The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TEE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Declared Forfelted-A Troup County
Lady Who is a Big Plunger in
Stocks-A Model Plartation-A Debt
Paid After Forty Years.
GEORGIA.
W. R. Singleton Of Macon died Tuesday.
aged so years. He leaves a wife and two
daughters. His daughters are Mrs. Eugene
Leonard and Mrs. J. W. Singleton.
The contract for building the new Presby-
terisa parsonage at Washington has been
let. The house will be large, roomy and
beautiful; and will cost S2.0l2. This Ia
cludes the labor and all the material except
the brick
There are some people who can appreciate
'.high art" Aud then again there are
those who cannot. AT Atlanta Tuesday a
Whitehall street stationer filed his window
with q collection of photographs OF female
attracted TO the window by the display. and
the police finally notified the statoner to
put garments on his pictures or put them
tout o sight" Several years ago similar
case occurred. In police court Judge
Emory Speer defended the artistic ste tioner.
one of whose pictures was OF Lady Godiva.
Judge Speer read the beautiful story of
"The Godiva" in court and the
stGtioner was acquitted by reclamation.
Col J. A. Hunt OF Macon filed bill in
Bib county superior court Wednesday
asking that receiver be appointed for the
Macon Gas Light and Water Company.
He claims that the company charges ex-
orbitant rates, furnishes water that is unfit
for use and In several respects has violated
its charter, wherefore he asked that the
charter be declared forfeited and the prop
erty sold. After reading the petition
Judge Miller granted the rule nisi and sp-
pointed Aug. for hearing Of the case,
when the water company will have to show
cause why their contract with the city
should not be Cancelled and equitable rates
established.
Miss Douschka Holoombe, a well-known
society favorite in Atlanta and all over
Georgia. was married Tuesday morning to
wealthy New Yorker, J. Ponce de Leon
Gill The marriage was o clandessine
affair and the young and beautiful bride.
figuring as she does in as striking a romance
as was ever pictured by the pen OF fiction,
is engaging the attention OF all Southern
Georgia. Americus was the scene Of the
romantic marriage, the couple going there
for the purpose of sealing their professions
of love with the holy bans Of marriage The
marriage was conducted by DR.. A. b.
Campbell Of Americas, and occurred in the
parlor at bis residence.
Forty years ago Col John B. Graham of
Lumpk1D county gave Hiram Smith an
order TO the Dahlouega mint for $3.50 ia
gold. Smith was going west and was to pay
back the sum when be made the money in
mining. Fortune did not seem to favor
him. and he wandered through several ter
ritories Of the wild and wooily west, aud
had to contend with sickness He came
home after the war broke. But he went
west again and track OF him was lost And
after forty long years Col. Graham last
week received a check from Smith, cancel
ing the debt. Smith had wandered ioto
British Columbia and secured profitable en-
ployment and did not forget his old cred
itor
The suit of Mrs. A. W. Mitchum Of Troup
county against T. L. Langston for $40, 900,
which Yves fled in the court house at At
lanta Wednesday, shows that she was a
stock market plunger of some Importance.
The petition states that Mrs. Mitchum had
deposited IN 1891 In the Southern Banking
and Trust Company 81 500. which was her
own, and with Youngblood g Haas, stock
brokers, $4,000. She drew on these amounts
from time to time until abe had only So, 800
left. She had the 5000 deposited with
YoungblOod a Haas 20 protect deals in cot
ton, grain, etc. In June, 1891, Mr.. Lang
stou snjoined the bank from paving out
this money. The injunction was granted
temporarily, but on the hearing was re-
fused. Now Mrs. Mitchum sues Mr.. Lang
ston for $4,000 damages for having the
money held up.
G. D. Hudson, near Whitffeid's, has a
body of 1000 acres of the finest land Ia the
state. The plantation is in charge OF J. w.
Oliver, who Is q model superintendent. On
the place are a number Of tenants, one old
negro Last year making twenty-three bales
OF cotton with one mule, enough corn to do
him, and his crops promise 80 do as we'll for
him this year. The crops worked by Mr..
Hudson's wage hands are simply models.
Under every hill OF corn Is a good supply
OF home made compost, and every stalk OF
corn has growing by it a fourishing pea
vine. One field OF sixty aeres in corn will
make an average OF from six TO seven bar
rels TO the acre, and there Is plenty of cot
ton on the place which will make more than
bale to the acre. This farm is conducted
on model system, and by terracinR and
fertilizing the lands are built up and are
better and produce larger crops each sue
ceeding year. Business principles govern
everything, and the rules adopted are
rigidly enforced. The result is the tenants
and hands are well satisfied, the same ten
ants having been on the place for a number
of years, aud they are growing in pros
perity each year.
The shipping season for peaches ia
about over. While there may be few
peaches OF the later varieties yet to gather.
vet the crop, in commercial sense, has
been gathered and shipped. Up to date
duOub OVo CaEluhus uaV6 D5e0 SllppeQ from
Georgia to northern, eastern and western
markets, and that part of the crop that is
yet to be shipped will not amount to more
than five carloads As general thing the
quality OF the peaches this year has been in
terior, owing TO the fact that the excessive
heat and moisture has forced the fruit to
maturity, and, as a consequence making it
small and watery. 1t has resulted in
making the peaches ripen all at. once,
thus placing the bulk of the best part
of the crop on the market at one time.
which, Of course, operated to reduce the
prices. Nevertheless, the growers have re-
allied altogether handsome income from
their orchards this season. The average
price has been about 81 500 per car, or
$3.50, 900 for the crop. Fully this amount
If not more, of cash money has been brought
into the state from the sale OF peaches alone.
The California Fruit TRANSPORTATION Com
pany has been unable TO ship any Of the
crop to European markets as they had in
tended, on account of the watery condition
of the peaches They have all arrange
ments perfected, however, and will take
portion of the next years crop across the
pond. Mr.. Wood Of the California Fruit
Transportation Company declares that in
three years time the peach crop of Geor-
Ria will be ten times as great as
a: the present time, when the young or
chards shall have begun to bear He says
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