The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-14
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

and Painfully Injured-A DispO-
sitiOn Among the Legislators TO
Enact a Law That Will EquaIize
Tax Returns-A VaIdOsta Man
VhOuGhtIessIy Tears Up a Roll of
bills.
GEORGIA.
Can't. John Milledge, state librarian,
makes a formal announcement of his can
5idacy for reappointment to his present
nosltion Capt. Milledge has filled the Of
ace of state librarian for eight years. Miss
Ellen Dortch has her eyes on the same
position.
# is said that the Pinopolis Lumber
Company will remove their plant from At
lanta to Sparks, where they will operate a
large blaming MILL variety works and sash,
door and blind factory, employing IT'S men.
Fine enterprising little city of Sparks has
Eonated the company fourteen acres of
land
Sydney Lascelles. alias Lord Beresford,
l. now in line for executive clemeney. The
PRESSURE that is being brought to bear
[non the governor urging the pardon oil
Harry Hill and Lord Beresford is very
<troug. The penitentiary committee of the
House has unanimously passed recon-
&endation that Lascelles also be par
doned.
n George w. Walker, stone contractor at
4jthonia, has just received Geographic
rider for $4,000 granite blocks to be used
Il street paving at Memphis. The entire
4mount has been quarried and loaded on
<ars ready for movement. For the trans
1f 10 aafn oil iPf VII va
&eight cars, with a capacity of thirty tons
7er car, are required.
XDarien Gazette: The rivers and creeks in
lie upcountry are all reported to be fun
ia the brim" and that means that timber
IL the million may be expected down dur
s. Q the coming ten days. The Ohoopee is
IL and much timber from that section is
|&t pected. A number of sawn RATS have
4ready come down from the Ohoopee, and
a UGH more is expected in the next day or
. 10.
IA night or two ago. shortly after C. L.
NJ loyal and family of Inaha, Irwin county,
&ad retired for the night. his barn caught
and before anyone awoke, was burn
n g at such a rapid rate that a successful
81 tempt to extinguish the flame was i'm
#pssible His loss is three head of horses
Ind mules, his wagon and buggy and his
&hole crop of corn and fodder, besides
many other things of less value.
Il The governor has requested Judge Tur-
ter, principal keeper Of the penitentary,
10 furnish him with a complete list of con-
Diets whose terms expired during Christ
bias week or during the first few days of
january. 1t is the governors intention to
hrdon such of these prisoners as were
bnvicted Of crimes which do not involve
Moral terpitude. Prisoners convicted OF
Mines of the character of burglary or
Rrceny will not receive pardon.
n Augusta Morning News: In former years
boat load of northern hay going UP the
kgusta canal to supply the farmers was
II an infrequent sight Now, however,
u order of things is reversed. Boat loads
hay neatly baled, are frequently shipp-
Il from the up-country of the Savannah
ID consigned to our merchants. They are
now cutting, curing and selling what they
8nsed to kill at home and buy abroad. The
Savannah valley will become a great grass
producing section.
4 man went in the tax collectors office
at Valdosta Friday to pay his taxes, but
found that he had no money in his pocket.
lie went back to a store, where he had
done some trading, to look for the money,
S23 which was missing. After a search
Sall around the money was found torn up
\ IN the waste basket. The man had taken
some receipts, and it is supposed that
he absent-mindedly tore up the bills for
the receipts. The money was patched up
and put in such shape that he may be
able to have it redeemed by the govern
ment
There is a disposition among members
Of the legislature to enact law which
Will equalize tax returns. Under the pres
Ient system of voluntary returns some men
58lVe conscientious estimate of the value
on their property, while many place the
figure far below the true value. In this
way it is practically left with each prop
|erly holder to fix the rate of taxation on
MS own property. Gov. Atkinson called
attention to this in his annual message,
hhd the legislature is likely to put his
suggestion into legislation.
viii Dean, a fireman on the Central
railroad, was hurled from his engine near
East Point Friday and painfully injured.
car which had been left by the engine
oh an incline crashe into the engine be-
ore 1t had backed out from where the
cdr mad been left on a side track. The
reman was on his side of the engine, and
Inc shock occasioned by the car striking
ne engine hurled him from his seat to
ne ground. He was picked up. There
we're several cuts on his hands and face.
mere was also a cash on his head. He
was taken to his home in Atlanta. The
Fl DAD physician does not consider the
wounds dangerous.
N
Thomas Outright, the negro driver en-
poyed by Asa G. Gambler, whose horses
idn away at Atlanta Friday, seriously
lnIuring Mrs. Farmer and little Mamie
eGrant, was tried in the recorders court
pdlurday. 1t was shown that the negro
uau gone into the barber shop to have
MS hair cut, when the horses left un.
watched, became frightened at a drove OF
mules and made a wild dash down the
sueet. Judge Calhoun held the negro re.
sponslble for the accident on account OF
eross carelessness and fined him 1915. The
matter does not end in the police court
aa,oweVer, for several damage suits will be
iIIea as soon as It can be determined oil
"nom the blame lies for the accident.
FLORIDA.
Inc phosphate business at Fernandina
ior the next three months promises to be
Very heavy.
Last month, In Tampa, there we're thir.
|ty-eight deaths, twenty-five white persons
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