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GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Msrest Gattei at Mom
from AG Over tie State.
Only four men who were in business at
Athens before the war are in business
there now.
A temporary receiver . has , . been ap
poicte f for the Clayton .Motor Compan_,
at Atlanta.
There are sixteen hundred lunadcs in
the Ge rgia lunatic a-yium, six hundred
of whom are negr es.
A city court having been recommended
for Jackson county by the gri nd jury,
Governor Northen has app inted W. W.
ntark judge, to serve until the genera
assembly can fill the office by election.
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At a recent meeting of ihe confeder
ate veterans in Atlanta a c> mmittee was
ap: minted to prepare an address to the
people of ti e s ate on the Confederate
Veterans' Home. General Evans wa
made chm rman of the committee.
Governor Northen has authorized the
secretary of state to offer a reward of
$259 for the arrest and delivery of Julius
Spikes to the sheriff of Terrell countv
Spikes murdered J. L. Huff on August
6tb, in Terrell county, an 1 tied.
Joshua L. Braswell, who, with Hort-m
anu Thornton, robbed a Southern Ex¬
press car near Collier’s station, on the
Central railroad, a year ago, made app !;
cation some time ago fora pardon. A te
looking into the matter, a day or wo
ago, Governor Northen refused to gunt
Braswell a pardon.
The Griffin manufacturing Company is
about to change its mill to all colored
goods. It is now operating 5,000 spin
dies and 170 looms in the manufacture
of stripes, plaids, ticking, sheeting and
shirting. A recent addition to this fac
tory is a one-s ory brick dye house 40x100
feet, fitted up with new and improve d
machinery for adopting the long chain
system of dyeing.
Within tire next fortnight the Macon,
Dublin and Savannah will begin work on
the extension between Dublin and Savan¬
nah, and it will be pushed rapidly to com
pletion. Those who are f«miliar with
the geography of the country between
Macon and Savannah, which is rich and
populous, will understand the signifi
canoe of the completion of the connect¬
ing link between Dublin and Savannah.
The Augusta Herald says: We hope
that the people of south and southwest
Georgia will not overdo too quickly the
planting of fruit trees. The success of
the south and southwi st Georgia orchards
was largely due this year to a fail tire of
the eastern fruit crop, and a partial fail¬
ure in California. Besides, this was a
year of superabun lance at the south.
Next year may not be so propitious, and
then discouragement will come, 'lire
Maryland peach growers pushed their
planting too far, and one bad season de
inolished many of them. At the same
time, fruit culture is better than bumble¬
bee cotton.
The farmers of Georgia . can buy Ap
•pi r oa>8 from the experimental station -
at the rate of 80 cents a bushel, f. o. b.,
in quantities not exceeding five bushels
to a man. It is stated that the officers
of the station . ready to supply' the de
are
man (Is of the farmers, and ask th at letteri
be addressed to the Georgia Txperiment
8-tatsoo, Experiment, Ga. The Appier
oat* have been grown at the experiment
star..on .or thr e years, and have proven
to he a profitable and excellent rust-pro <f
vsr.e _• Farmers desiring to have their >
or •‘-■rs .. d wid write immediately.
An Sir-Line to IlulatU.
C James II. Fannin, of La
Gran. - has good reason to feel happy.
II is Br i ns wick, LaGrange and North- ;
western railroad, for which he obtained
a charter last year, now stands a fine
cbance of being pushed through at an
early day. This line will be run from
Brunswick via or near LaGrange to the
Alabama state line, and from thence to
Sheffield, where its connection will make ,
an air-'inc r ute from Dublin to the sea,
shorter than the route from the west to
tlie sea by some 200 miles. The charter
provides for making a Brunswick contract with Eu- a
line of steamers from to
rope. In a word, this railroad will
make diiect trade worked a permanent thing,
Colonel Fannin has indefatigabiy
for it. and has interested New York cap
italists in it who are anxious to push it.
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The oldest woman in Georgia, Aunt
Pe.’gy Slater, colored, died a few davs
ago at the poorhouse near Thomasville.
All of Aunt Peggy’s acquaintances, her
old master and she herself before hei
death, say that her age was one hundred
aud twenty-five. Au-t Peggy did not
date events Horn the civil war, as many
do, but from the revolution. She was a
grown woman then, and in life nothing
delighted her moje than to relate runi
niscences of those stirring da\s. t?h
was a great weather prophet. The many
seasons thut she had experienced lmd left
her wise in signs, and she could font
the indications for cold, rain, storm,
etc., with r.markable nccuracv The
negroes looked upon her as a great
der. Aunt Peggy had < utlived all h<i
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Sora° Pardons.
