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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

grandfather, from whom the precious
relics were derived, was Peter Lee, q
soldier in the American army during the
War of Independents.
Peter Lee was a native of New Jersey
and was Of old English stock. He en-
listed in the Continental army in 1775,
took part In the battles OF Trenton and
Princeton in his own State, was in the
camp of Washington at Valley Forge
and saw Cornwalefs surrender at York
town. During his service in the army
he received sundry payments of Conti-
Mental money, a number of specimens of
which are now the property of Mr., Frank
Lee.
One of the most curious of these re-
lies is a faded Continental bill, the sur
face value of which is the unusual
amount of two-thirds of a dollar. 1t
bears the signature of ]. B. Braman
and was authorized by a resolution of
Congress passed at Philadelphia in 1776
AS there was no government mint in
those days the bin was printed by tine
firm of Hall & Sellers Philadelphia. 1t
has been preserved in a glass case for
more than half century and is in
fair state of preservation.
Mr. Lees collection also contains bills
for other denominations authorized by
Congress. All of them are at least one
hundred and twenty-five years old.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
WAYCR0SS SOCIETY.

Waycross, June 29.-Mrs. w. H. Brad
ley and her daughter, Miss Roxie, left
Monday for Bulloch county. Miss Roxie
will spend some time there, visiting.
Mrs. Bradley returned home yesterday.
Mrs. W. NJ. Wilson and children leave
Monday for an extended visit at Button,
8. C.
Chief Dispatcher L. B. Mobley and
wife have returned home from their
Western trip.
Mrs. J. M. Cox has returned home.
Miss Della Carswell will spend a few
weeks on St. Simons.
Mrs. w. A. Price and Mrs. G. P. Deal
will leave early in July for HUMPHREYS,
N. c.
Mrs. ]. w. Beaton has returned from
visit to Little Rock. Ark.
Mrs. f. M. Tenant has returned from
a visit to Florida.
Miss Lizzie Thompson has returned
home from Alapaha.
Miss Kate Johnson is spending while
at St. Simons.
Miss Cassie Maya has been spending
a few weeks at cambridge.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

ed by Capt Dent This, with her beau
tifu patriotic address, was received with
much applause. Later. in Camden, she
CLEANED all the news of the war possible,
and once a week these items were read
aloud to crowds of people, who had not
the Same facilities of finding out news,
often of sad and vital importance to
them. Many an old veteran VIII
remember with gratitude to her great bas-
kets of, to them-dainties, which the ser
wants prepared under her supervision, and
which were sent to their camps regularly
as long as they were in reach of her I'M
selfish generosity. Readers of the Morn
ing News will remember her as the au-
thor of two books, published by that pa
per "Sambre Mande" and ''Branley
Farm" both hastily written and sent to
the press without any revising. She was
advised that the latter book, with some
changes, would become one of the popu-
lar books of the day. and was preparing
IL for a we'll known Northern publisher,
when she died. Her latest work was a
realistic story of plantation life called
THE Kings Highway" This has not been
published but last winter Mrs. Graves
gave several Rotations from extracts
from this story. In reference to them, the
Citizen, of AsheVille, had the following:
There was familiarity of knowledge
that was recognized at once as first hand,
and the mingling of wit, humor. pathos,
and the peculiar abandon of the African
of the Old days, was irresistible. At the
very beginning of her recital, one recog-
rized the true artist in Mrs. Graves.
These who failed to witness this attrac-
tion in the Old Library last evening, GER
tdinly missed one of the best things that
has come to Asheville in many days. 1t
was a real intellectual treat at the same
time that it was penetrated by the parest
wit and humor." In another article, '"The
Kings Highway is mentioned as IAN adj
dition to the literature of the ante-belum
South"
Mrs. Graves died at McKee's Rocks,
near Pittsburg, Pa, and was buried from
St. Michael's Chapel of this city. She now
rests under the beautiful oaks of Bona
venture Cemetery. r.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
A Gifted Woman.

