The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-22

viz, that the interest interest pl 'eservation
and forest propag alton had becon lie general
and earnest throughout the Unit d states,
| without any desire to interfere with the
| great lumber interests Of the coun Try. Inc
meetings were presided over by Z 10 presl-
| dent. Governor Beaver of Tennes see, and
/ Hon. M Jolly of Quebec, vice-pr eside IT.
! At a select dinner at the RittenllouSs cruz,
chair next TO Mr.. Root was filed by Gen.
! 4. R. Lawton Of Savannah. Tbe ex-mln-
| lister TO Austria was a great favcEite IN the
| City of Brotherly Love. Hon. Ctrl Schurz
came over from New York and luftde the
| opening address to the congress.
1T does not always pay for two men to
| look alike" said Capt Tip Harriso OF the
executive department at Atlanta 5 saturday
! 81 was in prison during the war WI IN a man
| who got into serious difficulty bee ause he
| looked like his cousin. Both men were
named George Sherer, and they bot served
| in the Maryland cavalry. First one Gsorge
| Sherer was captured inside the union lines,
| while he was recruiting men for the CON
| federate service. That was considered
| very grave offense and he was sentenced
not only to prison, but to hard labor at Fort
| Delaware. He was taken there safely and the
stripes were put on him, but he etfecte d his
| escape and returned to his command. | 'ater
in the war the other George Sherer was
| captured as prisoner of war. He was &C
| cused of being the one who had esca ped
| from Fort Delaware and ordered back 10
| serve his unexpired term at hard lal )or.
He looked like his cousin, and the pr son
authorities said he was the same man. hey
could not make him work, however. lie
denied ever having been captured befo re,
and demanded the treatment of q prison ler
of war. Finally he got an officer to belle We
his story, and the man who had been IN
command at Fort Delaware when the first
George Sherer had been a prisoner there
was sent for He failed to identify the
second George Sherer, SO he was returned
TO the prison where l was and was treated
decently. His resemblance to the other man,
however. came near causing him to work
hard for several years.
On Oct. IA the passenger train from
Americas to Columbus ran into Mr.. Gran
thams buggy at the crossing in the suburbs
of Ellavile, smashing the buggy and killing
the horse. The Ellaville community, still
sensitive over a similar accident of a year
ago had ice Baldwin, the engineer in
charge, arrested. The grand jury was in
session, aud bill was found against Mr.
Baldwin for violating section 70S of the
Code. The trial came off Friday.
The facts were these: A number
of farmers were going home from
Ellaville. In so doing they passed
the crossing; They heard the whistle at the
blow-post, but thought they could safely
cross the track. The public road curves at
the crossing, and the parties were facing
the engine. Mr. Wimbush's hat blew off.
Stopping to get it caused delay, and his
mule, becoming frightened, refused to go
forward. Mr.. Grantham was in the rear
and could not pass him. His horse backed,
pushing the buggy to the track, and the
train could not be stopped in time to pre-
vent the collision. It was shown clearly
that the engineer had performed his
duties fully under the railroad regu-
lations. He blew the whistle, as
positive long and two short blasts
and also shut off steam, so that he could
stop his train speedily, should the necessity
arise. But section 70S is peculiar. Gov.
Smith, the presiding Judge, charged that it
must be construed strictly that the engineer
must not only blow the whistle of the loco
motive at the blow-post, but must continue
to blow until the crossing is reached, ana
simultaneously with this continued blowing
he must check and keep checking until
the public road is passed. Such is the
piled fully with the railroad regu-
lations, he had not performed
the duties imposed by section 70S. 1t would
take two weeks, under this section, to run
from Albany Ca, to Atlanta, and no en-
gineer in Georgia blows and keeps blowing,
and checks and keeps checking, from the
blow-p SITS to the crossings, unless some
thing is seen ON the track. But the law, as
it stands, requires these duties, whether
anything is seen or not. Under the law the
jury were compelled TO bring in verdict
of guilty. The offense is a misdemeanor,
and the punishment limited to $500 and
ninety days imprisonment. This makes
the first indictment under section 7OS of the
Code