William Wood", coop cted of burglars
at the October term, 1883, of the Gi mer j
c unty superior court nod sentenced t
the penitentiary for fifteen years was
pardoned a few days ago by Cover or
Northen. U oods had served n:ne years,
his conduct has been good and the jur rs
who convict d him rec mmended his
pardon. Neal Taylor, convicted of man¬
slaughter at the il rehierm, 18SS of the
Washington Taylor superior couit, was pardo
ed. is weak-min led and was prn
vok ed into commuting the act. E i Mont
gomery^ convicted of arson in Wilke
superior court 1876, for and sentenced pardoned. to
the penitentiary life, was
He was young, was influenced by older
men and the building was only partly
damaged. Clemency was urged by the
court officials and leading citizens. Mack
Pullen sentenced to the chaingang of
Chatham county in 1891 for three years,
bad his term commuted to two years, at
th e expiration of winch time he will be
released. Commutation was urged by
prominent county officials familiar with
the case, Gus AndersoD, a twelve—year
old boy, of Stewart county convicted of
stabbing, was pardoned. He was sen
fenced.to four months and has served
half his time.
Weather and Crops.
The Georgia weather bureau in its
ditions weekly reports says: The weather con¬
of the p iSt week have been some¬
what diversified. In the northern coun¬
ties of the state hot, dry weather has
prevailed with more than the usual
amount of sunshine. In a few localities
there have been light sho wers but they
were, as a rule, very poorly distributed
and insufficient in amount. The effect
of these conditions on crops has been
ar from encouraging. Cotron is partic¬
ularly in need of rain. There are nu¬
merous complaints of shedding and
< ear.y all reporters agree that it will be
very short. That portion of the crop on
gray lands has sustained more damage
than any other. There it is turning
j yellow and shedding very badly. The
corn crop, which, up to the present time,
has been uniformly report, d as in excel
j lent condition, is also suffering for the
j want of moisture and in some places it
will be rather short. Early corn is in
much better condition than the late crop,
Fruit is plentiful but in some sections it
s of inferior quality and there are many
complaints of rotting and dropping.
Peas, potatoes, turnips and other small
crops are in good condition.
In the middle portion of the state a
more favorable state of affairs exists.
There has been more rainfall and this,
with an average amount of heat aud sun¬
shine, has proved highly beneficial to all
crops.
Cotton in the western counties is gen¬
erally in good condition, being much
l etter on red than gray land*, but in the
central and eastern sections the early crop
has stopped growing and rust and shed
ding seem to be quite general. In the
west section it is opening rapidly and
picking will probably commence during
ihe coming week. In many portions of
the central and eastern sections picking
is already in progress. Throughout this
entire belt corn is in fine condition and
fodder puiliDg is almost over. In some
portions of the eastern counties corn
j is firing, but the larger portion of
the crop is far above the average. Dur¬
ing the present season there has been a
large increase in the corn acreage, and
from its flourishing condition it would
seem that an enormous crop will be
thrown upon the market. Fruit, which
| 18S | Jeen 80 p] e ntiful in the western and
central sections, is about gone. Pota
toe8 lieaS) r i ce an d all small crops are
doing'well
Reporters in the southwest section are
on ]y ones who complain of excessive
rainfalls. Here the weather of the past
week proved very injurious to cotton,
was generally favorable to all
other crops with, perhaps, the exception
0 f tobacco. In many places excessive
ra i ns fell, which, when followed by hot
sunshine, caused cotton to shed greatly,
j n other southern count es the rainfail
and temperature have been about the
average except in a few places where
there has been too much rain for cotton.
Cotton in the southwest is opening rap
idly and picking has become general,
Complaints of rust are very numerous
this week. It is c iudng a premature open
ing of the bolls and killing the plant,
The entire cotton crop will be very short
in this section and some correspondents
state that it will not average more than
50 per cent of the usual yield. The crop
will also be short in the other sections of
the southern tier of counties but the pros
pects in the southern and southeast! rn
sections are more encouraging, although
there is considerable shedding. Fodder
pulling is about over and a fine crop has
been saved, and corn, though somewhat
injured by the unfavorable condition of
the last few weeks, will still make an
average crop. Tobacco cutting still con
tinues and with a few exeptions the crop
shoW9 * Iair average. Potatoes, field and
ground peas and all the soiad crops are in
fine condition.
■ England on Onr Labor Troubles.
r lhe London Post says: “It is impos
sible to read accounts of the labor trou
hies in America without feeling the
gravity of the crisis through which the
I grrat American republic is passing. The
moral should be laid to heart in England,
where unionism seems to be disposed to
go to extreme lengths, if a favorable op
uortunity presents i self.”
