The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

the Georgia farmer was never better than
at present Everything raised on the
farm brings sod prices Cotton VIII g
70 10 cents next year ard sugar cane
syrup to g cents Tie southern cot on
mills are responsible for this 70 cate T.
look.
On Sunday evening the dwelling on III
Earbee place about twelve miles from
Statesboro. was destroyed by fire L
was the result Of an Hcendiary. They
tracked the man who set tie huid hs
atire through the snow. Every effort VIII
he made 10 apprehen1 the guilty party
The house was occupied. The pla BE-
longed to Mr.. J. w. Mallary o. Savannah.
Judge W. II. II. Barnes a prominent
and influential citizen of Baldwin county,
has announced his candidacy for the Leg
islature in opposition 10 Hon. Richard
Howard of Milledgeville. Mr.. Barnes has
held various positions of trust In Bad
win county. having been justice OF me
peace for a number OF years, ana belns
al present a County Commissioner. He
controls large saw-miU and other inter-
ests in the county
A special to the Morning News from
Dahlonega says: Gov. Gambler has com
missioned, in the university Cadet Bat
TALON" the following officers of the N. q.
A. College battalion Capt II. d. Gurley'
Jr., Cart H L. Peacock. First Lieut.. A.
J. Welchel; First Lieut.. and Adjt. Angus
tus Byers, First Lieut.. J. II. Byers, Sec
ond Lieut.. r.. L. Sosebee' Second Lieut..
w. j. Mckee The commissions came
Yesterday and were delivered to the Of
ficers at chanel exercises this morning. -af-
ter an impressive talk by President Stew
art.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Columbus
oil i'm tbaSa
January days The receipts of the ware
houses from Sept. l. 1899, to Jan. ], 1900
were 5052O bales. In the corresponding
months the preceding year, the receipts
were 49, 10l bales The stock on Jan l,
1899 was q SOB bales; on Jan. J. 1900, it was
A1s9. The receipts from Jan l. 1899 to
Sept l. 1899, were Is. GO bales. 1t is re-
garded as quite doubtful whether 1900
bales will be received for the rest of the
season. The receipts just now are quite
small. An idea about them can be gained
wi en- it is stated that the receipts yester-
day were only five bales.
Henry Turner, a colored tenant living on
the Mccall farm, near Rome, has been
warned by the whitecappers. Thursday
mcrning Turner awol1e to End a notice in
big letters pinned on his front door to the
effect he must move at once or else his
home would be blown TO atoms with dyn-
ton "Whiteca Opers." Some weeks ago
Dr.. Mccall built a email dwelling in the
center of a former private rOadhed, and
the matter was carried by neShbo.s be-
fore the County Commissioner g. The boar1
sustained DR.. Mccall aud the house allow
ca 10 remain. i is supposed me Of the
Indignant tenants posted the notice Tur-
ner says he Il not afraid and will not move
Judge James NJ. Giggs. owing to illness
IF NF-y r,va,repted fror1 hafper
in Washington az the opening of Congress.
He VIII leave Dawson in q few days Con-
gresham Griggs said he was fully in ac-
cord with the Bacon resolutions. He said
there were TWO kinds Of expansion, nat
ural expansion and unnatural expansion.
The Democratic party had ways been
the leaders of natural expansion. MAJ
ural expansion had TO do with our own
continent The purchase Of Louisiana
aud all territory on this continent was
natural expansion. IL changed not our re-
lations with other countries. But, said
he. this going into the is'es of the sea AMI
declaring in favor Of permanent conquest
ard subjugation of the Philippines was
unnatural expansion.
A Columbus dispatch says: The arrest
Of man in Alabama thought to be James
Hall, an escaped convict, and his subse-
quent Identification, brings to light an in
teresting story. 1t reads more like a nov
el than an everyday happening in a pro-
sale world, but ii is true. Here are some
OF the principal points in the life history
Of James Andrews HALL Stole horse and
got fifteen years. Escaped from the peni-
Tertiary Arraigned for murder convict
ed and sentenced. Confessed that he was
an escaped convict. and claimed that he
was in the pen when the murder was
committed. Fact was established, and he
was acquitted and sent back to the pen.
a T.nc ell q
sary to cause his acquittal Went back to
the pen, and a person bearing his name
is now arrested charged with being an
escaped convict
The Rebuplican Executive Committee for
the Tenth Congressional district met I'm
Augusta at the Court House TO begin the
campaign of 1900 II was a private meet
ing and representatives of the press were
not admitted. Chairman j. M. Barnes of
Thomson, presided at the meeting, and J.
T. Rayford of Wadley was secretary.
Judson Lyons. who is now register of the
treasury Ia Washington, was pres MT at
the meeting and made a speech upon ma
tional and party affairs. 1t will b. remen-
bered that he was national committeeman
to the ST. Louis convention, and Il is un-
derstood that he is laying his pipes for the
same honor at this years national con-
vention. The meeting yesterday pied ged
him support for the position. Everything
seems 20 have been harmonious and Feb.
IT was selected as the date for the district
convention, at which time delegates viii
be selected for the national convention at
Philadelphia.
In Wilcox county the people never cease
to figure on the county site question. The
defeat of the measure i'm the last House
which sought to carry the court house of
the county from Abbeville to Rochelle,
while II attracted greater attention by
far than any other local matter, only
served to make the issue more direct and
TO open the way for legislation in the fu-
tura. The fight for the senatorship Of the
Fourteenth district. composed Of the
counties Of Dooly wilcox, Pulaski and
Dodge, viii be made on the court house
issue and the clans are summoning thus
,arly for contest that will find a climax
only IN the next general election. A well
defined rumor is TO the effect that Robert
" Bowen, Of Wilcox the representative