The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-28
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

ncath CIaim-Municipnl Election
at CarrOIItOn-FIrst Shipment OF
Florida OrangcS--LOwcF Florida
Coast strcwn with stranded Boats.
Industrial Notes.
GEORGIA.
The Cordele Sentinel wants a board Of
trade at Cordee.
There are sixty women in the Georgia
penitentiary and only one IS white.
There will be an effort made by the Ia
dies of Americus to establish a chapter
of the Daughters OF the Confederacy in
that city.
The prospects are that Rome will have
a larger trade this fail than in several
years. The busy season has already open
ed up briskly.
The Athens Banner says that in the
ninety-seven years of its useful life, the
State University has never been closed on
account of sickness or epidemic.
Capt. John II. Reece, representative
from Floyd county TO the legislature, is
heartily in favor of admitting girls to the
State University. He has already eX-
pressed himself OH this line very strongly.
The State Normal School has representa-
tives from practically every county in
Georgia. It has 4 few students from adj
Joining states, who intend teaching in
Georgia But its latest arrival is a young
gentleman who halls from Bristol, Eng
land.
The Fifth Regiment armOry and audito-
rum will soon be a reality. The plans
have been drawn and accepted by the Of
fieers of the regiment and the erection will
begin at once. 1t will give to Atlanta the
handsomest building of its kind in the
south.
In a heated primary election at Carroll
ton Saturday to nominate municipal Of
f1cers. the following were nominated: Capt.
w. A. Coleman for mayor; councilmen, j.
P. Little, G. a. Hogan, w. u. Johnson,
II. C. Bledsoe. There was large vote
polled.
With the exception of st. Johns Epis-
copal church in Savannah, Macon's First
BAPTIST church now has the finest organ
in the state, according to Mr. Josef Bru-
ner, who has just completed the work of
returning, rebuilding and generally re-
pairing the instrument.
Rome Tribune: The great need of a re-
formatory for Juvenile criminals in set
ting Georgias portentious problem Is
shown from the fact that there are 2S4
bovs under II years of age in our peniten-
tiary. Is it not a crying shame to Geor-
gia that they worked with hardened GRIM
inals?
The Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company
has declined to haul trunks to and from
West End for the charge of % cents re-
Gently fixed by the general council by or
dinance. The company insists that the
amount is insufficient for the movement
of a trunk that distance, and there is now
a war on between the company and the
city.
The Georgia Library Club will meet in
Macon on Oct % to 20. This will be the
first annual meeting of this organization
as ii was formed last May. 1t has grown
rapidly and brought into it every Librarian
in the state The movement was started
by Miss Annie Wallace, of the Atlanta Ii
brary, and as president she has pushed it
to a very successful end.
Henry Berry, colored, went to Judge ].
NJ. Leonard OF Columbus en-
Saturday and told him that
for a consideration he would tell him
the name of the negro who robbed his
daughter, Miss Eta Lennard, recently.
against him for accessory after the fact,
and Berry now occupies cell
Americas Herald: There is a lot of stuff
in the papers to the effect that the South
ern has obtained control of the Central
railroad for the purpose of wrecking it.
Some believe II and some do not, the Her
aid being among the latter. If such should
turn out to be the case there is no telling
of the disaster that would befall many of
the people in this section of the state
Mrs. Callie Shamos of East Macon swal-
lowed an ounce of laudanum Saturday
morning. She wanted to die. Life was a
burden for her, and being poverty-stricken
and respondent she decided to give up the
struggle. She is q years old and has two
children Her husband left her a few
years ago, and since that time she has not
been the happiest of mortals. But her eff
fort was a failure.
A simple little order issued by Judge
Newman in the United States court at
Atlanta on Saturday ended the long and
sensational litigation involving Jack King.
of Rome, and the Rome Electric Light
Company. The first litigation was broNght
by the American Security Company VS..
Rome Electric Light Company and Jack
King. The case has been in the courts
Tor long time. NOW the special commits
sioner has sold the electric light plant,
and Special Master Walter T. Colquitt has
filed his report Judge Newman yesterday
passed the order terminating the long lit
igation and dismissing the case from the
courts.
The Georgia Railroad Company has set
tied the claim of D. D. Colley of New Or
leans against themselves for the death of
his wife. about two months ago. The
amount paid was $4,000. being a compro-
mise. Mrs. Colley had been to Augusta,
and was returning to Washington, her
former home, and when about two miles
from Little river, was killed by an iron
pipe falling from the top of a freight car
just in front of the passenger car, and
coming through the window, striking her
An the head. Mrs. Colley was a bride of
less than year, and as Miss Daisy Cade,
she was greatly beloved by all who knew
her. This was the first passenger ever
killed by the Georgia railroad.
FLORIDA.
Monticello has received 1000 bales of
cotton this season.
Tampas factories are buster now than