The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03
SEEKING SUGAR STATISTICS.
CIRCULARS SENT OFT TO SIXTY
EIGHT COUNTIES.

FndeavorinE TO Get tho Industry
Into Good shape-WOrS Before the
state supreme Court-Atlanta
Preachers Are OutspOken Against
Those Endorsed by the Whisky
HIcn-Contest for Atlanta Electric
Lighting Contract.
Atlanta. oct Commissioner Of Agri-
culture Stevens to-day sent out letters 10
tbe ordinaries of the sixty-eight cane
growing counties in the state asking for
Information as 10 the syrup and cane in
drstry and also the names of an parties
growing cane in their respective counties.
The agricultural department regards this
Information as essential TO dcviSne plans
for the future development of this Valua-
he crop.
Assistant Comm ssioner Wright Gays tho
list of questions viii he sent out to the
growers as soon as their names can be Sc
cured. and if these questions are fully aud
nromptlv answered it VIII put in the hands
Of the department the amount of cane
raised in The state, the acreage, quality
and size of the cane. the manner of prep
arstfon. the kind and mode OF fcrtiizing,
she quantity of cane juice extracted from
t5e product of an acre and the amount OF
syrup derived from the juice.
supreme Courts work.
The supreme Court met to-day and the
morning session was almost entirely oc-
cupied in a reargument OF the Bridges
case from Floyd county.
The TiIer murder case was being argued
al adjournment. and case OF general IN
terest that viii be reargued after the hear
Ing of the criminal business is that of the
Southern Railway Company against MIS-
Iolj5s Dvon of Cobb county. The question
Involved is whether "A railroad can lncoi-
porate the time limit regulations IN resu-
lar tickets In the lower court Mrs. Dyoh
obtained a verdict of $3.50 against the rail-
road.
There are forty-six criminal cases TO he
disposed Of before the civil docket will be
reached It was announced TO the large
number of lawyers present at the opening
that the civil docket down TO the Chatta-
hoochee circuit would be taken up ana
gone through this week
Down on whisky Men.
The ministers and the whisky men have
entered actively into the canvass for al
Iermen and councilmen in the coming cleo
ton. The knights of the Royal Arch in
dorsed four candidates at a secret meeting
Yesterday and the ministers, at their
meeting this morning, pledged themselves
TO work against the candidates who mad
not clearly defined themselves upon the
whisky question.
the four candidates Endorsed by the
whisky men are Messrs c. A. Barrett,
First ward; w. NJ. Terry, Fourth ward;
Thomas Fleming Fifth ward, and Henry
W. Grady, Sixth ward.
While the ministers took the action
above indicated, it was not unanimous
and Rev. J. c. Sibley of the Wallace Pres
byterian Church withdrew from the as
ISOLATION when the action was taken He
said he could not approve the course
adopted by the members.
The veterans will meet again tomorrow
night, and an effort will be made to in
dorse the Conservative Club ticket
The Lighting Franchise.
Both the Atlanta Railway and Power
Company and the Georgia Electric Light
Company submitted bids to-day for city
lighting purposes
The fight between the Consolidated and
Atkinson's company is again reopened.
The bids of the Atlanta Railway and
Power Company were lower than those
submitted by the Georgia Electric Light
Company in August
The bids were made on the basis of one,
three and five-year contracts. The Con-
eolidated bids were $685. per arc lamp per
year on the one-year basis; SIS IS on the
three-year basis and $685. on the ive-year
basis.
President Woodruff of the Atlanta Rail
way and Power Company claims that this
viii save the city about $4,000 President
Atkinson of the Georgia Electric Com
pany proposes to furnish the lights at the
cost of manufacture and proposes board
of arbitration to investigate the relative
cost of manufacture, as compared with
other cities. Both the bids were accom-
panied by a certified check for $4,000
Col. Thompson, chairman of the E,lec-
trio Light Committee, says that he con-
siders that the Atlanta Railway and Pow
er Company's bid is the only one submit
ted