The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-05
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

A sumter County Negro with -Four
wives and Fifty Children TO Hold q
Family Reunion - Peach Brand ;
Industry Not Booming on Account
of the High Price of PeRches--Cits
Council of Atlanta TO Rule Fruit
stands on the streets.
GEORGIA
Musical instruction is 10 be continued In
the public schools Of Atlanta.
Mrs. DR.. Sd. Brantley OF sandersyilis
died OF heart trouble Friday night.
Under the law Of the state saloons are
required to close to-day, it being legal
holiday
sandersvine has just sold $1,000 of
bonds for 100 per cent. A new school IS
to be erected with the proceeds.
The store Of b. e. McLenahan, a young
merchant Of Elberton, was closed by the
sheriff Friday on a foreclosure of mort
gage given his father and brother Tor so
His stock Of goods is valued AT about 800
Mrs. Ed. Raney, a dressmaker OF At
lanta. claims to have been bequeather
s.0oOo00 by an uncle who has just died in
California Mrs. Raney has gone to New
Orleans 10 marry a railroad man before
she goes to California to secure her for
tune.
The Oldest storehouse on Peachtree
street. Atlanta, a little one-story brick
structure at the junction of Peachtree and
IVY streets. is to be torn down to make
way for a modern four-story apartment
house. roof garden will be one Of the
features.
No fruit stands will be permitted on the
sidewalks of Atlanta hereafter. This lie
clsion has been made by the council ana
the tax committee of that body viii not
make favorable report on petitions Of
fruit men to be allowed to do business on
the sidewalks.
While Mrs. Enoch Jones. who attempted
TO blow out the brains of her husband
with a shotgun in Fayette county, sew
eral days ago, has been langunishing IN
Fulton Jail, awaiting trial for her crime,
her relatives have been trying to persuade
her husband not TO prosecute her. and II
IS now probable that he will comply with
their wishes.
What is known as the circular check"
system, inaugurated by the Georgia Bank
ers' Association, promises to attain ma
tional proportions, judging by reports re-
ceived by Lewe.lyn p. Hillyer, Of the
American National Bank OF Macon The
plan Is to be considered by the national
convention of the American Bankers As
ISOLATION at Detroit this summer.
The negroes that were implicated in the
gambling which resulted in the murder
Of Harry Farley near Griffin were arrest
ed. Friday night, with the exception of
Taylor Barlow, the negro who did the
shooting. The others are Henry Head,
who is charged with being accessory to
the murder. and Jack Evans. John Col
lier. John McDade and Oscar Johnson.
charged with gaming.
Several houses were struck by lightning
at Albany Friday, and Jackson Grove
church, colored In the southern part Of
the city, was almost demolished. Stores
were flooded and considerable damage
was done 10 goods. The actual rainfall
within an hour and half was AIS inches.
The rain reached the surrounding country
and was worth $1,000 to the farmers in
that immediate section.
Americas Times Recorder: Sumter
county. has a colored citizen who is said
90 be chief stakeholder In four families.
plest manner Imaginable. Three of his
families, II is said. live In Lee county.
while the fourth lives near Americus.
Each consists of wife and ten or twelve
children, the good helpmeets exchang-
ing occasional visits in the most AMIGA
bic manner There will be a grand fam
lily reunion some time in August when
the old man, his four wives and fifty
children viii assemble under one roof for
a days festivities and better acquasnt-
ance.
John Tyler Cooper's motion for a new
trial is to be heard IN the supreme court
at Atlanta to-day He was convicted OF
embezzling county funds and sentenced by
Judge Gambler TO three months in Jail I'm
addition to a fine OF $500 Cooper and his
friends believed that the judges sentence
was too harsh, In view OF the jury's re-
coinmerdalion that the case be treated as
misdemeanor. They did not object TO
tho fine. although insisting that there
was no moral wrong In what Cooper had
done. All the members OF the grand jury
and nine OF the jurors who tried him, have
signed petition 20 Gov. Atkinson to take
of the imprisonment feature of the sem
tence.
Collector Trammell expected that ha
would keep a large force OF men busy
through the summer attending TO the
brandy industry alone. But so far there
has been very little brandy made II
was expected that by July ] a hundred
or more applications would De made for
license to make government brandy. but
very few applications have been made
Collector Trammen explains the smhn
number Of brandy stills. by saying that
the price OF peaches l. so high that the
farmers and peach growers had rather
sell them than make them into brandy.
In few weeks, when the regular brandy
peaches begin TO ripen. the season OF
brandy making will open. The collector
expects over go dlstileries TO be oper-
ated through the brandy season.
FLORIDA.
Policeman Middaugh Of Tampa has be-
come insane
Many Of tho orange trees around Or
lando arc putting cut "A June blooms
Al Belleview quite an acreage Of pea
nuts has been planted the past month.