Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

and linen busters.
Officers of the New Orleans Exposition
anticipate that the attendance will be
larger than last year.
The Georgia Legislature has tean hav.
ing quite wrestle with educational top.
les. 1t has passed a law establishing a
school Of technology.
| M. COhn has entered suit al Jackson
Tenn, against Sol Tuchfeld for $40. 900
for slandsring him and injuring his bust
ness. Both are Jewish merchants of that
city.
Mr.. Asa Emerson, Kentucky'S pioneer.
celebrated his 1924 birthday recently
He has been in good health until the las
few months.
| Twenty-nine United States prisoners
| convicted of crimes committed in the In
dian Territory, were sent to the Detroit
| Mich House OF Correction recently fol
| various terms.
A hook and ladder truck going to a fire
at Vicksburg, Mss, a few nights ago, rar
over and killed George Perry, thirteen
| years old.
| One hundred thousand colored children
in North Carolina attended school in 1909
school.houses last year. The average
cost of buildings was less than 500 each.
George Price and john Hudson have
been arrested in Cfitten len County, KY,
charged with robbing Young e. Doyle, OF
Sparta, Tenn, of $500 worth of jewelry.
Governor Bate of Tennessee has issued
| requisition for the priion Price is in
dicted for rape on six.year-old colored
| girl, and will be tried for that crime.
A negro named Ward was hanged by a
mob few days ago, thirteen miles south
OF Eufaula, Ala. for attempting the muir.
der of citizen and the supposed murder
| of another.
At Darlington, s. c., a few nights since,
fire caused loss of $4,000, distributed
among the following name business men:
]. A. Pearce, j. C. White, A. Nochman, s.
Marco and NJ. Hnley. Their loss i on
stock. Hayward & Josey and Houston &
| Woodham lost buildings and stocks.
Avaliant Georgia editor writes: 81 will
put our dog Ira Ter against The world for
freeing oposSums. A few nights ago our
boy Jim Rirples caught fifteen with him,
and it was not good night for the bust.
ness, as the moon shone Zoo brightly"
There is a woman living in Davidson
County, North Carolina, who is the
mother of seventeen children, eleven of
whom are living. She has eighty-seven
| grandchildren, and thirty.two great
children. She is now seventy.two years
| old.
The new Capitol in process of erection
at Atlanta, Ca, is OF the same style of
architecture as that of the Capitol at
Washington. The building is to be 347
feet long and 272 feet at the greatest
depth. From the center dome is to rise
to height of 200 feet.
Charles Stokes, son of Colonel W. B.
Stokes, one of the oldest and most promi-
nent attorneys in Tennessee, suicidsd at
Alexandria, Tenn, few days ago on ac
count of unrequited love. After writing a
letter he retired to his room and blew out
his brains. He was removed recently
from the position of Revenue Gauger.
He was twenty-five years old.
VIM. Boyd, charged with mu rdering
Birdie Patterson, his mis- tress, at Nash
vile, Tenn, July oh, 1885, was found
guilty and sentenced to ten years. impr,s.
onment. Boyd, who is highly connected,
was convicted principally on rcumstan-
tial evidence, he being found, in an intox-
icated condition, in the room with the
woman, when thu people who heard the
pistol shot rushed into the apartment.
A reunion Of ex Confederate and ex.
Federal soldiers was held last week at
Owensburg, KY. Three hundred and fifty
ex-soldiers from all parts of the country
went into camp, and commissary depart.
ment was established Captain W. T..
Ellis of the First Kentucky Cavalry de.
lived the welcoming address, after which
there was grand parade.
A negro girl working in as gin on Major
Waddill's Compromise plantation, in
Madison Parish, Louisiana, stepped
through an opening in the floor Of the lint
room a few days since, striking band
wheel which was running alta high rate of
sperd. She was whirled into eternity In
the twinkling Of an eye.
A physician In Galveston, Tex, has sue
ceeded in splicing mans clavicle by TAX
ing pieces of bone from dogs.
Texas will send 800 delegates to the Ma.
tional Stock Growers Convention at St.
Louis.
Aaron johnson was shot and killed in
Henry County, KY, a few days ago, by
Bud Wilson during fight.
Walter Orr and Phil Givan, two young
men of Birmingham, Ala, shot each other
fatally with pistols on the street a few
days ago.
Two Georgia doc ,ors have had quarrel
and a duel is looked for. This makes it
quite handy in case either gets hurt, as a
surgeon would be in attendance whoever
the unlucky one was without the necessity
of calling in outsiders.
The Holston Conference of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church in its session at
Chattanooga, Tenn, rejected the PROPOSE.
ton to change the name to the Methods
Episcopal Church in America by vote
of 119 to 1. and also tabled BY vo'e of 76
] to SO a resolution to recommend to the
General Assembly the omission Ct the
word SOUTH
Dave Baker fatally shot Calvin Upton
and was himself seriously wounded "
Upton. 1t was a prearranged plan to kill
Baker, who had, with several others, Sc
verely beaten Upton for selling wildcat
brandy near the town. Baker is under ar
rest.
James c. Thompson, who so brutality
murdered ]. c. White, a leading merchan,
of Glen Alice, Tenn, last week. was cap
tured and taken to lockwood by his cap.
tors. Advices from that place stated that
mob was forming and Thompson would
be lynched hey ond all doubt
Tourists are heading toward Florida.
W. II. Tarrant, the counterfeiter, who
was arrested recently at Jackson, Tenn.
was arraigned before United States Com.
missioner Mckee He waived examina-
ton and was placed under 5000 bond