The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-02
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA

there, are actively engaged in placing
NOES and wires throughout the city The
enterprise is gotten up by a substantial
stock company.
The Finance Committee of the Augusta
City Council met and destroyed eleven
Ncl bonds of the issue of Nov. |, 1876
The committee gave an order for the re-
demption of a 81 treasury note issued by
the city during the DAYS of the Confed-
eracy.
Marietta Journal: Judge George F.
Goh-r has just received 5000 peach trees
Inc FCarmen," from Huntsville, Ala
nursery, which ne will set out in his or
eaari at Blackweirs. The peaches ripen
two weeks earlier than the alberta and
are excellent variety He has also re-
ceivod 500 cherry trees, which he will plant
Out,
Chief Lowry of the Atlanta sanitary de
par.ment on Tuesday, condemned more
than thousand pounds of pork which he
found being offered for sale in the city
and which he declares was affected with
cholera. Eight carcasses and several
pieces were taken from one market. and
two carcasses and a few extra pieces We're
seized at another.
The Oglethorpe Echo is earnestly ad-
vocating the erection of a cotton mill in
Lexington. Editor Shackeford says: IF
oar people had plenty of ready money with
which 10 build a cotton mill they would
not need the mill. But we haven't got it
and we want the mill to enable us to get
IT, This is no hard enigma to solve The
employment of pluck and determine ton
win do it,
Il has been rumored around the Atlanta
FOIL fo,
Gov Northen was about to announce his
candidacy for the office of Mayor of At
lauta This would have been interesting
news if true but Mr. Northen said that
the rumor was without foundation; that
be has no such idea and does not expect
TO have. He stated in answer to ques-
lion that he had been approached by a
number of his friends who expressed a de
sire for him to enter the race. The same
answer was given to all of them; that he
was not a candidate and would not be-
il appears that neither Judge Fite nor
SoI7itor General Sam P. Maddox, of the
Cherokee circuit, will have any opposition
for succession. Judge Fife was promoted
Ia he judgeshiP from the soHcitorship
four years ago, and Mr.. Maddox succeed
ei him as solicitor Both of them are
serving first terms, and IL has for many
years been an unWritten law in that cir
cult that judges and solicitors shall be
accorded a second term if the duties Of
taeir first have been satisfactorily dis
charged. With this las a basis neither of
these officials viii have opposition, for
II is said, in no circuit of the state have
zee fairs of the courts been more salts
taclorty discharged them in the Cherokee
circuit
The question to whether or not the
division of the profits OF the Athens dis
peusary between the city of Athens and
the cconty of Clarke as is proposed by the
ordinary as equitab bic will be tried before
jury at the next session of Clarke Su-
ferior Court. The pan adopted hereto
fore by the ordinary and Mayor Of Athens
has been in the proportion of SIS to the
city and l-6 to the county. The County
Commissioners con end that the county
saou.d get a larger proportion of the
profits On this point the profits for two
Years amounting to over $50 900 are now
a9.d mp in the city treasury awaiting the
final decision in the case. A question of
equity and fact having been raised, Judge
Russell VIII send the case to jury for
settlement
narien News: While looking through the
records at the Court House a few days ago
News reporter came across a sentence
that will seem peculiar to those who do
nol remember the time when the lash
WAS applied to the bare backs of Offend
ing cuprfs. 1t was passed upon one Ben
SUI by Judge G. Parks of the County
Court in 1856, and is as follows: where
u.on it is considered and adjudsed by The
court that the defendant, Ben Still, be
conveyed back to the county jail that the
sheriff take him TO some proper pace and
eNe him thirty-niue stripes on his bare
Back, and then he pay all cost of suit;
and in the default of payment of said cost
ia3i he he imprisoned for the space OF
thirty days, said defendant to remain in
lae custody of the sheriff until the pay
mon of said cost"
Athens Banner: Judge Russell has prac-
deadly decided the Lucy Cobb tax case,
DIS mind being made up, although the act
uA decision mas not been returned to the
e.aiH OF the court as a matter of record.
J'4se Russell, after having given the mat
FER a borough study, such as the import
an Of the case called for, is satisfied that
Ll,N Cobb Institute is not subject to tax
under the law of this state. This case
"-e brought in Clarke Superior Court by
d'c TO make a test case of it, The case
W.. be carried on to the Supreme Court
an If that tribunal agrees with Judge
4SSeil then the case is at an end. Should
'no supreme Court reverse Judge Russell
ana declare Lucy Cobb Institute subject
'o lNaton, then Emory ana Mercer and
Other institutions of learning might be
o. AIRED subject also.