The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-03
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Fence Law and Its Eject In FlOri-
da-Searching For Buried Treas
ure-NeSro Witnesses Prosecuted
for Perjury.
GEORGIA.
There is not a store Tor rent in Rome
The lumber business of Blue Ridge is
tive.
Atlanta proposes to have harvest festi-
val this fall.
Greensboro is agitatlng the erection Of
a cotton factory.
Mr.. Dan Kerr has announced his can
didacy for mayor Of Augusta
The University summer law school has
closed after a very prosperous session of
six weeks.
Macon has case supposed to be small
pox. 1t is being taken good care Of by the
health authorities.
A seve@ thunder storm passed over Gus
seta Sunday evening, and lightning struck
Fannie Lloyd, a colored woman, but did
not kill her.
Athens once again has a republican post
master 1t is now Postmaster Monroe b.
Morton. and the postofiice passes into the
hands Of a new administration.
Rome Tribune: Wheat. gold, peaches,
pearls. cotton and bauxite, besides the
prettiest girls and handsomest boys in the
land all grow in North Georgia.
The Cordele Times comes out now as the
Cordele Daily Sentinel, since the consoli-
dalton of the two papers. The new daily
is enlarged and improved in many res
poets.
Citizens Of Fulton county living adjacent
to the ground where colored paupers are
inferred, near Marietta street beyond the
city limits, are raising mighty kick about
the matter.
The regular monthly report of the At
lanta Clearing House Association for the
month of August, made Tuesday morning.
shows a decided increase in the volume of
business done by the Atlanta banks.
The action of the board of water com
rnissioners Of Atlanta in deciding TO rec
ommend the issuance of 100000 in bonds
for laying water pipes throughout the city
seems TO have met with general approval.
The Athens Banner has come out in
new and very pretty dress since It's change
of management. It's first page has some
thing OF the sweet attractiVeness of
'home" about it, The new management
is TO be congratulated.
Griffin CALI Fate seems to make things
fit nicely, says the Augusta News. just
as wood was going out, coal was discov-
cred; just as whale oil was about exhaust
ed. petroleum was found. Yes; and now,
just as we had given up all hopes of be-
coming angels, airships have made their
appearance.
Cedartown received her first cotton bale
on Tuesday. Ii was raised by ex-Sheriff
w. w. Cone, and bought by the cotton fac
tory for cents per pound. The cotton
was picked and ginned Monday market
ed Tuesday morning and before sunset
was spun into thread-all inside of twen-
ty-four hours from the time the cotton
left the field.
The Smith sisters in Charlton county
are rather notable characters. There are
four of them, each one standing full six
feet in her stockings. Each of the girls
cultivates her farm, experimenting the
same personally, and living alone. They
are well supplied with guns and dogs.
and are said to be excellent shots. Their
names are Martha, Sarah, Nancy and
Lidia, respectively.
The Central road will be ordered by the
commission to continue its schedules be-
tween Minedgeville, Eatonton Covington
and Atlanta. This is a matter which af-
fects schedules and rather a rare subject
for the commission to take up. The APP
peal was made by the people of EatontOn,
who claim that they have been discrimi-
mated against since the sale of the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic road to the Central.
President Lyman Hall, of the Georgia
school Of technology, has returned from
visit to various parts of the state. He
says he was surprised and gratified to find
among people of all classes a very strong
feeling in favor of practical education.
They desire earnestly that their children
shall be taught useful arts; that they
shall be so instructed that when they leave
school they will be able TO take care of
themselves.
An escaped convict attempted an as
sault upon Miss Maud Mcdaniel, pretty
young woman living at Fain's crossing,
just three miles from Atlanta, on Tues
day. Frank Lowden is the name of the
would-be assailant The officers have been
holding him since his arrest for this re-
cent crime, waiting for the sheriff of Ring
gold to arrive. They think that he Is the
red-headed man that raped Miss Heath
cock of that city and terribly injured the
mother of the girl who came TO her rescue.
Sand from the bed of the Ogeechee river
has assayed two grains of gold to the pint
This has been the result of the expert
ments Of chemists with this gravel. Mr..
Hugo Platen, who is one of the best
known chemists in Georgia, has just con-
cluded an experiment with the sand with
the result noted The sand was brought
70 DIR. Arno knorr by a Mr.. Taylor. and
the dentist turned il over to Mr. Platen
70 see ifNthere was any gold in il. Mr.
Platen finished his investigation yester-
day He reported what he had found to-
day He has the nugget, which is about
as big as bird shot, in his possession.
Bids for 100000 tags were opened in the
state agricultural department on Wednes-
day, and the result was a lower price in
Dennison's tags than any MIR, Nesbitt has
ever received. At the last building. the
lowest figure was 81 cents by Savannah
concern. This time it is IS cents by the
Dennison company itself. There is a bid
Of 80 cents for tags. Dennison G. or its