The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-04
GEORGIA.

In
,ba warm months every Saturday at p
=, from the first of May to the first of
September, 1893.
i snecial to the Morning News from
pe,dsviIle says: Miss Mary Reppard. who
has been so critically i'll for the past few
5avs is resting easier this evening ana
her recovery is hoped for.
The smallpox scare is getting over in
lincoln. Most of those who had it are
convalescent and vaccination has pre-
vented the spreading. 1t was mild
form and no deaths resulted.
Cutbbert Leader: The world may be
growing better, but thus far it has but
yasuelv apprehended the nobility of for
/ oiveness. The belief in the justice of the
old Mosaic law, IAN eye for an eye, and
a tooth for a TOOTH" Is still strong, if
/ one may judge from present day actions.
The fiber of the asbestos taken from the
| sa- mountain mine, in White county, is
regarded by many as good as that taken
from the famous mines of Canada, and
when worked on a large scale would be
found of great value. This is the mine
that was recently sold to English capt.
tasIs.
Waycross Herald: Editor Mcintosh of
Albany who has recently Travelled through
North Georgia by private conveyance, says
no negroes are working in the fields and
that the white farmers are working on
the intensive system. Editor Mcintosh
does not think North Georgia is as pros
porous as the southern portion of the state.
Judge Samuel Hawkins died at Sum
merville Sunday night. Judge Hawkins
was one of the most honored citizens of
Georgia and leaves a host of friends all
over the state. Every one who knew him
loved him devotedly. He has been hon
ored by his county a great many times
by the highest gifts, representing his
people in the legislature and Senate on
various occasions.
Rockdae Banner: Friend Idus Langley
was out on the driving track Friday even
ing and ran over our entire farming out
fit, smashing two guano bars, straddle
A harrow, a basket of cotton seed, a wagon
/. shaft and scattering half sack of re-
n solved bone for 200 yards. We are laying
n for the Young man with a baseball bat
and when we meet him there will be
weeping and wailing and scattering of
teeth.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Judge Newman
4 is very clever and accommodating TO the
i noonshiners convicted in his court and
q sentenced to terms in jail. He allows them
4 to go ahead and make their crops but
when ''laying-by time comes they must
so TO jail and serve out their sentence.
They will be kept. out of mischief, accord
Ing TO he judicial view, until time to COM
mence picking cotton. This is wise and
sensible, if little novel and unusual.
Rev Thomas Hollis, a missionary Bap-
tist minister, died in Buchanan, Ca, Sun
day and his remains were inferred in
Pleasant Hope cemetery in Floyd county.
Mr. Hollis was very old and had been
too feeble to preach for three or four
Years. His ministerial work, however, ex-
tended over half a century, and he was
one of the pioneer exhorters of this sec
ton He served the Pleasant Hope church
Tor fifteen years. and it is said that he had
oaptsed more people than any white
preacher in Georgia.
Macon News: The mortuary report for
the month of April shows large increase
of deaths among the negroes, and this
must be attributed to neglect and ex-
posture for there is no epidemic in the
sanitary condition. The death rate among
the whites is about normal, only fourteen
having died in April and the majority
Of these were infants. The official report
as made by City. Clerk Smith, gives a
total Of sixty deaths-.forty-six OF which
We're negroes and fourteen whites.
Cordele Hornet: Hare IS a town where
everything is looking so ltoyful, WHERE
the birds are singing swe4t songs, wien
me flowers are all tn b.ct5n and when
we air is laden with the sTTeet perfumes
VI spring and fish storsns,l ne sec men
waking around with thsi9 heads down
between their shoulders and a took on
,ler race like they were being bounded
py guilty conscience. Cheer up, boys;
"a'ermelons and blackberries will soon
oe ripe and then in the midst of briars
ana req bugs you can forget the wrongs
you have done others.