The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-19
N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,rvs OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
I'M PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

b ,,a decided not to put out a tlchet' '}uI
b, = enter the Democratic primary
r. Marion Erwin, United States dist rict
.t,,rnev has returned from Washington
49, Macon. He has been looking after the
Greene and Gaynor case.
nor three weeks past one of the most
.,,r,ahle religious REVEALS ever held in
I,..,,arald has been going on at Central
s,.+boii-t church The meeting has been
,,lnftted by the pastor, Rev. W. M
pli oh who has been assisted part of the
+,r7a bv other ministers. AT Easte ser
- Sunday twenty-five members were
ra,eived into the church. Inc bap~rsts Oh
rit7rarald are moving their church, which
HIS been standing on LonSstfeet street
to Main street.
1sbann Stovan. one of Fulton ccunty's
most respected citizens died at his nome
nine miles from Atlanta on the Peach-
trae road Monday, in the eighty-slX n year
Of his age. the deceased was corn IN
lIoroan county, Georgia, on MI arch Il,
"a while the infant republic was engaged
il, ire second struggle with Great Britala,
l HE Immediate forebears were active
narticinants in the Revolutionary war ana
,roninently identified with the e arly MS
tory of Augusta. His long life w as passei
in contact with the soil.
special to the Morning News from
Ocblocknee, Ca, says: On Easter Sunday
quiet wedding took place at the resi-
dencA of the brides parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Perry. Their chal ming daugh-
te, Miss Pearl, was married to Mr. Ed
ward Garrison of Atlanta, ldeV MT. NC
Cam officiating. The bride was attlred
in beautiful white organdy with elabor-
ate trimmings of satin and moussellne de
ole harmoniZing in full with the fresh
ness and beauty of her youthful race.
The groom has many friends in TINS VII
lage.
Americas Times Recorder: Rev. Leroy
G Henderson and Rev. A. K irkland have
returned from Tabotton, where they at
tended the recent biennial session of the
Macon Presbytery. The Sc ssion was
very pleasant and profitable one, the re
ports from the several churches being
highly satisfactory. The ne Xt session of
the presbytery, converting in October, VIII
be held in Americas, the invitation eX-
tended by the church here having been
accented The good people of Americas
will extend a cordial greeting TO minis
tiers and representatives attending the
meeting here.
Hon James NJ. Smith is lying at his
home at Smithland dangerously i'll. DR..
Carlton. the attending physician, returned
from his bedside Tuesday and reported
that Mr. Smith is some better this morn
ing. but his condition is critical. MT.
Smith is suffering from a severe case of
enlargement of the prostate gland, which
forced him to take his bed several days
ago His condition is serious, but his
friends hope for his early recovery
James Nj. Smith was born and raised on
farm in Wilkes county, Georgia, and
was the son of educated and pious pa r
ents. He was acquainted with the Leading
men of his county and numbered &c a.
Toombs among his friends. He is pro b.
ably the foremost farmer in the state.
The appointment by Gov. Gambler of
Mrs Valeria Lamar McLaren as one of
the two lady commissioners from Georgia
to the Pars Exposition is indeed a high
compliment not only to that lady but to
Macon as well. Mrs. McLaren's eminent
fitness for this distinguished mission Will
be at once recognized by all; for not only
10 her charming personality and splendid
alonts equip her for the high place she
as won during recent years in the So
cal and literary world render her pre-
eminently qualified to represent the En-
pre- State of the South in this importa mt
connection Gov. Gambler was indeed
thoughtful and fortunate in choosing
$. McLaren to do the honors for
crgia on tbs occasion. She is already
tn IT ughly at home in the gay French
capital, and her intimate knowledge or
its official ard sec al life will give her a
prestige enjoyed by few other lady com
missioners
Martha Venebrooks. the white woman
who says she has been classed as a negro
oil her life, was dismissed by the recorder
in Atlanta when araigned on the charge
of living with negroes. To the court she
said. IL was raised believing myself a
negro. Liza Mitchell claiming me as her
child ! was sold as slave, and was
married to a negro man by my master.
My name at first was Martha Mitchell,
ana the man I married was named Vene-
brooks. When l was sold TO an Atlanta
lawyer just before the close of the war,
was separated from Venebrooks, and
never saw him again. After the war J
N married Greenwood, and that is why
II am called by that name. ! learned that
II was a white person from. the late Judge
wright who knew all about my birth
n tie wanted me al one time to enter suit
against my fathers and mothers estates.
was never educated and cannot read nor
write. That is my history as truthfully
as l can tell it. Now, admitting that
am a white person, and am living as
negro and with negroes, | ask you Wnat
IA Else can | do?" Judge Broyles said he
n could not advise her, and she was released
|. -'NiiA NdstouN.
>. H. Hale president of the Hale Or
I'd chard Company, who has been at Fort
Fl valley for a few days looking after his
. great orchard of 300, 900 trees, is enthus-
!4suc over the peach prospects. He says
# lue crop is a sure one now and that
III Georgia will ship at least 5000 cars of
ID peaches and 200 or 300 cars of plums during
Isl June and July. The Hale orchard alone
Nh WlH ship over 200 carloads. Mr.. Hale
Us so confident Of this that he bought
Fl crates and picking baskets for a Oscar
l'td crop; has planned the building of an
"lhtr great packing shed; has started
waite making and win soon begin hiring
ezra labor, as he ana Supt Baird esti-
mate that this one farm will require 1000
n ppIe 10 handle this years peach crop.
mule this years peach crop will be fully
'e-lNlrd more than the great crop Of 1898,
I'll ' rush day shipments will not be any
heavier for the reason that most of the
trees coming into fruiting this year
l' carly ripening varieties and will help
)" make longer season of big ship
"'tlr. Then again most Of che trees Kill