The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-14
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGR APIS.
Ball Game At EmOry-Stewart,
Who Was Stabbed at YuIar "A Few
Days Ago, Not Expected to Live.
CamphOr Culture in Florida.
GEORGIA.
Memms Burr. teller of the City National
Bank al Griffin died at the residence Of
ms father, Tuesday.
A colOred boy, IS years old. named Sulli-
van. was drowned at o'clock Monday af-
turnoon in the river near Augusta.
Caruth is the name Of a new post office
about to be established at Caruth's mill
II will be a great convenience to the people
Of upper Madison and lower Franklin.
The placing of the new headstones in
position at Resaca confederate cemetery
IL Calhoun is now going on and will be
-1mpieted by memorial day, Friday next.
Inc board OF missions Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, which has been
in session for several days in Nashville,
adjourned Monday, after making an as
sessment Of SS5O,oo for foreign missions.
The amount appOrtioned for the South
Georgia conference is $4,000.
Joe Allen has been released from the po-
lice station at Atlanta after spending three
days in prison with Taylor Delk, his faith
er-n-law Monday afternoon Allen was
taken from the police station, the formal
i,y of taking IA warrant and having il dis
missed was gone through with and he was
allowed to leave jail.
The Brunswick Times-Herald gives. in
answer to inquiries as to the twelve best
known men in Georgia, the following list:
fohn b. Gordon. w. Y. Atkinson Henry G.
Turner, w. c. Brantley, Hoke Smith, Pat
rick Walsh, c. Il. Crisp, FlemingG. duBig-
non, Clement Evans, A. O. Bacon, Frank
l. stanton and Henry r. jackson.
R. P Abrahams home on Greenville
street at LAGRANGE was destroyed about
o'clock Monday morning by fire When
Mr.. Abraham and his family awoke the
roof was nearly ready to fall in, and they
had no time to save clothing, furniture or
any lnnS etse. Weary every lndnS was ue-
stroyed. Mr.. Abraham had $500 insur-
ance.
suit in which a large amount of very
valuable property is involved is on trial in
the superior court at Atlanta before Judge
Lumpkn. 1t is the suit of w T. Walker
and others against b. f. Walker The
plaintiffs sue for the recovery or several
very valuable pieces of property in the
neighborhood of Piedmont park. a pOr-
tion of the property is in the park.
The case of DR.. S. w. Arrowood was
tried before Justice Bloodworth at Allan
Ia Monoay afternoon, and the doctor was
bound over on two Of the warrants. His
bond was placed al $500, which was readily
sipned. and be is free DR. Arrowood was
arrested on four warrants-two for lar
ceny, one for libel and one for cheating
and swindling. Three Of them were sworn
out by j. b. Redwine.
oxford correspondence Morning News:
By far the most exciting ball game that
has been played at Emory this season
was played Monday afternoon between
the sophomore and senior teams. The
senior team has not known defeat this
season, and Mondays game naturally at
tracted the attention of the entire college.
The game was very close, the score being
even at the beginning of the seventh,
eighth and ninth innings. The umpire
called the game during the last half of the
ninth inning on accout of darkness. The
sophOmOres were then at the bat, and had
two men on bases and two outs. This
left the score IA to 10 in favor of the soph-
ignores.
Tweed correspondence Morning News:
An unusual and romantic elopement oc-
Cured Sunday, the contracting parties be-
ing colored and the officiating minister
white man. The bride, pretty, bright
mulatto girl of L. named Mary McLendon,
loved Lorenzo Powers, black as the ace
of spades but when her parents discoy-
cred the true relations, they strenuously
objected to his company, and he was FOR
hidden the house. Not long ago they tried
10 elope but were prevented. Sunday night
Lorenzo came and after all were sound
asleep, he was Joined by Nancy. They
made all possible haste to a dense thicket
five miles off and waited for develop
ments Early next morning Rev. John
White met the clippers and made them
one The girls father is hunting the pair
with his shotgun.-A flood of rain, similar
to a cloud burst, occurred in this vicinity
last week. The rain fell in torrents, ana
The wind blew a perfect hurricane. The
growing crops on the plantations of John
Ingpen, Sank Allen and A. Smith We're
entirely destroyed, and the farmers Will
have 10 plant over again. Trees were
uprooted, fencing was blown down. and
out-houses suffered. Several calves and
chickens were drowned, and the rain has
washed out holes in the fields as deep
as a man. The damage is great