The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
LEGISLATION IN BEHALF OF THE
TEACHERS

a Memorial Decided On by the County
School Commissioners in Session at
Salt Springs-Bigamist Fleming Seek
ing Pardon-M!ssionary Diez Again
in a Cuban Jail.
ATLANTA, GA, July 10.-The county
school commissioners assembled at Salt
Springs yesterday, and to-day decided to
remorialize the next legislature for an
alteration of the school avs in several i'm
portant particulars. They want members
OF the county boards Of education. who
heretofore have been doing their work for
nothing, given per diem equal to thai en-
joyed By petit jurors in their respective
counties. They desire the county school
commissioners authorized TO grant between
the regular semi-annual examination days
licenses ad interim to teachers pre-
vented by providentlal or other
causes satisfactory to the com
missioners and the county board from
attending or passing at regular examlne-
lions. and they wish. thirdly, 10 have the
laws so modified as 10 allow teachers to
draw about 20 per cent Of their pay In
July.
BIGAMIsT SEEKING A PARDON.
Samuel Fleming, the blind bigamist, who
created a sensation in Atlanta a couple Of
years ago, has applied for a pardon. Flem-
ing is said TO have more wives than two.
Without the use of eyes he managed 70 woo
and win Miss Sallie Aubrey of this city and
at the same time get himself a five years
sentence in the penitentiary. He has worked
but two wears at the Chattahoochee brick
yard pumps.
REWARD FOR A MURDERER.
A reward of 800 has been offered by the
governor for the arrest and delivery of
Henry Garrett, who has been indicted for
murder in Dade county.
DIAZ AGAIN IN JAIL.
Missionary Diaz has written another letter
to Atlanta ministers, complaining Of re
arrest and REIMBURSEMENT at Havana.
Diaz's bondsman found it impossible to sell
lands he wished to dispose of as long as he
remained on the bond. He consequently
sacrificed his religious scruples to considera-
tions of private gain. and surrendered the
missionary. Dr. Tichnor is now in Wash
iugton, aud will ask the help of Secretary
Blaine.
JUDGE TESTERS CONFIDENCE.
Judge George n. Lester is in Atlanta to
day. He says he feels confident of being
elected attorney general.
OIL MILLS BURNED
Fire at the Southern Cotton Seed Oil
Mills, near this city, early this morning
burned 2l5,0O0 gallons OF refined oil ana de-
stroyed, in all, 800, 900 worth of property.
GOV. GORDON CoRRECTs AN ERROR.
Gov. Gordon furnishes the following for
publication.
Several northern papers, referring to the con
federate reunion at Chattanooga, have been
misled and have attributed TO me expressions
to which l never gave utterance. In
no speech made by me at Chattanooga
did l make any reference whatever
to slavery or to the position OF the south or the
north on that subject, either during, before or
ssace the war Another reference TO slavery is
said to have been made by another speaker on
the afternoon of the 4th, at which was not pre-
sent, and do not know whether or not he has been
correctly reported. In an impromptu speech
from the balcony of the Read hotel in res ponse
TO a call by my Confederate veteran friends,
| did urge my confederate comrades, as my
parting injunction, to be as true to the union
and to the best interests of the whole country
in the future as they had been to the con
federacy in the war. All of my remarks were
confined exclusively to this line of thought, and
| repeat that made no reference whatever TO
the subject Of slavery. J. B. GORDON.