The morning news., 1899-01-19
GEORGIA.

-,..,,srt is on to secure a national
,,..-,. mark foe Atlanta which will be
,,r,or,tiye of the battles fought
S-,,t NE city during the civil war.
49,. Doolv County Bar Association will
o., ,la court house in Vienna on
r,,.,,s..iav. Jan. %. for the purpose of
z ,.;r,irr cases for trial during the first
e.I Of Doolv Superior Court in March.
nr G. w. shackelford of Lincolnton
.,,, , drive the other day. He put under
-. coat of the buggy his purse containing
sp, He forgot to remove it when he
snjsbsd his drive 1t has not been re-
4 covered.
rbs committee of Atlanta citizens APP
ro,,te1 to apnear before the public build
/ i,gs and grounds committee of Congress
4 49, rroe am appropriation for a new fed
1t,i,5,0r in Atlanta, has returned. The
4 neral opinion Of the committeeman seems
~ Ne +bat the appropriation VIII be made.
4 In puttng down a new floor in the un-
ion Messenger depot at Macon, il has been
4 discovered that all of the crosstIes that
n were nut down only a few years ago had
c,mn,etely rotted. Not a sound tie could
he found. and there was not one thar
& co9j NOT be crushed into dust between
4 the fingers.
E CorIele Hornet: Cordele's next admin
ts,ration can do nothing more beneficial to
the city than to bore an arteslan well or
Il remedy the one we now have. Our spring
rl.ris good. but it can be improved upon.
We believe that in less than a year a well
viii be put in operation
The election of officers of the Macon
Volunteers occurred Tuesday night. Mr..
Granville Connor, formerly first lleuteu-
Il ant was elected captain, vice Capt Sam
Hunter, resigned. Lieut.. Robert Hazle-
hurst was elected first lieutenant, and
q Sergt Lawson Brown, second lieutenant.
q The election of Lieut.. Brown was unani-
nous,
The register of the University of Geor-
4 ga. at Athens, shows, at the opening of
the second term. a decided increase in the
4 attendance, Already about fifteen new
4 names have been enrolled and the iist
i continues 10 grow each day. While the
total attendance viii hardly reach that of
last year, stil there is an increase in the
4 law class, which now has over forty-ffve
members.
Two Misses Bryan, who live with
their mother two miles east Of Adel, died
4 Of Ia grippe last Tuesday night and were
. buried on Wednesday. Their death occIr-
nd within a few hours of each other.
Their funerals occurred at Adel and both
were buried in the same grave, coffin
being made to hold both bodies Their
mother Is also reported very dangerously
H., with little chance of her recovery.
Athens Banner; Hon William C. Oates
and son left yesterday for their home in
Montgomery. on March 10 Gen. Oates
WILL at his own request, retire from the
service of the United States. He has al
ready resigned his commission. as a brig
al@r general in the volunteer service and
MS resignation has been accepted to take
eHect on March 10, He received orders
from the war department Saturday to re-
TURN to his home in Montgomery.
Coyngton Star: The Star is in favor of
taxing pistols $1,000 a year. That would
De prohibition on their use. Ii is what
ousnJ TO be done with them. We do not
F"e,e any man is justified in carrying a
PS'oI In a civil and quiet community like
ouIs' Ihe "toting' of pistol has been
"e cause of many man getting into
serious trouble, and the practice ought to
" suppressed. 1t seems TO us the carry
ms OF a pistol ought to be prohibited as
wuen as blind tiger" ought TO be sup
10 60
Albany Herald; 1t seems as if Albany
,' moi soins to have any more weather
'V@s'S' For some time past the boys at
5 os'al telegraph office have been re-
1.'"s Ile messages from the Western
ana nave been hosting the proper
Tl I7s over the Mayer & Crime building.
o, any nave refused to do this any longer,
I 'S 10 one else would take the trouble
fu" up the flags, Manager Rust so in
M 'Ae weather man in Atlanta and
Lon refused to send the forecasts any
~ somebody ought to take hold of
in, .f.[, and keep the weather flags fly
"S IN Albany
county Citizen: John Ham,
rs. 7 White man, who lived in the upper
wv" ol the county and killed a negro
ew,. ,,'Is ago, has been in the county iatl
COM. ''aI by the coming MAY Superior
han 1''I since he was captured In Ala
urv S,..'g,''""y until Tuesday, when Dep
for. ~ quietly took him to Americus
his fG N'5png Ever since his arrest
in Ta,rl. near his old home, and also
Ac.rG'. county, have been unusually So
dsy n,A u regard 10 his welfare. ana Mon
den..,. ''" GOOD number came here. the
pose ~, '"e' III got hint that their pur-
from 'S 9,.s To- torcibly rescue the prisoner
for Ag Without any delay he set out
oyerto ',,' with Ham aud turned him
Ing 95tj "t Sheriif of Sumter for safe keep-
'''' 'ne Superior Court convenes.
FLORIDA.
in, '1'"ers Of Aachua county are hav-
vaa. " trouble in obtaining laborers to
Gey ,'',r lands this year. -Croppers as