The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA

lew cotton mill will soon be built in
LAGRANGE, and during the coming week
onntcation for a charter will be made.
For mis- the third big cotton mill in La
Grange. the stockholders are looking for
good name.
Aaron Tucker brought one of the finest
snecimens of the red fox to Fort Valley
saturday afternoon seen there in a long
time 1t was captured on Messy creek,
in crawford county This is the fourth
cau.ebt by the same man in the past
month. and ne says the county is overrun
with "Brer Fox"
Master Peter Hendricks. son of Hon
W r. Hendricks, the present representa-
five of Tattnall county, was accidentally
shot Saturday morning al Claxton. He
and some other boys were playing with an
old revolver, which went off giving him
a severe wound in his left hand and also
in his thigh. The wound is a painful one
but not serious.
Greensboro Herald Journal: bastard
IL atlemp, to wreck a Georgia Railroad
rain fortunately unsuccessful, was made
few nights ago. Bob Fleming, the colored
blacksmith. found a city lamppost stuck
fast into the frog at the end of the long
switch below town, he finding ii early in
the morning. Had a train passed during
the night. after the frog had been plug
ced IN it would have been derailed and in
all probability wrecked.
FITZGERALD Citizen-Leader; We under
stand a negro employee of Sidney Clare be-
zane enraged at a mule he was driving
last week and struck it on one of its hind
legs with large club breaking the bone
and necessitating the killing of the ami
NAL In such cases it is to be regretted
that the whipping post is abolished as
capital punishment Is scarcely admissa-
bic. while fine or Imprisonment is either
inadequate.
Information has reached the Prudential
Committee of the board of trustees Of
Mercer University from their legal repre-
sentative in Atlanta that the Institution
Will receive at least $4,000 mere from the
Cheney estate. The income of this
amount will be used as a loan fund for
the education of worthy young men in
Mercer University. Last year the insti-
tuition received something like goo from
the same estate. This makes altogether
about $4,000 from the Cheney estate for
the purpose mentioned.
Americus Tlntes-R Recorder: Mr.. F.~-B.
Arthur returned here yesterday from
Smthville. where he went to look after
lot Of cotton He not only bought the cot
ton he went after but cleaned up the town
as we'll buying all that was remaining
in the local warehouse. There was less
than a hundred bales in the town, and
smthvine will now probably be without
cotton until the next crop is made. Very
little cotton is held in the small towns in
this part of the state and less than 5000
bales are held in the Americas warehouses
Mayor T. M. Brady and Council of Can
ton have organized for the new year by
the reelection of the officers of last year,
10 wit: Col Lee Mullins Mayor pro tenn;
J. W. Jarvis secretary and treasurer and
pat" ButterwoTth, marshal The town
is well Differed and the rate of taxation
the past year was only 81 on the $1,000
of taxable property. The enlarging OF
the Georgia Marble Finishing Works and
consequent increase in the force of hands
employed there, together with the work
soon to begin on the erection of the $780,
0@ cotton mill is giving Canton somewhat
of BOOM
Macon Telegraph: Lovers of dogs, as
WEI as the members of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, will be
delighted to know that the city authorl-
ties have just completed a house for the
detention of dogs caught out on the streets
without badges that will provide comfort
for the luckless CANNES. The house is ten
ie1 wide by twenty-four feet long, divid-
ed into two compartments, one for dogs of
noble birth and one for dogs of low de-
sree. Arrangement has been made for
stream of water to pass through the
house so that there will be no cruel treat
ment so far as confinement is concerned
The mDounding officer starts out on his
rounds at midnight of the last day of this
month, and he is a lightning artist. All
doss found in the city without badges
may safely calculate on being caught and
im1ounded.