The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Newnan's New Cotton Factory Project
Sure to Materializ9-A New Lumber
Firm at Brunswick-A Profitable
Tobacco Crop That Was Raised in
Decatur Commissioning Pulsations
of the Earth in Decatur County.
GEORGIA
Griffin is to have a steam laundry.
n. B. Glover is in favor of esta fishing a
broom factury in Newman.
Hon. John z. Donalson's turpentine farm
in Decatur county embraces 1900 acres.
Zebulon, after forty years of seclusion is
at last enjoying the novelty of a railroad
The City Council of Athens has voted net
to impose a specific tax on the local mer-
chants.
The Mormon elders have returned to Ter
rell, after an absence of several weeks in
Florida.
The Graphic, the new paper just started
at Athens, printed very excellent first
number.
DIR. H. L. Johnston, of Palmetto, is being
urged by his friends to become a candidate
for the Legislature.
The members of the Protection Hose Reel
of Brunswick will probably join the Rife
Club of that city in body.
Up to date $50, roo has been subscribed
toward erecting a new cotton factory at
Newman. A mass-meeting will be held
Monday.
DR. L. B. Webb, who graduated from the
Southern Eclectic College in Atlanta a few
weeks ago, has located at Corinth for the
practice of his profession. He was the
valedictorian of his class.
Though numerous freezes have visited
Oglethorpe county within the past two
weeks, while fruit trees were in bloom,
Knowing ones say that the fruit has not az
yet been materially damaged.
T. j. Tinsley, of Morgan, has sold his
brick store and lot at Leary to J. E. Mer-
Ger. The price paid for the property was
$3.50. Mr. Mercer will rebuild and extend
the building now standing on the lot.
The Atlanta and West Point railroad,
against which a judgment of $4,000 was
rendered In favor o. NJ b. Frank in the
United States District Court three or four
weeks ago, has decided not to appeal the
case
Under the rotation plan it is Miller
county'S time to furnish the Senator from
the Eighth district. 1t is said that j. S
Clifton, of Twilight, and C. c. Bush, of
Colquitt, will pose as candidates for the
nomination
At Atlanta Friday, a well known and
prominent politician from eastern Georgia
said that Gen. Clement A. Evans, of Au-
cratic nomination for Governor of Georgia
this summer.
Harry Sargent, who left Newman for
Helena, Mont, a out two weeks ago, de-
cided to change his course after leaving
and finally pulled up in New Haven, Conn.
He has a situation with a large manufac-
turing firm of that city
At Leary, J. +. Mercer has bought the
old brick store formerly occupied by Dur
ham & Simmons, who was burned out about
three years ago, and will repair the old
walls and add 45 feet to the rear end
making it l25 feet long. He intends having
1t ready by August, and will move into it
when finished.
Camilla Clarion: Not mule in Mitchell
county will ever vote for the re-establish-
ment of thu ba' ,oms. Their on1ition has
improved wonderfully under prohibition.
No keeping them fasting all day in town on
Saturday, and no rushing them home latea at
night by drunken drivers to be turned into
the lot with the water trough dry and the
feed trough empty.
Compt1 oller Durham has decided that the
Governors of States can receive the $15, 900
due each State for agricultural college pnr-
poses without additional legislation. The
proper authorities will therefore prepare to
receive the appropriation for Georgia, and
the agricultural station at Athens will be
put into working order at once.
The serious prostration of his wife at the
sudden death of her mother kept Judge
Lumpkin by her bedside last week and ne
cessitated postpOnement of Ebert county
court, which would otherwise have been in
session. The fifth Monday in April is the
day set for the adjourned session. Mrs.
Lumpkin is improving so that the Judge
will resume his riding this week at Hart
Camilla Clarion: The Superior Court
will be held in the Hotel Georgia next week
This * q visa "a for.
will look but moment will see that our old
court house is unsafe. especially with a
crowd on the upper floor. Our County
Commissioners should be sustained by the
people in their efforts to build a house for
the county's business. The county is almost
out of doors.
The members of the Georgia Weekly
Press Association will adopt new scheme
TO get even with mean men who swindle
them. Their plan is this: When member
Is badly treated, he reports it to all the
other members and they proceed to publish
to the wo Id that Bill Jones, of Swindle-
town, has not paid up There are ITO
weekly papers in Georgia, and by the time
they all get through with him he will not
be apt to beat another printer out of his
hard earnings.
At Albany Thursday, Sam Epps a worth
less negro vagabond, II years Of age had a
fight with l3-year-old colored girl. Both
uTeW JnelT knives ana commenced carving
each other. The girl was severely cut in
the knee. The girls mother refu ell to
make case against him, but wanted him
thrashed, to which he agreed. A negro ad-
ministered seventy-fve lashes on his bare
back. and he was ordered by the city officers
to leave town.
Crawfordville Democrat: Mr.. H. T.
Hammack one of our oldest citizens, saws
that in the year 1928, when the corner stone
of our present court house was laid that
there were four dollars in money and four
bottles Of fine wine placed therein This
sacred deposit is resting in the northeastern
corner: When our grand jury recommends
the building Of a new house there will DO
found some good, old pure wine like that
our forefathers used to drink.
The lumber firm of William T. CONQUEST
q Sons, whose headquarters are at Pnila-
dephia, have branch houses at Richmond,
Roanoke and Brunswick The latter hav-
ing just been established, the new firm
will operate in Georgia in lumber of all
kinds. So far they are manufacturing only
crossties, and they have purchased the
timber from large tract near Nahunta
and have some hundred or more hands at
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