The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-31
NEWS OF THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

The Influence of the FitzEcrnid Col
ony on Twins Tax Books-AH At
Ianta Man With Queer Mania.
Matte White l. Frce-Fruit IN
FIorIda-Tnmpa' Base bail Tour
nament-Why Quny's Plan Of Re
cancellation FaiIed-Tohncco sales
in south Carolina - Battle on
Grecnyvood's street-A Quiet Eiec-
tion.
GEORGIA
The Earle ara Phoenix mills OF Co'-m-
bus have closed temporarily. They Wiz
be reopened in the fall with new and i'm
proved maclIulrE-
The assertion that navisat9n had been
closed in the Coosa river is mistake
The river IS very low. bIt the boats Of
lighter draught arc stli running carrying
freight and passengers.
Mrs. J. I. Laton. the mother Of The man
smith. who tried to run away with Jailer
McCul,oueh-s daughter from Atlanta on
Saturday is said 10 De- woman Who
moves in respectable society. and her hus-
band is a well known Atlanta attorney.
Matte White. the unfortunate young
woman who has been for sometime
prisoner in the Florida chain-gang, has
been pardOned, and is now as free as the
wealthy young farmer through whose
influence she was brought 10 such con-
dition.
Passengers on the Georgia Southern ard
Florida railroad viii be able TO get dinner
on that line on and after Sept. /. At
present there is no eating house on the
Ca. !. rFasH-. a
at Cordele. and Mr.. j. O.. Adams VIII
have an eating saloon in IT, This viii
be great accommodation to passengers
on that line.
Il is reported in Macon that the saw
mill plant OF the Georgia Lumber Com
pany at Sibley. owned by Messrs John
son. Ermiuger q Birch, Of Macon, has
been sold 20 western people through the
fundamentally of Commissioner Chess
ner. and the lumber company has bought
land further down the Georgia SOutheu.
and Florida railroad and viii establish
another plant. The mill at Sibiey was
ole Of the largest on the line Of the Geor-
gia southern.
Fitzgerald Enterprise: The tax digest
Of Irwin county has been completed and
furnishes some interesting information
The record was brought up TO the Office
of the Enterprise last week by MT. Il. B.
Sutton for our inspection. The first in
teresting item is the amount of property
returned from the colony, which is ST.
49, OF course this does not include all
the property in the colony, for many
came here after the first OF March. The
total number of polls registered was 6i3
In the nine districts in the county, the
total valuation of property returned was
s., 037, I95, against &,305.3n for last year, or
a gain OF S73l. sol. The total number Of
polls registered IN the county is 1850, Of
which .62S are white and 752 are colored
mostly turpentine darkies. No defaulters
are registered. The report shows a de-
cided gain in the county largely due 10
the colony.
J. L. Singleton Of Atlanta is a man with
a strange mania for which he is now un-
der arrest. It seems that Singleton's sole
occupation IS shooting cats and running
and beating little negroes. 1t is estimated
that IN the last five months he has slain
at led5t forty pussies. In fact no cat can
live In the neighborhoOd with him. AL
most daily he patrols the backyards of
his neighbors with gun in hand, and looks
carefully under the houses and shoots
every cat he sees. A young negro seems
TO have the same effect on him as a red
cloth does 20 a wild bull. He cannot toll
crate the sight of them. When a little col
ored boy passes his house and is espied
by Singleton. he jumps off his porch and
win chase the innocent darby at least
three blocks, If he doesn't catch him
sooner. and then without any apparent
provocation gives him good drubbing
with stick, on general principles.