The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-20
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA..

Emanuel is the only county in the state
without coroner. No one will have the
place.
The Tennille News thinks that Aguinaldo
must be a Methodist, because he believes
in holding conferences.
Capt w. S. Davis. one of the leading
cotton merchants of Macon, reports that
nearly all Of the cotton in that section
Of The country has been gathered.
The University Of Georgia football eleven
win meet the sewanee team on the grid
iron next Saturday in Atlanta. 1t will be
one of the best games Of the season, and
will be close and exciting from start TO
finish.
Much interest is being evinced by the
Macon sportsmen in the live bird shoot
which is part of the programme OF the
Georgia State Fair The shoot will be of
an interstate character and any one desir-
ing to participate in IL can do so, there
being no special requirements that would
bar outside parties.
Wednesday night at the Southern train
at Brunswick there was a big crowd of
coored citizens, who assembled to tell the
recruits goodbye that were going from
there to St. Louis to join the regular
army. There We're fifty-seven all told who
had enlisted under Capt. Crumbly, and
they with their friends, packed the depot
and the platform around.
The Athens Historical Society held an
interesting meeting Monday night A pa
per on the old University Botanical Gar
den and its history was read by Prof.
Sylvanus Morris and discussion by the
members followed. A. l.. Hall read an &C
count of the death OF Gen. Thomas r.
K. Cobb at Fredericksburg, and DIR. e.
d. Newton made interesting remarks on
the same subject.
The body or Nettie Stafford, a negro girl
IS years Old was found in GAINESVILLE in
a well on the property of w. A. Hill and
" as taken 10 the Coroner's office in an open
wagon The body had been in the we'll
from Its appearance for several days, and
there were strong evidences of foul play.
Two negroes with whom abe girl has lived
for more than year, Monroe and Ella
Tallmadge. were arrested charged with
the killing.
John Henry Smith, a 1O-year-old negro
boy, who a few weeks since stabbed and
killed companion of about the same age.
was released Tuesday by a jury in Clarke
county upon the request of the solicitor
general, who was unable to prove that the
defendant knew the difference between
right and wrong, The boy had been in
Jail for three or four weeks, and was per-
fectly delighted when he was told that he
might return to his home.
The Prohibiionists of Georgia have set
apart day to be observed as Prohibition
Day. over the entire state The day thus
SET apart is the fifth Sunday in this month,
Oct. 49, Appropriate programmes are be-
ing furnished TO all the churches, Sunday
schools Epworth Leagues, Young Peo-
pes Societies, etc, of the state, with an
earnest appeal that temperance exercises
be held in every church in the stale on
that day. The Monday following "Prohi-
bition Day oct. 3O) is to be known as
Prohibition Work Day" Every man.
woman and child In Georgia. who is in
terested in the cause of temperance and
who would have the state freed OF the
liquor traffic, is asked to contribute the
earnings of this day to the temperance
cause. These contributions should be sent
TO Rev. A. j. Hughes, superintendent.
Georgia Prohibition Association, Watkins
vile, Ca, to be used in the fight now be-
ing waged against the liquor traffic in
Georgia. under the direction of the Finance
Committee: Messrs. Walter B. Hill. c.
b. Willingham and John II. Reynolds.