The morning news., 1899-12-21
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

The Pulaski Volunteers celebra ted their
anniversary at Hawkinsville Tuesday
Laurens county voted to abolish the sale
of whisky on Tuesday. The Prohis won by
vote of about to l.
Mr. Albert e. Johnston, 55 years old and
prominent farmer and Confederate vet
eran OF Marion county, committed suicide
sunday morning with morphine at his
home in the country.
Money is being rapidly raised to build
5000 Knights of Pythias hall at Winder.
Winder is a growing town. Already she
has a population of 500, and is one of the
Nvest points on the Seaboard Air Line.
Bowling Burnett, a travelling salesman
of Atlanta, was arrested there Monday
night by officer Coogler and the charge
against him is that he has been passing
forged checks on merchants in the city,
Lawrence Jones, negro, an escaped con-
vict from Pulaski county, was captured
at Fort Valley Saturday night by Marshal
Troutman. He had been sent to the chain
gang from Pulaski county for eight months
for burglary, and had only worked two
months before his escape.
The new additions that are being made
to the Monroe Cotton Mills are nearing
completion. The contractor Mr. Nichols,
is very hopeful of getting through the
work by the middle of January. When
completed, Monroe will have one of the
best cotton mill plants in the state.
Captain-elect W. f. Clark and Lieut.. q.
T Childers, of the Americus Light In
fantry, have gone to Macon to take their
examinations before the Second Georgia
Examining Board for Commissions, These
officers were nominated at a recent meet
ing of their company for the offices nam
ed
There will be over 1900 cases made by
the Atlanta police this year in the city,
an increase of nearly 1000 over last year.
4 The fines paid in cash in the Police Court
1 will reach nearly SIC, 900, an increase over
the year 1898 of nearly $4,000 The daily
4 average in arrests during 1899 will be
about thrty-three or thirty-four cases.
Woodbne, Southeast Georgia: There Is
i an increasing interest in the cultivation
and marketing cassava. Here in Glynn
4 county it can be made to be one of the
1 most profitable products that our farmers
can raise. Crudely cultivated it yields six
tons TO the acre, and its lowest market
4 price has been 81 per ton. With but a
small percentage of cultivation the yield
mas been increased to eight tons, and by
improved methods has recorded a yield of
twelve TONS with IS per ton net profit
A year ago some reckless xandal stole
the historic old banner of the Phi Kappa
Literary Society of Athens, and the uni
versity boys have never been able TO dis
cover the thief or the old banner The
society needs a new banner and Mrs.
Lusrat and Mrs w. B. Hill have started
movement among the fadies of Athens
81 u a for
the Phi Kappa. This new banner will be
presented to the Phi Kappa Society on the
Il occasion of its seventy-ninth anniversary,
which will be on the 22nd of next Feb
4 ruaTy.
George w. Truitt, Troup's great cotton
growers, and the first man to put up his
estimate of 9,500,000 bales of cotton for
Il tne present crop against NeilPs estimate
II Of 100000 bales, is preparing to cut
DOWN mis- acreage in cotton from 500 to 200
acres and says: Tel the farmers if
they want 20 cents for their cotton in the
iuture not TO make over 5000, 900 bales"
He has sowed 200 acres of his best land
in wheat, the remainder that has been
a topped off from his cotton lands will be
81 used for pastures, grain and forage, as he
Is sembarking in the cattle business.
"A The Bank OF Conner was organized Dec.
4 with w. s. Witham president. The
1 capital stock was $4,000, and the money
4 mas been paid in and a charter applied
Tor. The business will be done in the
4 name of the Bank of Conner. They will
De ready for business by the 18th of Jan
Il uary, next Contracts are being figured
q on The building will have marble fronts.
Il me following officers have been elected:
President, w. s. Witham; vice president,
~ T. Moore; directors, j. p. Gholston, ID.
r Moore, DR.. ]. G. Eberhart, DR.. B. w.
SIonecypher, A. w. Mcconnell; cashier,
Bowden.
Brunswick Times: Papers have been fill
ed with Deputy Clerk Alf Townsend of the
Superior Court showing a transfer of the
gay tract of land of some 5000 acres near
brunswick TO Mr. j. +. O'Shaugnessy of
new ork. This tract was owned by the
amlly of the poet, Sidney Lanier. and the
nahSler of the titles was by Mrs. Mary
pay Lanier. The considerations named
SdS ABOUT $4,000, and it gives to the pur-
aaaser one of the finest pieces of property
u tnls section. The deal has been rumor-
iof some time, and its consummation
saNhg been effected there may soon be
Sner developments that will prove highly
Shenclal to Brunswick.
Attorney w. p. Hill of Atlanta, left
sonday night at midnight for far-of
TTorocco to bring back for trial Thomas
nuuLer' the former auditor of the Atlanta
,'al ~a west Point Railway, who is said to be
4 msuHS behind the bars at Tangiers as the
1 ,s"t OF the detective work of a Pinker-
1 saa sleuth and a cablegram from the state
ilment to the Sultan of the small
4 pgin plnlfy on the Mediterranean sea. Mr..
~ eoes as the personal representative of
i n alIWay company and win also rep
,r,. the United States in the event that
99s obstacles should be found to prevent
H.. ringing over of Hunter to be tried for
4 M. a4leged crimes. 1t is expected that
February
( SsFefal days ago the Gainesville News
&sa,f1eu a story coming from Pine Log,
H. mat the home Of Mr.. Henry Col
H. "aaQ been rocked at night, the front
oelns smashed and his mother-iu-
4hct. "is. Monroe hurt with one Of the
1bgn1 a few mornings ago Mr.. Collins
~ miniature coffin made of paste
fparr4i bundle of hickory switches and