A little over a month ago the Morning
News announced the sudden death of
Mrs. Albert Graves at Asheville, N. c.
Perhaps not many recognized in Mrs.
Graves one of 'Georgias most gifted wo-
men, better known throughout the state
of Miss Mary Rose Floyd. Her noble and
exalted traits of character endeared her
to many, and in admiration of her brilliant
mind and generous, loving heart, ! write
this little sketch as just tribute to her
memory. She was the daughter of Col.
Henry Hamilton Floyd of Camden county,
and a granddaughter of Gen. John Floyd,
and or her maternal side of Sir James
Boog of Rosshire Scotland. She was
born at Fairfield Gen. Floyd's old home,
was educated at Salem, N. c., and spent
many years of her girlhood al Brunswick
In the fall of 80. dressed in the colors of
the Confederacy, gray silk trimmed with
gold braid and buttons, she presented the
nag to the Glynn Guards. then command
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

Pork quiet; family, s15.5Od16o0; shori
clear, $l500d1z0O; mess, $15.7501675
Butter quiet and easy; creamery, $50
1910; state dairy, l4ulS1sc.
Cheese irregular; fancy large white
91ac; do small s1a@9ssc.
Eggs firm; state and Pennsylvania, IA
@1Hac
Potatoes quiet; New York, s2.25ae rs;
Southern extra, per barrel, $3.50.
Tallow firm; city, 5-16c; country, 47s6
SIC.
Petroleum dull; refined New York,
$3.50; Philadelphia and Baltimore, $ss5;
do in bulk. $780,
Rice quiet; domestic fair to extra, 4%@
6Ac.
Coffee-Spot Rio market quiet; No. 4
invoice. 1-16c; mild steady; Cordova,
sAq121sc.
Sugar-Raw steady; fair refining,
s-lec; centrifugal se test. 7-S2c: re-
fined steady; standard A, 5.SOc; confec-
TONERS A, 5.30c; mould A. 5.S5c; cut loaf,
6.Ooc; crushed. 5000; powdered, 5.6oc;
graduated. 5.5oc; cubes. SIDE.
1t was "A dull, uninteresting day on the
Coffee Exchange. The market opened
steady with prices unchanged Co points
lower and for the rest OF the session
failed to vary more than points. Senti-
ment was mixed with many members OF
the trade quite indifferent. Influences at
work were rather bearish. European mar
kets being shade lower. spot demand
sluggish, and receipts in the crop country
considerably In excess Of expectations.
There was nothing In the way OF invest
ment speculation. The market closed
quiet and net unchanged Total sales
were but 4,2SO bags, including septem-
Der, 5.25c; November SOC; March, $40;
May, 5.75c.
Peanuts quiet; fancy handpicked. a.
Q5e; other domestic. 4ika4Xc.
Cabbage quiet. Norfolk. per barrel. 81
@75c; per barrel crate. 50cGn.m.
Freights 90 Liverpool quiet: cotton by
steam. i0c.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
SOCIETY,".
Continued from Page "A

tary; Mrs. C. w. Lamar, treasurer. The
chapter will be known as the Valdosta
Chapter.
Mrs. L. N. Strum left this week for
North Carolina, where she will spend the
summer.
Miss Annie Twitty is visiting relatives
in Lancaster, S. C.
Miss Fannie Davis of Albany, Ca, is
the guest of Mrs. w. D. Dunaway.
Miss Malie Bacon is attending house
party in Liberty county
Mrs. j. T. Blalock and son have re-
turned from White Springs, Fla.
Miss Marie Tillman of Quitman is the
guest of Judge Whittingtons family.
Miss Ruby Smith of Atlanta is visiting
the family of Mr. r. S. Middleton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
FLORIDA.

John s. Twomey. the general manager
of Lord & Taylor's Grand street store,
New York. was married at the Church OF
st. Ignatius on Eighty-fourth street at
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, to Miss
Marie Kelly Of Park avenue The cere-
Inony was quite an elaborate one, the ed
tice being crowded with the friends of
the contracting parties. The groom is
very well known in Florida, having been
one Of the most prominent dry goods mer-
chants of that state, still retaining large
interests in Tampa. The happy couple
win take a tour to the Buffalo exposition.
Niagara Fails. Yellowstone National Park
and possibly to the Pacific coast.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
OIL FEVER AT INVERNESS.

citrus County Chronicle: For the past
week parties have been driving over this
section OF our country making investiga-
fious. looking and hoping 70 ind some
irdsoanOns that might lead 10 the dis
covery q petroleum. and from authentic
frDorfn We learn that strong Indications
- "a have bsen found on Land the prop
efTv ~ j q Run Two ana Ono-haif miles
foqff - toNn. The oily substance flows
from enc sol at q spring On Mr. Runs
pace a nun.5sr ~ partiSs have visited
f1ia pacs within ths pest few Gays. And
af 49, 1onTinost thsf ths disaogsr1 ~
81 here - q faos end 10 . ffo0rY. John
Fuaf~11 a cf&ia ara A. n Nefson Of
Aseaa Gfg have sseure1 "a Dpfiea On
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News of ships
and Shining.


