The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-13


Smash-UP ON the Georgia Rail-
road at Union POint-RocIsmart In
duSsries Putting in New Machin-
cry.
GEORGIA.
Rev. T. :. l. Harwen Of Jonesboro died
Friday.
The prospects are that considerable
building viii be done in brownsville this
Capt. A. G. Butts one of Macon's Oldest
and most highly esteemed citizens, died
Saturday.
Memorial services in honor OF the late
lamented Judge John Erskine Will be
held in the federal court room at Atlanta
this morning at 10 O'Clock.
The Georgia Slate Company. located at
Rockmart, has recently purchased new
and expensive machinery for hosting
slate, rubbish, etc, and has put on q fun
set of hands IL Is now getting out large
quantities Of very fine rohng slate.
The Rockmart Sienna Company has put
in and perfected new machinery for The
purpose Of washing and cleaning Ochre
ana Is now getting ont very superior
grade of Ochre. The company Is working
and has made several large shipments Of
ochre to the north.
deed from Sheriff Barnes to r. c.
Healey for the property Of the Atlanta
Gar Manufacturing Company was placed
on record IN the superior court Saturday.
The deed was made in accordance with
sale at public outcry Of the property. The
price paid was S-SOl1 Mr.. Healey being
the purchaser.
The appointment Of sponsor for Georgia
az the Confederate Veterans reunion At
Houston, Tex. has been made by Mai
Gen Clement A. Evans. and the honor has
fallen to Miss Julia Faulkner Ridley Of La
Grange. Miss Ridley will be escorted from
LaGrange with proper attention by the
veterans OF that city.
petition is being circulated al Griffin
0EnRFaNNV Stoned a. nfarf
TO contribute a hundred dollars toward
getting up 10000 vest pocket pamphlets
descriptive Of Griffin and Spalding county
70 be distributed at the Atlanta eXposi-
ton the coming fall The county viii
also be asked to give a hundred dollars.
Claims for more than a thousand dol
lars have been made by the mail carriers
in the postoffice at Augusta. a special
agent viii arrive in Augusta to-day to in
Vestigate the claims. They are made for
overtime work The postal laws allow
only eight hours work "a sav and some
Of the men have been on duty nine and
ten hours.
Judge w w. Fitzgerald of Stewart
county, has Just finished planting sixfv
acres of cleared river bottom lands in
pecans. The orchard comprises a level
plateau between the ). A. a NJ. railway
and the ChattahOOchee river The young
trees are planted in check rows forty
feet apart, and will begin bearing wen in
seven years.
An idea for new, novel and decidedly
originated by Lucien York young artis-
tic decorator of Atlanta. Mr. York's idea
lS, IN brief, TO erect a building in the
shape of a bale of cotton and cover n
with cotton and jute bagginc. so thar If
would be perfect representation of a
bale of cotton on an enlarged scale.
The case of the heirs of the late A. w.
Bingham against T. n. Bingham. execu
tor. which has been pending in the ordi-
narys court at Newman since january
lsss4, on citation for settlement. was de-
COED yesterday. In his decision Judge
Persons finds that the executor is due fbo
heirs NVO0, and the latter is cited to make
settlement with the heirs on this basis.
4 negro named Nose Fortune broke into
Ielght car at the Elberton depot of tho
Seaboard Air Line road Friday night
he escaped, but the case was put SIN the
.1 stIas q chief of Police p. II. Ham. who
iolowed him to Middleton. captured and
landed him. safely In iaiI. me negro
claimed that he broke the car for fbe
purpose OF stealing a ride to his home
S. c. oou'
Friday there was very destructive
SiouqDurst and hailstorm on the Mott and
n hIrlKeld plantations in Schley county.
raVages of the storm were confined lai.re-
~ 70 these places, completely DESTROYING
t !il Irult and crops of all kinds. Not a
nestlse OF corn or cotton was left and
1nese crops will have to be replanted
Ihe storm was the most severe ever
known in that locality.
II IS said that the Moreland fruit-grow
Sfs VIII re quire one hundred Thousand
baskets TO pack the grape crop this season
not counting the peach crates and straw.
perry cups that will be needed L. \.
lamp alone will use 5000 baskets and Or
" Il. Camp viii probably need as many
more. Inc Moreland crate factory IS run
nlng on full time, and it may be necessary
10 put OF night force to keep up with the
orders that are pouring in by every mail.
The prohibition campaign is on and
Wllnln the next sixty days the voters OF
Spaldlhg county VIII say whether it is to
De wet or dry Heretofore the ants have
always carried il by a good round major
lty, but now, after a lapse of several
years. the prohibftionfsts have oafned
such strength that the issue is extreneIS,
doubtful That the question would be
brought up this summer has never been
mold II last August, and it likely will be
called Tor some time in July.
A serious and perhaps fatal. accident
10 Joseph smith of the Ninth district, Car
r fli county, on the evening of May /. Mr..
the day at that place, and on his way home
ne fell from his buggy, getting one OF his
feet fastened in the running gear of the
extricate himself. He was dragged several
miles, tearing his clothing off and terri
bly, decorating his back. There is but little
hope of his recovery. Mr.. Smith was can
didate last year for sheriff but withdrew
before the primary came off.
Macon Telegraph: The court of claims
was represented in Macon Saturday bv
Commissioner Henry L. Lorenz. Clark
McKercher, Of Washington, representing
Charles and William b. King and George
A. King, the letter carriers attorneys
was in attendance upon the court Evi-
dence was taken for nearly $40, GOO worth of
claims made by Macon letter carriers for
overtime between May "a, 1888, and April
80. 1898. The law requires that carriers
shall work only eight hours each day. By
authority of a law fathered by Sunset,
Cox, they are entitled to overtime for all
time above the eight hours Commissioner
LorenZ stated to the Telegraph reporter
that during the time since January. a
year. ago. he had adjusted S7O0. 600 worth of
these claims, none of which have been
dlsallowed by the department. He thinks
they will run up to 100000. At the last
long term session of congress about $40
600 were appropriated for the payment of
overtime claims, and at the short session
about $4,000 more were appropriated for
the same purpose.
A short time since it was announced in
some of the newspapers that the late
Aquiua J, Cheney of Fulton county Will
ed 100000 to Mercer university at Macon
Persons who have read the will in the
court of ordinary of Fulton county since
the above announcement say they can't
determine Just what amount exactly is