The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-16


Run 10 Cover.
GEORGIA.
Americus is TO have an organized camp
OF confederate veterans.
Crawford county viii ship S25Oo0 worth
OF fruit and watermelons this season.
j. c. Russell has been appointed post
master at Violet. MeriWether county, vice
". d. Russell. resigned
II is reported that phosphate rock in
paying quantities has recently been dis
covered on Line creek, about eight miles
east Of Americas.
News comes from the wool districts Of
Southeast Georgia that the severe winter
has destroyed large numbers Of sheep and
that the wool crop viii be short
DR.. Joseph Stevenson. one Of Sumter
County's oldest and best known residents.
is critically i'll at his home in the Fiji
teenth district. and little hope is enter
tain Of his recovery.
John COmas, originally OF Spain. aged
about s., was stricken with paralysis a
his home at Bailey, Monday. His early
death seems a certainty. He has resided
in Appling county probably sixty years.
The postoffice authorities have discon-
tinued the post office at Berkshire. in
GWinnett county. The mail which form
erly went there will go TO Lilburn. It
was discontinued because Of the light
mails that were received.
Fire badly damaged the house Of Judge
James r. Lyle at Athens Monday morn
ing. The roof was burned of and furni-
ture damaged considerably by water The
losses will amount TO $50 or 500. The fire
originated from a defective stove fue.
Judge Lyle carried 5000 insurance on the
house and 500 on the furniture.
j. F. Mitchell. a farmer living in Sandy
Creek district, in Cobb county. is in pos
session of a remarkable COW. The COW is
% years old, and the remarkable part
about her is that she has given milk con-
tinuOusly for the past seven years during
that time having no calves and is still
giving large amount of milk daily.
The incendiary who burned Dan Brad
ley's barn In Stewart county has been
captured. George Williams. an insOlent
negro whom Mr.. Bradley had had occa-
sion to reprove. was suspected Of the
crime. Immediately after the burning a
detective was employed to work up the
case and Williams was caught in the act of
setting fire to a stOckade on Bradley's
river plantation.
There was no poison in the medicine
which was alleged to have caused the
death Of two OF Scott Sewers children.
who died at Atlanta about one week ago,
under what was considered suspicious cir
cumstances The medicine which was al
legged to have caused their death has been
analysed by Prof. John NJ. MeCandless.
one Of the best known chemists in the
state and his analysis shows that the
medicine contained no poison whatever.
on Monday night the young men OF
Cochran organized a library association
under the name of the Young Mems Social
Club, with the following officers. A. j.
Thompson, Jr., president; J. II. Grins-
by, secretary; W. w Poole, treasurer,
T. II. Wynne. librarian. Revs. G.. s. John
ston and p. a. Jessup were elected to
honorary members. The "Y. NJ. S. O. has
secured the two-story brick building be-
longing TO ]. II. Mullis, Sr., as their clup
rooms.
T. j. Allen of Harmony Grove, who
was member of Company /, of the For
ty-ninth regiment of Georgia volunteers
in the confederate army, has a little
thread board, which he made from the
part of the apple tree under which Gen.
Lee surrendered in 1865. Mr.. Allen says
after the surrender every soldier who
souvenir, and that 1t did not take long
for the whole tree roots and all, to dis
appear from view
The Grand Council of Georgia Of the
order of Red Men is in session at Aus
tell. Grand Sachem J. X. Harris with one
hundred warriors and braves arrived
Tuesday. They were met at the depot by
a committee from the Pedee tribe and es-
corted to the Presbyterian church where
ed with prayer by Presiding Elder Pierce.
3. H Cameron, prophet of the Pedee tribe
made an address of welcome in behalf or
the citizens. Mr.. Bailey Of Griffin spoke
in response Rev. A. d. Echols welcom-
ed the visitors in behalf of the Red Men
Of Austell. The meeting was closed with
an address by A. n. Manucy of Savannah
composing the delegates to the grand
council of Georgia repaired to the hall OF
the local lodge where they went into ex-
ecutive session. Yesterday the corner
stone of the orphans home was laid with
becoming ceremonies by the Masons.