The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-17

Cc-A Shark DaBhcd Up on tue
Florida Coast--N O,ntlerfUI Vitality
of wounded Msin-TasnDn's Law
and order League Prefers Charges
Against Solicitor Knight.
GEORGIA.
A glee club will be organized at Mercer
University this fall
Floyd county may get big colony Of
northern home seekers.
Forsyth county is snding her misde-
ueanor convicts 10 Hutton county for
punishment
The state horse sWappers' convention
will meet in CoVinglon on the third Tues
day in this month. 1t wiz be in session
for three days.
The city of Atlanta has been permanent
" enjoned from using any portion of
Grants park for street purposes.
The firm of TidVrell & POPE, one of the
landmarks of the wholesale grocery bust
ness in Atlanta. viii wind up business and
the partners will separate.
aIrs H. s. Perry will make her future
home at her fathers near Auburn. Her
husband held insurance policies for nearly
$4,000, which VIII be promptly paid.
Brunswick Times: II the Tribune's
claim about rich deposits in the rivers
around that city are correct. Rome may
soon have peaTly gates of her own.
While choppfng stove wood at his home
last THURSDAY morning, Postmaster
Bougnton of Perry. cut off toe Of his
left foot. and two others were cut nearly
off.
Rome Argus: The owner of Oh1eehnokee
swamp is making a great mistake. He
ought to advocate the establishment of
a penal colony on the swamp and sell it
to the state. The taxpayers pay the
freight.
"Yhe aggregate of appropriations in the
southern states for pensions for confeder-
ate veterans and widows, it is noted is
a little more than 100000 and OF this
total more than half is paid by the state
of Georgia"
No. / mill at the Eagle and Phenix plant
of Columbus is now running day and
night. The all-night schedule was inau-
gurated recently wiki a full force. All
departments at this mill are now being
run day and night.
DR.. Bell. who made the examination of
the bOQX OF lnOIud5 JouIlSoAis VINO was 50
brutally treated by H. r. Rickerson, the
man with the private convict trust says
he had no such disease as Rickerson told
the jury and that the bruises found on
and over the body could have produced
death.
Rome Tribune: On Sept. H. party
from the United States geological survey
will reach Rome They will camp near
this city and do some important work.
fColored men cooks are being engaged for
the party. Capt. Wilson will be in charge
OF the party II is not known whether
they are going to look for gold. bauxite,
or pearls.
The contract for the building Of an iron
bridge across the Apalachee at Heads
mill was awarded to the Virginia Iron
Bridge Company Of Roanoke Va. The
structure will cost $3l04, one-third of
which amount viii be paid by Oconee
county and two-thirds by Morgan. It
vii. take the place Of the wooden bridge
now standing.
In the United States court at Atlanta
yesterday morning Judge Newman issued
an order settling the suit brought against
the Pullman Palace Car Company by T.
J. Leftwich, as surviving partner of
jackson & Leftwich for attorneys fees.
The case was compromised on the basis
of the Pullman Palace Car Company pay
ing $1,000 and the cost Of the court.
Perry Journal: Macon county convicts
will soon be at work on the public roads
of Houston county. The terms of hire
have been agreed upon between our com
missioners and the officials of Macon
county. We are informed that only able
bodied convicts viii be hired, and that
their average cost to Houston will not be
greater than that Of our own convicts
Life has been a burden to the prisoners
and employees at the Bib county fail for
the past two days on account of the terri
bic racket kept up by Ella Bell a negro
woman who is a raving maniac They
bave not been able to sleep a moment
they say, and their appearance carries
out the declaration. The woman shouts
and throws the iron cot all about, making
such a racket that the jailers cannot hear
themselves speak. A padded cell is need
ed for lunatics at the jail, as hardly a
week passes that one or more cases of
lunacy are not placed in Jail.
Macon has taken no steps TO quarantine
against New Orleans and Mississippi
points. DR.. Barron, the chairman of the
board of health says that
he sees no necessity for
such action at this time. He does not
think that there is the slightest danger
OF epldemlc IN Macon from yellow fever.
He does not, however, go so far as to
say, that Macon throws open her doors
TO the refugees for he says that he does
not conceive that such a step would be
consistent with his duty 10 the public.
While he does not anticipate any danger
he is keeping a sharp lookout.
Col George W. Truitt, of Troup county
the champion cotton raiser OF Georgia,
and the south, estimates that the cotton
crop is at least 80 per cent. off as compar-
ed with the estimates made a month ago.
Mary Meriwether brings suit in the
United States court in Atlanta to recover
$4,000 for the death OF her husband. The
southern Bell Telephone Company is al
eeged to be responsible for the death of
the negro Meriwether. Meriwether was
killed by a bolt of lightning at Kirkwood.
during the last severe storm nearly
month ago. He was standing near a
pole to which were attached some tele-
phone wires when the casualty occurred.
The lightning which killed him first struck
the wires of the telephone company and