The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-26
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND
SOUTH CAROLINA
NEWS OF THE THREE STATES PUT
TYPE.
GEORGIA.

| AT Adairsville Thursday afternoon about
o'clock Arthur Hightower white boy
| 10 years old, dealt fatal blow with hoe
| upon the head of a 12-year-old negro boy
| named DoIphus MdDow. The killing was
the result of youthful quarrel.
Dahlonega Signal: Mr.. Crawford, who is
now down $50 feet with his shaft near Au-
raria, was in the buag Wednesday. He is
now pumping about 12,000 gallons of wa
Ter per day from his shaft, but will put
in other machinery in order to be equal
10 the emergency in freeing his works
from the subtcrranean current.
Capt I. Fl. Adams. Sr.. died at his
home at Eatonton Thursday night, after
a few days illness. His death is a great
loss to Eatonton, and the militia of the
state, as 1t was through his active eff
forts that the Putnam Rifles were organ
lied. The funeral services were held at
the Methodist Church Friday afternoon.
While boring the artesian well at the
Dawson oil compress plant Friday, a
strata of coal was struck. Contractor
Tinsley. who is sinking the well, says that
the strata is 200 feet below the surface
and is sixty feet i'm depth A specimen of
the coal has been sent to the state chem
list. Parties who profess to be posted on
the subject claim that che coal is of fine
the discovery.
The effects of the recent cold snap on
the fruit crop can be better estimated
now than just afterward, as the milder
weather has caused whatever damage the
fruit might have sustained to appear so
as to be readily detected. The growers in
the fruit sections are almost unanimous
III believing that the prospects are bright
Tor peaches, though many of them fear
a cold snap later on and feel a nervous
ness in regard to the weather, which they
watch closely. 1t is believed now. how
ever, that all danger has passed The dam
age by the recent cold was of no great
moment.
Mr.. Clarence f. Clark has closed deal
by which the famous "Tuckahoe" place
in Screven county becomes the property
of a Western party. This place is about
midway between Augusta and Savannah,
and lies at the junction of Briar creek
and the Savannah river. 1t contains $3.50
acres of land, and is well timbered. The
party buying the land desired it for the
great quantities of cypress cottonwood
and other growth of timber which il CON
tains. The famous miller Lake" is sit
uated on this plantation, which is said to
be part of the old Seaborn Jones track,
or Hotton track.
of the members of the bar and the three
last grand juries that have met have re-
quested Judge Gober to stand again for
reelection to the Office of judge of the
Superior Court Every grand jury that
has met within the past four or five
months in the circuit has made a like re-
quest. He has the support of almost the
solid bar of the circuit and he has an
nounced his intention to run again His
ha MIL Ia al
overwhelming vote. Solicitor General
Hutcherson says that within the last
four years, since he has been in Office
the Supreme Court has not reversed
single criminal case tried by Judge Co
Der in the circuit. Mr. HUTCHINSON is de-
servedly popular and has no opposition.
Judge John C. Hart of the Ocmulgee cir
cult, is enthusiastic on the material pros
perity of the counties composing his cir
cult and particularly on their prospects
for advancement in manufacturing lines
in the near future. A statement made
by him relative to the growth of cotton
mills in the last few months will be re-
ceived with surprise by those with the
impression that this growth has been
confined to one or two sections of the
state within the last six months, -
said Judge Hart, II have chartered six
cotton milling companies in the Ocmul-
mill to each county in the circuit. The
total capital stock of the six companies
will reach $500, 900, the size of the capital
stock varying from 100000 to 800, 900 each. :"
The Ocmulgee circuit is made up of the
counties of Baldwin, LaUrens, Greene
Morgan Putnam, Jasper. Wilkinson and
Jones.
The Pacolet Manufacturing Company
of Pacolet. S. c., has begun work on
! the New Holland Springs property. near
Gainesville, which il purchased last week
for the purpose of erecting thereon ST.
100000 cotton mill. Surveyors We're put
to work Wednesday surveying the prop
erty and laying it off preparatory to the
construction of the plant. The main
building will be located just above the
hotel proper and about 100 feet from the
famous spring, at which so many inva-
| lids have in years past drank and been
| healed. II will cap the brow of the hill
| just 200 yards from the main line of
| the Southern Railway and spur and side
! tracks will be put in by the road, work
! to commence at a very early date The
! Pacolet Manufacturing Company will
! erect a mill an exact duplicate of the
| large plant at Gastonia, N. c., in which
/ the Goulds are interested. 1t will be the
| largest cotton mill under one roof in the
South. and by far the biggest in the
! state of Georgia. 1t will cost 81 900 900 to
construct and equip the plant, which will
/ be housed in a fiVe-story brick building,
130x525 feet. The mill will operate so 900
spindles and 2,40O looms, consuming an
nually 10000 bales of cotton. The daily
output viii be 125,OO0 yards of standard
sheetings, which will be manufactured
for export only. Fourteen hundred
hands viii be employed TO operate the
! mill and the monthly pay roll will amount
to between $4,000 and $2O0O0
FLORIDA.
Strawberries are being shipped from
Lawtey daily, few crates at a time. A
large refrigerator is being built on the