The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


Wilkes County's School Census
Teaching Telegraphy at the Wash
ington Academy and Orphanage-
Thomas County's Crop Of Hen Fruit.
GEORGIA.
A fruit crate factory is to be established
al Brunswick.
The crops in Greene county are better
than ever known before.
Houston county will nominate officers by
primary election on July T.
The latest labor organization in Atlanta
Is a Butchers protective association.
The MarshalvIle cider and vinegar com
pany has made an assignment TO G. s.
johnson.
The Irish Volunteers Of Augusta is TO be
seorganized, and preliminary meeting has
Been held with that end III view.
The Augusta Netos says that If low rates
or special excursions were gotten up, Tybee
would be crowded with visitors from the
up untry.
The shipment of Irish potatoes from the
country around Townsville has about
reached its maximum. The crop was a lit
tie late, but very fair one
Marshallville Times: We saw thirteen
candidates in Fort Valley, last Tuesday in
fifteen minutes. All you have to do in
Houston, when you want 10 see a candidate,
is to shake bush"
The pear-growers Of Thomas county are
providing themselves with barrels and
crates, and shipping will commence early
in July-at first green, to catch the best
prices, and later, better pears for less
money.
Good advice from the Headlight: When
you cut your oats break mp the ground i'm
mediately and let it grow up In crop grass.
Break up all unoccupied ground for some
purpose; fill your barns with hay and quit
buying that grown in distant states.
A mad dog got among the sheep and hogs
In Greene county last week and bit large
number Of them. 1t is said to be a case OF
genuine hydrophobia, as thu sheep and
hogs try to bite everything that comes
near them. Precaution is taken to kill
every one that shows signs Of rabies.
Wat Brown was sent to the changing
at the last term Of the Clarke superior
court for driving horse to death He had
only been in the chain gang a short while.
and his friends and relatives had made up
the money to pay him out. But he was
taken sick with cramp collie on Friday and
died in few hours,
Lumpkin Is now sweltering under the
dissicating heat Of six weeks drought.
Although various portions of Stewart
county have been blessed with good rains
during the last ten days, the air and earth
in and around town are dry. Corn is fail
ing rapidly under the incisive darts of a
vertical sun.
Atlanta will soon be treated TO a temper
ence drama. 1t will be rendered by some
Of Atlantas best talent. Three rehearsals
OF the piece have already been held and
another will be held on tomorrow night
The drama viii be presented about the
middle Of July, and the Capitol says from
present indications will be a success.
George Duncan, tcoiored) at the Baldwin
place, near Winchester, was struck by
lightning Friday afternoon and instantly
killed. His hat and his clothing were liter
ally torn into rags, and yet not scratch
could be seen on ms person, nor was bone
broken. This makes the second death by
lightning near MarshallvilIe in two weeks.
ThOmaSville Times: The egg crop of
Thomas county is assuming mammoth pro
portions. The sales average seventy-iye
dozen per day at ThOmasvills. When II is
considered thata very large per cent of the
crop Is consumed upon the farms, the sum
total Of eggs produced in that county would
astOnish the most liberal calculator. Though
not taken into account, it is no small source
Of income.
Since January /, six months, there have
been only SIX interments of persons who
died in Americas. In all only ten burials
have taken place there, two OF whom were
non-resldents, two stillbOrn infants and the
remainder grown persons who resided there.
Americas, however, is noted far and near
for its healthfulness, and this showing is
nothing out of the general order of things
in the mortality line.
On Thursday lat, about o'clock p. m. =,
llr. John Yarbrough breathed his last at
Ia al cif - I
Lin for many years, and was very old
man, having reached four score and eight
years For long time prior to the first of
this year he had been proprietor of the
Lumpkin hotel He leaves a wife and n
large family Of children and grandchildren
at Lumpkin and elsewhere.
Old Bob Bunkley, an eccentric and De-
culiar negro, who has been rather a noted
character around Clinton ever since free
dom come, died last Friday. Bob had the
reputationiof being weather prophet, and
his predictions scarcely ever failed He
was a mathematician also, but wholly I'M
educated, could calculate and multiply
with great rapiditY, lived all alone and
spent his time when alOno in talking to
Himself" the children say.
The school census of Wilkes county has
been completed, and the great majority of
the negro children of school aye over the
"iAAHSo - hAtHNth1s no bBhlt rum Inc
neighborhood Of Washington are as follows:
White males 434, white females 40l, ma
jority Of 30 females; colored males LOSS.
colOrcd females ], OO9 a majority of 10 males
The aggregate number of children between
q and IS years is 2, 932-whites S35, colored
2,097. The ratio OF colored TO white is 2l5
20 /.
Recent quotations OF melons are low, says
the Thomasville Times. This, however,
may he due TO two causes. First, the spring
in the east has been unusually unfavorable,
the weather having continued showery and
chilly. And, in the second place, the per
cent. of green melons in early shipments
was large. Better prices will probably pro
vail hereafter, the weather being warmer
and the melons better. II is TO he hoped
that the present crop will prove remunera-
tive, for it is not only large, but the future
of this important industry would be seri-
ously affected by low prices this year.
Clark Wilson, the negro who shot a
q woman named EVE Ivey, two miles from
Bellwood, on Friday, says no did it to save
his own life. He says: ~ told her and
her gang 10 let the blackberries on my
place alone, and yesterday saw her pick
Ing Thorn again and rode on my mule TO
where she was and ordered her TO leave at
once She refused to do so, and picking up
a rock, threw 1t at me- IL grazed my
head and knocked my hat off. rolled OH
the mule, and falling on the ground,
surainod NV ankle Tho woman came at