The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-12
GEORGIA.

ont There are no less than twelve cases
in Dupont, while many more are reported
rom the immediate surrounding country.
b, is said that the friends of ex. Gov
/ Atkinson will urge his election 10 the
&eb,ncellorship of the state university
#rbancellor Boggs' resignation will take eff
] feet with the close OF. the present univer-
/ ty year.
The Johnson county veterans, twenty
/ five to thirty strong, under the command
of capt. John L. Martin, left Wrights-
Vile Monday night on a special train
1 lor Charleston, where they went to take
part in and enjoy the big reunion.
4 1t is understood that the Plant System
Is 10 have another large force of hands al
Eyaldosta in June to finish up the work that
was started here last year. Ii is said that
the road expects 10 keep a hundred men
AZ work for a year in that city and that
The roadway through town, and all of the
streets that lead 10 the track, are 20 be put
in the best of shape.
Marietta journal: Mr.. w. G. Huggard
SET a hen on fifteen eggs Another hen
crowded in and took part of the nest and
went to setting. Other hens made de-
+. UOSlt OF fresh GSSS CdSAl udy III lAAS DNAAAN
nests. Chickens were Matched for a week
81 or two, and up to last week Mr.. Huggard
b had taken siXty-five young chickens from
the two setting hens.
Farmers in Sumter county are harvest
ing wheat and the crop is fine indeed.
Mr. A w Smith obtains yield of thirty
bushels per acre on his model farm in
the suburbs of Americas. He will al
L once plant the same ground in corn, fol-
lowing that with a crop of hay, and lastly
planting rye thus making four HELD crops
4 per year on the same soil.
Mr.. Jesse r. Howell died at his home in
Echols county, near the Lowndes county
line and in the Naylor district on Monday.
Il His death was unexpected, he being in ap-
parently good health early in the morn
ing He was taken i'll at the breakfast Ia
bic and died in a short while. He was
about 65 years of age. and was a good
citizen, leaving large family TO mourn
q for MIN. .-....... ....
Jack Jones, an old negro man, was
4 caught stealing chickens from the hen
house of Mrs. Stewart in Albany. He
was caught right in the act of lifting a
nice, fat hen from her roost, and there
was a clear case of chicken stealing
a
fore Judge Wooten, the old negro who is 80
years old, presented such a pitiful sight
as he tottered into court, that the judge
let him off with good lecture.
Brunswick Times: The committee on
subscriptions to the opera house fund is
meeting with splendid success. Subscrib-
4 ers are paying up rapidly and the money
is in bank. Mr.. Counzieman, the builder,
I 90 t1NA HnCf IL
ment of his share. The building will be
magnificent one 90x9O feet three stories
high. Two of the stories have already
been spoken for and the others Will De
rented when the building is completed
a charter has been granted by Secretary
Of State Cook to the Neptune Towboat
Company of Darien, Ga. The incorpora-
tors of the new company are j. X CLARKE
j. D. Clarke and j. K. Clarke, Jr., OF Nc
Intosh county, and w. H. Strain of Gym
county, who are among the most promi-
/ nent shippers and business men of that
section of the state. The company 10
4 chartered with a capital stock of $4,000,
I which is to be increased to 100000 in the
& near future.
Oscar Lawhorn, well-known young
q man of Columbus, is under arrest, charg-
4 cd with arson. IN March three houses on
Ninth street, one of which he occupied,
4 burned. He had some household insur-
4 ance which, il is understood, he collected
4 His arrest was at the instance of I. b.
Story, who claimed that he confessed the
deed TO him. The preliminary trial sat
urddy promises to be sensational IL Is
rumored that Lawhorn and Story nad
business disagreement. Lawhorn has
a wife and four children.
News comes from GAINESVILLE of the
marriage of Miss Annie Smith to Mr.. ".
c. Couch on Monday afternoon at Belle
view, Talbot county, and it was great
surprise to all the relatives and friends
of the young lady. She is a daughter Of
MIR. and Mrs. w. H. Smith of Barnesyille,
and has been in Talbot county for some
months teaching school. Not even her
parents knew anything OF it until the GER
emory had been performed. Miss Smlth
Is quite popular young lady, and from
what is known of Mr.. Couch it is believed
that the union will prove to be happy
one
Sport" a shepherd dog, belonging to
Mrs K, G. Huntington of Atlanta, disap-
peared from the home of his m.stress
about the middle of last January. About
Week ago he was drawn out of an Old
dry vol which is under the house OF
nearby neighbor "Sport" was in as good
IL not better health, when he left his
rn0erground home than when he quit the
residence of his mistress. The dog had
neen in the well just three and bali
months When he was extricated from his
dlsmal home. and the moment that his
IeeJ struck the ground he sprang away
rom his liberetors and dashed for the
mouse Of his mistress. He fell in the
wei by accident, ana the first efforts to
s=t HIN out having failed food and water
wore let down 10 him regularly every day.
decree was handed down Tuesday
morning by Judge Newman in the United
S'a'cs Court in Atlanta In the famous
e"~' Of Boil against Mckee, wherein the
tVFs Of the former and the heirs Of the
.d,''f have been unable 60 agree over the
u'Ie 10 ll7,0CI acres of land in various sec
mons Of the state. a consent decree was
,He result of the litigation which has
peeh going through various routes in the
Cuted States Court for about eight