The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-17
I GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
VIEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

The grand jury of Tattnall county has
commended a new court house 70 cost
$4,000
rwenty-one hundred tons of guano have
been shipped to Roswell this season. This
l. , record breaker by 600 tons.
rv-rrnited States Deputy Marshal w. NJ.
1airston will run for the Legislature
tram Clarke county on the Republican
ticket.
The Governor will allow each of the
three divisions of Brunswick Naval Re
ssrves $50 to pay the expenses of the
l,rning cruise on the L. S. S. Prairie.
me Secretary of the Navy has been 70
fed that the Georgia reserves Will make
fe cruise.
The Sixth Georgia district will nomi-
ate a candidate for representative IN
onoress at Macon on June 80. This ac-
I'm was taken at a meeting of the Con-
.rassional Democratic Executive Commit
which was held in GAINESVILLE Satur-
Congressman Charles L. Bartlett
was indorsed.
license of $500 per annum has been
commended by the Tax Committee of
+ba Atlanta City Council for hypnotists AMI
those who heal by magnetism. This has
bfen included in an amendment TO the tax
ordin@nce which has been approved by
RE Tax Committee, and which will no
doubt be adopted.
Hon. Clarence Knowles of Atlanta, after a
lingering Illness, died in Pensacola Satur-
dav morning shortly after O'Clock. His
wife and Two children, besides large
number of relatives, were present at the
last hour, and many friends were also
with him. His funeral took place in At
Ianta Sunday afternoon.
Fish now abound in great plenty in the
satilla river. party of Macon sports
men composed of Messrs. c. A. Turner,
Washington Dessau, William Brunson,
Vic Manard b. NJ. Davis, Judge FELTON,
and Others will leave Wednesday week
for that place. where they will spend sew
eral days in fishing and recreation.
Mr.. Alfred Erik, an influential citizen
who lived near Calhoun, died Friday aft
ernoon while sitting in a chair in the
grocery store of ]. NJ. BaHew. He was 46
years old, and il is supposed his death
was caused by heart failure. He was jok-
in2 and laughing with his friends only a
moment before the end. He leaned back in
his chair and gasped once, when it was
4 seen that he was dead.
The Medical Association of Georgia
/ meets in Atlanta on Wednesday morning
and continues in session until Friday, on
which date the final exercises of the ses-
4 sion will be held The programme for
\ the fifty-frst annual gathering of Georgia
physicians is one of the finest ever pre-
\ pared for the organization, and the SEES
\ suus will be of such nature as TO insure
n interest to the general public
Amercus will probably have two repre-
H sentatives among the staff of the Fourth
Il Georgia. DR. c. p Davis has already re-
H ceiyed his appointment as sergeant major
n Of the Fourth, while Prof. J. f. Mathis
q win be appointed regimental commissary.
lie has already been ordered before the
a Examining Board at Albany headquarl-
n ors of the Fourth Regiment, and will re
n ceive his commission, with rank of cap
"A tain, in a short while.
Amercus Times Recorder: The fact
n that Sumter county can raise as fine beef
n cattle as ever tramped the Western plain
was emphasized yesterday in a purchase
drove of 100 beeVes, rolling fat. the largest
weighing 800 pounds The drove came
Fl through town. a negro man riding the
II lead steer" bareback, and occasioned
a much favorable comment. These beeves
8 are made seal fat on dry cotton seed hulls
and al tri1ng expense. Every farmer in
Sumter should raise at least dozen
beeves each year. There is big money in