The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-26
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Building Fund--Attorncy General
Terrell Constructs the Tax COlIec-
tors Lava Demented Woman
Thinks She Is Queen VictoriO,-N
Florida Diver in TroubIe-Orlnn-
dos Board OF Trade Wants Bicycle
Tracks and Advertising.
GEORGIA
On Sunday at Columbus, prohibition was
preached from all or nearly all the pulpits,
The board of education has decided to
debar from the public schools children
living without the city limits Of Atlanta.
Heretofore it has been the custom to re-
ceive these pupils upon the payment of $50
tuition.
A half dozen or more of men from Craw-
ford county were in Macon on Monday
looking for a negro who assaulted and
badly used a young white girl in Crawford
county.
c. C Hanson has leased the cotton com
presses Of the Central railroad at Column
bus. Macon and Eufaula and assumes
charge on Sept. /, succeeding S. J. White
side as lessee.
The camp meeting at Indian Springs has
ten days quite a crowd attended all dur
ing the meeting. Fully ten thousand were
present during Sunday.
Attorney General Joseph NJ. Terrell has
decided mat the law requiring weekly re
ports and settlements by tax collectors in
counties Of $4,000 population and upward is
still effective and of force.
The policemen of Macon are under or
ders to arrest all suspicious persons seen
lettering or idiing on the streets of the
city. These orders were given because
of the large number of burglaries and rob-
berries committed there recently.
The infant of the negro woman of Biz
mingham, who is at the city's pesthouse
in Columbus, with a case of smallpox, is
dead, having contracted the disease from
its mother. The two small patients at the
pesthouse are now convalescent.
Curtis Bell, a wen known negro republi-
can, is an applicant for the Columbus
postmastership. Bell was postmaster at
LAGRANGE, Ga, four years. The contest for
the Columbus place is very close between
]. S. Garrett and E. n. Clemence, and the
negro hopes to slip in.
Rome Argus: The good ladies of Rome
deserve great credit for their noble work
in establishing and maintaining the emer-
gency hospital In its new quarters, the
hospital enters upon a larger field of use
fitness, and should be literally supported
by the people of Rome.
The Rome Hustler comments pithily on
the delay of the courts and the increase of
crime in the following words: ITO hang
a murderer every Friday, Georgia now
has material enough on hand to last five
years and six months without touching
the reserve fund in the state lunatic asy-
lum."
Dublin Dispatch: The rich, musical
tones of the big bell just purchased and
put up in the steeple of the Methodist
church were heard for the first time last
Sunday. The bell weighs about 1900
pounds and cost the church nearly 500. 1t
is the largest to be found anywhere in this
section of the state.
The criminal libel case against Col. D. A.
r. Crum, editor of the Vienna Progress,
came to an end Monday morning when the
jury in the county court brought in a YER
dict of mot guilty" The case grew out of
an attack made by Col. Crum upon the
personal character of Mr.. T. J. Bivins, the
mayor Of Cordele and cashier of the First
National Bank.
among the officers at Fort Mcpherson. 1t
was thought for a time that there
was some reason for the action taken at
the headquarters of the army, which did
not appear on the surface of things. The
shake-up was in the nature of a transfer
from one company to another for six of
the lieutenants, and there was some con-
sternation at the post when the news was
received.
Atlanta book dealers deny that there is
any trust and declare that there has been
no effort to raise the price and all to sell
them at uniform schedule. The only
thing that the booksellers say they have
agreed among themselves to do is not to
give away rulers, pencils, pads and the
little things that usually go with a large
purchase of schoolbooks. These things do
not amount to anything and il will take a
great many of them to bring any pfoit 10
the dealers, but the profit is so little on
schoolbooks that this little will help
Macon Telegraph: I'VE are getting along
finely with the Mercer alumni building
fund" said President Pollock to a Tele-
graph reporter yesterday, land although 1
have done almost nothing in this respect
during the summer. being so busy with
matters pertaining directly to the college,
want for the alumni building. / really
have not had time TO see the alumni of the
college in the interest of this fund, but a
number with whom I have happened to
come in contact have contributed" Presi- |
dent Pollock said he thought it was high
ly probable that several handsome dona-
tons would be made 10 the alumni build
ing fund and that ii would not be long
before preparations for the building would
be commenced.
Macon Telegraph: A demented white
woman who was being carried to the state
lunatic asylum yesterday afternoon at |
tracted a big crowd at the union depot. !
and many deeply sympathized with her.
The woman came In on the Southwestern |
train in charge Of an officer and was |
transferred to the Georgia train. While |
this was being done she attracted much |
attention by her headdress The hat was |
made in the shape of a crown about twelve |
inches high and was decorated with rib |
bons and fresh flowers, making unique !
affair. The woman was in jolly good hu- |
NOR and kept proclalming that she was the |
queen Of England making a tour Of the |
world. The guard explained that unless
permitted TO wear the hat the woman |