The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-07
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
Y IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA..

GEOHGkA.
Monroe will hold an election on July 6
to decide on the question of issuing $4,000
In bonds for a public school building.
Dalton Argus: Honey is selling cheaper
over in Pickens county than il was ever
known to sell before An old man over
there married a Miss Honey, the other
day, who weighed 1870 pounds-1S0 pounds
of honey for $3.50 (the marriage fee) or
fve-sixth of a cent pound
Hon. Henry NJ. Stanley of Dublin, who
withdrew from the race for State Senator
some time ago, for the purpose of letting
some one from the country districts run
for the honor, and no candidate from the
country having announced he has re-
entered the field, and will make the fight
for the nomination on July IA. His oppon
ent is Col. Ira s. Chappell "a fellowtowns-
man and first cousin.
Judge George F. Gober, of the Blue
Ridge circuit, says that If he can get two
or three peach crops like the one that is
promised him this year, he will in few
years have all the money that he wants.
He has one thousand acres in peach or
chards and upon them he has one hun
dred thousand trees. About two-thirds of
this number of trees will bear fruit this
year The surplus of his peach crop he
proposes making into brandy.
Pres. G. H. Jordan of the Georgia State
Cotton Planters Association, makes this
Statement: 1.-THE movement to organize
the cotton planters of this state and other
Southern states is daily growing in, interest
and extent. While the organization is but
little over a week old, the machinery for
rapidly pushing the various organizations
in the counties of this state is getting in
on faUnrah HE results he X
pected in many sections within the next
two weeks"
Americas Times Recorder: Recent ad-
vices from Philadelphia indicate that
Charles Perry, the Americus negro nab
bed there upon the charge of being i'm
plicated in the murder of Prof. White,
is in peck of trouble. 1t Isl said that
Perry has been remanded to prison with
cut bail and will be tried, with accom-
plices, for ths crime charged. Sheriff
Macarthur received from the Philadelphia
authorities yesterday an excellent photo
graph of the long lost Perry, so badly
wanted in Americas for burglary. But
he may never come back.
Will Graham, of Rome. and son of Mr..
Martin Graham, started for Canada Sat
urday to join the Canadian mounted police.
Every man belonging to ii has to be six
feet. His father came from Canada years
ago and is engaged in the cotton business
in Rome. He is about six and half feet
high and is splendid specimen of physical
development This police force guards the
frontier nearly up to Alaska Some of
them come from the best families in Cam
ada and England. Graham's idea is to
benefit his health. He enlisted for five
years.
The peach season Is fairly opening IN
the Fort Valley section. Thousands of
crates have been shipped to Northern
points. The rush of carload lots
viii shortly begin The railroads have
nearly 200 refrigerator cars on the sidings
in readiness and when the rush is on the
crop will be handled with all speed. The
local basket and crate factories cannot
half supply the demands Of fruit carriers.
Labor is coming in from surrounding Sec
tons and all are securing work at good
wages either as pickers packers or crate
makers. Peaches are bringing fair prices
as a general rule, and a number of or
chards have been sold at good figures.
Fort Valley will ship fully LOO cars.
Sunday afternoon negro youth about
fifteen years of age, while playing in the
Central Railways yards at Fort Valley,
mounted an empty fiat car and started
it rolling down the grade. The brake
chain broke and he was unable to gain
| control of the moving car, which ran into
a string of about twenty refrigerator
cars which were standing on the siding
and put them in motion. After, running
several hundred yards two refrigerator
cars jumped the track and were wrecked
across the main line, obstructing trains
for several hours. But for the heroic and
| prompt action of Mr.. r. L.. Braswell
| there would have been much more Sc
rlous damage. Mr.. Braswell, who is nearly
sixty years of age. sprang on one of the
rapidly moving runaway cars put on brakes
and succeeded in stopping all but the two
end cars, which, were loose from the
-tring. The boy, who was working for
Sc road gang, was arrested.
A. mistria was declared in the Clyde
Turner damage, suit against the Mercer
Athletic Association, in Macon Monday
afternoon, the jury standing nine "a
shree in favor of finding for the plaintiff
II apart for them, and were so far apart
II day long the jurymeni sat in the room
agreeing on the case that Il was not
/ a en- discussed and each man employed
l mself with trying to keep cool. Home,
weet Home" was sung and sad faces
gazed from the jury room windows. Nine
L Of the iurymen were in favor of finding a
full verdict for $4,000 for the plaintiff,
4 while three were In favor Of framing a
verdict so that the plaintiff would lie exon
i Grated from the charges made by the Ath-
letic Association but TO relieve the de-
i fendant association from any liability for
damages, sustaining their plea of privil-
eyed communication. but not OF justlnca-
ton. These three iurymen. who thus con-