The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-19


mans official description: About five
feet six inches high; black hair and
mustache (unless recently shaved),
dark, sallow complexion, gold-f1lled
front teeth. weighs about 100 pounds,
dark brown eyes, Scotch descent and
brogue, about 40 years of age, claims
TO be an evangelist.
A WHITE WOMAN ASSAULTED.
Andrew j. Barnett, a constable from
the lower end of Whitfield county, has
placed behind the bars in Dalton Jail
Bill Collier, a negro, for assaulting
Mrs. Mcpherson, a delicate little white
woman living near Corbondale, on the
Southern Railway. Mr.. Mcpherson, the
husband, had gone across the country
TO SOW wheat, preparing to move for
the coming year and Friday morning
about o'clock Collier went to the Nc
Pherson home and assaulted the lady
and told her if she told it he would kill
her. Mrs. Mcpherson, as early as pos
sible, sought a magistrate and had a
warrant issued for the negro. He was
arrested on the public highway re-
turning from Dalton and kept out in
the woods until night by the officer
who then brought him to Dalton. The
friends of Mrs. Mcpherson threaten to
lynch Collier.
ROSY PREDICTIONS FOR CoRDELE.
Cordele News: The News predicts
that in less than ten years Cordele
will have between 10000 and 1900 pop
ulation. One or two splendid colleges.
the court house and county site, three
more railroads, one or two more banks.
free city mail delivery, a government
building. with branch of the federal
court, a City Court, two or three nice
parks, a wagon and buggy factory, a
cotton factory, another guano factory,
two new churches, a gas light plant,
one more telephone company, a city
hall, a new opera house, our business
streets will be paved two new hotels,
several wholesale dry goods houses, a
military company, a city library, well
organized Board of Trade, a book
store. soap factory. and many other
new enterprises too numerous to men,
ton. Cordele will be a second At
lanta. Watch our prediction.
Albany Herald: The solons who are
tinkering on the eapportionment bill
needn't think they can gerrymander
Jim Griggs out of the Second con-
gressional district. They may put him
out but they can't keep him out. One
of the plans proposed. we have been
told, is to put Terrell county in the
Third district and take Lee out of the
Third and put it in the Second. II
that is done, or if any. other change
IS made that will take Terrell county
out of the Second district Jim Griggs
may be disappointed and somewhat in
convenienced for a time, but it will not
put him out of business nor even
temporarily interrupt him politically.
Terrell may go out of the Second dis
trict, but Jim Griggs will stay in. AL
bany would be delighted to have him
for a citizen. The people of the Sec
ond district have never been better
satisfied with a congressman than they
are with their present representative,
and if he is fenced out by the redis-
tricting plan that is finally adopted by
the Legislature all that he will have
to do to continue to represent the dis
trict will be to change his residence.
FRUIT TREE ACREAGE INCREASED.
Atlanta Journal: The present year
has been the greatest in the planting
of fruit trees that Georgia has ever
known. More than 100000 trees have
been planted, or 10000 acres have been
planted, or 10000 acres have been COW
cred with fruit trees during the past
year. The greater amount of these have
been peach trees and almost the sole
variety used is the Elberta. In South
Georgia some plum trees have been
planted and in North Georgia few
apple trees have been set out, but the
quantities of these is small when COM
pared to the great number of peach
trees which have been placed in the
ground. One matter from business
standpoint which has not been taken
into consideration, it is said, by the
fruit growers of the state, is that they
have not been sufficiently mindful of
the varieties necessary to keep the
market supplied throughout a season.
In case of the liberia peaches they
come upon the market all over the state
at almost the same time. and will
have a tendency to flood the market,
while at other times there will be a
scarcity of the product.