The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES To1,n
IN PARAGRAPHS.


steamer Highway Robbery AT
DanielsviIIe - Bibb County TO he
PoIiccd-Big shrimp Catch in ST.
Johns RfVcr-POuftFy Trade Be-
tween Tampa and Cuba.
GEORGIA.
The Athens knitting mills has Increased
its cap scity.
Hogs. will soon be called upon by the city
council to vacate the streets Of Cordele.
Athens is to have a new knitting NH.
They ak -eady lave one that has proved a
spNneid Success.
Macon News: Macon Is in better ccndi-
ton comm ercially to-day than she has
been for mllny years.
The farme RS of Irwin county nave or
ganized and .petitioned the girners 70 re-
duce the price of ginning to 25c a hun
dred.
Floyd wants the fish hatchery which
the government win establish In this
state and e, cry effort is being made to
secure 1t.
Walter H. johnson. the republican lead
er in Georgia. has gone to Washington to
press the claims OF his constituents before
Mckinley.
Rome parties secured the contract TO
build the new $4,000 depot of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad
at that city.
Col. w P. Blassingame, the secretary
of the De Soto Plantation Company, is
having a circular bale cotton press erect
ed at De Soto.
The boiler of a Central railroad engine
exploded at Atlanta on Thursday, and the
dome OF the engine was thrown some 1850
feet in the air.
Leesburg just now is much engrossed
in the subject of the liquor traffic. Licen-
ses expired In May and council ran out
the saloons with high license.
The Eastman ice works has been sold
and will be removed from Eastman, but
such, nevertheless, is the case. Mr.. julius
King of BaXley, is the purchaser ana
win move the works to Helena.
President j. u. Jackson OF The Augusta
Southern road is in Cordele TO confer with
the citizens in regard to the new road. He
says If Cordele will guarantee $4,000 he
win put the road there and not ask for the
money until it is there.
A reward of $3.50 has been offered for the
arrest of l. r. Branham, late of the Ma
tional Building and Loan Association in
Atlanta, and circulars giving a detailed
description of him were yesterday mailed
to the police chiefs of the country.
Near Danielsvile. in Madison county. a.
few nights ago, an attempt was made by
negro TO rob on the highway a white
man named Bailey. who had been selling
patent medicines at the public square Dur
ing the session of Madison superior court.
The negro attacked Bailey with a knife,
vou4dins him severely, and dragging him
from his horse. Bailey fought his assail-
ant with rocks from the roadside, on which
he was lying and finally ran him off.
Blackshear Times: The chain-gang
system has about become burden to our
officials. Pierce county has sent several
to tie gang and the probability is that
they will be returned after thirty days,
and the worst of il is Pierce has nothing
for them TO do. We can see but one solution
of the problem, that is to repeal the pres
ent road laws and pass law taxing those
who ere subject TO road duty, and keep
Up the roads by county chain-gangs.
Atlanta Constitution: OF the 800 misde-
meanor convicts Illegally confined in pri-
vate camps in Georgia, 800 have already
been unshackled from their lawless bond
age and put to work upon the public roads
of the counties which convicted them. The
camps which still exist are slowly but
surely disintegrating. and il is now ques-
tion of a very short time when the good
work of reform which Gov. Atkinson in
augurated few months ago is crowned
with complete success.
Columbus Enquirer-S Sun: A little incident
of the deepest interest to the ladies on
board the Naiad occurred while the steam
er was fast on the shoals. A lady Dassen-
ger, travelling with her husband, end
bound for this city, gave birth to child,
q handsome little girl. The lady and her
baby received every attention from the
kind ladies' on board the steamer. The
little one was named Florence Naiad, aft
er the steamer, and Florence. the landing
near which the steamer was aground.
Eugene, Ore, was recently the scene of
a romantic wedding of two who had never
seen each other before the arrival of the
overland in the afternoon, says the Port
land (Ore) correspondence of the San
Francisco Chronicle The lovers were Miss
Enoree Jay, comedy brunette of %, of
Augusta, Ga, and p. n. Shelly, a middle
aged farmer OF Pleasant Hill, Ore a man
with a good name. a large farm and a
healthy bank account. Miss Jay from her
southern home, answered an advertise
ment of Shelly, who was in search OF a
wife. The correspondence appeared, TO
have been mutually satisfactory and the
two fell desperately in love with each
other by mail.
Macon Telegraph: Bib county will
probably have police officers in every
neighborhood before long. Already Mr..
b. d. Lumsden and his neighbors in East
Macon district have arranged to employ
a special officer 10 patrol their section.
and at the meeting of the county road
commissioners at the last meeting. Can't.
X y. Park made a strong and telling
speech In favor of the movement He urg-
ed that the county commissioners should
take the matter up at once, and train
bloodhounds 10 be at all times subject 10
the orders of the county officers. The
mailer has taken a strong hold on the
minds of the people who have been con-
sidering the necessities for such a course
and Capt. Park thinks he viii soon be
able to accomplish his undertaking.