The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

No Action Taken by the Grand Jurs
of AppIinE County on the solicitor
GeneraIship Fight-A store at High
Springs Closed ny the Sheriff.
Brighter Feeling Among the PhOs-
plate Miners of Polk County.
GEORGIA
Capt. William Williams Of Athens died
Friday.
Joseph 4. Ansley. Jr.. Of Americas, Is
very i'll from an attack OF pneumonia.
W. P. Burt has withdrawn from the race
for representative from Sumter county.
The city council Of Carrollton has pass
ed an ordinance doing away with horse
swapping conventions.
The firm OF Holrseworth & Smith of Car
rollton has been dissolved. Mr. House
worth having purchased the interest OF
Mr.. smith.
webb & Crawford awarded the contract
for their new building on Broad street at
Athens Friday 10 Watson Bros. And work
upon it VIII be begun al once.
Don Williams. the young man whose leg
was mashed of by a freight car on the
Southern railway at Helena Thurs
day. was taken TO Macon and placed in the
city hospital. He is suffering intense pain,
but il is believed he will recover
A young child Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. E.
Carter, swallowed large piece of china
plate last Friday. Or. Patten was called.
but nothing could then be done but TO
quiet the little sufferer. On Monday he
coughed up the piece Of plate. and Is
row doing all right Mr.. Carter lives at
Naylor.
During the past month there was ship
ped from Darien. coastwise and foreign.
7.7l5.065 feet of hewn and sawn timber and
lumber. During the month ending on the
29th ultamO there was measured at the
public boom 10000 feet of square sea b
and sawn timber. This does not include
the sawn timber and lumber which came
in during the month and was carried di-
rect to the private booms.
An attempt was made Saturday 10 poi
son the entire family of Thomas Goggins,
who resides at River View. Ala. seven
miles from West Point. Ca. Poison was
put in the water bucket and two of the
children drank OF II before the fiendish act
was discovered. Medical aid was promptly
summoned and the lives OF the children
We're saved. There is no clew to the perpe-
traitors of the outrage. If unprecedented
they viii probably be summarily dealt with
as the entire section Is greatly aroused.
The police of Atlanta have been unable
TO start a trace of George Topus, the
smooth swindler who victimized a number
gus lottery several days ago. Topus is bad
~ wanted by the officers and If captured,
It will go hard with him. He pretended
10 represent a Boston firm, and sold tick
cts calling for prizes of furniture and 9th
eF household goods. The prizes, he said,
would be shipped i'm ten days. Many be-
lieved IN the man on account OF his smooth
manners, and paid him money. me Boston
police say that no such firm exists in that
city as claimed by Topus.
The alley back of the Augusta Chronicle
building is asphalted. and on its smooth
surface young Fourcher, a messenger
boy in the Western Union office. has be-
come an expert in bike riding. While
waiting in the alley for his turn TO get
kilograms to deliver, Fourcher practices
with his wheel He can do all sorts OF
fancy turns. He can get good start
with his wheel and then stand on his
head on the seat, while he guides the
handle bars with his feet and works the
pedals with hands. Then he jumps over
a string four feet from the ground as
easily as a horse can a five rail fence
valdosta Times: A gentleman near
Sparks sends us this week his profits on
turkeys raised last year and they show
that, in proportion to the amount invest
ed the returns We're really astonishing.
He started the season with four hens
and gobbler and during the season he
received three Filters of eggs, making a
total Of l3l eggs. He set Jig eggs and
raised TO market size seventy-three tur-
pounds each, bringing on the market
$3.50. He kept thirteen hens, valued at
so and sold ten eggs for $3.50, making a
total for his years raising of $500 1t
cost him just $3.50 to raise the entire
crop, leaving a clear profit from the four
hens of 1885,
Waycross Correspondence Morning
News: Judge ]. L. Sweat and Col. W. NJ
Toomer returned last night from Appling
court, which was in session on the civil
docket last week, and will be in session
nearly all of this week on the criminal
docket.-The report from Brunswick in
the Morning News a day or two ago stat
ing that Appling superior court at Bax-
ley had adjourned, and that the grand
jury had acted on the matter of recon-
mending a candidate for solicitor general
Of the brunswick circuit 20 succeed Col;
". g. Brantley, the incumbent who will
retire at the expiration of his term, is not
correct. The grand jury will not act on
the solicitor general matter until next
Wednesday. Col. Toomer and Judge Sweat
Will return to BaXley early Monday morn
ing and take up the criminal docket of
Appling superior court.
Augusta Herald: Augustus tax digest
this year will show a decided falling off.
The decrease will go close to 100000.
The majority of this, however, is more
apparent than real Both boards of as
SCISSORS have pretty nearly completed their
labors, and the actual figures will soon
be made public. To begin with, hereto
mas
been assessed at $500,O00. Under the recent
ruling of Judge Galloway, this is knocked
off and the city's revenue from that com
pany is now derived from tax of 2is PEI
cent. on its gross income Then, too, the
board have found that the valuation OF
cotton mill buildings and cotton mill ma.
chinery had decreased and they have
made the assessments fit these cases. Thus
mill building is assessed a what it is
worth now, and notfat the figure it cost
originally. The same idea, too, has beer
followed with regard to machinery. Be.
cause of these two principal factors, tht
express company and the cotton mills the
digest will show the apparent falling of
of nearly million dollars. Last year the
total of property valuation was about
81, 600 This year it win be somewhere
IN the neighborhood of $21 100000 Las
year the total tax rate was IL per cent
This year it will be the same.
FLORIDA.
Many shade trees are being planted il
the streets of Barlow.
Fort Meade is to have her municipal elec
ton on the first Monday in April
Large quantities of palmetto leaves ar,
being shipped from Minis to points nortl