The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-23
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Georgia at the Omaha Exposit ion-In
tcrcsting Insurance Case.

tcrcsting Insurance Case.
ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 20.-At n meeting
of the commissioners in charge Of the
Georgia exhibit at the Omaha Exposition
held to-day for the purpose OF closing up
the affairs of the exhibit, there were turn
ed over to the board seventeen medals
captured by Georgia at the great West
ern exposition.
OF the seventeen medals. eight are gold,
or first prize medals, two are silver and
seven are bronze, the following being
list Of the awards:
Gold medals, collection Of fruits, orna-
mental lumber and timber specimens.
aluminium ores and products; III products
from twenty-hve-acre farm in Georgia;
agricultural exhibit: collective exhibit.
building stones. marbles. GRANTEES, etc;
display OF cotton seed products Silver
medals: Exhibit Of grains, grasses and
cotton; mica, graphite and asbestos.
Bronze medals: Iron and manganese ores;
Indian corn; sugar cane and syrup. supe-
riori quality: timber specimens; factory
cheese; clays, kaolins. etc; gold ores.
There was some money left over from
the exhibit and this will be used i'm pub
fishing a book covering the working Of
the commission and descriptive Of the
state and the exhibit. which is TO be cir
culated among those who registered "A the
Georgia building II was also decided 10
present Ex-Governor Northen with n
handsome testimonial IA recognition Of
his work, for the state I'm managing the
exhibit. The Ex-Governor has already
received the formal thanks Of the Legs
lature for his valuable work.-Savannah
News.
NOTED WHITE CAP SET FREE.
JACKSON, MISS, Dec O.-Governor
McLaurin has pardoned VIII Purvis, the
famous Marion county whitecapper, who
was once unsuccessfully hanged in this
State for the murder Of a fellow white
capper.
Purvis's neck was not broken in his
fall from the scafold, and owing TO the
threatening attitude Of the crowd around
the Jail. the sheriff did not make a sec-
Ond attempt 10 execute his prisoner
Purvis was later rescued by the mob and
hidden away for some time. but finally
gave himself up TO the authorities and
his sentence was committed to life i'm
prisonment
INSURANCE Compile ALTON.
NASHVILLE. TENN. December %
The Mutual Life Insurance Company Of
New York has filed bill in the Federal
Court charging two prominent citizcns OF
Clay county with defrauding IT, The de.
feniants are George w Barksdale. clerk
and master. and former agent. Of the COM
pany and DR.. II. S. Crabtree of Cellna,
II is charged that they insured a con-
sumDtiye for 5000 gave his widow $1,000
and divided the balance.
The bill states that Barksdale. as agent.
wrote a policy on the life Of Mills r.
Willis I'm favor OF Mary B. Willis for
$500. This was issued December nth. |
and six months later Wills died OF con- |
sumption.
II is charged that defendants were old |
school friends Of the cOmpany's examin- !
ing physician. living in another town. and |
that they induced him to copy and sign
statements prepared by Crabtree, mis- !
representing Wills condition. This |
stated that Willis hal never had any |
serious lung or chest trouble. no rela- |
tives had ever had consumption and that |
he weighed 1Gj pounds. while the facts |
we're that he had rapid consumption. had |
lost father, mother AMI sister Of that dis
ease and weighed less than a hundred |
pounds
Crabtree had signed papers as attend
ing physician stating that Willis died OF
liver complaint. while he had not waited |
on him. II is charged that Barksdale
and Crabtree paid tho premiums and d.
vifcd an but gi.c0 given the widow.
The company does not seek 10 recover
the amount paid the widow who Is held
biameiess. but asks judgment for $f099 |
against the observation-disclosures COnsti-
tuition.
GREENWOOD'S NEGRO EXODUS.
Greenwood dispatch 70 tho State
brings information that an exodus Of ne
groes from that county has set In. one
hundred negroes having already gone and
IN emigration agent having engaged 20 !
transfer several hundred families more
10 Mississippi The negroes I'm the re-
Gently disturbed section are sail 10 De IN |
a demorallzed condition, and 81 Is be-
ieved that in the Saluda. Ninety-Sx and
Phoenix neighbOrh001s they viii "hardly !
make contracts another year The emil
grafton movement IS thinning out the cX-
,essive negro population heretofore en-
ragged in planting on rented land. and IN
some Of the best land In
he county win be occupied BY white
renters hereafter"
Although she bloody occasion for It Is
n be deDl0red. this negro EMIGRATION
,homI be a subject of congratulations
II Is hest for the whites, for the negroes
md for the State In certain OF the
most fertile parts OF upper South Caro-.
ina. as well as In all the lower region
Y the state. there Is m excessive negro
emulation which must be dissipated II
is to visit those fields.-Co-