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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. * 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. * * * 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 uHX ,'”*-'.” 1 Th '“'VP* ‘ 1Ui,C «> ° v ear. 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.” —— permanent Receivers of the K. & D. Ktchmond, lues ay^■ *** ,, on tar ea rg i SxS 3 <£f 'railroad Rich ' Danville permanent. H ” dck “ ,tr “ J 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. 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