The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-20
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
GEORGIA.

The Granville Dairy and Creamery As
scciation was organized at Grantville
Thursday and officers were elected.
TennilIe is to have creamery within
the next two months. Mr.. H. e. Weed OF
the land and Industrial department Of the
Central Of Georgia Railway has been there
in the interest Of il.
Mrs Henry Brewster Of Canton, a
plucky North Georgia woman, the other
day drove from her yard a the point Of a
pistol a negro man who had assaulted her
cook with a stick and then turned upon
her.
Fire at Barlow Friday morning destroy
ed the store house and stock of II. Massur
and the drug store and stock Of c. r.
Josey. BY heroic work Of the citizens,
buildings on each side Of the two burned
buildings were saved.
Two Mitchell county citizens went to law
about 75-cent turkey last week, says an
exchange. The expense of the litigation
amounted to $l5, and the turkey remains
with the party who started out with It.
The cost will buy a Thanksgiving turkey
for the baiiG, justice of the peace four
lawyers, six jurors, and leave Sc for cram
berry sauce.
Quitman Free Press; Mr.. Henry Turner
is strainlng his sugar cane juice through
moss and is delighted with the result. He
finds, as Judge TiIman has frequently
published to the world, that the passage
of the juice through the moss frees il of
all foreign particles as well as a large pro-
portion Of the nOn-sugar contents ana col
oring matter, which adheTs TO the moss.
Moultrie Observer: Uncle Joel Norman
came in town Monday with several bales
of short cotton which he held over from
last year hoping to get a better price for
it. His hopes were realized, we might say
fully. for he probably did not expect, when
he decided to hold the cotton, to ever re-
alize as much for It as he was paid Mon
day. The advance was more than 2k
cents. II isn't always safe to hold cotton,
but this Is one instance IN which 1t paid
The little son OF Mr. and Mrs. A, B. Be
thea died a few days ago at Cambridge,
and was buried. AS the funeral process
sion was moving down Clark street 10 Oak
City Cemetery the hearse was halted, the
eolored driver pulled off and loudly abus-
ed in obscene language by q negro named
Holly Young. The driver made no resist
auce and as soon as released proceeded
with the hearse. The matter was
promptly taken up and Holly Young TAX
Every day there are large squads of ne
groes carried through Cordele TO South
Florida, whittier they go to work turpen-
tine Nearly all of the piny woods around
Cordele have been worked by the turpen-
tine men, and now they are going farther
south With them Will go a large num-
Der of the negroes of Southwest Georgia,
and that kind of labor is at a premium
there now. There are at least five or six
agents in Cordele almost all the time en-
ploying negroes and shipping them South.
Mr.. Clayton. who is in charge Of the slot
machines that have recently been intro
dueed in Macon, was on Friday fined $1,000
by Judge FELTON, in the Superior Court on
an Indictment found against him by the
grand jury a few days ago. Mr. Clayton
has not yet paid the fine and is in the
custody of the officers 1t is understood
that Indictments have been found against
each person allowing the machines to be
put in their places of business and that
the heavy fine assessed Mr.. Clayton has
made them all uneasy.