The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-16
Y GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
xr,ys OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS
GEORGIA.


c.-sral Georgia towns adopted the plan
= baving their fire bells rung to announce
-. r,eteoric showers, so that the people
rigbr turn out and see the show.
p. Cotter, while yelping for turkey
.,t on ts1e river near McRae last week,
1,s himself shot for one by a Mr.. Hulett,
..raral balls striking him. His wounds
are not dangerous.
soturdav night at Culverton, small
.,,,e about five miles east of Sparta, Mr..
r,r5on Moore. a planter and highly re-
snectad citizen of that place, was shot and
,ossibly seriously, by Willie Burton, a ne
rTo who had previously been caught
ssoaline cotton seed from Mr.. Moore. The
negro is in jail awaiting trial.
Macon Telegraph: The mystery in the
poveu murder case seems to be as great
os ever. So far as can be learned, there
ts absolutely nothing to indicate who the
murderer was. His tracks were complete
" obterated. The two negroes who We're
ernested about week ago have been re-
Isased. and there now seems to be nothing
"a warrant the arrest of anybody else.
The three Atlanta camps of Confederate
Veterans are making preparations to at
tend the coming reunion to be held in
savannah and the officers of the DIFF
trent camps expect to carry down one of
The largest delegations of Atlanta veter-
ems that has left the city in years. The
members of the camps will go in three pri-
ylte cars with every convenience arranged
for.
There is only one question that is excit-
ing the people of Griffin now, and that is
DWhat will the decision of the Supreme
Court be in the prohibition election case?'
II is safely said that the registrars will be
maintained on one side, and on the other
is claimed that Judge James A. Drewry
will have the power to decide. In the
former case the ants have it, and in the
latter instance it may be that 1t will be
months before whisky is legally sold there.
Lagrange Reporter: Through its presl-
dent, Mr.. O. A. Dunson, the Dixie Cotton
Mills bought 1000 bales of cotton last Sat
mday. The cotton was purchased of local
holders. and the cotton had been stored in
the warehouses for some time. The cot
ION viii be moved to the company's ware
houses al once and will relieve to some ex-
ttn. the congested condition of the ware
houses in which it is stored. 1t required
over $4,000 to make the transaction, max
il- lle Qedl one OF the largest IDdt mas
taken place in LaGrange in some time.
Rome's cotton receipts to date are 90 500
bales 1000 less than for any year within
the past five Last weeks receipts were
only 2,447 from 1,00O to 5000 under any
corresponding week for five years past.
Killing frOsts and freezes in that section
lately have been damaging to the top crop
-nalf-grown bolls killed and expectations
from this source necessarily cut short.
This will result in stained cotton in last
packinss. 1t is estimated that the mills
in operation and in course of construction
will absorb the entire cotton crop of 225 900
bales in the North Georgia country.
A movement is now on foot to raise $780,
90 to be used as an endowment fund for
the Agnes Scott Institute of Decatur. The
idea is simply following in the wake of
other Southern institutions of learning
that have decided on the Importance of an
endowment fund. Although the move
ment is still in its infancy, 1886, 900, or near
" One-third of the total amount needed,
has been raised. OF this sum it is under
stood that Col. George w. Scott, who
founded the institute and who has already
expended on it about $15OOOO has sub
serbed nearly one-half. The remainder
has been raised among friends of the in
stitute.
DR.. Thomas f. Jones, one of the best
known and most popular citizens of Bar
tow county, died at his home near Car
tersville Monday morning of paralysis of
The heart Though feeble in health for
some time, he only took his bed last Sat
urday. In 1858 he went from Laurens, S.
T., where he was born In 1882, to Kingston,
where he practiced medicine In 1860 he
married his cousin, Mrs Louisa ?.
Dung, only sister of Gen. Pierce NJ. b.
Young, and he and Gen. Young were the
Warmest of friends. He fought CALAMITY
during the Civil War as a captain in the
d"enty-hfth Georgia Cavalry, under the
famous Gen. John II. Morgan