The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-13
GEORGIA.

The Glynn county grand jury is after
"HeTs Half Acre" which is said to be 10
Gated within the corpo rate limits of
brunswick.
Atlanta is trying to gen a new govern
msnt building and have the city purcha Sc
the present structure for a city hall. The
Gate City has been badly an need of a city
hall for some time.
Athens now has another represent alive
Oh Gov Gamblers staff. Noses G. Mich
ael, has received. official notice from AS
sistant Adjutant General O5ear, Ilotifvin,
him of his appointment as a Georgia
colonel.
A lumber company in Ware county is
doing an unusual thing in the saw and
planning mill business. It is running all
day and nearly all night m its efforts 10
keep up with the orders. 1t is sending
out about 10000 feet of Luz nber per day.
Lumpkin Independent: From what in
formation we can gather from the country
districts there is a consid serable acreage de-
voted TO wheat this yea G. This shows that
experience is the true teacher Cotton at
cents cannot buy n that the farmer
needs for living.
Cordele Hornet: The train from Seville
Is now loaded down with jugs and boi
ties nearly every day. 1t is estimated that
$500 or more each month goes to Seville
from Cordele for whisky. The only kind
of prohibition that is worth what it ought
to be TO town, county or state is national
prohibition.
A 1loultrie merchant Mr.. Chisholm, is
said TO overcome duh grocery business
by engaging a fiat car and stocking it wiz n
groceries. In this he travels up and dow n
the Haiiroad looking for customers, az I'd
finds plenty of them His headquarters re
at NEoultrie. but when his railroad q IS
tome rs are too busy to go to him, he g oes
10 III EN-.
Wegcross journal: The Journal IL in
form ed of an unusal freak of nattEe in
Char lton county. There is a woman down
therei who is the mother of seven CHA 1ren
haVl ng given birth TO four at one tin ~ and
thre at another All The childr, N are
lvr Y and doing well, and it is sal 81 that
the mother does but little besides ,carine
for the little tots.
A. p. NIoye and c. L. Tumlin of Cuth-
berf killed eight hogs last week None
Of them We're over 10 months old. From
of them Melted over 900 pounds. From
the kill, besides the meat, $50 pc andfs of
sausage and 300 pounds of lard wa saved
This looks like hog raising in F Andolph
pays and that the yield Is far MOI z profit
asle that Accent cotton.
Washington Gazette; Mr.. John b.
WingfeId informs us that he Aade Ibis
year enough ribbon cane on a ouurter of
an acre of land 10 make 1913 gallo M; of fine
syrup, after saving out of the cane 250
stalks for planting next spring. Such as
this should encourage our farmer to raise
syrup and save the money that is sent out
OF the county every year to buy it.
Percy, the 16-year-old son of e. E. Pom.
der. who lives nine miles east of Louis
vile. suieided Friday morning by shoot
ing himself in the right side of the body
with shotgun. Fearing pun ishlnent from
his father, he stayed in the cot ton house
i night, and when found in the morn
ing by his brother-in-iaw, Mr.. Cater, he
shot himself He lived af&er the shoot
ing about an hour and half, dying be-
fore surgical aid could be lad. Before dy-
ing he begged his father 10 kill him to
ro.ieye him from his suff erfng.
Cuthbert Liberal Enterprise: The cap
tain commanding Of the ECuthbert Rifles,
has received orders from the adjutant gem
eral directing an elect or next Thursday
for a colonel of this regiment, vice Col
d. O. Varnedoe, with the United
states army. Only the commissioned Off
GERS OF the company al entitled 90 vote.
1T IS understood that Mai w. E. Wooten
of Albany and Capt T. ~ HOPKINS of
lhomasyille will be Candidates for the va
cancy. Ii is safe to isay that the Cutn-
bert Rifles support would 90 60 Mai
"ooten for most anything he wanted. So
many officers of the state militia being
nov with the United States army, will
h9 3essitate an almost new organization OF
~ state militia.