The morning news., 1898-12-09
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GEORGIA.
There viii be more meat and bread raised
in Georgia next year than in any year
since The war.
Whitfield county voted to remain dry /
last week by the largest majority ever
given against barrooms in that county
Two negroes became involved in a rum
pus over a woman at Nichols Tuesday.
one was killed and the other seriously
wounded.
Walton county is getting ready for one
of the warmest elections on the prohibit
ton question on Dec. 10, that the state
has yet seen.
South Georgia seems determined to shut
out the sale of liquor. Wet counties in
that section are now extremely few and
very far between.
Brunswick Times: The price of Sun
day drink in Savannah is $1OO-to the bar
keeper. In Brunswick it costs the bar
keeper an even COO.
Americus Times Recorder: Unless the
pruning knife is put to the Georgia pen
sion roll, It VIII soon be as big a scan
slal. comparati lively, as is the national oc-
t9pus
The Windsor Hotel square, perhaps the
most valuable vacant property in Ameri-
Gus, was sold at auction Tuesday, the sew
eral lots bringing nearly $4,000 dollars in
the aggregate.
Dublin Dispatch; The "prohis' of Haw-
kinsville must have feared the Methodist
preachers who were on the way to that
city, from the way they voted against
whisky last week.
Mr.. Pulliam, an evangelist. is holding
tent meeting at Hezelhurst, but his fol-
lowers are very few The rain has rem
dered the floor disagreeable and the wind
made the tent unsteady.
swainsboro Pine Forest: The marshals
scat is dead-the goat with twenty horns
Il died last Tuesday. Marshal Moxley
has had il skinned and will have the hide
stuffed, and still have goat with twenty
horns.
Augusta Chronicle: Rev. Simon Peter
Richardson is the only living member of
the North Georgia conference who Joined
the conference in 1910. 1t then extended
from the Blue Ridge to Key West. He
is one of the best known men in the
Georgia pulpit.
There is apt to be some discussion start
ed before long as to who killed the big
gest hog in Georgia this season. A CO.
iumbus butcher killed a hog Tuesday
which was by far the largest ever Killed
in Columbus before. His hogship was about
2J5 or years old, and, it is said, weigh
ed 800 pounds net
II is thought that at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders and directors OF
the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad
Company III January, arrangements VIII
be made for a through train service be-
tween Tennille and Hawkinsville in con-
nection with the Oconee and western,
which was recently bought, it is thought
by the Central.
Thomasville Times Enterprise: We
calm the cake on guessing at the num-
Der of votes which would be polled on
Monday Our figures were 2,59O. The con-
solidated vote as published elsewhere
shows 2,492 votes polled AS 10 the balance
of our predictions, the least said The bet
Ter. Suffice il TO say we busted badly,
and have retired from the hguflng pusl-
ness for the present.
Mlledgeville Union Recorder: There are
now thirteen dispensaries in operation in
Georgia which are located at the follow
ing PLACES Athens, Clarke county;
GAINESVILLE Pike county; Camilla, Mitch
ell county; Fort Gaines. Clay county;
Blakely, Early county; Morgan, Calhoun
county; Pelham, Mitchell county; Meigs,
Thomas county; Whigham, Decatur coun-
~; Dawson, Sasser and Bronwood, Terrell
county.
Fl is rumored in Macon that Rev Sam
Small is to start prohibition daily paper
in that city MIR Small is an old news
paper man and OF one time was regarded
as one of the best writer's in Georgia. He
is said to be backed by Macon Prohibi-
tionists who have money, and that they
are going into the enterprise both as
speculation and as an advocate of the
temperance or prohibition movement In
Georgia
Rome Tribune: Nanny Brown, colored,
probably The Oldest woman in
Georgia, died Monday in East
Rome There are few peo-
pie now living who were born in the last
century. Nanny Brown was born in 1891,
and hence was 107 years old al the time
Of her death. She remembered Gen.
Washington. the first President Of the
United States, and was years odd at The
time of his death. Nanny has lived un-
der the administration of every President
of the United States up 10 the present.
The woman had remarkably good health
up TO some months ago, when the weight
of her five score and seven years began
10 tell upon her.