The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-12
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

- New scheme For H0ldluE n NOhstA-
tutionaI Convention with Expense
to the Tax Payer-BOndsmen
of Hall COunty's ex-Treasurer
Seeking to he Released From
Their LiabiIity-AtIanta to Cele-
brate Her semi-CentenniaI Anni-
versary in the Spring.
GEORGIA.
The King Drug Company doing bust
ness at Atlanta, has filed five chattel
mortgages. amounting to $4,70S.70, to Sc
cure their creditors.
The celebration of the semi-centennial
anniversary of the birthday of Atlanta, as
a city. will be celebrated next spring with
great eclat by the Pioneer Society.
The sale of the F. NJ. Harper property oc-
CURED at the old homestead in the eastern
limits Of Dawson Tuesday. The home and
land were bid in by W. NJ. Harper for $500.
The firm of Webb Bros. & Co., doing
the only exclusive wholesale cigar bust
ness in Atlanta, has sold out and discon-
tinued business. The firm was composed
of w. I. and George Webb and Eugene
Christian
~ and harware business at Fort Valley,
sold out to the Exchange Bank. The
amount of their Indebtedness is not known.
Dull business and poor collections are said
to be the cause of their selling out.
AT West Lake fire originated in store
Sunday night in a mysterious way, and
spread to adjoining buildings, all of which
were destroyed. The warehouse of the
Southern railway, containing cotton seed
and barn with 800 bushels of corn and
1900 bushels of fodder were burned. In
surance so far as known is $500.
Camilla Correspondent Morning News:
w. H. Bribery of this place died Tues
day morning and was buried at the old
cemetery. Mr.. Bribery was a promi-
nent citizen of Camilla, having been in the
mercantile business here for a number of
years, and was an extensive operator OF
cotton gins and mills in this vicinity. He
died from blood poisoning. He leaves
wife and three small children.
J. H. Bigbee, who has been in the gold
mining business in North Georgia for
some years, was in Gainesville Wednesday.
He reports steady work in the mines about
the villa of Gold" He is now working
a mine which was opened before the war.
The original discoverer hired a neighbours
negro, worked one day, panned out /, $50
pennyweights of gold and bought the ne
gro the following morning with the pre-
Vious days yield.
Plans and arrangements have been made
for the erection of a bicycle factory and
variety works in connection with an iron
foundry in Cordele. Work will soon com
mence on the plant. 1t is claimed by the
promoters of the enterprise that 1t will in
.1..&.. Al. a -gn
people. The works will be built and OPP
Grated by a company from the state of In
diana. The amount of capital to be laid
out in the business aggregates about $15,-
900.
The bondsmen of the defaulting ex-fax
collector OF Hall county will present TO
the legislature a petition asking that an
act be passed releasing them from the OBJ
legation of paying the balance still due
the county by ex-Collector Robinson. The
petition has about 1000 signatures of vot-
ers. The bondsmen base their claim for
this release on the fact that they resigned
the collectors bond for his second term
ignorant of the fact that there was a
shortage in his accounts, he being at that
time able to more than meet the default
then existing.
The supreme council of the American
Legion of Honor has filed bill in the Full
ton superior court to have a receiver APP
pointed for the amount which is due the
heirs Of w. H. Smyth, on his policy in the
order Smyth's heirs have demanded the
money, but an attachment has been taken
out by G. W. Coates, who claims he has a
claim of $500 which should be paid out OF
the fund Smyth died March 10, 1897, and
the amount due on his policy is 81, 756. 80
The Legion of Honor asks to be allowed
TO pay the fund into court and be relieved
of further responsibility. Judge M r. Free
man of Macon filed the bill.
A gold medal has been awarded the
state of Georgia for the general agricul-
turai display made at the Tennessee cen.
tennial- The governor has received mott.
fcation of this fact from the exposition au.
thorities, accompanied by an order upon q
Nashville jeweler for said gold medal
which will be delivered to the state upor
payment Of price of the same. Gold medals
such as are awarded by the Tennessee cen.
tennial, cost variously from $135 to $15t
each. The state of Georgia can get Just
as fine medal as she is willing to pay for
AT the same time she is restricted to the
purchase of gold medals and cannot prac.
tice economy by choosing a bronze medal
which costs but one dollar.
In the lower house of the state les4s.
lature at Atlanta Tuesday Mr.. Boyntor
OF Calhoun, chairman Of the committee
on constitutional amendments of the low.
er body, made a report on the bill in.
troduced by Mr.. Ennis of Floyd the sec.
ond day Of the present session, providine
Tor constitutional convention The re.
port is favorable, but the Ennis bill is
substituted by another, which was fran.
ed in committee. 1t provides for the hold.
ing of constitutional convention on The
nrst wednesday in July 1895, to be compos.
ed of ten delegates from each congress.
ional district, who are TO serve without
salary and to pay their own expenses
The Ennis bill carried an appropria flor
of $4,000 and proposed the election of two
delegates for each representative In the
legislature.
FLORIDA
The high tides last week DESTROYED thor,-