The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TEE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

The movement TO establish a cotton mill
at Fort Valley Is beginning 10 take definite
shape. There will be a meeting of share
holders there on Monday afternoon, May
20. All the town is taking a lively inter
est in this most important move.
Cedartown Standard: Mr. J. C. Williams,
highly respected citizen of Grady. cale-
brated his eighty-hfth birthday Tuesday.
Mr.. Williams sun sleeps upOn the same
bedstead which he bought on first going
10 housekeeping sixty years ago. What
citizen of Polk has an older bedstead than
that?
The fire insurance war is still on hot and
furious in Americas The two anu-tarif
companies propose greatly 10 cut rates.
All the other companies are trying TO
meet these cut rates. The bottom has not
yet been touched, although insurance
rates in Americas are more than one-th,rd
lower than they were a year ago.
Americus Times Recorder Two young
men of Fitzgerald reached Americas yes
terday morning, coming The entire dis
lance of nearly 100 miles on bicycles. They
were en- route TO South Bend Ind, and
wlu cover The distance on their steeds Of
steel. They made the run from Fitzger-
one of the most elegant affairs at the
approaching university commencement at
Athens win be the banquet 10 Gov Cand-
Ter and his staff given by the local mem
bers of the staff, Liet Coils. NJ. G. Mich
ael, J, w. WEIGH and S NJ. Harrington.
The invitations to this delightful function
viii be sent out al once from the office OF
the adjtuaut general. Ii via be given on
the evening of Tupg1aV June 20
From a financial standpoint the straw
berry crop this season In North Georgia
has been a failure. The shipment has
been about 125,000 crates, which brought
on an average about S110. Last year the
80 eco crates shipped brought s. a crate.
Owing 10 the fact that berries ripened
over the whole country at the same time.
markets were glutted and prices went to
pieces.
The following Is from the swansboro
Pine Forrest. Hon. Alfred Herrngtons
paper: A correspondent of the Sylvania
Telephone dominates Hon. j. w. over
street for Congress. Now, while the For
est is for Col. Lester, it will be hard in
deed for us to oppose Col. Overstreet If
he should make half as good congress
man as he has a legslat tor for Screven
county the First district will be well rep
resented in the national legislature.
Vice President j. NJ. Egan of the Cen
trail, in Atlanta the other day, said that as
far as he knows there has been no change
IN The situation relative to q new union
depot for Atlanta. The railroads inter-
ested he thinks, are ready TO act as soon
as the city win say what she Is willing 20
do about the viaduct for Whitehall street
and the closing up of Pryor street. This,
he thinks. is the only way out of the
trouble that will lead TO the building of
depot on the present site.
The members Of the Fulton club of At
lanta held their regular annual meeting
and election OF officers at the club rooms
Wednesday night. The meeting was an
enthusiastic one and largely attended. Al
the officers for the ensuing year were
elected and their selection by the club was
unanimous The following were those
elected President, Harvey Johnson; first
vice president, Arnold Broyles; second
vice president, j. Van Holt Nash, Jr !;
secretary. w II. Arnold treasurer
Thomas w. Jackson.
Judge John S. Gambler signed an order
Wednesday granting John Pendley. the
famous Atlanta "confessor" a new trial
the regular term Of the Fulton criminal
court. held in April Pendley was convict
ed mainly upon his own confession OF
the murder of the policeman and given
life sentence in the state penitentiary His
attorneys made motion for new trial
and after considering the evidence for
over two weeks Judge Gambler made his
decision favoring a new trial. The deci-
sion was based on the ground that the
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that The verdict was not In accordance
with the evidence. The new trial will oc-
c,rr at the next term OF the court, which
will convene on the third Monday in June
Bapkston viii probably be tried al the
same term Of the court He was jointly
indicted by the grand jury with Pendley
and both were indicted on two counts,
one as principal and one as accessory.
The Atlanta Retail Grocers' Collection
and information bureau has inaugurated
a move which promises to work wonders
in Atlanta on delinquent bill payers. and
the bureau is packed up in the scheme by
The coal dealers, clothing houses, dry
goods and boot and shoe merchants In
two weeks book Of rating. carefully COM
piled and containing the name OF every
person in Atlanta, Will be issued to all
local merchants. The book will in many
respects resemble the reports Of Brad
street and Dun, being complete In every
detail and showing by secret code the
exact commercial standing Of every At
lantian who buys a single cents worth Of
any kind Of goods on credit The book
rating will contain the names OF about
* 600 peopie, divided into four distinct
classes, prompt paying buyers, medium
slow and those who viii not pay at all
and of whom inc code VIII advise that
cash be secured before parting with goods
Every merchant in the city will be fur
nished with a copy Of the work and in
very few minutes they will be able TO tell
tusf how much credit to allow purchas-
or and just when 10 expect payment The
retail grocerymen say that there will be
no guess work, as every merchant in the
xiv Is furnishing the desired information
from their account books, thus stamping
every rating as absolutely correct.
FLORIDA.
The final exercises Of the commencement
81 1899 at Rollins College, Winter Park