The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-28
A JEWELERS. LUCK.
He Purchases an Old Trunk ut an Auction
S.>ix. and Ii..IS N1.,4any

Sale and Finds Money.
Albany, Ga, May M.--(Special)-Mr j.
W. Joiner, well known jeweler of TINS
city, is the subject of congratuation among
all his friends over n piece of great luck
which has fallen to his share. Last Satuf-
day Mr.. Joiner attended q public sale OF
the personal effects of the late General
Henry Morgan and purchased the generals
old leather trunk for the insignificant sum
of $210 Today Mr.. Joiner made an inves-
tigation of the contents of the trunk and
among other things found six United States
bonds, two of $1,000 eacn and four of $10G
each, agGregating s., 400. The bonds are all
per cent interest-bearing issued in 1864
under an act approved in 1864 and due in
l9O4. There are number of transfers on
the back OF each bond and a memoranda
issued by the government which could not
be obtained The accrued interest on the
bonds, which has been running for thirty
years, makes Mr.. Joiners bargain d big
one.
Not even General Morgan's most intimate
friends suspected that he was the possess
SCR OF any wealth save an humble cottage
a few cows and his books. He was emil
n2ntly bohemian in his disposition and
seemed utterly improvident and as his
most intimate friend said today, he allowed
himself to Suffe~ for actual necessities,
when at the bottom of his trunk there was
wealth enough to have made his old age
comparatively comfortable.
pretensions, and one of his productions is
an epic poem forming a poetical history
OF A1nerlcI from the landing of the pill
grims to the execution of Nathan Hale,
which contains six thousand lines, more
than Millions Paradise Lost"
General Morgan spent many years in
the production Of the poem, which is pro-
nounced by competent critics to be of splen-
did merit. It brought the muniicent sum
of $40. Judge Sam w. Smith, the purchaser,
will have it edited and published.
NEARLY A HUNDREDS YEARS OLD,
The Funeral of ''Uncic' DAN johnson
In DeknIb County, T-.~&wr.iay.
A father in Israeli was laid to rest
in Dehaib county Wednesday afternoon.
His name was Uncle Sam Johnson and
his hair was white with the frost of nearly
a hundred years.
The people of the county for miles and
miles around were present at the funeral
W ednesday. On account of his advanced
age everybody knew Uncle Daniel. He was
born in Gilbert county, Georgia, on the
Goth Of December, $780, but moved into De-
kalb county when he was quite q young
man.
At that time the whole of north Geor-
gia was occupied by the Indian and the
people everywhere lived in mortal terror of
the red men. Mr.. Johnson, however, who
was q StaiWaft pioneer, pQuSht MN a
lot and proceeded to erect q house upon
it. Until the time of their death, which
occurred a number of years after%ard, his
aged parents resided with him under the
same roof.
For seventy years, in the quiet life Of
a God-fearing and upright citizen, Mr..
johnson continued to reside on the some
lot and to observe the slow and gradual
changes which altered the appearance 4 ..
the surrounding country, changing
the savage abode of the Indian
beautiful and fertile = main OF
ton.
At one time Mr.. Johnson wSs
of De.SaIb county and served his
the state legislature. Dekalb col
included all of the area now oGt
Fulton and was a vast domain OF
He lived to see his children's child
Jlp around him and to feel the hap
stlrance that he was the father OF
honorable as well as an abundant offspring.
At the age of ninety-fOur with his chill
dren gathered u his bedside and everything
in. readiness for his departure, the Old man
closed his eyes, and Wednesday afternoon,
as the light of the May sun enveloped the
spring fields, he was laid to rest IN the
old family burial ground.