The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-21
m GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Eruit All Right in Houston and Ma
con COunties-MOvement on Foot
TO Organize Home Guard ut Ma
con-PearI Munning's AcquittaI of
Murder Followed by His Discharge
From the Army.
GEORGIA.
Three brick stores are now in course of
erection at Ashbum, with two others to be
built al once
While Frank Meetings. wife was pre-
,aring dinner at Poplar last Saturday, her
c.othing caught fire and she was fatally
burned
The state council of Royal Arcanum
cFe of the strongest fraternal insurance
organizations in America, will meet for
the first time in Atlanta on May 4 and s.
Fruit trees at Claxton. to all appearance,
seem to show a bountiful crop to come
Peaches are overloaded, as well as pears,
and if no unforeseen hindrances appear
the crop will not be a failure
mad dog did much damage at Poplar
last Saturday, biting Allen McWalker,
lacerating a negro boys hand, killing a
flock of geese, biting a dozen goats, a
number of hogs and other animals in his
path.
The right leg of R. L. Surtees, the ex-
press agent at Cox. VINO made several at
tempts to end his life on account of a
shortage found in checking up his books,
was amputated Monday by Drs. j. B.
Clarke and ]. D. Herman. While the pa
tient is in a very critical condition, slight
hopes of his recovery are entertained.
The corn crop around Claxton looks en-
couraging, considering the late frosts and
long dry spell, though damage has been
done to other crops. Fields upon fields of
corn, doing nicely, are met with, and it
seems a 8 if cotton is somewhat laid aside.
The majority of the farmers are waiting
to hear the decision as to the war question
before planting cotton.
There is a movement on foot at Macon
to organize company of volunteers who
will take the place of the regular militia
of the city when they may be called out.
1t is pointed out that such an organiza-
ton will be a necessity and that there are
enough members of the military companies
whose enlistments have expired TO make
more than one company.
Joe O'Brien opened public bar at Bar
nett, Warren county, Saturday evening
Warren county Is a dry county, and has
been for the past thirteen years, and this
bold act has aroused the Indignation OF
the prohibitionists of the county to such
a point that all other issues and sensations
are lost sight of. This was one of tho
first counties in the state TO go dry, and
the Prohibitionists pride themselves on
that fact and are determined TO keep the
county dry.
Maconites who have recently visited the
fruit belt in Houston and Macon counties
report that the outlook for big crop was
never brighter than this year, and the
trees are said to be loaded as full as they
can stand with young fruit. The growers
themselves say that the fruit will now
have to encounter but one danger, and
that is from insects. They think, however,
that this is a very slight possibility and
that Georgia win send more fine fruit to
the markets this year than ever before.
Despite his acquittal by the jury in Full
ton Superior Court, Pearl Manning has
been discharged from the army without
honor Manning is the soldier who was
charged with the murder of Private
Charles Noble, who was shot from ambush
as he walked along the ebert road from
the post toward Atlanta on the night OF
Jan. IS. He died the next morning. Man
ming was twice placed on trial for the
crime. The first time there was mistrial
The second trial, which took place last
week, resulted in an acquittal.s Manning
thinks he was discharged because Lieut.
Carnahan of his company, believes he is
guilty of murder
Theodore Roosevelt, the assistant secre-
tary of the navy who has applied for
place on the staff of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, is
the son of a Georgia woman. His mother
was Miss Mittie Bulloch of Roswell, Cobb
county. She was member of the distin-
guished family of that name. Her father
Was one of the leading men of his day
One of her brothers was Capt. James Bull
loch of the Confederate navy, and another
vas Erwin Bulloch, who was rescued from
the Alabama, as she was sinking, by the
Deerhound. Erwin Bulloch, is still alive,
and now resides in Liverpool The Bulloch
family removed from Roswell to Philadel-
ph.a about the year 1856.