The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
GEORGIA.

viii hpld It's IdA session n WaycrOss next
month.
A banana plan. in the yard of Capt. D.
c. WEIGH al FitzGeI ID. has attained a
hight Of tweve feet and fruited
A score of new houses have been built
In Americas during the summer months,
and yet there is not vacant dwelling 10
be had.
Correspondence is now in progress with
three big immigration companies with the
object in view OF establishing colonies
along the Georgia road.
The loss on the Masonic temple in Rome
has been adjusted, and Cherokee Lodge
will receive $3.50 in full settlement Of
the damage to the building.
The First National Bank of Marietta
and the Toccoa Banking Company of Toe
Goa, have been made state repositories.
The bond of the former is 100000 and that
Of the latter is $4,000
Americas Herald: If Georgia is going to
annex Chattanooga 1t should be done be-
fore this years taxes are paid. The an
nexation would also help to make the
eubernatorial pot bubble a little more fu-
riously.
The Irwinton Bulletin says the people
of that town have decided to boycott the
postoflce there, and will have their let
ters mailed elsewhere. They object to
the new postmaster given them by the re-
publican administration.
The City of Macon. the Macon Naviga-
ton Company's handsome steamer, is now
ready to be launched. over all, the boat
is 1l9 feet, the hull Is 105, the beam p feet,
and depth OF hull feet. With 100 tons
Of freight, her capacity, she will draw
two and one-half to three feet Of water.
Douglasvile New South On the theory
that the early bird catches the worm and
that he was defeated last year because
he had such a short time to run, Charles
/. BTanan has announced himself a can
oidate for congress to sit in the seat now
comfortably filled by Col Leonidas LiV-
ingston.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Hon. B. D. Ev-
ans of Sandersville viii certainly be the
next judge OF this circuit, as he will have
no opposition, unless it comes from Bull
loch county in the person OF Hon. J. A.
Brannen Either OF these distinguished
gentlemen would wear the ermin with be-
coming dignity.
The lady editor Of the Americas Times
Recorder is moved by a spirit of liberality
which is gratifying to the sterner sex, in
these days Of fanatical agitation, to re-
mark: Gov. Atkinson had a marriage
and hanging on his hands Wednesday
in either case taking drink would have
been pardonable."
Abbeville Chronicle: A cotton factory
Is the latest enterprise proposed for Able
Vile. The r"cject is being agitated con-
6iderably anG We hope it Will soon assume
tangible form. Except a few places that
have water power, there is no better point
than this in the entire state, for the man
ufacture of cotton goods, and no industry
would be OF greater benefit to our town
Keep the bau rolling.
Americas Recorder: The press
just completed at De Soto is the first CYL
indrical cotton-bale press put UP in Ceor-
gia, as far as the s-Recorder is In
formed, and should it prove the success
predicted others will be operated hero as
well IL is said that from $50 to 200 bales
OF cotton packed thusly can be nut in a
freight car as against sixty-hve as now
compressed, a point greatly in its favor
Meriweather Vindicator: The Green
vile Granite Company is getting out some
of the handsomest specimens in their line
10 be found In ali America. This Is a
strong assertion, but any doubling brother
may have all his doubts removed by ex
aiming the handsome polished slab in
the court house yard. The president OF
the company is receiving letters Of inquiry
daily from all sections. Among those
that came to hand last week was one from
tar on Maine, the land of famous building
stone.
Two farmers in Polk county, Messrs. d.
]. Lowry and W. 0. Wray have been
making syrup out of watermelons. rhev
FOUND the market so glutted with melons
that they concluded TO turn them into
syrup. so they procured an ordinary cider
press and pressed the meats of the mel
ons into watermelon cider and boiling this
down they make a splendid syrup. Out
Oh 5VOO melons, they made over 100 gallons.
whlch sold at 60 cents a gallon The
,Cedartown Standard says that the syrup
Is very fine and predicts a great future
tor watermelon syrup in the coming
years.
Three years ago a negro on the planta-
ton Of J. c. A. Bell, in Warren county.
was bitten by mad dog. A month ago
this negro had fight with another negro
on the plantation, and bit him severely,
nearly tearing away his lower liz. The
negro who was bitten a few days after
ward developed hydrophobia and died
frothins at the mouth and with every
ldication Of fully developed case of hy-
orophobia. The negro who did the biting
disappeared. He is not one Of the poison
GUS blue-gum species, and has never
shown any bad effects from the bite of a
dog.