The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Petition to Remove the Normal
school From Athens-The Divinc
Healer Gives Americas the slip.
some New Laws PrOpOsed-Thc
Florida state Juvenile Rcforaia-
tory-Hogs That Had Cholera Be
inG sold in Tampa.
GEORGIA.
Mr.. D. II. Ledbetter has about compiet-
ed the construction Of his telephone line
from Cordele to Americas.
The Chattahoochee. between Columbus
and Eufaula has been abandoned, as far
as the steamboats, are concerned on &C
count OF low water.
The town OF Baxley will have new
populist paper, started by Mr.. NJ. q. Ii
son. the first issue Of which he hopes to
have out in two weeks.
Douglas Breeze: Coffee was one of the
first counties in South Georgia to estab-
lish pauper farm. and we find it pays.
Every county should have one.
The State Horse Swappers convention is
now in session in Covington. SwapDers
from all over the state are in attendance.
Ii is expected that there will be over 2,V9J
swappers there.
Augusta Lancet: Lyons Is a negro and
is regarded as a Moses by the members
of his race. He would be lots more popu-
lar if he was not quite so bright, bat his
color is overlooked in the desire Of the ne
groes to see their race recognized by the
administration.
Walton News: AS a result of the notice
published in the News ten Walton county
families applied for work at the Monroe
cotton mills and were engaged The fac
tory needs thirty more families, The
houses will be ready for them this week
and next, and the night force will soon
be put on. only a part of the looms being
run at night. until all the families are
housed and the new hands instructed in
the work.
NJ. L. M, in Americas Times Recorder:
To look over the wiregrass section one
cannot but be impressed with the growing
value of those splendid lands. The town
of Stillmore has cause to blow, for its
magic growth reads like the tale of an
eastern fortune teller. few years ago
Mr. Brinson purchased 5000 acres Of land
in the heart of the pine belt of Emanuel
county, twenty miles out in space and set
about to develop that country. This is now
the tract upon which the town of Still
more is built.
Brunswick Times: The Savannah News
reviews at some length the pamphlet of
DR.. r. H. johnson, colored, of this city,
on THE Physical Degeueracy of the Ne
gro" DR.. Johnson has come 10 the con-
clusion that amalgamaton has made the
colored race of to-day inferior TO that of
the time of slavery and seems to think
that the infusion of Caucasian blood tends
to make the colored man a rogue and
scoundrel. AS DR.. Johnson is himself a
muiatto. his candor is no less remarkable
than his logic.
Judge George c. Thomas, Clarke coun-
tvs representative in the legislature. will
at the session of that body next month in
troduce a number of important bills.
Among them a bill to admit women to the
University of Georgia; bill to consolidate
the higher educational institutions Of the
state at Athens; a bill 10 change the way
of selecting jury commissioners; a bill call
ing upon the state to bury all confederate
veterans at a cost of not less than $50,
where it appears that their relatives are
not able to afford them burial; bill on the
police question.
The diyine healer who was put to work
on Americas streets, has disappeared,
leaving an uncanny feeling in the atmos-
phere behind him. He was put to work by
street overseer Mayo early Saturday
morning and worked like an experienced
man until about o'clock Saturday after
noon. when he suddenly disappeared, as
quickly and mysteriously as if the earth
had opened and swallowed him up The
divine and supernatural man left no trace
of where he was going, and nothing to re
member him by, except the unserVed SEN
tence and an old worn out grip at police
headquarters.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The appoint
ment of Col. Garrett as postmaster to sue
coed Capt. Redd at Columbus is decid-
ed victory for that faction of the Georgia
republicans known as the lilly whites"
1t is generally conceded that the race be-
tween Col. Garrett and Mr.. Clemence was
very close one and that Mr.. Hanson was
the Brennus who threw his sword into the
Garrett side of the balance and won the
prize. 1t is well known that Mr.. Hanson
is the leader of the lilly whites in Geor-
gia, and as the black forces had refused
to indorse Col Garrett his appointment
by Mr.. Mckinley makes it a decided vic
tory for Mr.. Hansons side.
The Athens Banner reporter was in
. formed yesterday on reliable au-
thority that a petition was being
circulated among the teachers at
the state normal school, addressed to
the general assembly and asking the re-
moval of the school from Athens. The com
plant brought forward in the petition is
that the people of Athens do not treat the
teachers at the normal school with due
consideration, and that they refer to them
IN anything but a pleasant manner. Il is
also complained of that the people refer in
sighting manner to the buildings, say
ing that they look like factory buildings
and that the teachers look like factory
operatives. Complaint is also made that
people here say the teachers at the normal
school do not get enough to eat.
FLORIDA.
It is rumored that a new morning daily
paper is TO soon be issued at Orlando.
The city authorities of Tan1na will mr.