The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-08
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGR APIS.
GEnRGIA

60 to New York to the Dewey reception,
and Capt. Conner expects TO take over
sixty men.
John Jones, the negro who confessed to
Deputy Sheriff Walter Gray that he muir
dered Henry Davis in Monroe county sew
eral months aeo, has been arrested and
carried to Forsyth for trial.
The Sylvania Railroad Company have
be gun the erection of new depot and
warehouse at Sylvania. Ii VIII be nearer
up in town than the old one and much
more convenient for the patrons of the
road
The directors of the Albany Library As
sociaton have elected Miss Theresa Bros
nan librarian Of the public library. when
is soon 10 open there. Miss Brosnan is one
OF the brightest young women in Albany
and her election is an honor which she
We'll deserves.
The farmers around HawIinsville are
loosing no time in housing the cotton
crop, which will be much shorter than
last year. The pubic gin there Is crowd
ed and the yard has eight or ten wagons
loaded with cotton standing waiting their
turn nearly all the time.
Abbeviue Chronicle: T. II. Wheat, who
hre1 The first shot on Fort Sumter in the
war OF the SlAlleS. Is a ItSlNttt VI W IL
cox He came to this county from Floyd
two years ago, and is living at Reidsviile,
four miles from here, and is engaged IN
farming. MIR, Wheat is 60 years old, but
has maintained his youthful health and
Vigor.
William A. Hidel, a young Roman %
years of age, began the journey from
Rome to Seattle, Wash, Tuesday, on his
wheel He expects TO make the trip in
three months. and goes via Memphis. st.
Louis and the Golden Gate. He started
with only the suit he wore, gun and
not a cent of money. He expects to work
his way through.
Gov. Gambler has offered reward of
$3.50 for the arrest aud delivery of Harry
Butts, the negro who shot and killed Mr..
David Silver, one of the most prominent
merchants of Sparta, on the 26tn of Sep
TENDER, 1886. Butts shot Mr.. Silver down
as he going from his store to his
home, and has never been apprehended,
though parties secured the county for
him for several days after Silver was shot.
Gov. Gambler has refused the applica
ton for pardon of Hniard Brooks of
Harris county, VINO Is under sentence Of
death for murder The recommendation
of the pardon board that the application be
refused was made after a careful consd-
GRAFTON Of the evidence in the case, requir-
ing several days of the boards time and
attention. Brooks is under sentence to
Gle on the gallows in Harris county Sept
Si
Mr.. Lawton, an Irwin county farmer,
made a net profit OF 1924 on two and a
hall acres of land planted in onions the
past season, and is now making a good
crop of late corn on the same land, which
he planted b tween the rows of the onions
before ma IN Il fer 10 ter N
June. The land was ordinary pine or wire
grass land, which would not have made a
half bale of Co ton On the two acres and
half. The onions were worked at less cost
than it takes TO make cotton.
A movement is on foot to have a bill
passed in the next meeting of the legls
lature annulhng the old charter of the
town of Dupont and granting a new
charter for same, the old charter having
been so arranged as to render it value
less to the citizens of the place. 1t has
been out of use for many years Dupont
is large enough to necessitate some form
OF local government, and the interests of
the citizens of the place demand protec-
ton While II is generally understood
that certain individuals of the place will
exert all their power to defeat the bill,
Yet the majority of the citizens are in ia
Vor of the move. as shown by the sigma
lures attached 10 the petition for same.
Four Mormon elders have just arrived
in Augusta They are there. It is said,
TO induce people to join their faith. Their
plan is to stop at various private houses
and there induce the people they come
an connection with to become disciples or
the late Brigham Young. Some years ago
there arrived in Augusta a delegation of
Mormons, who set to work to gain con-
verts. a number of citizens did not take
old hnKn In,
believed that the peachngs of the Latter
Day Saints was not a thing that was to
be upheld. The citizens got together and
formed a committee. The committee de-
cided that the Mormons must CO. They
wanted them to go peacefully. To this
snd they, on purpose, allowed the saints
from Salt Lake to get word that the
committee was going to ask them out of
town. The MormonS folded their tents
packed their trunks and quietly slipped
away The committee was satisfied.
What was supposed to be the largest
copper still in North Georgia was captured
a few days ago by Deputy Collector Bar
tow Carter in Cherokee county, near Su-
talla. The stin has capacity of $50 gal
IONS and is the one, it IS said. which "A
young man by the name of Lowery was
Killed about some months ago. Lowery
according TO the reports at the time had
reported the whereabouts of the stili and
was shortly afterward killed by unknown
parties. The copper, it appears has been
captured once before, but was stolen and
the officers have been looking for it for
nearly three years. In Making the raid Dep
uty Marshal Carter was accompanied by
Deputy Marshal Gocde and posse. They
took the trip during the night, and one
of the swiftest races they ever had took
place about II O'Clock, when they sought
TO bring some of the moonshiuers TO bay
The feet-footed mountaineers, however
after a race of over a mile and a half
finally got away.
FLORIDA.
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