The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-19
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

Jackson county has a new enterprise.
A complete roller flour mill is now being
mt in at Hoschton by Braselton Bros. &
Cooper. The daily capacity is fifty bar
rels of flour and 500 bushels of meal.
Charlie Hearn, a young white man who
lives a5out five miles out in the country,
near Norwood was found in the woods
sday morning near his home with his
I cut and in a precarious condition.
EsI7p. ester Chronicle: The peach crop in
+ Alba n county cannot be excelled. With
sme' few days the most luscious peaches
r. ever tickled a palate will be ship
4, / from here TO the North by the car
ad.
/ One of the most startling discoveries
Ground Gainesville is the mammoth bed of
marble on the New Holland property,
which was recently purchased by the Pa
oolet Manufacturing Company for the pur-
pose of building $l,00O,OOO cotton mill
on it,
Chautauquas have grown in favor with
the people of Georgia, Albany, Hawkins
willie. GAINESVILLE, Tennille and other
owns have held them successfully. Now
Nrightsville proposes to hold a chautau-
| programme is most inviting. Wednesday
will be military day, and the Second
Regiment will have a competitive drill.
| Thursday is designated as Gordon's day,
| and Gen. Gordon will lecture. Subject,
THE Last Days of the Confederacy."
Columbus Enquirer Sun: The farmers of
this section are planting more sugar cane
than ever before this year. The farmers
now have a market in Columbus for all
the syrup they can make The demand
has been greater than the supply for sew
eral months past, but The farmers say that
they will make all the syrup the local re-
dnery can handle this year. The entire
syrup trade of a large section of Georgia
and Alabama is being concentrated at Co
lumbus, because a refinery is located here.
1t will not be many more months be-
fore LAGRANGE will hear the whirr of 5000
splndles as they twist the fieecy staple
into beautiful white yarns. Last week
Troup Superior Court granted a charter
for the Unity Cotton Mills and temporary
organization was perfected by electing DR..
T S. Bradfield temporary chairman: Mr..
n r. Hutchinson, temporary secretary,
and Col. Joseph e. Dun, president of the
LAGRANGE Banking and Trust Company,
temporary treasurer. A little over $780, 600
was subscribed m the way of stock, 10
per cent. of which is 20 be paid in on
or before June l.
Dublin Courier-D Dispatch: On Tuesday
last Mr.. Jerry H. Yopp, encouraged to
40 so by the spirit of the resolution in
roduced by Mr.. II. NJ. Stanley in the
mass meeting of the Democratic party
that morning and which was unanimously
adopted, went before the Democratic FIX
ecutive Committee and pledged his sup
port to the Democratic ticket for the rest
of his life. For the past eight years
Mr.. Yopp has affiliated with the Populist
party and four years ago was elected a
County Commissioner on that ticket. All
during this time, however, there was no
one but believed him conscientious and his
opinions were respected accordingly. AS
County Commissioner his every act has
been for the good of the county, and
hough he may have made occasional mis-
takes. all knew that they were only hu-
man once and not Intentional Seeing that
there was no longer need of the Popu-
list party, Mr. Yopp leaves it and returns
10 Ehe folds Of democracy.