The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-11
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEOR GIA.

.+rator of Justice in Hazlehurst, fined DR..
- f,o1weU $50 the other day for selling
g.hfsI1y and bound him over to the City
Court.
The Terrell County Democratic Execu-
tive committee met in Dawson Saturday,
and ordered a primary for May 10, for the
nomination of state and county officers
L l. Rainey was elected chairman and
G. W. Gunnells, secretary.
The formal opening of the Price Free
library in Macon took place Friday at
terno0n. There were no exercises, but the
M ais were present and the visitors who
came were royalty entertained. The libra
nv is now in a fiourishing condition.
1Tessrs. A. w. Bobo and John II. Haw-
kins of Floyd county, recently sold val
uahle deposits of bauXite to the Republic
Mining Company of Pittsburg, Pa. The
n mes are located near the county lines
O Polk, and sold for the snug sum of So
c..
w. G. Clark, the man who was arrest
ed several days ago on the charge of
blowing and robbing the safe of the
bank at Perry, Ga, has been indicted for
burglary by the grand jury of Houston
county and the case will be tried in the
Houston Superior court next week. He
claims an alibi.
The Seventh Congressional Democrat
ic Executive Committee meeting at Rome
Saturday was attended by ten members,
representing six of the thirteen counties,
The meeting was entirely harmonious.
Hon w. J. Neel was indorsed as a dele
gate from Georgia to the National Demo-
cratic Convention in Kansas City.
The Eastman Volunteers have moved
their armory from the Uplands Hotel to
the hall over Mr.. w. H. Clements store.
They have Just received forty new uni
forms. and will soon be prepared to ap-
pear on dress parade. Those who can
not secure a fit from che sizes sent will
have to get tailor to make the neces-
sary alteration.
A few days ago the ladies of the Memo
rial Association of Albany asked the city
fathers for 800 with which to purchase
slabs for the graves of the Confederate
soldiers buried there. II was made known
that at that time the city could not af-
ford this but when Mayor Brown heard
the request he Immediately gave the Ia
dies the required amount. Before Me
mortal day every grave of the Confeder-
ates here will be marked with a small
marble slab.
Miss Matte Jenkins who lives three
or -FOUR miles south OIL Lid Orange, was
so badly burned Friday afternoon that
she died Sunday night of her injuries
1t seems that her little brother had lost
the hammer to his gun in some grass
and set fire TO it in order that he might
find it. Miss Jenkins went out to where
her little brother was and was trying to
keep the fire back from a fence, and in
some way her clothing caught and
burned entirely off of her She suffered
greatly until death.
The Carolina-Georgia debate, which
took place Friday night in Gerard Hall.
al Chapel Hill, n. c., resulted in a vic
tory for ehe Carolina boys. The ques-
ton discussed was: Resolved, That
the English system of govern
ment answers better to the needs
Of free and self-governing peo-
pie than does that of the United States"
The Georgia debaters spoke for the affirm
alive, Messrs. R. Hume Smith of But
Ter, Ga. and E. c. Wellington of At
lanta defended John Bulls sytem of gov
eminent.
special to the Morning News from
Hazlehurst, says: John Darlington, coll
ored. got over balanced, and apparently
jumped as far as he could into the Alta
maha river near here, and drowned. There
were Jeff Keeterer, Joe Rodgers and one
Or two other negroes on the raft of tim
Der with him, tied about two miles below.
Where the drowning took place, They
cooked meal and ate it and spoke I'M
cncernedly and indifferently of the man
Darlington being drowned Some think
that he was murdered. No white men
We're along.
At a meeting of the Democratic Exec
utve Committee of Gwinnett county, res
cmtons were adopted. calling for white
limo Nav .
nation Of candidates for Governor. state
mousse officers, justices of the Supreme
Court prison commissioners, congress-
men from the Ninth district, solicitor gen
edl FOR the western circuit and for eX-
pressing the choice of the party for Unit
ca states senator white Democratic
primary was also called for Aug. /, for
nomination of candidates for the Legisla-
lure including senators and representa-
uNts, county commissioners and the va
rous county officers.
Lumpkin Independent: Capt. Hardaway,
now civil engineer for the Georgia Pine
halfway, completed a survey for the pros
FsctlVe extension of the road from Cuth-
merit to Lumpkin The survey was COM
IIIeted to this place on Wednesday. Capt.
lhardaWay was heard to say that he can
&'I an excellent. practical route between
inc Two places As the route is being grad
co. from Arlington to Cuthbert. the peo-
Pc or Lumpkin and Stewart county
should take steps towards Offering am
!le inducements and announcement for
,le road to be brought to Lumpldn This
would give the county all the railroad ia
e.uIes and conveniences that will be
needed in a long time.
state Entomologist w. M. Scott thinks
nat after one more week the weather
notions can not endanger the fruit
op' and in his opinion, the present in
Catohs are that the yield will he the
'ISest the state has ever produced He
'oes nor think that the cold which per
| duel the state "A week ago has injured
10 trees, although in some of the or
arHs IN the northern section of the
.''e about half of the blossoms on the
''es were killed. and on others still less
image was done, making an average
thal section Of about twenty-five per
W, loss in blossoms. In the southern
IONS OF the state he says the boss
nave not been injured and the crop
acucally safe now, although CON
us rams at this time OF the year
't II he lniuriO1a 10