9, before the present
money order system was in practice. The
receipt is written with Ink on a plain
scrap OF paper, and the chirography is
as GEAR as esr II fresh 81, from ON the pen. It
Ga, Feb. 8. ls49-This is to certify that
q. F. Mcpherson has this day mailed a
letter containing one Hundred Dollars
TO Sophia MCPHERSON, Elizabethtown, n.
c. VIM. Minis, +. M"
Thursday Judge Hardeman appointed
Deputy Sheriff Victor Menard receiver
Of the retail dry goods clothing store Of
Margolis, Kessler q Kaplan, on Fourth
street at Macon. The application for In
junction ana receiver was made by G.
Margolis, a member of the firm. He al
Ian sold his interest to Kessler without
consulting with Margolis, and Margolis
thserefors, wishes the stock sold and
assets divided SO as to dissolve the part
nership. Margolis does not wish to re-
tain a partnership with Kessler alone.
The bond Of Tax Collector Jones Of
Bibb county was rendered the commits
sioners and accepted. He gives two bonds
of $4,000 to the state and one Of $25, coo
10 the county. Both of these bonds are
given by a guarantee company The
bond Of Tax Receiver Anderson amounts
70 $4,000. This is an extraordinarily
high bond, considering the fact that the
tax receiver does not handle a cent Of
the public money either of the state or
county, and, consequently. no risk what
ever is involved. The tax receiver simply
receives the returns of property owners
1t is said that the bond of SAL 600 was
fixed during the days of reconstruction
20 keep negroes from holding the office
Since the state has passed under demo
cratic rule the law relative to the bond
has never been changed.
Macon Telegraph: The case on trial
when court adjourned Thursday after
noon was that of r. II. Swain for the use
of the Southern Building and Loan Assoc
citation, and the Southern Building and
Loan Association, in its own right. vs. the
Western Assurance Company The ques-
ton arises over two insurance policies
taken out on the same property Swain
borrowed money Of the Southern Building
and Loan Association and gave q mort
gage on his property lie also agreed with
tho association to keep the property in
sured. The next year the association also
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