The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-13
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN
PARAGRAPHS.

His GRANDMOTHER.
GEORGIA.
The tax rate at Augusta for the year 1897
Is IA per cent
The Grant sign and mirror works at AT
lanta have been closed under chatteI mort
cages.
Eighty-six car .oads OF guano, valued
at over $4,000 have been received at I'm
adilla since Jan. J.
C. A. Harrison. Claude worriu and ].
f. f. Matthews are candidates for ordi-
nary of Epson county
]. NJ. Campbell, who murdered his
brother in Jasper county last year was
taken from Monticello Wednesday to
serve a life sentence in the penitentiary.
Thomas Riley, alias j. T. McNeal, was
tried at Preston Thursday before a jury
for insanity. He pleaded his own case
and caused the Jury to make mistrlal
The Chattahoochee river is to be span
ned at Roswell with a new iron bridge of
the latest design. The new bridge is to be
constructed by the counties of Cobb and
Fulton.
Perry Holmes the white man who cut
Walter Bevins In Leberman & Kaufman's
trunk factory at Atlanta, several months
ago, and who skipped his bond, has been
captured at Cincinnati
Special officer Getsinger has completed
the census of Cordele, and reports as fol-
lows: Total number of inhabitants, $780,
males IS and over. 96S; children between 6
and 49, 79l; women is and over 1,026; chill
dren under years, S21-Total 3,l06.
Dr. Thompson. who is charged with Sc
ducing Miss Stewart, a 14-year-old girl, in
Epson county, was given a preliminary
trial wednesday, and was bound over un-
der bond of 500 for the next superior
court. He Is still in jail, unable to give
the necessary bond.
DR.. C. w. Holloway, who lives in the
southern part of Brooks county lost his
residence and smoke house and their con-
tents by fire Wednesday night. The loss
on house. furniture smoke house and con-
tents amounts to 1900. The house and
furniture were insured for $780,
The Rome electric light plant and all
appurtenances will be sold by Special
Master c. f. Woodruff on April g. The sale
is authorized by a decree from Judge New
man, based on a mortgage he'd by the
thought the bondholders will bid in the
property.
An order was taken in the second divis-
ion of the city court at Atlanta Thursday
in the case of Mrs Christian Ivey against
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany by her attorneys dismissing the case.
Mrs. Christian brought suit for $4,000
against the company for the alleged negli-
gent killing of her husband
A. V. McVickers was cut by James VIM
at Lovejoy Wednesday Mcvickers is a
merchant of Lovejoy. He went to the
store where VIM is engaged as a clerk
and it is alleged called him out and began
to curse him in a violent manner.-Winn
defended himself by using his knife. Nc
Nickers was cut in the right side.
Every prisoner in the Jail at Douglas
vile escaped Wednesday afternoon about
8 o'clock. OF the eight prisoners who got
away two were white and six were col
ored. The two white men were Lloyd
James and Jesse HUMPHREYS. James was
under life sentence for the murder of Ed
MeKelvey. Only one has been captured
Isaac Baker.
Richmond Raleigh, feeble man over 60
years of age. was run over and killed by
Georgia Southern and Florida freight
train two miles south of Cordele Wednes-
day. He had started 20 Cordele. and il
is supposed, sat down on the railroad tres
tie to rest. Engineer Watts blew at the
old man to get off, but il is thought he
was TOO feeble to get out of the way
A committee representing depositors of
the late Chattahoochee National Bank
was in conference at Columbus Wednesday
,b
tors are dissatisfied with the rather slow
manner in which they are receiving the
dividends promised them. Some of them
are dissatisfied with John Flournoy as re-
ceiver of the bank because he was vice
president Of the bank.
Deputy Collector ]. NJ. McAfee and Dep-
uty Marshal ], II. Kelly of Coulton, de-
stroyed a large blockade distillery in the
upper part of Cherokee county a few days
ago and found woman and her grown
daughter running a distillery. The dis
tillery was doing good work and the wo-
men seemed 20 be experts at the business.
The officers destroyed the dlstllery and
turned the women loose.
An election was held at Moultrie on the
9Th to elect school commissioners and
vote on issuing 5000 of bonds 20 build
school building and complete the artesian
wei and system of water works around
the court house square The bonds were
carried by vote of IFS to 16. The bonds
are In denominations of 800 to bear per
cent. interest payable semi-annually in
gold and maturing in twenty years.
Gov. Atkinson has decided that he will
not call meeting of the board Of direc-
tors of the Milledgeville Normal and In
dustrial school, as was the proposed pro-
gramme, the meeting to have been held at
Atlanta March l6. Instead he will go by
Milledgeville on his way to Savannah and
viii be there on March Is, when the meet
ing will be held, and so obviate the ex-
pense and loss Of time incident to a trip
to Atlanta by the members of the board.
The trial of the case of the state against
st. Clair Glover charged with the murder
a a n 4 a