Work on the new river steamer Louise
has been going forward quite rapidly of
late, and Capt Gibson expects that she
will be ready for her trial trip about July
TO- So soon as that is made the Louise
will go to Augusta, where a similar trip
will be given party of gentlemen inter-
ested in her, and their friends. Capt. Glib
son expects soon to begin the work of
putting cabin on the Katie, SO that she,
too, can accommodate passengers.
Another boat that will be added 20 the
line shortly, probably in time for the win
ter business, is the Harry G. Day, at
present leased 10 the Clyde Line. and run
ming between Jacksonville and Sanford.
When she returns to Savannah, however,
she will be almost a new boat, as the
Merrill-Stevens Engineering Company of
Jacksonville are now building a new steel
hull to which, as soon as completed, will
be transferred the machinery of the pres
ent vessel.
Steel hulls are found to last three times
as long as wooden ones, and 1t is the in
tention of Capt Gibson, as often as prac-
ucaDle, to replace wood with metal OF
the four boats now belonging to the line
only the Ethel has a hull of wood.
The gunboat Alvarado, captured from
Spain at Santiago. has started on a little
mission OF an experimental character to
the sounds of North Carolina and South
Carolina. She. Jeff Annapolis on Monday
for Norfolk, whence she will proceed to
North Carolina by the inland route. Her
object is to enlist fishermen and other sea-
raring men for the naval service These
people cannot be reached through the or
binary methods of recruiting, as they live
Iar from towns and are ignorant of the
advantages offered for service in the
American navy. So the Alvarado will be
an itinerant recruiting office, going
wherever the fishermen of the sounds and
the sea islands congregate, in the hope
OF securing good men. The navy needs
seamen and is making every effort to get
them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
Two rooLIsH YOUNG MEN.

j. NJ. Poppell and Thomas Lghtsey Of
jefferson county, Florida, are in Jail
at Tallahassee on a serious charge. The
Tallahasseean says: In some way they
came into the possession of a letter adj
dressed to Mr.. ]. H. Powell of Aucilla,
Ga, which by some mistake had been
sent to Aucilla, Fla, in which was
draft on a Jacksonville bank for the
sum of FIVE hundred dollars CS50O. Hav-
ing the draft, nothing seemed easier to
them than to get the money. So they
sent the draft to the First National Bank
of this place for collection, directing the
money to be sent by express to 'Mr. j.
H. Smith" at Monticello. The bank
here. not suspecting anything wrong, sent
the money, but Fortunately discovered
that ell was not right in time to stop the
delivery of the package. When Mr..
j. H. Smith" called for the package at
the express Office. of course there was
no package for him, and the -. H.
Smith" was spotted and his identity
discovered. Not being satisfied to take
warning at this the young men made fur
Their efforts to obtain the money with the
result that they were both fully identi-
fed and arrested.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
RAILROAD FOLDERS.

We are prepared to do this work by the thous.
and and by the ton. We buy material in the
largest lots of any concern in this part of the
country and avail ourselves of inside prices. Our
Autograph and printing equipment is complete.
We can handle this work with dispatch and &C.
euracy. We shall be glad to estimate for you
MORNING NEWS JOB DEPARTMENT..
J. H. EsTILL, President
Savannah. Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
TROUBLE AT sEABREEzE.

volusfa Record: We learn there came
near being serious trouble over at Sea-
breeze last Monday among some Of the
citizens OF that place. There is bitter
local feeling there between Mr.. Thomas
A. Davis ana friends on one side and a
number Of citizens on the other side. 1t
appears that a Mr.. Starkey, a contractor.
and other OF his friends. were about TO
mob o Mr. Burgman friend Of Davis, and
In the engagement Davis pistol went or
but the fight ended with no one hurt
The Starkey parties had Davis arrested
aud an examinati ton before the Justice
WIS waived.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
Coastwire Export..

Per steamship Hudson for Baltimore,
June 29-l,l4 bales cotton. 10 bales cot
ton waste. q bales wool. 525 bbls rosin,
10 bbls turpentine. II bbls rosln oil, $50
bbls oottonseed oil. Is bales dry hides. 80
Gases canned goods. i97 sacks clay. "A
pkgs domestics and yarns. 1877 crates pine
apples IS crates vegetables, 1876 pkgs
mdse. 90 1856 feet lumber.
Per schooner Nellie W. Hewlett, VIII
mington, Del.-2f7 .443 feet yellow pine
lumber. part cargo.-Georgia Lumber
Company.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
THREE KILLED on EXCURSION.

