The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

VADnan Nulb a - 49, 0POu6 %
Crisp's Son One of the Busiest Men
In the House When Congress Is in
Session.
DR.. r. V. Mitchell of Rome is dead.
Walton county shows up with 2-pouud
Irish potato.
There is a gourd vine in Athens that has
young gourds on it with handles four feet
long.
Farmers In Clarke county say the cotton
hasn't commenced to open yet. It is about
three weeks later than last year.
The tax returns of Pierce county foot up
$50, 9l6 more than last year. The figure are
tor 1892, 81 1870, 427; for 1891 Sl,907 ,5ll.
Rev. j. c. Williams, who resides near
Seasons, in Appling county, lost his barn,
stables, horse, a mule and a lot Of fodder
by fire last week. The origin OF the fire Is
not known.
The city of Augusta is going 70 sue the
Richmond Academy trustees for property
valued at $4,000 The trustees claim that
they are not liable and the contest will be
hotly disputed.
H. L. Walker, a negro school teacher,
who is in charge Of the Colored Peabody
Teachers Institute, in session in Amerious,
was fined Monday by the recorder OF that
city for using vile language to little tele-
graph messenger.
The heavy rains that have been falling
almost daily for several weeks have been
against the farming interests of many Of
Appling couuty's citizens. They have in
jured cotton and corn both on low lands,
and the yield will be decreased on q num-
Der Of farms.
A bridal couple from one Of the North
Georgia counties stopped at the Hotel
Dalton last Sunday night, and upon retiring
> G1rNrr yaft1 ia ut
the hotel discovered the accident before the
newly welded ones were asphyxated, thus
averting q disastrous termination Of a
bridal tour.
An item was going the rounds OF the
papers lately that the oldest dime was made
in 1877, and was in The possession OF gem
tleman in Ohio. Mrs S. E. Jones OF Chat
tooga county, sister of Col. Tom Jones,
can beat the antiquity Of the Ohio man's
l0-cent piece by couple OF years. She has
one that was made in 1925.
1t takes quite large stock Of groceries to
feed the inmates of the lunatio asylum at
Milledgeville. The following is the guam
tity necessary per day: Seven hundred and
thirty pounds Of -four 4S2 pounds of meal
222 pounds Of grits, l27 pounds OF rice, 70
pounds OF coffee, I'll pounds Of lard, l07
pounds of sugar, 900 pounds Of beef, 400
pounds of bacon, 5 pounds of tea. Three
thousand five hundred tons Of coal are used
yearly at this institution.
viii Jackson, q white tramp, was shot at
Cartersville Wednesday afternoon by a ne
gro. jackson and the negro were stealing a
ride from Chattanooga 20 Atlanta on a
freight train. When the train reached
Cartersville they began fighting The ne
gro had shotgun and ne emptied its con-
tents into Jackson's head. The right side
Of Jackson's face was torn Off and one eye
was shot to pieces. He is lying at the
Grady hospital at Atlanta in q very critical
condition. He says be is from st. Louis
The negro was arrested at Cartersville and
locked up.
A special train will be run to Eatonton
Aug. Is to carry the crowd TO the races that
will take place on that day between Rosa
W likes OF Hancock county and Rosa Wilkes
of Baldwin. Considerable controversy has
been INDUCED in between the admirers of
those blooded animals. Both sides claim
the speediest animal and it has been decided
70 try their speed. Eatonton was selected
as the ground and the race will come of
Thursday. Aug. Is. To make the occasion
one or interest other races have been ar
ranged and splendid programme will be
carried out. Inc train will leave Macon in
the morning and return in the evening.
Congressman Lawson will deliver an address
on the occasion and it will be a gala day in
Eatonton.
Last Sunday two negro women in Adel
had difficulty and agreed to go outside Of
the corporate limits and fight 1t out They
walked out on the railroad, and when about
the water tank they went to their work.
One OF them had prepared herself, 1t seems,
with the intention of killing, and fell upon
the other with u new knife, soon bringing
her TO the ground. cutting several frightful
gsshes In her back and leaving her to die.
Other negroes, seeing the trouble, started to
them. Dnc did NOT GET there
in time to interfere with the
murderous attack. They removed the dy-
ing woman just In time to keep the body
from being mangled by the approaching
passenger train. The murderess was imme-
diately arrested and placed In the calaboose,
where she was guarded through the night &c
prevent escape or IynchinR. She was given
a commitment trial in Adel, found guilty
and taken TO Nashville on Monday by
Deputy Marshal Waterford and lodged In
Jail to await the action Of the grand jury
and superior court. The row originated
from jealousy over an admirer of the two
women.
Charles R. Crisp, the son Of the speaker
has been In Atlanta for the past two day,
with his father. Charley Crisp is the clerk
60 the speakers table In Washington. The
old clerks who have seen service for a dozen
years in the House of Representatives de,
clare him to be the brightest and best
He bids fair to be the worthy successor OF
his distintinguished- father. The duties OF
clerk to the speakers table are manifold
1t is the most difficult office under the
House TO fill 1t requires tact, a perfect
memory aud qu!okness. The clerk to the
speakers table must know every member of
the House by name and the state he halls
from. He must have every rule on his
tongues end, and must know just where to
turn in the book Of rules when a point OF
order Is raised. He must be able
TO refer TO all decisions of pre-
vious speakers upon minutes
notice and hand il to the presiding officer.
When the House 10 in committee of the
whole and member is called to the chair
who happens to be unfamiliar with the
rules, and these members constitute a vast
majority OF the House, for few members
have mastered them, be is practically the
presiding officer. 1t is he who tells the
presiding officer how to decide points OF
order and furnishes him with the rule ap-
plicsble While young Mr.. Crisp is but q
years Of age, be has mastered the compli.
Gated rules of the House, and In his work
never makes an error. He further has to
keep the time on all debates, and keeps q
record Of all motions and the disposition OF
the same. Indeed, during the sessions OF