The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03
GEORGIA.

ter at Cumming.
The Crown cotton mills Of Dalton viii
double its capacity soon.
The Americas Club viii have one of the
handsomest suits of club rooms in the
state.
The Sparta Ishmaelite wants the consti-
tutional prohibition of the whipping post
removed.
The pearl searchers continue to find
beautiful gems in the North Georgia
streams.
A stock company has just been organ
lied to open up a large millinery business
in Sylvania.
Hon. Fletcher Johnson of Gainesville Is
a candidate for solicitor general of the
northeastern circuit.
over 100 people have asked Gov. Akin
sen to appoint them state librarian or
assistant state librarian.
Adel News: The Atlanta Constitution
evidently did not get a chance to play the
card up its sleeve, in the misdemeanor
convict fit.
All TIE IdlltOdQ6 ltdNii46 tlltO <AN4dAAto
need more freight ears than they have
right now. Business has picked up so
much that every line is in need of from
800 to $500 cars.
The editor of the Blakley Observer says
that he has disabled his eyes by looking
so constantly on the bright side of life,
vet he does not acknowledge being VIC
tim of the Mckinley prosperity wave.
The meeting Of the Georgia federation of
clubs in Rome during the first week in
November is to be great occasion. The
club women of Rome are making elabo-
rate preparations for the entertainment Of
DELEGATES.
This year Georgia used 335,Gl7 tons of
guano. South Carolina comes next with
1919, lO7, and is followed by North Carolina
with $4,000 tons. Mississippi used 32,0G0
and Louisiana 10000, and not a pound was
sold in Texas.
C. D. Boyd was arrested recently in At
lanta for representing himself as a health
officer Boyd thought he would have a
little fun, and was running countrymen
into back alleys 10 be "fumigated,' where
he said he had his apparatus.
The Blue Ridge Post puts it in this style:
"The brandy harvest is now on and the
'possum crop is rapidly approaching ma
turity the supply of potatoes is abundant,
melons are not yet gone and life in old
North Georgia is one sweet song"
The Dalton Telephone Company win per-
feet arrangements to connect with the
East Tennessee Telephone Company at
Ooltewah, which is twenty-three miles
from Dalton. This will put that city in
talking distance with Chattanooga and
Knoxville.
L. NJ. Jernigan. who lives near
White Plains, had a fine mule to go mad
this week and it bit several places on the
breast and shoulders of two other mules,
and killd some fine shoats. The mad mule
was bitten last July by dog that had
hydrophobia.
The office of the Calhoun County Courier
at Arlington was destroyed by fire last
week, but the equipment of the Early
County News was at once rendered Editor
Fleming, and with a pluck and enterprise
worthy of all praise, the paper was
brought out on time.
Atlanta's fremen are now undergoing
thorough Instructions in the latest meth
DDS Of saving people from burning build.
ings. Their instructor is Assistant Chiel
w. B. Cummings, who on his recent triI
to New York took a course under the in
structor of the New York fire department
Some one applied the torch to the stor,
of Conley Bros, al Vaughn, on Wednes
day night, and the flames had gained sucl
Roadway that to resist their progress wa
impossible, and the building and contents
were soon in ashes. The loss has no
been estimated. They had $1,000 insur
ance.
Meriwether Vindicator: Lotion, the ne
gro postmaster at Hogansville, taught
colored school in Meriwether last year. H
was represented then as the most "uppity'
colored pedagogue that the county ha
ever known. He seems to be one OF tn
fellows that is bigger than the position h
fills.
The steamer Flint struck a rock jus
above Kings rock, in the Chatta
hoochee, on Thursday, and SUM
in three feet of water. She will be raise,
and proceed on to Apalachicola to be nm
on the ways for repairs. That is a dan
gerous spot in the river, several boat
having been wrecked there in the year
past.
business as a Scare head" announcin
that. "Forty-three See Jesus" the Doug
lasyille New South says: Douglasvill
has been stirred from center to clrcum
ference with good. old fashioned religion
Our people have enjoyed for the past tw
weeks a revival that has never been equai
ed in this section.
The Georgia Manufacturing Company G
Gainesville, which became temperate
embarrassed a short time ago, and shu
down the cotton factory, has SATISFACTORY
adjusted all outstanding matters and r.
sumed work. All debts viii be paid
tuH without even a reorganization. an
the factory will be run on fun time, gi,
ing employment to the same force as her,
tolore engaged by the company.
sylyania Telephone: One Of sylvania
business men was heard to remark ths
during oil Of his long years Of experien,
~ business here he had never seen I
many new customers and the quantity ,
M goods sold as the merchants are seiur