The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PARAGRAPlIED.

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TattnaI Under Fire-LalSe Cfty's
business Men EHthusinstic For the
Tobacco Fair-FishinS ia WnISGiln
County-IndustriaI and Trade
Notes From Carolina.
GEORGIA.
William Jennings Bryan will not come
to Macon and speak during the carnival.
Rome Argus: There is not, and will
not be negro applicant for the Rome
postofioe.
X. J. Hawkins. a lawyer Of Gibson,
denies that the people OF that town boy
cotted the new republican postmaster.
The Reidsvine people are agitating the
digging of an artesian well and the estab-
ushment Of bank. Some money has al
ready been raised to dig The well.
The Upper Chattahooahee river is to get
the needed attention from the government
boat. The boat has been ordered 10 the
upper river, and will soon be at work on
the worst places in the stream.
brunswick Times: Brunswick could
well afford to lose those citi-
zens who are aiding and abetting the
strikers in their attempt to paralyze the
business Of the port and the city.
An analysis of the water in well re-
garded as the best in Griffin showed that
it was very deleterious to health and I'M
fit to drink. The Griffin Call is now urg-
ing the city to provide good water for the
people.
More than 100000 gallons of water is be-
ing poured into Atlantas sewers every
night. The drainage pipes are being flushed
freely and there is no longer any com
plaint that the sewers emit foul air and
are in need of flushing.
Richland Paper: The Paper is willing
to be cursed and kicked three times day
for a year if it could only secure for our
town a good artesian well. If the town
can't get well no other way, we move
we run a dspensary and make the whisky
tax dig the well.
A man in Cartersville purchased the
gallows in which man was hanged and
butt a hennery Of the lumber. He has
never had chicken stolen from it, and il
is said that the colored brother won't so
within block Of it, if he can possibly
avoid doing so.
Gov. Atkinson and Capt. Brown have
returned from Sanford, n. c., where they
have enjoyed two days fox hunting. They
brought back as trophies of the sport two
fox tails, and from all accounts the chase
must have been one Of the finest that ever
took place in North Carolina.
Dalton Argus: If Georgia gets Chat
tanooga, what will she do. with it? She
will be like the boy who drew the prize
calf. That 12-mile strip viii make the
Seventh congressional district eternally
republican, and make the Second Tennes-
see a safe democratic bailliwick.
Mr. ]. A. Pitts of Rover, who was ac-
cidentauy shot by his son several weeks
ago. thinking that he was a burglar, is
rapidly recovering. His many friends are
hopeful that he will soon be out among
them. He was dangerously wounded and
at one time his life was in the balance.
The lawyers and liugants in Tattnail
county are busily preparing for superior
court. which conveues on the first Monday
in October Court viii sit for two weeks
in all probability, as both dockets, civil
and criminal. are full. There are two
very important murder cases to be tried.
About l o'clock Friday night the gin
merry grst mill. sawmill and variety works
of Mr. H. Montgomery, at Bueua Vista,
was consumed by fire. supposed to have
originated from an engine. Loss $500,
with no insurance. A wagon loaded with
cotton was also burned and the OK that
did the hauling of fuel about the mill was
burned TO death.
Fayette county girl gives a beautiful
example of the love than falters not nor
fails. Miss Alice Mayfield, accompanied
her lover, Homer Horton, accused of il
fagf sCHf1 limo to A efn hKr i'm
during the preliminary trial, went with
him, in spite of opposition, to the jail, and
only left him to secure his release, which,
contrary to all expectations she did Sc
cure, and the happy couple returned to
their country home.
Last week, by an order of court, the
books of County School Commissioner
Hughey of Tattnal were subjected to the
crucial examination of a competent COM
mittee on bookkeeping. Mr.. Hughey has
been in Office twenty-three years and has
made a good officer, so far as is known
The report of the committee will not be
made public until next session of the grand
jury. The last grand jury recommended
his removal from office, but the grounds
on which recommendation was made did
not justify the board of education to act
MIR. Hughey is populist and some think
he is being prosecuted on account of his
politics.
Quitman Free Press: We are reliably
informed that a few days ago a negro car
ried TO a neighboring town three bales of
cotton which had been planted and raised
from the same seed, gathered from one
field and piled I'm one pile one of these
three was gnned on long cotton gin and
packed in long cotton bagging. For the
two bales he received less than cents
per pound. and for the one more than H.
After paying the difference in the cost of
ginning and other expense he had profit
of more than $19 on the one ba.e more than
the other two. This, of course was "a
fraud and was wrong, but nevertheless,
it contains suggestion for our cotton
growers.
Macon Telegraph: Before Spalding
county went dry" said deputy United
States marshal yesterday to a Telegraph
reporter, in explaining why there are more
Illicit distilleries in dry counties than in
counties where whisky is sold. '1t was the
rarest thing IN the world that an Illicit
distillery was destroyed or a moonshiner
arrested there, but since it went dry we
have destroyed more distilleriea and ar