The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
GEORGIA.

A sncrial to the Morning News from
,ouisville says: The oat crop is needing
-ofr badly. Corn and cotton are doing
/ .jcslv The cotton acreage is about 20
nav cent. less than it was last year.
val5osta Times A white man named
.,,arr Waters was arrested in Echols
county, on Wednesday by Sheriff Gritty
/ oDd brought to this city and lodged in
isi Walters is charged with disturbing
nnblic worship and carrying pistol at
ong Branch. The service which he is
accused of disturbing was at a singing
convention.
i strenuous effort is being made by the
students of the University of Georgia to
i ~oisa money with which to pay off the
4 AIM of several hundred dollars that hangs
4 aver the University Athletic Association.
4 The students have subscribed $40 and sew
eral hig entertainments will be given be-
tween now and commencement to help
swell the fund to be used in retiring this
debt
Chancellor Boggs of the State University
at Athens. has not YET received a reply
from DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage, but hopes
he will reply favorably to the invitation
IN deliver the Grafton there on commence
r,ent dav. Dr. Talmage is to deliver the
4 Connecticut address at Erskine College,
n Due West S. c., on June 20, and 1t is be-
H neyed he viii go to Athens and deliver the
address there on the following day.
T. D. Hawthorn, of Cairo, one of the
brightest young men of Thomas county,
has been taken to Miledgeville, where he
will be treated for mental trouble. Mr.
a
has been doing an extensive business for
two or three years in syrup, melons and
other products, and has made money very
fast He has been under a strain of late
getting ready to handle melons this sea-
son and under this strain the young mans
mind has given way
Dahlonega Signal: Last week a very
rich place was struck in the vein of the
Street mine just back of this Office, and
which is being operated by Mr.. Burns.
one painful Of the ore contained, it is said
at least fifty pennyweights of gold. The
mine has been worked off and on for not
more than six months, and it is approx
mately estimated by those who are sup
posed TO know that 5000 pennyweights of
the precious metal have been obtained.
Mr.. Burns has only had the mine in charge
a month and rumor has it that he has
been making big money.
The State Agricultural Society. through
4 Its president, Hon. j. Pope Brown, has sig
nided its intention of pushing forward the
movement for the uniform and final clas-
sticaion of cotton in the South, which
was inaugurated by Commissioner o. B.
Stevens The movement, although started
but a few days ago, has attracted consid-
cradle attention from the farmers of the
STATE, as well as intermediary brokers deal
Ing in the staple both of which class, it is
believed, win be materially and directly
benefited by a general law throughout the
cotton growing states calling for uniform
and final classification.
The home mission board of the South
ern Baptist convention will meet in At
lanJa on the first Tuesday in June TO elect
a successor to DIR. /. T. Tichenor, who for
seventeen years has been corresponding
secretary of the board and who has been
recognized for the last half a century as
one of the prominent and most active
members of the Baptist denomination in
the South That he will be reelected to
succeed himself is without doubt, although
the members of the board have persistent
ly declined to make any statement regard
Ing the election or to in any way give any
intimation Of their action. The belief that
Dr Tichenor will succeed himself is made
solely upon his past record, his earnest
and Jealous ambition in the work of the
denomination and his loyalty and fidelity
TO the duties of the office.
Attorney General Terrell, as a member
OF the executive committee of the State
Bar Association, has been notified of the
acceptance of Hon. w. l.. Wilson, of West
virginia, 10 an invitation to address the
association The invitation TO Mr.. Wilson
was sent several weeks ago and yesterday
favorable answer came from the dis in
euished West Nirginian. The fact that
lion w. L. Wilson viii make the address
at The session of the association at Warm
springs wiz serve to attract the interest
o. the slate to the occasion and it is prob
ao'e that the largest attendance ever had
oy the association will be enjoyed this
year. The bar association meets during
'le hrst week in July and the members
.. lhe profession are expecting a treat as
Mr Wilson is recognized as one of the
aoest and most popular speakers in the
Al buena Vista a negro prisoner in the
jan there took his own life In the pres
me Oh the jailer. rather than go to the
managing to serve a sentence of twelve
nt'"lhs' The negro was Jesse Jones, con-
'e'ed at the last term OF Marion court
epYn the charge of selling whisky. He was
sven one year in the gang, and when the
y uo'n lor Americas reached Buena Vista
',-'y morning the jailer went to Jones
va una tod him 10 get ready; that he had
CYIe TO carry him 10 the chain-gang. Jones
,.-1e no reply for a moment, regarding
t''g oHIcer in sullen silence as the door was
~ ''g unlocked. I'm never go to the pen
,'D-ary,' he screamed out Farewell
Instantly Jones whipped a keen
a.. from his pocket and cut his throat
D''Y'e the jailer could enter the cell and
a AlFa The negro staggered a moment
T 'Ie teli to the floor, the blood pouring
lis taroat.
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