The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-24
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

Roswell Spellman or Ohio is thinking
OF starting broom factory at Atlanta.
Canton has been flooded with heavy
rains and the Etowah river Is raging
Much damage is expected to result from
the overflow in the bottom lands
Rev. D. A. McCurry a Baptist minister
of Gainesville. aged S. and Mrs. Sarah
Conn, aged 60, were united in marriage at
the residence of the bride in Bolton We'd
nesday after courtship of three days.
An interstate meet of gun clubs Is to
be held at Warm Springs on Aug. and
10. The shoot will be under the auspices
of the Columbus gun club and the gun
clubs of Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Savan-
nah and the leading cities of adjoining
states will be invited to participate.
The tax digest for Houston county is
nearly ready to be turned over to the
controller general and county authorities.
c. d. Anderson, tax receiver, reports
about 10000 acres more land than has been
returned for several years for taxation
in Houston county, not counting defaul-
ters.
In few days the counsel for John Tyler
Cooper Of Atlanta will appear before Gov.
Atkinson and ask that the three months
imprisonment included in their client
sentence be removed. This will be the last
step taken. as the supreme court has de-
clined to interfere in the case. II is said
a lengthy petition signed by many promi-
nent citizens will be presented the COVER
nor when the appeal for executive Glenn
ency is made. q
Prof. Yeates, the state geologist, has
inaugurated movement for the improve
ment of every road in the state, and has
already taken the first steps toward the
naturalization of his plans. He will be-
gin by issuing a good roads bulletin. Prof.
McCallie, assistant state geologist, will
have charge OF the bulletin, and has al
ready begun securing data with which to
begin. He will start soon on an inspec-
ton of the whole state. and the report OF
his observations win be published In this
bulletin which viii contain information
valuable toward the construction of good
roads. II. will be handsomely Illustrated,
and will contain most up-to-date methods
for road construction. The pamphlet will
contain practical lessons on the details of
roadbullding, will point out the best ma
terials, and the most approved methods
for grading. II Will make the work so
plain that every man can understand it,
and improve his property accordingly.
Copies will be mailed to nearly every
farmer IN the state.
Athens Banner: Woltskln district OF
Oglethorpe county, is destined to become
immortal from the standpoint of curious
legal cases. A certain citizen had a large
number of chickens, and those chickens
greatly annoyed a neighbor. One morning
nearly all OF the chickens keeled over and
died. II Il had only been one chicken,
its death might have been given the usual
direction and ascribed to heart failure.
But the chickens died off in large num-
bers, and their sudden death caused sus-
picion of foul play to arise in the mind
of the owner. He found a lot of curious
looking dough in the barn yard and imag-
ined that it contained match-hea and
other poisons. He called his nelghbor and
declared that his chickens had been pois-
oned. He then offered that neighbor 500
to eat a handful Of that dough. The wager
was accepted and this neighbor deliber-
ately picked up a handful of dough and
ate it. The citizen who lost the chickens
had lost his wager, and the neighbor aft
or eating the handful of dough was as
well as ever. The wager has not been
paid and this citizen refuses TO pay It..
The man who won the wager has entered
suit for the 500.