An Athens special says: The excursion
from Athens to Atlanta Tuesday was
prolific of much fighting. Lucius Cole, an
Athens darkey, was shot three times and
MORALLY wounded by Harmony Grove
negro At Gibbsville, a negro named
Jim Edwards got off the train and got
dnto quarrel with Ben Williams, ne
gro living in Gibbsville. Edwards pulled
his pistol and shot at Williams, who, in
turn, pulled his pistol and killed Ed
wards. The killing being in self-defense
there was no arrest made. Jim Jackson,
a negro Living in Athens, was knocked on
the head and knocked off the train on
the return trip Nothing has been seen
of the negro since and it is not known
whether or not he was killed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
A FOUL MURDER COMMITTED.

The Gulf Coast Breeze of Crawford
vile, Fla, gives an account of the muir
der of Mr. T. $. White, at his place
several miles below Crawfordville on
June 20 Mr.. Whites body was found on
the porch of his store. 1t is thought that
Mr.. White was called up some time dur
ing the night by some one pretending
they wanted to get something IN the
store, that he got up and dressed and
went out to the store, and just as he
went to unlock the door was struck on
the head with heavy Ratchet There
were several places on his head where
he had been hit with the eye of the
Ratchet. When first found, Mr.. White
was lying on his store porch with his
feet toward the door and his head to-
ward the corner of the porch. His store
key was lying near him. There was also
a lamp chimney lying near him on the
porch, but the bowl of the lamp was
sitting out in the road in front of the
store. The Ratchet was found about
hundred yards up the road. There was
no one in the house with Mr.. White at
the time of the murder but his six little
children, and they knew nothing of the
deed until they were aroused and told of
it the next morning. The murderer got
about $57 in money. Nothing else was
found missing Should the guilty person
or persons be found, there is no doubt
but what they will pay the penalty Of
their crime at the stake.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

There will be grand rally and picnic
at watkinsvine Thursday, July 4, under
the auspices of the Temperance League,
ana there will be several thousand peo-
pie IN attendance. Hon. Dupont Guerry
of Macon. who is spoken of quite promi-
nently as a candidate for Governor of
Georgia on the prohibition platform, will
be the orator of the day. This will be
Mr.. Guerrys first public address since
the mention of his name for the COVER
norship, and, though his speech is not
expected to be a political one, his utter
ances will be awaited with considerable
interest
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
LIGHTNING KILLED CHICKEN
THIEF.

Macon News: During the thunder and
lightning storm yesterday afternoon sew
eral houses were struck and one person
was killed. One of the houses struck was
that of Mr.. J. S. Leonard, on Ash street,
near Centenary Church. The lightning
also struck and killed Cupid Redding,
notorious chicken thief. He was seated
in his house on Bay street and the bolt
came down through the roof and struck
Redding on the head, burning all the hair
off and went down his body and knocked
the shoes and socks from his feet. He
was killed so suddenly that he never
knew what struck him. The lightning
struck several other places in the city,
among them being the First National
Bank and a tree on the corner of Fourth
and Mulberry streets. 1t was one of the
most severe thunder and lightning storms
that has visited this city in several
years.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

Per bark Adele, for Rotterdam-2650
barrels rosin. $5,SlsOe; $40 barrels spirits.
s14,627. 81 $50 barrels pitch, $40: 80 cases
pitch, $ll0-S. p. Shotter Co.
Per bark Espero. for Buenos Ayres-
$500 barrels rosin, 81, 412.5S.-Paterson-
Downing Co.
Per steamship Iris. for London and
Hamburg-5o0o barrels spirits In tanks,
SOL .425: 1900 barrels spirits in barrels, ST.
O4S; 1850 barrels rosin, 5000; 1850 barrels
rosin. SIC, 500: 1900 barrels spirits, 81 O5o.-
Antwerp Naval Stores Company.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
BITTEN BY A SHARK.

