The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-31
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

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GEORGIA.
The rice crop around Darien looks very
fine.
There is but very little timber coming &c
Darien just now. There are now in port
loading with timber and lumber seven YES
sells.
Ben Hill Thompson, one of Atlanta's
most prominent and promising young men,
is lying at the point OF death at the home
OF his uncle, Hon. Benjamin Ii. Hill.
It is reported that Hugh T. Inman of At
lanta and associates will, in the near future,
convert the old exposition building at
Rome into 5000 spindle cotton factory.
Sixteen years ago Athens had only two
trains day. Now there are twenty mail
trains In and out of Athens every twenty
four hours, besides a large number Of
freight trains.
James H. Weiss Of Albany died Saturday
night He was a member of the firm of
Weiss q West, warehousemen. and was a
business qualities.
Crops are looking fine all over the coun-
try surrounding Whigham. In about two
more weeks watermelons and muskmelons
will be ripe. Whigham, according TO the
Grit, is destined to be a strong mining and
manufacturing town.
]. W. Ryckman has lost his position as
secretary of the Augusta Chamber OF Com
merce. He was employed 10 travel north to
try and induce capitalists to make invest
ments around Augusta, but it appears that
Mr.. RYckman was not very successful.
A pathetic chapter in the Stocks murder
case has just been written. Mrs. John T.
Stocks, mother Of Porter Stocks, now con-
fined in Fulton county jail convicted. OF the
murder of Cassin, has advertised her
household furniture Tor sale at auction to
raise money for her erring son. 1t is an
other instance of a mothers love and devo-
ton.
On last Thursday evening a curious dis
ease struck the hogs of Mrs. N. r. Strip
hngs, near Heard. About O'Clock in the
afternoon the first hog was discovered sick
and died In few minutes, ard In a short
while the second one was taken the same
way, and SO on until the next morning,
when eleven good-sized shotes were found
dead. 1t is supposed to have been caused
from eating sprouted cotton seed.
Willy Harvey, negro with an unsavory
reputation, tried to kill his wife near Ameri-
Gus Saturday, cut q white mau in the back
and gave the officers a tough fight before
being landed in Jail. He and his wife have
been separated and yesterday he found her
an ugly knife and assaulted her, cutting
bad cash on her face. David Cham
bliss intertered and received a cut in
the back for his trouble. Some negroes
who tried to help the woman were chased
out of the neighborhood.
Marshallville, which shipped more
peaches in 1889 than any other place in the
state, and will probably do 50 this year, is
just now in the turmoil Of preparation for
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only quite as full as the great crop of 1889.
but since that year many more trees
thousands-have been added to the orchards
already planted. The peach interest has be-
come general. Those who do not go into it
as business plant a few thousand in order
TO diversity. Where land is scarce the back
yard is planted, just for luck. Numerous
Instances could be given where half dozen
trees stuck down in the yard have in one
seaeon yielded $40 to $50
Levi Anderson, representing the Macon
Grocery Company, has recently returned
from trip to the country and gives an in
teresting account of a meeting with one of
Georgla's most celebrated criminals. He
states that while driving through the
country near the station Of Lyons, on the
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery road.
he was met by man whom his driver
recognized as Ben Swales, the celebrated
Dublin outlaw, who escaped from Dublin
Jail several months ago. AS the team APP
proached Swales he raised his rifle to
ready and covered the occupants until they
had gone out OF range. Swales is accused
OF the murder of his son-in-law. and thsre Is
$1,000 reward for his arrest
Three thousand seven hundred and sixty
one dollars and fifty cents has been SUBJ
scr1oed toward the exposition proposed to be
held at Columbus this fall. This is about
half the amount required, and the commit
tee secured it with less than eight hours'
work. Early Saturday morning the twenty
one gentlemen who have been selected to
interview their fellow citizens and ask them
Tor money met on Hamburger & Williams
corner and started on their travels about
the city. Everywhere they were met with
courtesy, and amounts of greater or less
magnitude were donated. The committee
men have undertaken the big task entirely
from desire to benefit the city, and al
though they are satisfied with the work so
far accomplished, they feel that unless the
merchants and corporations who have not
YET oeen visited come up handsomely the
required sum may not be raised and the ex-
position will be an impossibillty.
Victor Smith son of Bill Arp. went from
his home in Gainesville about half dozen
years ago and became a reporter on the
New York Tribune. He soon became SO
thorough in writing up horse races that he
was assigned to that exclusively. He knew
every trick of the trade, so to speak, every
by.word of the stables, every rule OF the
judges stand, every horses pedigree and
capacity better, perhaps, than the horse
men themselves after he had followed the
work few years. He had to know it.
That's what he was there for, :" as the boys
say. The sequel is that he has lately been
appointed one of the three judges OF the
New York and Brooklyn race track asso-
Citations, with a salary of 5000 a year
with only five months work out of the
year.
Adel NelCs: Jordan Dupree, son Of G. r.
Dupree, who resides near Vildo, this county,
died last Monday from the effects of an ac-
oldent which occurred while he was in at
tendance at school last July. The mann er
in which young Dupree received his in iuries
which ultimately caused his death was very
peculiar. 1t seems that he was at play
with other children on the school ground.
and running around the corner OF the school
house hurriedly collided with girl running
from an opposite direction, the two striking
their heads together with such force as to
knock each other down. The girl received
but slight injury while young Dupree's
skull was broken above the left eve. He
has been under treatment ever since the
accident occurred and everything was done
that could be to save his life but to no avail.
Waynesboro True Citizen: One of
Waynesooro's greatest needs is a good
hearse 1t is strange that the people who
believe 30 strongly in fine horses and car
riaRes, and who bury their lovad onas In tba