The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

County to Work Her COnYicts on
the Public Highways.
GEORGIA.
James T. Cook died at Covington Mon
day, aged 50 years.
Stock subscriptions are now being So
licited for the establishment Of clothing
factory in Augusta.
The firm of Mayer & Crime Of Albany
has been dissolved by mutual cons Mt,
D1niel Mayer continuing the business in
his individual name.
JEFF Lyle, sent from Stewart county
in 1852 for life for murder, and George
Bankston. cent from Fulton in 1883, for
burglary, have been pardoned by Gov
Atkinson.
Willis Jefferson is the r.ame OF Dooly
county negroSwho registers as being 100
years old. He is thought to be older than
this, as he remembers distinctly the events
of the war Of 1872 and says he was
grown man then.
The continued drought is doing much
damage throughout Polk county. Many
farmers in the country are hauling water
from the big spring in Dalton and some
Ilern say lildL IL - Win - NthN AAiAAee.'~F
their stock is kept from dying of thirst.
Two young men from Fannin county,
named ]. b. Morgan and T. p. Kimsey,
grew weary of walking, so at ElliJay
they took charge of a lever car belonging
to the railroad. They abandoned the car
and the morning accommodation wrecked
II.
w. T. Treadwell of Triton possesses a
curiosity in the shape Of a genuine mad
stone. given him by an old sea captain
ten years ago. 1t has been tried in num-
bers of cases on snake and mad dog bites,
and in no instance failed to draw the
virus.
The grist mill, gin, saw mill, including
machinery. several thousand feet of lum-
Der and ten bales of cotton were burned
late Saturday night on p. d. Nandyke
farm. twelve miles from Rome. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The loss
is $780, insurance $1,000
Ordinary John V. Davis brought to
Rome Tuesday an ear of popcorn from the
country which had literally popped on
the stalk When the shuck was partially
removed il was found that half the grains
had popped out clear and white from the
effects of the continued drought and heat.
Judge Richard Johnson. secretary of the
state pension department in the executive
office at Atlanta, has been making some
figures on the death rate among the PEN
sioners in the state From the returns
made to the office he finds that the, death
rate among the widows for the last year
was 3s4 per cent. The death rate among
the invalid pensioners among the men
was only 3 per cent.
A meeting OF the board of commission
ers of Sumter county was held Tuesday
TO change the method of working the
roads of the county by adopting the chain
gang system. Instead of hiring out con-
victs to other counties as heretofore, they
will be put to work on roads. The board
also fixed the rate of taxation for the
current year at / per cent, an increase
of 10 mills over the rate last year.
About 200 Georgia policy holders Of the
derunct United States Mutual Association
of New York are up in arms against an
order Of tie supreme court of New York,
By the issuance Of that order the policy
holders of the concern are required 10
pay the debts of the association, which
is now in the hands of a receiver. The ac-
cident association failed several months
ago and it now appears that the policy
holders Throughout. the country must
come forward and pay the liabilities of
the defunct concern.
Charles Rawls was tried before Judge
Foute at Atlanta Tuesday and sent TO Jail
in default OF a $3.50 bond The case was
the unusual result Of a Jag" Rawles and
a friend named Charles Dora had a high
old time" one night, and in the morning
Rawls felt his empty pockets, and
straightway charged Dora with having
81 r,1a lnrra did his
wife to hear about the escapade and TO
quiet his fellow bacchanalan is said to
have paid him SIS. But Mrs. Dora did
hear of 1t, and swore out a warrant for
Rawls charging him with libel. He was
given a preliminary trial and sent to Jail.
There is a unique town in Southwest
Georgia. 1t is called Sardis-a settle
mant of colored people exclusively Every
house in Sardis is owned by colored pe0-
ple-about 100 families, and all are mis-
sionary Baptists They live in new, spa
cious and well-built houses; in their midst
sits the Baptist church, probably the
prettiest church edince belonging to the
race between Macon and Jacksonville.
The colored people filled the stores and
streets and their vast numbers seemed
beyond computation on Saturday the
country people overun the city, talk
laugh, dance and enjoy themselves as nc
OtheF pSoplc can 10
Maloy. Monroe & Co.'S turpentine still,
fve miles north of Quitman, was burned
Monday afternoon, about o'clock. The
still stillhouse, barrel house and the other
little houses close around, were totally
destroyed. The loss is between $1,000 and
$500, with no insurance. The company
will rebuild Immediately. About o'clock
Monday morning the barn and stables
of X. H. Williams was discovered to be
on fire. and the alarm was turned in.
Parties going to the fire from the north
ern part of the city had to pass by the
Quitman Canning Company's factory,
which they found to be on fire also. II
had gained very little Roadway there AMI
a few buckets of water eXtinguished IL.
The last two fires are the work of incen-
diaries.
Never in the history of Rome has the
cotton crop been harvested so early. The
Howell Cotton Company, the principal
cotton buying concern in North Georgia,
reports S,043 bales received to date against
III received up TO the same time last year.
Hugh Montgomery, a prominent planter,
says that he has gathered twenty-five
bales, and has only about four left TO
pick. DR.. D. T. Mccall, who has a large