The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-03


I hc Bs cultiVatiur coIfOu 1u the entire heId.
and This snof which had been sterile now
I has "a better crop OF cotton than Ihc other
portions. The decay of pea vines restored
the fertility GO the soil
a fatal accident occurred at the Ge1r-
gia Marble Works at Jasper Monday
While the hands were iu one Of the deep
quarries at work a boy gave the
signal bell "a ring and the bell fell
from its place on the end Of the derrick
20 the bottom of the quarry distance Of
more than 100 feet, striking Homer
Blackstone on the head and killing him
instantly. He was a married man and
leaves a wife ana three children. No in
quest was held, as the hands were all
near him in the quarry and saw the bell
strike him. He was a poor day laborer and
[ leaves his family in bad circumstances
Another chapter has developed in the
/ sensation among the cOiOred military IF
Augusta. Capt Lark, Of the Augusta
Light Infantry, was court martialed by
. the staff officers Of the battalion. Lark
now announces that a meeting of his COM
pany, the Augusta Light Infantry, and Of
/ Capt Cummings company, the Attacks,
| viii be held when a letter win be pre-
/ pared asking the state adjutant 10 at
| tach them to some other battalion. If
!: this is not done, Lark says. they viii proba-
/ bly, Withdraw and become independent
| commands. There has been great deal
/ of feeling among the colored military
about these court martials and just what
/ the end will be is hard to say.
/ Americus Times-R Recorder: The steady
/ growth Of the fruit industry in South
/ western Georgia renders anything affect
/ ing the successful raising of fruit, and espe-
/ cially peaches, Of much interest. A Sum
/ ter county farmer who speaks from expe-
rience says that peach trees should al
! ways be planted on the north sides Of
/ hills on the coolest and most exposed
! slopes that can be found. Trees standing
on such lands this year have good peaches
and plenty of them, while other trees of
| the same variety and age on south slopes
! near by, have no fruit a all This is con-
trary TO the theory held by some fruit
raisers, who claim that peaches should
be planted on warm southern slopes and
! protected from northwest winds as much
as possible. But this Sumter county far
mer has proven the reverse to be the true
theory and fruit raisers in this section
win do wen to profit by his experience.
In the Ordinary's Office at Macon a clerk
is busiiy engaged recording the annual
returns of estates by administrators, ex-
ecutors, guardians, trustees, etc. Some
of the estates are very large and require
several pages of the large record book to
hold each of them The largest new re-
Of the estate of Hardin T Johnston. who
died recently. There are other returns as
large and larger, but this is the largest
new return that has been made since last
return term, to-wit: July, 1899. The es-
tate is worth about $3.50 GOO and consists
principally of real estate, the bulk of
which lies in the city of Macon The de-
ceased owned much valuable land lying in
four or five counties outside of Bib Mr.
Julien Rodgers, son-in-law of the de-
ceased, Is administrator. There are four
heirs, Mrs. Johnston and three children.
Atlanta Journal That a blind tiger
should have its lair over an undertaker's
place, and that Sunday whisky should
find a market under the same roof with
embalming fluids, and that living people
should get hilarious in the next room to
cOrpSes, makes an uncommon case of a
very common charge on the police dock
cts. George Young and Thomas Jones
will be tried before Recorder Calhoun this
afternoon for selling whisky on Sunday.
George Young was arrested in his place
Sunday, ana marked money that was
used by the detectives in catching him
was found in his pockets. Young was dis
pensing the fiery fluid in q room over an
uudertaiEer's shop on Piedmont avenue
between the railroad and Decatur street.
Jones was selling his stock in the rear of
! q grocery store at the corner of Piedmont
avenue and Decatur Both men are
negroes.
The Brunswick correspondent of the
MORNING News writes as follows:
Brunswick has now for the first time in
her history one of the best amateur base
ball teams in the state. They are play
ing rafting good ball and have not lost a
game this season, having defeated the
| Fernandinas, F1oridas champion team,
on their own ground. The Fort Valleys,
who lay claim to the Georgia champion
ship, are now here playing series of
three games, the first of which went to
| Brunswick by n score of 8 to 0. The
Fort Valleys are clever people and have
made a good impression on Brunswickians
by their gentlemanly bearing. Bruins
wick team is composed Of Henry Hirsh
catcher; Bob Lawshe, pitcher; Ed
| O'Brien, James Lankersly, Nose Hlrsh,
Abbott, Greenfield, Marshall, Lowe and
/ Strickland Bob Lawshe, Jim Tankers-
ly, Nose Hirsh and Ed. O'Brien are a
whole team in themselves, and do mag
| pihcent work, ~
There was a strange railroad accident
at Longview, upon the Richmond and
DanVille railroad, Monday by which a
negro was killed and a white man very
| badly injured. The negro, Jim McGar-
| rity, lived at Longview, and the white
man, Mr.. Minis, was engineer of freight
train going north. The freight train, ex-
! pecting passenger train No. IL, due in At
! lanta at S:30 o'clock, took the side track
| at Longview, waiting for the passenger
to pass. Engineer Minis took advantage
| Of the stop to oil his engine. While he
! was oiling the machine the passenger
! train came rushing toward the station
| Mccarthy, the negro, coming from be-
! hind the freight engine and not seeing the
! passenger train, stepped upon the track
! just ahead of it. In an instant it was
upon him. He was struck and hurled
from the track dead. The dead body flew
through the air with terrible force and
struck Engineer Minis, hurting him with
| terrible force against his engine The
! dead body of the negro was taken from
| beside the engine where it had fallen and
Engineer Minis was assisted to rise. He
was found TO be so badly injured that he
was put on the passenger train and sent
! 10 Atlanta, and another man was put on
| his engine.
| Americas Times Recorder: Some two
| or three weeks ago one Tom Jackson mar
red the beletof LickslIillet district, in
! Schley county, much to thedissatisfaction
of one Bud Baisdan, who continued his
| visits as of old, until Tom jackson re-
| quested him TO stay away from his house