The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-02
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Au-usta's Postoffice Receipts - The
state school Fund to he Increased
A Bullet Fired IntO "A Trim Near
CordeIc-Bcnjaniin f. Carter Dies
in Texas.
GEORGIA.
The Christian church building al Wat
klnsvllle was dedicated Sunday.
A colored woman at valdosta gave birth
last night 70 a boy With nine toes on each
foot.
Postmaster Dunbar says Augustus post
office receipts for this year will reach near
ly $4,000
The Gainesville coop factories are COW
ering a big territory Last week they sent
a large lot of coops up into Kentucky,
They furnish them to several states.
Parties who have been engaged for the
past two months in the sale of whisky at
HarviIe have become uneasy and left for
parts unknown and the barrooms look
desolate.
The low price paid for cotton in Eaton
ton this season has entailed a heavy loss
on Eatonton and Putnam. The Eatonton
merchants have suffered, the cotton plant
ers have suffered, and creditors generally
have suffered.
The Waynesboro Citizen tells of mulber-
ries from a tree in the yard of Mrs. S. J.
Bell, in that city, which is full of fruit in
various stages of ripening. The fruit is
large and fully developed. When it is re-
membered that this fruit is one among the
first to ripen in the spring, and that this
is the last day of November, 1t becomes
a curiosity.
1t is practically settled that the stale
school fund will be increased by this Leg
islature from 81, 100000 to S1,e00,000. The
House committee on finance, with hfty
five members present, has unanimously
voted to recommend an increase of $780,,
900 in the appropriation from taxation,
making the appropriation from direct tax
alton 81, 900, 900, instead of 100000
w. R. McEachern, an insurance collec-
tor Of Atlanta, was assaulted last Satur-
day night by Lindsay Reese, a negro, who
struck the collector several times with
brickbats, inflcting painful injuries about
his head. The insurance man had gone
to the home of Lindsay to collect insur-
ance money from his wife. The negro
became angry at something that was said
and the assault followed.
Fire destroyed the Fulcher mansion, at
Hepzibah Sunday night, 1t was a fine
old residence, built more than a century
ago and in a state of first-class preserva-
ton. The house was owned and occupied
by ]. c. Powell and family. Mr.. Powell
was away when the fire occurred, but his
wife and two little daughters were in the
building, and came very near losing their
lives None of the household effects were
saved
Sunday night, as the Shoe Fly was pass
ing the section house, near Cordele, some
one fired into the smoker. The ball went
through a window, and narrowly miss
ing the head of a passenger, buried itself
In the woodwork. The lights in the train
were put out at once and search made
for those who did the shooting. This fail
ing, the train returned to Cordele to get
dogs to put on their trail. They were
unable to secure any dogs. and were
obliged to give up the attempt to cap
ture the miscreants.
Benjamin F. Carter. well known in At
lanta, died of consumption at Pecos City.
Tex, Sunday. He went there in the hope
of restoring his health, which had not been
good for some time. Benjamin Carter was
a brother of Colquitt Carter of the United
States court. in Atlanta. He was some
time before his health became impaired,
assistant commissioner of agriculture with
Col r. r Nesbit. He was a son of Col
Samuel Carter of Murray county,
nephew of Senator A. H. Colquitt and a
brother-in-law of b. H. HILL Mr.. Carter
was at one time United States commits
sioner. The body will be brought to Dali
ton from Texas for interment.