The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-08
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA ANO SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEELY PARA
GRAPHED.

Mrs. Mobiles Chances Bcf1re the
United states supreme Court.
GEORGIA
Col. E. n. Broyles is seriously III at
Atlanta and is not expected to live.
The late James II. Porter Of Atlanta car
ried $4,000 insurance on his life, and his
widow was paid a check for that amount
Saturday.
Judge Emory G. speer Of Georgia is
talked of as a cabinet possibility in case
Gen. Con of West Virginia does not ac-
cept a portfolio.
Mrs. L. w. Gartrel died at her late
residence at Atlanta Saturday. She had
reached the age OF Al years and had been
IN for some time with consumption, ier
death was not entirely unexpected
The head of j. r. Travis, the chief en-
gineer of the Atlanta water works, ~hlch
is worth to the incumbent every year
the snug sum of $.Sn- VIII pc I tne A., iieH ~
TO fall into the basket Inc once 10 "
be abolished.
The gauge OF the A. X. and ~, oranch
road from Blue Ridge Ga, to Murphy
y. c.. a distance Of sixteen mus NM ,e com
ing changed to standard. IL Will pc C til,
pleted by early spring and eohueGtlou
made with the Southern via AsheVllle 10
Washington
A rich gold and copper mine is reported
by the Gainesville Eagle to have been DIS
covered on the property Of Gen. Long
etreet near that town. The vein varies
in width from S inches to 2l2 feet and the
ore is said to be worth from 81 TO Sl2 per
ton.
AT meeting of hosiery and underwear
manufacturers held at New York last
week. a permanent association was form
ed for the purpose OF iooking AFTER tne
knit goods trade OF the Uhlteu osates. IS
M Hanson of Macon was electeq one u
the vice presidents of the ASSOCIATION
Jonathan Walker, who lives near Triton
made a wonderful record as a sugar cane
raiser last wear. From less than five acres
of land he sold 1921 worth of syrup and
still has three barre.s valued az Wv. \ rom
the same patch he also SOLD $l3g worm u
seed cane and has 500 worth stu on mana.
A gentleman who heard the recent ar
guments in the Mobiles case before the
United States supreme court said az Ma
con Saturday that he believes the su-
preme court will disagree with the court
below and viii rule that Judge Smlth
should have allowed Mrs. MOBILES TO De
tried on a writ OF lunacy.
Washington Correspondent Morning
News: r. L. Foreman of this place rails
ed without any manure on upland land
125 bushels of corn on three ana one-haii
acres. He says the fodder and tops PAD
ali the expenses and $40 over, so that the
corn was made entirely free OF COSTA
gentleman from Denver. Col, Mr.. FRANK,
passed through here on visit TO the
Magruder mines, with view OF investing
IN them. These mines have been proved
to be rich.
Crawfordville Advocate: There has been
some figuring on the cotton seed Oil mill
for this place and to work up the seed
that are shipped from this place, there
would be a profit, over the cost Of the seed
at Is cents bushel of nearly %OOO. Ac-
cording to the estimate the seed could be
worked up in about two months and the
expense of running will be small If this is
ali the time required, making oVer-run-
Eing expenses $500 per month IS this
not profitable business? 1t sNthe big
gest thing vet offered in this section.
Although the city council of Atlanta
has passed an ordinance abolishing the
Office Of city messenger, Capt. u. b. Moon,
who held the place for fourteen years pre-
vious to its abolition, claims that he Is
still messenger and reports for duty daily
at the city hall. The captain is draw
ing no pay from the city for these in
spections nor Is he given anything to do
by Mayor Collier or anyone else, yet ne
will continue to report at the city hall
for duty daily until July /. at which time
his term of office, so he claims expires.
He expects to collect his salary of 800
per month from the city up to that date.
DR.. Thomas Holly Chivers, the poet so
much written up lately, whose style was
so like Edgar A. Poe's, was once a resi-
dent of this place.-Mr. NJ A. Pharr had
a curious adventure lately about midnight.
Hearing a strange noise in the nursery
he went in and found the back door
open and a strange negro woman dead
drunk living on the side of the bed IL
is supposed she Numbered in there instead
of into the servants house in the yard.
of MIR. Lewis that night.-Mrs S. e. San
ders was elected delegate and Mrs. j. J.
Hill alternate to the convention of the
Daughters of the Revolution to be held
at Washington, ID. c., Feb. y.
Estes & Jones. as attorneys for Capt.
T. M. Butner, ex-chief of police of Ma
con. have filed a bill of exceptions to the
court, which declared that the police COM
mission of Macon had been constitution
ally abolished and John T. Boifeuillet. le
gally elected chief The case will be taken
to the supreme court, where IL will be
probably heard at an early date. BOZ
feuillet, or rather the mayor and council
of Macon, who unanimously elected him,
will be represented before the supreme
court by city Attorney Wimberly and
Dessau, Bartlett & Ellis Burners con-
tention Is that his term of Office had one
more year to run. The court did not
agree in this view of the matter.
Charles Brown. a young Atlanta man,
has just gone through the experience
of sleeping two days while under hyp-
motto influence at Columbia. His next
feat is to remain buried seventy-two
hours. This will not be the first time
the young man has been buried alive
The experiment was tried before and
was not successful Brown is TO be bur-
led like any other man, but with one
exception. A grave ten feet deep Is to
be dug and In this the young man is TO
be placed. A two-inch tube will lead
down TO the coffin from above. thus Civ
ing him the necessary air The coffin is
to be an ordinary casket, and the stow
ing away of the young man will look very
natural indeed The interment will take
place at Jacksonville, Fla
w. B. Lowe of Atlanta. ex-presdent of
the Columbus Southern Railway Compa-
ny. filed in the federal court at Columbus
Saturday an amended Intervention in
which he claims that 49, 1888 is due him
for his services as president of that com
pany lie was president five years, and
claims that $3.50, one months salary is all
he ever received. He claims that he has
prior Hen. During his term as presl-
dent he claims that he saved the compa-
ny $4,000 Mr.. Lowe was one of the found
ers OF the Columbus Southern and remain.
ed its president from the beginning OF the
road up 20 the time It was placed in the
hands OF a receiver. The road was re.
Gently bought at public sale by the Geor-
gia and Alabama Railroad Company. and
Incorporated In that system.