The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-15
The Georgia Peach Crop.


The Macon Telegraph has been paying
some attention to the peach crop Of the
fruit sections of Middle Georgia From
the estimates made by peach growers and
others who have been through the peach
growing section the conclusion is drawn
that tho crop will be an average one.
The crop in some of the particularly ia
vored localities will be above the average,
while in other localities, in which the con
ditions have been rather uufavora BILE, the
yield of many of the orchards will be be-
low the average.
But the crop, as a whole will, it is en-
timated, be larger than that of last year,
because a great many trees came into
bearing tins year
Peach growing has assumed large pro-
portions in some of the middle counties.
For number of years there has been a
gradual enlargement of the area devoted
to the culture of the fruit,
and it will not be many years
before Georgia will attract as much at
tention as peach growing state as Della
ware and Maryland. The soil and climate
of portions of Middle Georgia are well
suited to the fruit. Indeed, the peach in
those sections reaches q degree Of per-
lection attained in only few other local-
ties.
The peach crop this year win bring into
the state very large amount of money
and the amount will increase each sue
ceeding year. 1t has only been within
recent years that much attention has
been given to melons, fruits and early
vegetables in Georgia. Now, however
they are very important crops, and will
become still more important because they
are more profitable than cotton.
The life of a Kansas rain maker is like
the lot of a policeman, in that it is not al
ways a happy one. A. B. Montgomery, a
rain wizard, had been coaXing the clouds
for the farmers of Lyon county, and, in
asmuch as some rain had fallen, he and
his clients were jubilant. The wheat
crop seemed assured, and Montgomery
was on the high road to wealth, when
the unexpected occurred. A cloud burst
happened along towards the tail end of
his experiments and played havoe Wheat
fields for miles were devastated, ard
great wdshout on the Santa F'e railroad
caused a wreck in which an engineer was
killed. AS a matter of course Montgom-
cry had to confess responsibility for the
storm. He was sorry that he had gone
and ovcrdone the thing, bat his enthu-
siasm had sos the better of his iudg-
mcnt. That kind of talk woulGn. 1 80
with the farmers. They had Cou traytsd
| for gentle, fructifyinE showers, and
| they did not propose to be the victims of
any excessive enthusiasm on Montgom-
| ery's part, so half dozen or more of his
| former clients at once brought suit for
| damages, fixing the amounts in the ag-
| gregate at about $40 600. The widow of
/ the dead engineer will also bring suit
| against the rain maker Tor $4,000 dam
| ages. All of which goes to show that
the sharper who goes out to Kansas to
! gull the people soon finds out that he has
/ struck the wrong community.
/ Baron Frederick Won Bulow, of Ger
many, relative Of the Baron Won Bulow
! formerly minister of foreign affairs in the
/ Pru5sian cabinet is in New York He
| has an idea that the presence of so many
! Russian war vessels in American waters
/ as are at present at New YORK is full OF
/ significance; of what he cannot or viii
/ not say. There is something in the
( wind, " he said TO friend recently, 'or
/ so many of these big Russian fighters
would not stay here for so long a time
/ ''What do you think is in the wind -" he
was asked II do not know, and would
not tell if did, " he replied The baron,
being loyal to Germany is naturally dis
/ trustful Of the Russians. And when he
! sees the Grand Duke Alexander, cousin Of
| the car, surrounded by fleet, in 4 for
/ eign port for months together, he feels
| quite sure that some Importance may be
! attached to the fact. 1t would be inter
/ esting to know what Baron Won Bulow
! thinks the Russians are up to.
! A former member,of the Kansas legislature
! died in the poorhousc recently. and it must be
! confessed it was rather to the relief of the
! keepers, says the New York Times He was
pleasant enough as an inmate except for one
! thing. He had not forgotten his legislative
! experience. and he was accustomed to expa-
! tate at great length to his crazy blind, Grip
| pied and manned pauper associates upon their
! rights. and what they ought to do to regain
or maintain them. Consequently his fellow
citizens lin the pO0rhouSel were frequently
| reused to a turbulent spirit and when the old
/ man died the keepers feryently prayed that
! he and they might rest IN peace.