The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

Fem0Ae Biinu Tiger IN OalhesNlAie
The Low water in the ChattnhoO-
chez Give Columbus COncern-Thc
Apple Crop viii De LarGe-ThC
First Georgia Cane Syrup-An Ef-
fort to Have JacksOnviIIe's Con-
victed Gamblers Pardoned-INey
West on a BOOm-The Murderer OF
A. j. w. Cobb at Sanderson Is still
Unknown.
GEORGIA.
There are cherry and pear blooms in
Perry.
Senator Bacon proposes to donate tract
of land in North Macon for city park
statesboro is now a third-class postof-
flee with a salary attachment of $1,000.
Fulton's county commissioners win en-
force the corporation tax against local cor
porations.
Ebert county has decided to organize
a chain-gang and work her conyicts on
her county roads.
Perry Home Journal: The first Georgia
cane syrup of this season was sold In
Perry last Tuesday.
ordinance requiring the street car compa-
MES to charge cents for fare.
DR.. E. f. Degraffenreid of Columbus has
gone to Edwards, Miss, where he goes
to attend the yellow fever patients.
The Rome cotton factory has so many
orders ahead that they are compelled to
run several hours overtime every day.
Lexington Echo: Apple wagons will
soon begin to arrive. They will be nu-
merous this winter as the crop in North
Georgia is said to be immense
r. Fl. Northcutt has bought half inter
est in the Marietta knitting factory. Mrs.
j. H. Barnes owns the other half The
factory is doing wen and has orders ahead.
One of the white girls who asserts rags
at the Marietta mill found a ten-dollar
bill the other day. Since then there has
been an increased activity among the girls
in asserting rags.
Mrs S. A. Green, white woman has
been twice convicted of running blind
tiger in Gainesville. On the second Of
tense the mayor fined her $40, but agreed
to remit it if she would leave the coun-
tY and she left.
A young man burglarized an Atlanta
barroom recently and fell a victim to
the seductive allurements of the wares ex-
posed. In fact he got so drunk on stolen
liquor that he could not get out the
way he got in, and was captured next
morning by the police.
The Cobb county fair win open Tues
day. Oct. z, and last four days. Every
thing is in good shape and arrangements
perfected for a successful fair. The far
mers are getting up exhibits to compete
for prizes offered by the association, and
every linesof industry, of the field, garden,
orchard and household will be represent
ed.
Controller General Wright has decided
a case involving the right OF man to act
as his own auctioneer to dispose of his
own property without paying the state
license tax of $50. He decided that no IL
cense fee was necessary in such a case
He based his ruling on the statute which
Gays that only professional auctioneers.
who follow their calling for profit, are Ii
able to a special tax.
Mrs. Ole Handy of Cobb county is a
remarkable woman. She is the twenty
sixth child born to hea- parents, and, al
though Judge Cooks Junior by two years.
is his great aunt. Mrs. Handy had sew
en- brothers who were Baptist preachers,
and six nephews engaged in the same call
ing. Her descendants now number sew
enty-seven. She has accumulated a con-
siderable fortune. judge Cook paid her a
visit not long since, it being the first time
they had met in three score years.
The Chattahoochee is lower than ever
before and business at Columbus is paral-
wed, An old river man, in discussing the
matter, attributed much of the lack of
water in the river to the fact that Allan
ia was using such immense quantities of
water out of the Chattahoochee and none Of
it comes back into the river, as the waste
water and sewage of that city went into
the Flint river Fears are entertained of
the river going permanently dry from the
accumulation of sand beds in the channel