The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-04
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

saunders to Seek Pardon On inc
Ground That He Is in Danger of
Going BIind-WarebOuse sold at
Americus-Rcturn of the Blue
Birds-stOre Closed at COrdeIe Tn
der Foreclosure of n Mortgage.
GEORGIA.
Francis NJ. Stalllngs has been appointed
a jantor in the custom house at Augusta
al 1851 per annum.
II is almost certain that a new military
company viii be organized in Atlanta in
the course OF The next few days.
The biennial election of chief of police
and six officers occurrerd at Americas
Tuesday. Chief Wheeler, who has been on
the force a quarter Of a century, was re-
elected chief, while the entire force of po-
licemen was reelected.
Dawson News: There is not a better pa
per anywhere than the Savannah Morning
News. Il is@ttractive geographically, is
ably edited and covers the news field fully.
ID has a crispness about il that is pleasing.
and ii is always reliable.
The store of Eugene H. Taylor. dealer IN
general merchandise. at Calhoun, was
closed by the sheriff under a mortgage in
favor of a. w. Tedcastie & Co. of Rome.
The amount of the Tedcastle mortgage Is
about Sl,OOo and the assets will invoice
about $3.50. 1t is said there are several
other mortgages against the stock on rec
ord at the court house.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
judgment in favor of Capt. Lid
dell in the famous case brought
against him by the Walker heirs.
The Walker heirs sued Capt. Liddell for
$4,000. besides interest. which they claim
Liddell owed them for the purchase of
their remainder interest in thirty acres of
land near Piedmont Park.
The large warehouse formerly owned by
the A. P. and L. Compress Company, and
now occupied by the Americas Grocery
Company, was sold a commissioners sale
at Americus Tuesday. and bought as an
investment by Judge Allen Fort for $1,000
The Americas Grocery Company will erect
a brick storage warehouse and office in
the business center of the city.
The Atlanta justices of the peace will
go before the County Commissioners and
request that court rooms be furnished
them by the county in accordance with a
bill passed by the last legislature. The
act provides that IN cities of $1,000 inhablt-
may, in their discretion. provide quarters
for the justices of the peace, and supply
them with dockets and indexes. Justices
Bloodworth. Orr. Foute and Landrum win
ask the county board for both rooms and
books.
Physicians who have examined the eyes
of l.. L. Saunders, who robbed the South
ern Express Company of $4,000 and who
nj 70, ~,
penitentiary for two years, say that if
Saunders goes TO the penitentiary and has
to undergo The hardships that are usual
with eonyicts he will probably become
stone blind. In view of that fact and be-
cause Of very strong sympathy for
Saunders a petition for his pardon is be-
ing prepared and viii be presented to the
pardoning board.
Forsyth Chronicle: ]. w. Bostwick, who
resides in Middlebrooks district, informs
us that since the fearful freeze on the 264h
of March, 1895. that no blue birds have
been seen in this section of the country
Before and up TO that freeze the country
was infested with these birds, but since
then none have been seen. Mr. Bostwick
on last Friday for the first time. saw a
drove of blue birds in his swamps on his
plantation. The mysterious and suddenl
absence of these birds has been accounted
for on the theory that they were all frozen.s
This theory is at least plausible. Mr..
Bostwick is one our most thrifty and sue
cessful farmers, and says he is rejoiced 10
zee these birds return. as they are more
valuable 40 the farmer than any other
bird. He claims they come nearer destroy
ing the worms bugs and other insects
than any other bird known in this Sec
ten.
The suit attacking the legality Of the
act Of 1895 adopting the new code is as
Stunning a serious phase. The Supreme
Court has notified the attorneys in several
cases turning on the constitutionality of
statutes embodied in that code that the
case involving the validity of the act
adopting the code will be argued at the
March term, and has advised such attor-
neys 10 be present at the hearing. This
shows in practical way the Importance
Of the case TO test the effect of the adop-
ton OF the code by the. legislature. 1t is
said that there are in the code something
like hundred statutes on whose consttu-
tionality doubt is cast by reason of defects
in their captions. The question is whether
these defects were cured by the act adopt
ing the code as a whole. Judge John 4.
Hall, attorney for the Central of Georgia
Railway, has raised the point that the act
does not have that effect because, under
ZIG stcec NohslttutlOni every statute, Ue-
fore becoming a law, must be read three
times in each house of the general as
sembly. He also raises the point that sew
eral acts cover more than one subject
matter, whereas the constitution provides
that no act shall have more than one sub
jeet matter This view makes the code
mere compilation of laws. which does
not make anything law which was not
law before.
FLORIDA
The phosphate shipments from Punta
Gorda during February were 5.sO5 tons.