The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-18
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

"A Negro Ousted from Car for
White People at LAGRANGE.
GEORGIA.
Smithville wants fire engine.
Quitman's melon shippers cornplain of a
scarcity OF cars.
The brick store of NJ L. Cook & Co. at
Boston is nearing completion
mechanic named Barbee had one Of
his feet smashed by a train at Quitman,
Saturday.
The Presbyterian church at Lagrange
has been fitted up with elegant stained glass
windows The windows cost $500.
Bids for the construction of the factory
buildings Of the Newman cotton mills will
be received and entertained until July 5.
Rev. T. c. Carleton of Newman has re-
ceived call from the Baptist church at
Decatur, and it Is probable that he will ac-
cept.
Rockmart is on a boom. Parties are
negotiating for the purchase of the extern
sive slate quaFries there at very liberal
price.
An article on watermelons in yesterdays
News was credited to the Brooksville Ga
Herald. u should have been credited to
the Quitman Herald.
1t is said that there is a very rich deposit
OF mice on the campus at Athens. just be-
low the chancellors residence. In digging
well the deposit of mica was so thick that.
it was impossible to get through, and the
well was accordingly abandoned.
The huckleberry crop in the mountains
islarger than ever known before. There
is gentleman in Gainesville paying 20
cents per gallon for them and shipping to
Atlanta, where they are canned. A child
10 years of age can make 81 day gather
ing them
W. P. West of Polk county moved one
acre of clover Wednesday that yielded
three tons. The hay is worth $50 ton,
and he will get a second cutting, one and
half tons, worth at least Sl5 This will
make a total of $75, gross receipts from one
acre, or az least $50 outside of all expense.
When the clover was sown the land was as
poor a spot as could be found around Esom
Hill.
The news editor of the New York World
writes to the superintendent of the Clarke
county pauper farm to know whether there
are at the farm two idiotic sisters, the
children Of a man and woman, twins, who
were separated in their childhood, and who,
after many years, met each other and mar
ried. The news editor says somebody has
sent him yarn TO this effect, and he wants
further matter in regard to it. There are
nosuch children there, and there is not a
word of truth in the story.
A cavalry company has been organized at
Brunswick called the Brunswick Light
Horse Guards. Following are the officers:
captain, j. s. Thomas first lieutenant, T.
Q. Fleming; second lieutenant, w. M.
Bergman; junior second lieutenant, Frank
d. Aiken; orderly sergeant, Z. W. Fleming
second sergeant, r. R. Hopkins; third sor-
geant, J. L. N. Herman; fourth sergeant,
L. W. Hazlehurst; fifth sergeant and color
bearer, G. L. Elliot; first corporal, J. C.
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third corporal, G.. NJ. jackson; fourth cor
poral, s. B. Breedlove.
Horace Bailey, or Horace Bee, tho oldest
son of the late Andrew Bailey, the old
negro who W as for years the sole inhabitant
of old Troupville, is under a sentence of
death in Appling county. He killed another
negro some months since, and was tried,
convicted and sentenced to be hanged at the
last term Of the superior court He is now
in Jail in Brunswick and has written to
Capt. Briggs, Messrs. Varnedoe and other
white acquaintance in Valdosta begging
assistance He writes that his lawyer has
secured new trial for him. He does not
think he had fair trial, and claims to
have killed his man in self-defense.
A mad dog created considerable excite
ment on z. P. Claxton's plantation, near
Franklin, few days ago. 1t also visited
other places in the community. Miss
Matte Claxton was in the field assisting the
hands in doing some hoeing. The dog
attacked a negro girl, WHO gave him the
dodge. Miss Matte was not noticing, and
before she was conscious of her danger the
rabid canine had bounced upon her back
and was swapping at her neck Before he
could accomplish his deadly purpose,
though, her sister, Miss Helen ran to her
rescue, and with hoe knocked the vicious
brute from his baleful perch. While the
dog was in fit the girls fed. He was
killed the next morning, hut not until he
had bitten nearly all the dogs in the COM
munity.
Valdosta Times: The watermelon crop
Is going forward rapidly now, quite ten
days ahead OF last year. Up to several
days ago the Savannah, Florida and West
ern had hauled $50 cars against twenty up
to same date last year. The Savannah,
Florida and Western company have organ
lied their transportation headquarters here
as usual Supt. George w. Haines, of the
Brunswick aud Western division, is here
with Assistant Superintendent A A.
Aveilhe, Assistant Master of Transporta-
ton Habersham, Train Dispatcher Sheffield,
two clerks and telegraph operators, to
handle the crop. The road expects to haul
$500 or 5000 cars this season. Returns for
some of the cars shipped last week have
been received. For one car shipped to Bos-
ton, j. A. Dasher, DR., Melted $500, and an
other car shipped to the same market by j..
A. Campbell Melted $3l5. These were very
satisfactory returns, but those prices will
not be reached again, perhaps, during the
season.
One morning last week, when the early
northbound passenger reached LaGrange, a
negro man boarded the train and pushed
his way into the car set apart for the ac-
commodation of white passengers, and de-
spite the protestations of the passengers pro
ceeded to make himself at home. The re-
monstrances of the conductor proved
equally unavailing, and he appeared to be
master of the situation When the train
arrived at Newman several passengers were
in waiting among whom was a gentleman
we'll known for his antipathy ~ the four
teenth amendment and the several pro
visions therein contained. AS he entered
the car about the first object that attracted
his attention was the fastldious colored pas
senger, and his blood began to boil. In O
few minutes he approached the negro and
requested him to go forward to the car sol
apart for colored passengers. This he in
soiently refused to do, whereupon the irate
Newman citizen seized him and forcibly
elected him from the car.
FLORIDA.
Blanton wants a canning factory.
Clay county has forty-eight public
schools