The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-27
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
.,.,,s OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS
GEORGIA.

perfected a permanent organization
,.s result of the bite of cur dog
- TO have been mad, one horse is
s a., Grahamville, near Greensboro,
ns7' woman and three children are said
bs suffering from hydrophobia.
Tor several weeks cattlemen have COW
.,.a Oconee county buying beeves. AS a
.-ooteuce of the drought, the scarcity
~ for5ee for winter food makes che own
s~s yerv willing to sell. A very large
number have been bought in Oeonee
county
,--,vrordviHe Acknowledgements: Dat
sooirg seems 10 be progressing pretty well
4. rbis county and other counties in the
r+ats one man in Bibb county has SOW
~ ooo bushels. The good work should
., IN until this country raises enough TO
ICED all her stock and some TO spare.
Marietta Journal: The county display
made BY the farmers of Cobb at the State
Far Is one of the finest ever seen in the
eontb and attracted the greatest inter
s.t II IS fully three times as large as
or. of The other exhibits. and it's gen.
ersI appearance is unusually handsome.
Mr. E. F. Barrows. of Washington. is
rov shipping hundreds of cedar poles
fr,m Wilkes county to Birmingham, Ala.
He will also ship three carloads of lumber
his week. which will go to Connecticut
IN he made into furniture The sale of
these woods is bringing a revenue to the
p4ople which they had never dreamed Of
Guy Ellington. deputy sheriff of Wilkes
county shot himself through the head
win pistol on Wednesday. The ball
PASSED entirely through his head. His
fragic death is a great shock 10 the com
munitv, as he was a very popular young
man. He was the adopted son of Capt. ].
! Crofton and unmarried. The deed was
done in respondent mood and not from
any known cause
The body of John Henry Marshall,
negro who has been missing since Friday,
vas found about five mikes from Thomson
Monday He had been killed with an AK,
and his head was horribly mutilated Three
negroes were brought to Thomson Monday
night on suspicion, but evidence against
them is very slight. Marshall was a des-
parate character. and was much feared and
hated by the members of his own race
The strike which was threatened by the
ailors in Macon because their employees
refused to grant demand of a raise in
wages has been amicably settled and har-
mJuy restored. The Tailors' Union drew
up a paper and requested every merchant
to sign it. agreeing to give a raise in
wages which the latter at first refused
to d. TIE paper has now been signed
by all the merchants, however aud the
Trouble settled
Americus Times Recorder: Several days
ago the Tines Recorder mentioned the
fact that not a few of the public ginneries
in this section had~closed down because
lhtre was no cotton to be ginned. Yes
tfrday Sheriff Macarthur made a trip of
fifteen or twenty miles down in Sumter
and Ell route passed by six public gins, all
Of which were closed down. There may be
little more cotton to pick in favored To-
ralitios, but six public gins standing idle
would Indicate that the season of picking
vas about over here.
Rome Tribune: The Oostanaula, Etowah
and Coosa rivers are lower now than they
have been in some years, and navigation
seriously effected at the most import
ant season of the year for the steamboat
companies The present fall has been
very dry one, and there has been almost
an entire absence of the steady down.
pours which would seriously effect the
streams 1t would take several days OF
heavy rain to put the Coosa in first-cass
went aground on the shoals. about ninety
miles up the Oostanaula some weeks ago
with a heavy cargo aboard was finally
gotten off, and is now in the city The
boat can navigate up the river, but with
difficulty
Commander Frank D. Aiken of the
Georgia Naval Reserves went to
Atlanta to serve on the staff of
thlet Marshal Byrd during the
hfumoy day parade and the military feat
tfes of the State Fair During his stay in
Atlanta Commander Aiken will also nave
conference with Gov. Gambler in the in
leIest of the Georgia Naval Reserves and
Will urge upon the states chief executive
NE necessity of providing the naval mi
IVA with war vessel TO practice on sll
We Lime. 1t is understood here that there
"e some available vessels and ii is be-
1eH mat one of them can be secured.
.Hlinander Aiken has all the data neces-
10 present Georgias claim for recog-
ron ron the navy department and he
VIII present it in forcihle shape.
pu0ln now has a cotton exchange. The
SANITATION was perfected Monday after
o" al a meeting of the cotton men in
ONCE Of Simons & Manning. The
III uNs Was very enthusiastic one and
ne" exchange starts off under very
a. 'l SI'ttts. Inc following are
vio oHeers: President. J. S. Simons, Jr. ;
PRESIDENT, j. d. Smith; directors, ]. c.
6 'I n,lds R. c. Henry. II. II. Smith, w
alllps 7. J. Prtchett; secretary and
asuIer p c. Black; Classification Com
D. c. Manning. Mac X. Bryan, j.
pon m, Quotation Committee, w r.
80 W. r. Smith. T. c. Black. Dublin
nro, oUu OF The fact that she is one of the
fso. most cotton markets in the state. A
fog, as ago the total receipts were only
tn',. hundred bales. This season. de-
rsia, ,no short crop, she will receive in the
'o'nood of 5000 bales.
.- l'""y Herald: Mayor voolfolk to-day
' reclamation establishing quar-
against Ocila, Douglas, Fitzgerald
F6r,SdH other points on the Savannah.
Wss,l9 qua Western and Brunswick and
snsg roads which are infested with
Is6l Mayor Voolfolk received re-
5,,,' formation that the smallpox was
..se. Ocila, there being fifty or sixty
cpids,, me disease there. So bad has the
crser necome at that place that pass
N9yo, rains have ceased to sion there.
.f voolfolk has also learned ~ the