The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-27
IN GEORGIA AND. FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

An Estimate on FIorida's Orange
crop - Ex-Treasurer of Brevard
County Indicted for EmbezzIement
of S1O,GO0-Train Wreck Near Dun
ueIIon-Barn Burned Near Mnssa-
cre-NegrO Fatally wounded Near
Belmont.
GEORGIA.
Milledgeville's election for mayor and
aldermen will be held Wednesday, Dec
1. The candidates for mayor are ]. A.
Home and C. w. Ennis.
The large two-story barn of Capt. L;
Lytle who lives at Lytle's Spring, Floyd
county. was destroyed by fire early
Wednesday morning. The loss is 1850
and the insurance sou.
Col. Henry P. Farrow will be the next
postmaster of Gainesville. The republican
bosses OF the state have agreed on him for
the position, and his name viii be sent
10 the Senate as soon as congress meets.
Eight miles south of Rome, Wednesday
night. two negro railroad section hands
named Mack Miller and Tom Mullen, came
20 blows and Miller inflicted a mortal
blow upon Mullen's heart Miller made
his escape. The instrument used by the
murderer was a shovel
After carefully summing up the situa-
ton Commissioner Nesbitt has decided
that the farmers of the south must vary
from the rule of old and change their plans
OF farming, so far as the cotton crop is
concerned. Commissioner Nesbitt says the
farmers cannot raise large quantities of
cotton AT cents and expect to pay the
expenses OF the farm alone from the sale
of the cotton crop. He tells the farmers
they must ploW deeper and depend more
upon natures bountiful hand and buy
less fertilizers, Instead OF deVoung all
their acres to cotton, they should sow
other crops which will sustain the stock
as well as bring in ready. cash in the
market. He warns the farmers of the
south of the evil results of a burdensome
cotton crop and advises them to plant
feJ sr acres in cotton and TO plant more
corn, peas and similar rotating crops.
The call for the appointment of a state
entomologist has brought TO light start
ling situation in the Georgia fruit belts
1t is shown that Georgia is threatened
with disease among the deciduouS fruit
trees, which, if allowed to continue, will
he fearful and disastrous in results. The
AGRICULTURAL committee of the House has
recommended the passage of a bill APP
pointing state entOmoogist. Another bill
on theTSame subject provides that no fruit
trees shall be brought into the state with
out first undergoing rigid inspection.
Two years ago few orchardiSts in Geor-
sia ever heard of the San Jose scale. No
one could have told it from other scales.
During the last year 1t has scattered, how
ton is. very serious. The San Jose scale
comes from California. 1t is said to have
existed in the San Jose valley as early as
1870. IT is believed that nearly half the
counties in Georgia have been invaded
now,
Tuesday w. l.. Roach, Albert Quinn and
several others were engaged in selling
blockade whisky from a wagon on road
about half mile from Calhoun, in
Gordon county. Two or three negroes
We're standing around buying the liquor.
w. l.. Roach was standing at the side
of the wagon in the act of picking up
a corn cob to make q stopper for jug
when United States Deputy Marshal John
: ". Crawford ran up with pistol in hand
Just before reaching the crowd he STUN
bled. The weapon was discharged and
struck one of the negroes in the side. The
negro fell. The marshal Immediately seiz-
ed the wagon and its contents, arrested
Roach and drove to Calhoun. The next
morning he took his prisoner TO Dalton
The prisoner was committed to Fulton
county Jail, On the same night that the
shooting occurred the wounded negro died
Accordingly the sheriff of Whitfield went
TO Dalton and arrested Crawford on the
charge or murder, il having been stated
by some of those present at the time the
negro was shot that the shooting was not
an accident.