The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-28


ter Resort Near Braidentown
Fears That "A Case of Smallpox n
MacOn-An Atlanta Lumber Dealer
in Trouble With His Creditors
Steve Ryan of Atlanta knocks q
Man Down.
GEORGIA
There are at present working az the
exposition grounds at Atlanta - carts, -
carpenters, 81 teams and 4sS laborers.
An Americas scotsman. who is making 4
great success Of the business, recently
sold a small package of flower seed grown
and discovered on his farm for the neat
sum of $3.50.
At an election for town commissioners
OF oxford, held Monday afternoon, the
following were elected: ". q. Hardeman
J. >. Bonnell NJ. II. Peed, +. Fort, A. q
Williams, L. Y. Branham and J. 4. John
SON
A New York lawyer was in Americas
Tuesday to secure evidence to be used
in a forthcoming suit for divorce brought
by Mrs Sidney I.ascelles. Of New York
against her husband, Sidney Lascelles
alias LORD Beresford.
W. c. Scott. Of Cleveland. o., who has
been at Gainesville, engaged in mining in
Lumpkin and White counties since July
was thrown from a buggy Monday, and SO
badly hurt about the head and back that
ne died Tuesday morning from conclusion
of the brain.
Two new hotels are in prospect for At
lanta- One is to be built by the East At
lanta Land Company, on the corner OF
Lakewood avenue and Ivy street and the
other by John II. Seals. He will build il
on the old Sunny South lot over on the
eastern nights and will name ii the South
ern Saratoga.
Newt Holden. driver of No. 4 engine
company Of Macon, is believed to be suf-
fering with smallpox, which developed
Monday. The physicians are unable 10
agree on the nature of the disease, but
the patient is being treated as smallpox
suspect. There is no alarm felt, however,
and physicians say 1t Will be fOrty-eight
hours before Holders case is fully devel-
oped
Perhaps the largest pear tree in the
state stands just outside the yard of Mrs.
John NJ Davis, near Madison. BY actual
measurement 1t Is six feet and four inches
in circumference one foot above the
ground, and viii measure fully thirty
five feet in hight Its branches cover an
area with a radius of thirty feet 1t is
no doubt sixty years old, or perhaps
older
Asher Bivins. ex-superintendent Of car
riers of the Macon pOstoffice, who is un-
der charge Of embezzlement of letters from
the postoffice, was released from Jail Mon
day on bond. the bond having been re-
duced from s., 600 10 81 900. Bivins, il will be
remembered, was out under bond for sew
eral months, but when John c. Holmes,
one of his bondsmen, failed a few weeks
ago. he was put back in jail.
There was a difficulty between Steve
Ryan and Dr. ]. Calm at the Whitehall
street crossing at Atlanta, Tuesday.
Those who saw the affair say that Mr..
Ryan was talking to Abe Frye and some
other, when Calm, who is an old man,
walked up and began to join in the con-
eersatiOn. He kept on talking, until
Mr.. Ryan, who was on a business matter,
was annoyed and told Calm to 20 away.
This he refused to do. He kept up his
remarks on this line until he was knocked
down.
The Ellijay Sentinel says that Lloyd
Henson, an old man who has lived I'm
Gilmer county for many years, and has
made a study Of the formation of the
county, has discovered the Great White
Path lead from which the immense depos-
ats of White Path mines come. 1t is his
opinion that the White Path placer depos-
its are a slide from the main lead. He
says the gold is in a porous, rotten sub
stance, resembling ochre and that is
why none of the big nuggets at the White
Path have been found with quartz.
At Atlanta Monday Judge Lumpkir
granted a restraining order against ID. j.
Anderson, the lumber man, on the appli-
cation of several creditors, and set next
Saturday as the day for hearing why a
receiver should not be appointed. The PEE
tition for the Injunction and receiver was
filed by Messrs. Arnold & OBryan, as at
torneys for the Buford Lumber Company,
with a claim OF Sl20, the Oconee Lumber
Company with a claim of S229.79, and j. G.
Wilson with a claim of S54O97 The petit
TONERS allege that the claims are due and
unpaid and that the dealer is insolvent.
A sensational suit for 81 200 was filed
shortly after noon, Monday, in the office
of the clerk of the superior court, at At
lanta. The suit is one which involves
an inegitimate child, and is filed by the
childs grandfather and directed against
the father of the child. The petitioner is
PENDANT is William Nj. Brown, formerly
of Cobb county, but now residing in
Fulton county, and is said to be a man
of considerable wealth. The attorneys
for the plaintiff in the case are II. b.
Moss and Clay and Blair. 1t is alleged
is indebted to the petitioner, Norton, In
the sum of $500. In paragraph 1t is
alleged that on June 8, 1885, Sophie Nor
ton became the mother of an illegitimats
child, which was afterwards named
Mary Rebecca Norton. The second para.
was William NJ. Brown, and that this was
never denied by him. 1t is also alleged
that he fed the county of Cobb on ac.
count of a warrant which was sworn out
at that time, or just previous to that
time. by the mother of the child. 1t is
out a warrant against Brown, who was
then a single man, but who has since
married, in which she charged that he
was the father of the child. and that II
was to escape this warrant he fed the
county. In less than a month after this
birth of the child it is alleged that the
mother died insolvent and left no means
through which the child might be provided
for. The petitioner alleges that he tool
care of the child. though 1t was not In.
cumbent upon him TO do SO, and that II
cost him 800 year during the first five
cost him $40 a year. The little girl is nov
10 years of age.