The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-15
GEORGIA.

At Unadilla Alfred Lowry, the 1S-year-
old son of Mr.. VIII Lowry, was drowned
while bathing in a pool on Monday.
liacon's Board of Education has reduced
The salaries of the teachers of the public
SCHOOLS TO make up the deficit of 5000 in
| he appropriation allowed by the County
commissioners, the latter having cut it
/ down by that amount
Hon. Lon Livingston's picture is now
appearing in all of the papers. This is
not the result of a congressional boom,
bur Is the work of the patent medicine
| man the Honorable Lon having given
hearty Endorsement to certain proprie-
tafy remedy.
Middle Georgia Progress: Tom Sim
mons. colored, who was jailed a few days
ago for stealing a pig, it is said has been
| guilty of the same crime several times pre-
1ous He is charged with having stolen
and sold tifty-three pigs, and also with
| having sold liquor. He has been supply
ug the markets of several towns with
| fresh pork.
Walton News and Messenger: The cot
ton mills have been the cause of an era
Of prosperity in Monroe. More than any
one thing else they have been instrument
| al in raising us from a sleepy country
| village " a brisk mart of active industry.
| Conditions have been favorable; under
peoPe generally have been greatly bene-
diei.
l Mr. A. ]. Holmes of Davisboro district
| Is one of the farmers of Washington coun-
~ who believes it pays to raise stock. He
has several horses and mules on his large
farm which were raised by him, and he
prizes them more highly than if they had
/ been bought from stock raisers of the
/ Middle states. He has a fine range for
stock and raises them at comparatively
small expense.
Applications for space for exhibits AZ
the state fair are beginning to assume
large proportions and each day Secretary
4 Martin receives a large number of letters
Sr0m manufacturers, farmers and counties
wanting space for various kinds of dis
pl7Ys. The number of county dsnlays
N.l be large and varied. Judging from
present Indications nearly every county in
t7e state VIII be represented in Atlanta
Dr. large eXhibl
At his home at Bronwood last Thurs
day Mr.. j. G. Chapman was adjudged in
sane by jury selected by Ordinary Rob
egts and was carried to the asylum at Mil
edgeVile Saturday. His insanity is the
effect Of complication of diseases from
which he has suffered more than three
months. Mr.. Chapman has farmed near
Bronwood many years, and was esteem
ID MS Il worthy and Industrious citizen.
This sad misfortune is regretted by his
iEcrds.
On Monday, according to advertisement,
The bids for the $50, 900 of light and water
bonds, 10 be issued by Washington. were
opened. The bonds were very much in
demand, and great interest was mani
tested in the opening of the bids, and in
ascernnng who would be the successful
party in securing the bonds. F. NJ. Stat
ford a. Co, of Chattanooga, Tenn, bid
$5i9S. This being the highest bid the
bonds were awarded to this firm. There
were dozen other bids.
Pandora is out This news means much
to the students and friends of the Uni
vcrsty of Georgia, for Pandora is the an
nuai publication of the students, and its
arrival is one of the big events of the col
ese year, More than ever will Pandora
oe welcome this year, for it is one of the
handsomeat publications of its kind ever
so out in the South. The board of editors
o. o., which Garrard Glenn of Atlanta is ed,
ior-in-chief, has every reason to feel
MSnly elated at the success attained.
Commissioner of Agriculture o. 3.
Stevens is in receipt of one bushel of po-
t2Ioes sent him proudly as the product
Of a Chatham county farm. The potatoes
| present a revelation in a farming way to
| every aSflcuitunst who stops in to speak
| 70 The commissioner, and they are said 10
Ne without doubt the finest ever raised in
| we STATE. The correctness of the stand
/ when the department of agriculture has
@ken recently for diversified crops is
ANY defended by the Chatham county po-
laioes and with only an occasional farm
producing such a variety in the state the
aemand for Western potatoes, it is urged
VIII soon drop off.
AT Sylvester Monday morning Len VIII.
hams went into town terribly excited and
reported that he and Eugene Reid were
a. mouse about two miles south of Will
Hgham, occupied by the two Phillips
sIis, mat they were playing with a pis-
,,9i and that he had accidentally shot and
| hbinea me younger of the girls. He gave
4XlllSSlI uD to the sheriff. Later il was
| ,ouhd that the girl was not dead but ia
Any wounded and unconscious. The older
s sli stated that Reid furnished the pistol
aul that Williams Intentionally killed her
SISTER Williams and Reid have both been
s groe.L They are young white men about
s5o"n. The general opinion is that the
'"0o'IhS was accidental.
Atlanta Constitution: The case of Char
Wy Ban against Mashburn and Russell,
which was docketed in the Supreme Court
eesslerday, will be of interest to the mem
| l0a3,,V.tt me profession who are on the
/ cssaN' LOT euphoniouS and odd sounding
s5fS' ne case of Tabtha Tarbutton
| AUST the town of Tennille on account
II Lls unequaled ALTERATION, which puts
| is ptyond the pale of the commonplace,
o. aiso docketed for trial at the next term
VI lhe Supreme Court There are many
u{bngs on the record of other courts,
| III 80 - tdhen from the cases In WNkcn
rney are parties and placed with other
a. lanes ntS equally odd sounding, would tend
| c3lpHrSY uuce pandemonium when they were
tlnes ,ior nearing. once in hundred
is ~ these names come together. but il
| Iorr44 eh TOO late 70 mend. Such cases as
| sediG against Cheatum, and Swndle
bsalIist Poor, both of which have been
caf Gu by the court recently, would indi-
mr. IN themselves peculiar qualities that
and IN, me party with the just contention
tln, NE party with the wrong one. For
vioi4i,t'ey for the man who exercises no
conr t9h IN the choice of his name, the
tor mas long since established the Gus
rg 4l considering the law before decd-
o1e rlg case There is a tradition tina
WIZ" ~ near of in the Supreme Court
On me matter OF odd names is brought
orc 10 me effect that there was a case
ed heard many years ago which sound
| lie ios against Pig, but no one ever visits
NE. court rooms who is willing 10 admit
NAT De heard the argument
FLORIDA.
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~ 20 De erected al PALM, 1,,, IIa,,