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SELECT SIFTING 1.
Thomas Jefferson was our first Secre
tary of State,
A New York firm is manufacturing
self-winding clock?.
The American people spend $42,000,
000 a year for letter postage.
Owing to the great power possessed by
the oyster a force equal to 1319 times
the weight of its shelless body is required
to open it.
It is stated that among every 1000
bachelors there are thirty-eight criminals;
among married men the ratio is only
eighteen per 1000.
It is not quite true, a3 has been stated,
that 25,000 natives in Alaska are threat¬
ened with starvation owing to the de¬
struction of the salmon.
The poniard of the celebrated brigand,
Fra Diavoio, is among the possessions of
the museum of Nancy, to which it was
presented by General Hugo, the captor
of the robber.
A discharged apprentice in Vienna,
Austria, revenged himself the other day
by sneaking into his employer's cellar,
pulling the bungs out of all the barrels,
and allowing $12,009 worth of wine to
escape.
In order to keep sea porgies through
the summer, the fishermen of Rhode
Island have nets so arranged that the
passing schools are led up into salt water
ponds and the channels connecting with
the ocean are closed.
A young couple while traveling on a
train near Jessup, Ga., suddenly decided
to get married. A minister was found
on the train, who performed the cere¬
mony while the tram was going at the
rate of forty miles an hour.
Opium is the dried juice of the poppy,
and the flower gets its reputation for
putting people to sleep because it con¬
tains so much of this narcotic A story
comes from Turkey that people stopping
to rest near the large poppy fields taere
are often overcome by initialing the
drug.
An Egyptian scythe, dug up on the
banks of the Nile in 1890, and said to
be as old as Mose3, is exhibited among
the antiquities in the private museum of
Flinders Petrie, London. Tne shaft of
the instrument i3 of wood set with a row
of fine flint saws, which are securely
cemented in a groove.
The King of Wurtemberg has caused
to be paid from the privy purse the sum
of 1000 marks to a banker named John
Eatress, who was convicted and sen¬
tenced at Rottweil to four years' impris¬
onment on the charge of highway rob¬
bery and had served nine months whec '
his innocence came to light and he was
released.
The invention of making paper from
linen rags has been brought home to
Suabia, and it was first put into practice
by the old Holbein family of Raveas
burg. The oldest document of this kind
of paper is dated A. D. 1301. Now, as
the Holbein arms box’e a bull's head, we
find this symbol imprinted as a water¬
mark in all the paper from the old Ra«
vensburg mill.
A Great Map.
The United States Geological Survey ’
has been for ten years engaged in making ,5
a great . mapot {.l.tt the United -i jo, btates, i parts 01
which will he on exhibition at the World’s
Fair. The piece, six feet in length and
four feet in width, now ready, includes
the State of Connecticut and a bit of
Long Island and Eastern New York.
This vast map will take at least twenty
five more years to complete. Its detail
is such that upon it wilt be indicated
every stream, brook, hillock, mountain,
valley, farm, village and city. It will
show every public and private road as
completely as a surveyor’s map of a small
township. This map, when completed,
would, if spread out, cover a little over
three-quarters of an acre in superficial
area. Of course it would be impossible
to suspend such a map as to make it
available for practical use, aud therefore
it will have to be published in sections.
In addition to this piece of the map of
the United States, the geological survey
is preparing an outline map of the coun¬
try, which will also' be exhibited at the i
World’s Fair. It is to be spherical in
3hape. By it at a glance the different
elevations, the tablelands, the mountain
ridges, and the valleys will be indicated
in outline, the highest peaks of the
mountains being proportionately elevated
as much above the sea level as are the
peaks of the Rocky Mountains above the
Atlantic and Pacific coast lines.—New
Orleans Picayune.
Queer Pair of Calves.
Joshua Patty has a curiosity out at
his farm on Cane Creek, ten miles west
of town, says the Poplar Bluff (Mo.)
Citizen. It is a pair of twin calves
which are slightly on the Siamese twins
order. They are not handsome, but they
are a little out of the usual line of bossy
calves. From the brisket down half the
length of their bodies the calves are one,
their entire breasts being united solidly,
the two bodies forming one well-rounded
trunk. In order to travel they will have
to stand on their hind legs and hitch
along sideways as each will be in the
other’s way to move forward. If they
can balance nicely on their hind legs one
might bac.c up while the other move3
forward. The animals are very well
raatcne( l, are perfectly developed in
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