The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16

The nostofice at Eastman has been
--r.sd twice within the week. but nothing
,sniable was found either time.
" H. Carroll, inspector Of agencies for
49,. plant system, and ]. T. Woodall, agent
80 we're twice stunned by lightning
Si,n5sv afternoon while in the depot at
mat place.
Ms Harboe. of Atlanta, was the victim
n a ferocious mad dog early yesterday
,,orning. The Infatuated animal buried
Ills fangs in her arm, and hydrophoola
may result
On the 18th Of August, 1895, the first bale
~ new cotton was received in Augusta.
N, the 18th of August, 1896, 24O new bales
bad been received and they are coming
INTO that market al the rate OF lOO DAY
1obn R. Wilson of Wrightsvile informs
tho Eagle that he has an apple tree on his
,l.ce which was planted before Georgia
was organized as a state. He promises
fbe editor of the Eagle some apples from
it this year.
The sawmil Of George W. Waters, at
Waters Station, was burned down Tues
ds,, AT noon. All the hands We're away at
dinner and the fire caught from a spark
ont Of the smoke stack. 1t was total
loss. as Mr.. Waters had no insurance
The consolidated tax returns for Fulton
county for the year is S50,6S9,015. These
are the figures shown by the county tax
returns in the office of Tax Receiver
Armistead. and the county is short nearly
SIh000 in taxable valuation compared
with last year.
A dificulty occurred last Saturday two
miles below Elberton, between Mr.. Tom
Nash and a negro named Alexander. in
which the negro crushed Mr.. Nash 5 Skull
with a rock. He is still living though III
tie hone is entertained of his recovery. Inc
negro escaped.
Mr.. Jelks, prominent cotton buyer of
Macon. after an extended trip through the
cotton belt. saws that the cotton through
out the whole state has been seriously in
jured by the drought and exceeding not
weather He thinks that the crop of the
south will not be above 100000,
Hartwel Sun: Hart county gave in for
taxation 1896 on taxable property an in
crease of $40. 7O2 over 1896 This is undis-
putable evidence that the people are not
going down hill Another evidence or
thrift and progress is the large number
of buildings going up in town and county.
Norman, a fine horse belonging to Bob
Plant of Macon. fell dead while trotting
around the race track at Old Orchard
Mass 1t is supposed that the horse died
from ton, although il was being
driven quite slowly at the time. Mr.. Plant
priced the animal very highly and greatly
regrets his loss.
Columbus will soon have two public
buildings which can be pointed out with
pride One, the new court house and city
hall; the other, the Columbus Investment
COmpany's handsome three-story office
building on the corner of First avenue and
Twelfth street. Both will be completed
within few weeks.
A little grand child of Mr.. ]. H. Stovau
of Elberton was bitten by a mad dog some
ten days ago, but has not developed any
symptoms of hydrophobia yet. A mad
stone has been applied to the wound, but
without effect. Hopes are entertained that
the poison has not entered the system. The
dog bit quite number of other dogs in
the neighborhood all of which have been
killed.
On last Monday Judge H. c. Sheffield
held at Arlington, Calhoun county, the
commttal trial of Ed Wash and julie
Ross, charged with the murder of William
Patterson on July 4. Ed was committed
and julie discharged. The killing took
place at a negro supper near the tie camp
on the Timmons place, near Arlington.
Some thirty n forty shots were fired and
three negroes hit.
Clarke county has an unknown negro
terror who cannot be captured. A few
weeks since he broke into a number of
houses in Athens. A few days later he
tried to choke a negro woman near the
city and yesterday he was seen near Rosa
dale farm fitting around through the
woods. 1t is thought he is an escaped lu-
matte and vigorous efforts have been
made to capture him.
A reunion of the Forty-third Georgia
volunteers was held at Ball Ground, Ga,
on the Sth instant. Speeches were made by
Hon. Carter Tate. Capt. H. w. Newsman
ana Col. II. p. Bell. The veterans en-
Joyed the occasion and marched under
me old flag of the sixties. Thirty-three of !
Inc Forty-third Georgia volunteers and |
some sixty of other regiments and 1000
cuzens were in attendance. The group |
OF the Forty-third Georgia was photo |
graphed by a Jasper photographer The |
reunion Will be held next year at Cumming |
on the 4th of July.
Oglethorpe Echo: Our farmers are de- |
cldedly blue over the cotton prospects at |
present Two weeks ago they mad prom
Use or more than they could gather, but |
Today many say that half a crop is the |
night of their expectations. The excess |
sNeN dry, hot spell we have had has |
caused nearly all the July crop to fall off, |
ana II is now too late for an August crop |
10 -orm and mature. On early cotton /
mere IS fair June crop, but late cotton |
mere is very little of this. The big rist, |
~ ~ price IS the farmers on%y consolation. !
m nay nave less TO gather, but get about |
d. much for his crop in the end.
There is a war on between
'he warehousemen and the mer-
chants of Eastman. The diff |
.-IlE arises over an agreement be- |
wen the warehousemen to advance their
oNaI Ses for handling cotton to so cents |
pale II was handled last year at IS |
.EE-ts' and, they claim. at loss When |
-s merchants, who handle the bulk of the
otIoh, learned of this raise they called |
Oh meeting and decided not to pay the
'itses and set about devsing ways and |
,r-qa4s Tor handling the cotton they buv
Is bo. W. means about three-fourths of what
go bought on that market
FLORIDA
IL erything points to a fine openine Of