The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

$1,000 -
Omcer's Suspension - The Coming
Session o. the Savannah Presoyterv.
An Atlanta Man Haunted by the
Johnstown Horror.
GEORGIA.
Tattnall superior court convenes next
Monday.
The session of the Savannah presbytery
will be held at Wathourville mex. week
A week from to-day the Georgia Medical
Association vii. convene in annual session
In Brunswick.
Ordinary =. NJ. Smith Of Berrien county
issued between so aud 100 marriage licenses
during the first twelve months of MS official
term. On a basis Of 10000 population,
per cent. Of the people of Berrien county
were married in 1889.
Mrs. Jack Gresne, living near Reynolds,
has baby six days old, perfectly formed,
in good health. and in peace with all its
surroundings, whose face can be covered by
silver dollar, and which will barely turn
the scales at l = pounds.
Claude Shomo OF Atlanta was among
the first who reached Johnstown after the
great disaster there last year. He SAYS he
wishes he had never seen the terrible
wreck; that scenes he witnessed there
(which he graphically describes) come back
pei them from his mind.
William King, colored mail carrier on the
Gainesville and Cumming mail line, cut the
mail pouch and extracted three registered
letters containing considerable money. The
letters were mailed at Pleasant Grove For
syth county, the negro seeing them placed
in the pouch by the postmaster at that
office. he was arrested and taken to jail in
Atlanta.
P. P. Patton of SIMPSON district, Ogls-
thorpe county, has several articles which
he values for their age and usefulness. Oae
is pair of names made by his father forty
nine years ago. and which have been in use
ever since; another is a shuck collar which
has been in service since two years before
the war; and the third is a pitcher which
was bought in 1926.
United States Marshal Corbett of Macon
left Triton Friday afternoon for Irwin
county, whore he goes to serve writs in IA
action for 1000 damages, brought against
Sheriff Paulk and his bondsmen by a man
when the sheriff arrested some time ago
and held three weeks for identification,
and two DAYS after indentiication was
pronounced mot the man wanted
A romantic marriage has been held
secret in Ringgold for the past three months
On Dec %, 1889, clerk in the railway
mail service on the Cincinnati Southern ran
tracing parties are H. j. Miller and Miss
Alice McElwain. No one-not even the young
lady's mother-knew anything of the mar
riage until Saturday morning, when her
daughter Informed her of the fact
The Liberty Independent Troop had a
private meeting Saturday for the purpose
of having squad drills by the sergeants and
platoon drills by the lieutenants. The troop
will have its May parade on May 8. and
Nnl md L. c&o l,ox1
TO witness the parade. A. g. Cassels has
been appointed by Col Gordon sergeant
major Of the regiment. The new banner
will also be presented on that day in behalf
of the ladies of the troop by ex-Capt. w. A.
Fleming.
Augusta NeiUs: Capt. Edgeworth Eve
of Columbia county is in the CITY and was
exhibiting to some of his more intimate
friends to-day leaden reminder of the late
war. 1t was a mimic bullet which struck
him in the side in one of the battles in Vir-
ginia. The ball struck a rib ard glanced
around and was cut out on the opposite
side by a surgeon. The end of the ball is
lndented and shows where it struck Capt
Eve put the missile in his pocket and
brought it home. This was twenty-seven
years ago. He had not seen the ball in
twenty years until few days ago, when it
rolled out of some old bric-a-brac he was
examining.
There is queer state of affairs at Con
yers. H. ID. Terrill &c Co. of thai place
have factory for the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements Last week they had
shipment for Westminster, S. C..
and ordered it sent via Atlanta The route
via Atlanta is 143 miles. and the freight 90
cents per 100 pounds. The agent refused to
receive the goods unless they we're sent via
Augusta, which route Is 3S5 miles and the
freight A cents per 100. Correspondence
ensued, and the agent was instructed that
he would be discharged if he received the
goods TO be shipped via Atlanta. Mr.. Ter
rell was in Atlanta to-day and called on the
railroad commission, but that body can
hardly touch the case, as it is Interstate
commerce" The Georgia railroad evidently
wants the 'long haul"
Considerable complaint has been made of
late by the ladies of Brunswick in regard to
the smoking in the postoffice. AS conse-
quence Postmaster Hunter issued an order
prohibiting smoking in the building First
Assistant Marshal Stafford was requested
to detail man for the postoffice, and he in
structed Patrolman Bowen to do duty there
Promptly at o'clock Sunday morning the
patrolman was on hand, and almost as
promptly man walked in who was smok-
ing. Patrolman Bowen approached the
man and told him the United States rule.
requesting that he throw down his cigar
Mayor pro tenn. NJ. Ullman was in the
Office at the time, and approaching the man
told him to go ahead with his cigar, that
the officer had no right to stop him from
smoking. Mr.. Ullman then suggested
to the officer that he was out of
his place and had better 20 back
to his beat. Nothing else was said in the
postoffice. No one else was approached by
the officer, though Mr.. Ullman and w. u.
Burbage were both smoking at the time.
The patrolman passed out on the sidewalk.
as did Mr.. Ullman later There something
else was said, when Patrolman Bowen per-
empUoriiy told MIR. Ullman to shut up.
Then the mayor pro tenn. said: "You don't
remember who you are talking TO, do
youl | suspend you from duty now. y
The matter will be fought out before the
police commissioners. The foregoing is Mr..
Ullman's statement, and Mr.. Burbage saws
it is correct. Patrolman Bowen gives an
other version to the affair, saying that he
approached Mr.. Ullman himself and
politely asked him to quit smoking Tae
request did no good, SO no ordered, as an
officer, that the smoking be stopped, where
upon Mr.. Ullman spoke as above
FLORIDA
An athletic association is to be formed al
Palatka.