Titusville Star: Michael OBrien, who
lives three miles north of Fort Pierce,
while taking a dip in the breakers near
Indian river inlet, together with two
other men, on Sunday last, was severely
bitten by shark. 1t appears that while
in the surf the bathers discovered a huge
shark between themselves and the beach,
in shoal water. In accordance with a
too-pRevalent custom of those who in
dulge in this invigorating sport, they de-
cided to embarrasS the man-eater by sur
rounding him in such a way as to cut off
his retreat and render his escape inn
possible by other means than taking 10
the woods. The mosquitoes were unusu-
ally bad in the hammock at the time, and
the big fish objected to the route. After
having made several futile efforts to gain
the deep blue sea his sharkship became
desperate and made direct line, with
open jaws for Mr.. OBrien, catching him
in the side and throwing him bodily out
of the water. Five terrible gashes, it is
said, were inflicted in the unfortunate
mans side. He was brought by his COM
panions to Fort Pierce, where DIR. Platts
promptly rendered the necessary surgical
aid and Mr.. O. Bren was taken to mis-
home where he is now under the physi-
clans watchful eye. Fortunately, moth
ing more serious than ugly flesh wounds
were inflicted, and his early recovery is
hopefully anticipated by his friends.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
OLD TIME MONEY.
But Little Continental Currency Is
Now I'm Existence.

Now In Existence.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
While millions of dollars of the old
Confederate currency are still in exis-
tence only few specimens of the paper
money manufactured during the days of
the American Revolution by order and
authority of the Continental Congress
are to be found. There is at present in
the possession of Mr.. Frank Lee, who
lives a short distance from the city on
the Seventh street road, some of the
best specimens of this currency that can
be found outside of the national museums,
and it is doubtful If some of his notes
can be reproduced even there.
Mr.. Lee lived. until comparatively re-
GENTLY, in Trimble county and has many
friends still there. His father was r. J.
Lee, of Hamilton county, Ohio. and his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
ron HOPE PoLHILLs SLAYER.

Miss Joe Warner of Indian Spring has
consulted with attorneys about the ad-
visibility of offering a reward for the
slayer of the Hon. Hope Polhill, the So
heitor general of that circuit, who was
found dead in his office one morning a
few months ago. Miss Warner was his
foster mother, and loved him dearly. She
has from the beginning chung to the be-
lief that the death was due to foul play
rather than to suicide, and she declares
that she means TO find out the facts, II
it is possible to do so. Three hundred
dollars is the sum that has been sug-
gested as q reward.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
COTTON SEED on.

New York, June 2s--cotton seed OIL firm;
prime crude barrels nominal. prime sum.
mer yellow, NC on summer yellow, s6lkc
prime white, toqf1o; prime winter vel
low, nci prime meal s2l Oogs.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

Remarks-Slightly lower temperature in
Central Alabama; no changes elsewhere
the high temperatures continuing. Show
ers have occurred over the New Orleans
and Vicksburg' districts. and in North
Georgia; no appreciate rainfall else
where.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at all stations. June 49, 1901, p.
m, 18th meridian time
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
TELEGRAPHIc MARKETS.
CONTINUED from Page Twenty.rhres.

oats-spot quiet: No. 2. aye. Options
qaiet but firm on export rumors and
covering.
Beef steady family, 81 Ooa1a 50; meas.
-. 0Qio0oi hams, 81. bOG2l Co.
Cut meats STEADY; pickled bellies. ON
iici shoulders, 7kGTAo. hams. i04aiO4c {.
Lard nrm; Western steamed. 500. 70
nned nrmi oonun~nt tsiQ. s0ugh Amer.
ic4, No. oonD0a1A, u
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
NntIce to Mariners.

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters of ves-
sells free of charge in United States n.y.
geographic office. in Custom House. Cap
tains are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

this property. A great many options have
been secured on property in this section.
Surface indications are very decided and
emphatic, and extend over the entire cove
section of country north and east of In
yerneSs
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
Shipping Memoranda.

Shipping mOranda.
Pensacola, Fla, June 29.-Arrived,
bark L.etezia QtaD, Seville.
Cleared, schooner Mary A. Hall, New
York.
schooner Henry r. Tilton, Philadelphia.
Sailed, schooner Thomas p. Sharp, New
York.
Port Tampa, June 29.-Arrived, steamer
Mascotte, Key West.
Charleston, June 29.-Arrived, steamers
Iroquois, Jacksonville, and proceeded TO
New York. Amboto SPAN, Huelva.
Sailed, steamers Algonquin, Jackson
VILE; Kirkstall (BD, New York
Baltimore, June 29-Arrived, steamer
Itasca, Savannah.
Philadelphia, June 2S-Arrived, schoon-
er Harry Prescott, Fernandina.
London, June 29.-Arrived, steamer City,
Fernandina, for Rotterdam.
Sailed, Hirundo, Pensacola
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30

"A New Feeling-ciara--ft seems ~
strange 20 BE- IN love.
Maud-Why. hayent you ever eAp
enos1 that fseiingf -
CLARION. yes - net for
wwekn.-D~fru4f wrss Pru~ns