The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-28
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.,


ward. Her City Council in compliance
It'll thirty years Of appeals from the
| Denocrat has adopted an ordinance for
Kidding cows upon the streets. "Old Brn-
dIe' has been relegated to the rear.
Hon A. W. Evans of SandersviHe has
announced himself as a candidate for the
legislature, subject to the Democratic
urinary. Col. Evans is a lawyer of some
renown and holds a large practice as a
member of the firm of Evans q Evans of
that place.
An election has been called for April 10
bv the Council to vote on issuing $4,000
bonds to build an electric light plant for
Harmony Grove. There's no doubt but
that the vote for bonds will be almost
unanimous, and soon the town will be
strit " up-to-date so far as lights are con-
cern@d.
The last grand jury of Gilbert county
did not adopt the dog law. That body
recommended that the representative from
T;bert county and the state senator from
mat district use their best efforts to have
a general dog law passed by the next
LEGISLATURE, allowing every family to
have one dog and to tax all above that
number.
Commissioner of Agriculture o. B. Ste
vens. who has been on a tour of the
southern portion of the state for a week,
is now confined to his home with an at
tack of the grip. He was sick for two
da,s in ThomasVille from the same cause,
and since his arrival at his home Satur-
day has been confined there by the ad-
vice of a physician.
There is some stir among the citizens
\ f Thomson in the way of completing the
4 il mill begun last year. A meeting was
allied Saturday in which measures for Sc
uring the unfinished building and equip
mg ii were considered 1t is said a sub
scripton list has been started. Stock will
be sold at 500 per share and capital Of
about $4,000 is desired.
The citizens of Cochran will raise a suf-
cient amount of money TO build a cotton
mill there and will make application for
charter immediatey-$i50OO has already
been subscribed and the committee has
not yet completed it's canvass. As large
I mill as possible will be erected. 1t is
also likely that the Council will call an
election to decide upon water works for
the town, as a petition to that effect
las been signed by the citizens, asking
Council to call an election.
No official announcements have as yet
been made in Fulton county for the Leg
stature. but il is generally understood
that Jack NJ. Slaton and Morris Brandon
will be candidates for reelection. and
that two new candidates will also be in
, the contest these being ex-Mayor Por-
ter King and c. c. Houston, the latter
candidate put out by the American
federation of Trades Mr.. Clarence
movies has been urged to run again,
mt has declined to do so on account of
is bad health.
Dublin Courier-Dispatch: There is no
oossible question but that broom corn can
oe grown here and if our farmers are
wise they will plant a few acres in it. An
Affection crop is ruinous to any farmer
who tries it. Broom corn is as much of
a money crop as cotton. At no time
is there not a demand for it and an acre
Of Laurens countys land will produce
enough of il to at any and all times
make the profit on an acre of broom corn
more than the amount that will be real
lied from the products of two acres in
cotton.
a report is being circulated to the ef-
feet that the State archaeological School
will in short time establish scholarships
for the purpose of training Georgia boys
to take charge of the new cotton mills
that are being built at such a rapid rate
throughout this section Of the country 1t
IS said that Mai. J. r. Hanson of Ma
con is interested in the undertaking and
would pay for six of the scholarships him
self, but Maj. Hanson prefers to say moth
ing about the matter. AS well as can be
gathered there seems to be a sentiment
throughout the South against importing
the expert labor necessary to successfully
conduct the cotton mills, and the mill
owners are determined to educate COM
petent men so as to supply the demand.
The five masted American schooner,
Helen w. Martin is lying at the Southern
Pine Company's docks in Brunswick TAX
1hg on a cargo of crossties. The Martin
is the largest sailing vessel ever on the
South Atlantic coast south of Norfolk,
and her dimensions are something Won
derful She was built in 1S99-1900 at Bath,
Ne, is 2,265 gross tons and 1920 net, meas
ures 290 feet over all, As feet breadth and
y feet depth Of hold. When loaded she
craws q feet, and her masts from the
deck up are 15j feet. This does not in
clude 20 feet of the masts that are below
deck. The masts are single sticks that
We're cut in Oregon, and transported
across country on specially constructed
cars to Bath The Martin will probably
carry about 1000 ties on This, which is
her maiden trip.