The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AND CAROLINA
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
The Jesup High school under the ef
hcient management of Prof J. D. Nc
Clendon, has over two hundred pupils upol
its ron
A special 20 the Morning News from
ReidsvHe Ga, says; Col H. J. Niece
one of the most prominent lawyers in thi
part of the state is critically III at his hom
in Reidsviile. He is suffering from an at
tack of heart failure.
special 10 the Morning News from
Waycross says: Lott & Cason, one of Che
largest grocery firms in Waycross, has
dissolved copartnership J. A. Lott retire'
from the business and W. A. CasOn con
tinues at the same place.
Mr. John r. Cooper has announced posi-
lively that he expects to be a candidate
for solicitor general of the Macon circuit
next year. He makes the third certain en-
try, the other Two being the present in
cumbent Hon. Robert Hodges, and Hon
Hope Polhill
Montgomery county's coroner has held
seven inquests in that county since Jan
J. The strong grip of death and the muir
derer's avenging hand have been playing
a very conspicuous part Of late and the
people are determined to draw a check
rein on the murderers at the April Su-
perior Court.
The elegant reception and lunch 10 be
given the university alumni in Athens next
June is being arranged for. The commit
tee of Athens alumni, Alessrs. c. M. Stra-
han, Harry Hodgson and T. w. Reed, who
are in charge of the affair win take all
the Necessary steps to make the occasion
q most enjoyable one.
Vienna Progress quite a romantic mar
rage occurred in this city Friday G. X.
Varnadoe and Miss Myrtle Merritt were
the contracting parties. They drove into
town, secured a marriage license and were
happily married while sitting in the buggy
in front of the residence of Rev. j. Nj.
Kelley, who performed the ceremony.
An application has been filed with the
adjutan. general of the state signed by
forty of the most prominent young men
of Thomson. Ga, asking for admission
into the militia of a company that is TO
be formed in that town. Thomson has
never had a military company, and the
nearest command of the state militia to
the town Is Augusta. so in case of a riot,
q serious difficulty would present itself
to the Governor of the state should he de
sire to send troops TO that point.
The members of the Georgia Railroad
Commission will be in Dublin on Monday,
April 8, to look over the field and see what
Dublin is entitled to I'm the way of depots
The Mayor and City Council and some of
the members of the Dublin Board of Trade
will meet the commission and entertain
them while in that city. They Will be
given a carriage ride, so as to let them
know something of the size of Dublin
and the necessity of that city's having
better depot accommodations than Il has
had.
The Peruvian Ochre Company, a promi-
nent mining corporation, Of Gainesville
has gone into the hands of a receiver. The
recevership was granted on the applica-
ton of J. c. Dram, one of the members
of the company. the other members being
+. p Earle and Mumford Martin. of New
York. Capt. j. j. Calhoun has been APP
pointed temporary receiver. The company
has been for about seven years mining
manufacturing and shipping ochre. their
large mill being located at Emerson, Bar
tow county.
Dublin Courier: The damage to the cot
ton stored in the Georgia Warehouse and
Compress Company has been adjusted
satisfactorily to all parties concerned. The
damaged cotton was sold on Friday last
10 Mr.. ]. e. Hit of Augusta, who i'm
mediately resold it 20 Floyd & Co. of Sa-
Nannah. The price paid was $1,000 A
number of cotton buyers were attracted
mere by the sale. all of whom. Including
AdJuster Reese, expressed the opinion that
the fire was exceptionally well handled
py our fire department. The damage to
the compress has not yet been adjusted.
Lothian correspondence Della Dispatch:
crowd of negroes while playing the
usual game of craps" Sunday nisht he
came angry over the continued success Of
one named George. His partner Thought
ne would check him, so he drew a pistol.
ana, without any warning, fired, the ball
crashing through the negroes body. DR..
Barwick thinks the darky is mortally
wounded. The one who did the shooting
escaped. Al Rentz's still, five miles be-
low here, another colored man was killed
while INDUCING in the skin game Satur-
day night. So prevalent has this negro
Killing become that the authorities hardly
make any effort to catch the murderers.
A grant of land, consisting of two plats,
one of twenty and the other of seven
acres, in Emanuel county, has been APP
piled for to Secretary of State Cook by
J. j. sutton, who has discovered that the
land in question has never had an owner.
Accompanying the application for the
eront Is a map of the land complied by
the surveyor, which shows that the prop
erty for farming purposes is exceedingly
valuable. IL IS very seldom that any land
Is found unclaimed in the state outside
OF the swampy districts, and when so
found can usually be traced to mistakes
made 10 surveying. The two lots in Eman-
uel county, one of twenty acres and the
other of seven acres, will be formally
granted 10 the applicant by Secretary OF
State Cook.
FLORIDA.
For the next two months Tallahassee
VIII be the center of attraction in Flor