The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-25
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Bale of LimbIess Cotton Sells For 40
Cents Per Pound at Atlanta-HanlS' :
Claim of Priority Set Aside-White
Man Fatally Shot Near COvingtOn.
Exciting Experience With n Mad
DOg-GOId Around BIairsville.
GEORGIA.
George Y. Love died at Macon Monday,
Fl. B. Plant is said to contemplate the
erection of a hotel at Charleston, $. G.
The Theosophists. now in session in Ma
con will give dinner to-day for the
poor.
George H. Lane, one of the most promi-
nent citizens of Jones county, died Mon
day from dropsy.
Reports come in from South Georgia
that the peach trees are blooming, forced
by the warm weather.
McDonough has decided to enforce a
strict quarantine against Griffin on ac-
count of smallpox in that city
The present registration list is the larg-
est in the history of Athens, 800 being the
number as against 9O2 two years ago.
L. Goldman and Louis Brooks fought
with fists over law suit at Augusta Tues
day. Threats of bloodshed to follow have
failed to materiallZe.
News was received at Douglasville
Tuesday stating that w, p. Farmer, a
young man of that place, had been killed
by a switch engine al Columbus, Miss
Circulars of the A. P. A. order charging
Catholics with being foes 10 the non-sec-
tartan public school system have been cir
Culated at Augusta in connection with the
mayoralty election.
Near Ochwalkee Tuesday Amos Walters
a colored teamster. employed by the Hill
ton & Dodge Lumber Company, was in
stantly killed by a tram engine. The en-
CINE was wrecked by leaping the track.
A negro thief entered the residence of
DR.. w. F.. Wood at Dalton Tuesday night
and, after robbing the house of a large
amount of silverware and other valua ples,
made his escape, leaving Mrs. Wood pros
trated on the floor from a blow in the
head
The differences existing between the
members of the reorganization committee
of the bondholders of the Eagle and Phe-
nix mills al Columbus have been settled
All the members of the old committee re-
signed, and an entirely new committee
was appointed.
viii Raglan, a young white man, was
shot three times by VIII Bleeton at Cow
home five miles from that place. The
cause of the shooting seems to have been
the result of damage suit about a dog
which Raglan had instituted against Blee-
ton. it is not thought that Raglan can
live. Bleeton has been arrested.
In the case of Louis Gholstein against
the American Upholstering Company at
Atlanta the jury Tuesday returned a YER
dict against the claim of priority by the
Capital City Bank, but finding in favor of
no hay ,ripn ffNo1 md no
jury also found in favor of the bank as
trustees for the bondholders in the sum of
$4,000 and ii was found that the proper
for 5000,
E. N. Ennis, the populist member from
Baldwin, will hold his seat in the House.
Mr.. Ennis seat was contested by Hon.
Robert Whitfield, democrat. The commit
tee on privileges and elections has decided
in favor of the contestee, Mr.. Ennis. In
the jefferson county contested case, the
populist members will be unseated. They
are B. r. Wren and B. A. Salter. The
democrats who contested the seats are
Messrs. Polhin and Stapleton
On Saturday last w. G. Johnson, who
lives three miles from Zebulon, had an
exciting experience with a mad dog. Mr.
Johnson beat him off as best he could
with his hands and feet, but the dog made
repeated efforts to get Mr.. Johnson's
throat Finally Mr. Johnson caught the
dog by the throat and failing TO the
ground they rolled some twenty feet each
striving for the mastery. At length Mr.
johnson clutched both hands around the
dogs neck and sat upon the dog until he
choked him to death. Mr.. Johnson was
slightly bitten in two or three places.
There is a lead of genuine quartz and
hematite ore within the corporate limits
of Blairsvlle, which runs from $50 to
SloO per ton at dlferent assay oilces This
same lead can be traced some four or five
miles east and west of that place, and
the rock along the line will assay 800 to
the ton. Aside from the gold bearing
leads Union county has the richest placer
in Georgia, situated six miles south of
Blairsville, which was discovered in 1915,
worked in the old crude way, which has
yielded more than one million dollars. and
still the work goes on in the old way
bale Of cotton Weighing 496 pounds
was sold in the Atlanta market Tuesday
for 70 cents a pound. Mr.. Bailey, the we'll
known cotton man, was the buyer. 1t was
the first bale ginned and sold from the
crop grown by Thomas A. Jackson, and
was of the wonderful jackson limbless'
variety. Mr.. Jackson has six acres of
this remarkable cotton, and the most con-
sentative of his friends claim that he is
good for eighteen bales, in spite of the
long drought which has injured the top
crop. The stalks range from eight to
nine feet In hight. some of them going rs
nigh as ten and eleven, and 1t is still green
from top TO bottom, except where the fruit
leaves have dropped off after the bolls
had opened. as is the habit of the cotton.
In the state Senate Senator Blalock has
introduced by request a bill drawn by
Hon Charles !. Branan providing that
county officers and officers of court in
counties having cities of 10000 population
shau be paid salaries in lieu of fees The
Dill only applies to Fulton county and was
accompanied by petition with 500 sigma
lures collected by Mr.. Branan. II fixes
salaries as follows: Ordinary So 600: clerk
superior court 50 coo; sheriff. 5000; lax
collector. 5000; tax receiver. 81 000 coro-
ner, $500; solicitors of city courts 81 600.
solicitor general superior court So OOO: Off
clal stenographer $1,000 In addition each
ofhcer is to receive one-fourth of the mel
receipts of his office over and above his
salary and office expenses These sal.
aries are to be paid out of the county
FLORIDA.
Charles Willippbam a ,,aoro -, -.