The morning news., 1889-04-25

rope and bucket so that she could catct
hold. Using all her strength, Ida wound
up the windlass and saved her.
Atlanta is to have a new land and i'm
| provement company. The first steps toward
the new company were taken Tuesday at a
meeting held at the Capital City Bank. AT
| that meeting there were present j. w. En-
| glish. Hoke Smith. E. J. Willingham. j. A.
| Sans, j. G. Hendrix, DR.. Hopkins, d. Bar
waldt, Jacob Haas, w. NJ. Scott, l. Lieb-
man, d. Mayer, j. II. Ketner, Samuel
We'll, Aaron Haas, Isaac H. Haas, and
Milton Smith. This company is
| one Of the immediate results
Of the recent street railroad deal. 1t was
explained in the meeting that the company
will take advantage Of the proposed i'm
provements of the street railways by the
purchase of land in the sections developed
by the railways. The company will be
organized with $250,00 capital, with the
privilege Of increasing the capital to $780,
600 This will be paid in 10 per cent. upon
the first call and per cent. per month
thereafter. At the meeting $50, 600 was
subscribed, and a committee, consisting Of
Messrs English Ketner, Mayer and Hen
dirk, was appointed on subscriptions to the
stock.
The change Of the passenger rate on the
Buena Vista and Ellaville extension of the
Savannah and Western railroad is a great
puzzle to the colored population, who do
not seem to understand the change. The
rate was formerly cents per mile, but it
has been changed to cents. An old negro
came up from Putnam Saturday afternoon,
and paid 2S cents for his ticket When he
bought his ticket Monday morning going
back, he gave 30 cents to the agent, expect
ing 10 receive IN change cents, but the
agent gave him cents. Boss, yer's made
a mistake, | spects, sab" Mo- replied
Agent Jackson the fare to Putnam is
only 2l cents er dou't say!n replied
the negro. "Well, dat white man down al
Putnam made mo pay 2S cents fer de ticket
up heah, and pse gwine back on en- fer de
change sho yer borun Another negro
came in and put down 81 25 for ticket to
Americus. the old rate being 81 l6. The
agent took in the money, and gave him back
Al cents in change. The negro picked up
his change and walked Off, counting it with
out saying a word, but it was plainly seen
that he was under the impression that the
agent bad made mistake in his favor of
80 cents.
The Sparta Alliance met in the court
house at Sparta on Saturday, April 20, and
the following resolutions we're adopted
without a dissenting voice: Resolved,
That we indorse, without qualifi cation, the
action Of the state alliance adopting cotton
bagging. 2. That we pledge ourselves to
use cotton bagging if we can get it. g.
That we pledge ourselves never again,
either this year or in any future year, to
buy one yard Of trust bagging at any price,
if we can get suitable substitute there
for. T. That we consider any effort on the
part of commission merchants to induce
farmers to purchase jute bagging as prima
facie evidence that they are in conspiracy
with the trust, and we pledge ourselves to
send no cotton to any commission merchant
who offers trust bagging to any of
our farmers. 5. That we desire the
sympathy and cooperative efforts of all
merchants in our fight against the jute
trust, and that any favor they NAV show
this trust by offering for sale trust bagging
will be interpreted as direct attack on the
farmers who are resisting this oppression.
s. D. Rogers, secretary, Hancock Farmers
Alliance" A called meeting Of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Geneva was held last Satur-
day to take action concerning the bagging
trust. There seems to be a determination
on the part of the alliance generally to
use no jute bagging, but cotton bagging in-
stead.
At Albany, Tuesday, there was an ex-
citing contest over a girl before the court
Of ordinary. About three weeks ago Mrs
John w. Bolton died, leaving a daughter
by former marriage, Gu3sie Mobiles, a
Josiah Long Of Mitchell county, whose wife
is an aunt Of Gussie's, came up to take the
girl home with him. He applied for tenn
porary letters of guardianship, which gave
him the same rights as q parent over the
child There came a complication. Gus
sic refused to 60 with him. The house
in which she lived was double house, one
half having been rented by her mother,
the other by Mrs. Narciss Howard. From
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affection has sprung up between them, and
neither wanted to be separated. Mrs.
Howard said that Gussie loved her. she
loved Gussie, and no one should part them
She made a stubborn fight for her posses
sion. Long procured a writ of habeas
corpus aud summoned the girl before the
court, at the same time making application
for permanent letters of guardianship. At
the conclusion of the trial Judge Odom, the
ordinary, decided in favor of Long, upon
the grounds that he had obtained letters of
guardianship and that there was not evil
dence produced showing that Long was in
capable of supporting the girl, or that he
was immoral or in any way untitled to take
care Of her. The girl wept and declared
that she would die before she would 90
with him. Judge Odum's tender heart was
moved to pity, and the girls grief and ex-
he feared, would throw her into
a fever, and, taking Long to one side, he
begged him to let ber remain with her
friend until May "a, when she would be IA
years old, and allowed by law to choose her
own guardian. II she chose an incompetent
one he would not allow 1t. Long proving
obdurate, he told him he would give him
the costs for all the applications, amounting
TO quite considerable sum, if he would let
her remain with Mrs. Howard a month
longer. He agreed to this, and returned to
Mitchell county without her while Cussia
aud Mrs. Howard wended their way home
ward, happy together.
FLODTDA