The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-24

TWeed-A Free Fight at thomson
Satma Rice Fields Under Water
work on the South Georgia College
at McRse.
GEORGIA.
The matrimonial season has opened pretty
brisk at Tweed. Last Sunday John Kicks
and Miss Matte Harrison, George Wall
and Miss Lucy Graham and Ira Maddox
and Miss Ella Drew were united in mar.
risge.
Thomas A. Gould of Atlanta, who has
been spending two days at Sand Hill hunt
ing, reported that on Thursday he shot two
bucks within two miles of the East Tennes-
see railroad. He says the woods about Sand
Hill are thick with deer.
Mrs. Jasper Nash Of Macarthur, Mont
gomery county, died very suddenly on
Monday afternoon. She was taken on Mon
day morning with a severe attack Of cramp
collie. DR.. J. G. RyaIs of Lumber City as
called il and did what he could to relieve
ter.
Jesup Sentinel: Corn and potato crops
are good, consequently corn bread and
Eaters" will be plentiful this fall Now let
everybody fatten a few hogs and SOW q
greens patch, and this winter wen all be
as If we were eating bought 'biskitn and
western sow belly"
McRae Enterprise: Tom McRae, col
ored boy belonging to Cordele, vas jailed
here Monday evening for safe keeping dur
ing the night. He had been arrested by a
bailiff from Dooly superior court under
charge Of running "blind tiger" He was
carried over 10 Vienna Tuesday morning.
Work on the South Georgia College build
ing at McRae is still progressing very salts
factorily. The brick walls are ready to re-
Oeive the ''sleepers" for the second floor and
the wood work generally is being pushed
l., l.
have an elegant college structure when
completed.
There are thousands of acres Of rice under
water up the Satilla river. A gentleman
who came from that section told the Bruins
wick Times that all along the river fields OF
rice could be seen under water, and much of
the crop that had been cut before the flood
is being carried away by the high water.
The rice planters have got the blues.
John Campbell, the colored barber OF
Lumber City, is in peck of trouble-and
quite serious trouble, too He was arrested
there Sunday on a warrant charging him
with attempt TO commit rape upon a white
woman living near town. The evidence
brought against him at the preliminary
trial was rather conflicting, yet sufficient
TO send him to jail in default Of a 1000
bond.
The attention of jurors, witnesses and at
WI Ac1s ID thlAe0 " bub LdCb huhb NllUCD EU-
perior court will be adjourned from Mon-
day morning, Oct. 3. to Thursday,
Oct. @, at o'clock, a. ID. on account
OF the interruption TO the business of
the court by the state election. A special
notice appears In this issue, OF the MORNING
NEWS, by order of Hon. J. L. Sweat, judge
Of superior court of Clinch county,
Here is an official statement Of receipts
and expenditures of school money which
shows what was done for the oolored people
by the white people Of Georgia during the
year 1891: Total school fund in 1891
Sl,l20,OOO, taxable property owned by
whites S445, 100000 taxa bic property owned
by colored people $l4, 200 900, school tax
paid by negroes $4,000, amount of school
fund paid out for the education of their
children $500, 00O
Among the visitors to Brunswick at press
ent Is Judge George j. Arrow, a prominent
citizen OF Gainesville, Fla. who has repre-
scented his county 10 the Florida legislature,
where be did some excellent work for his
people. II lived In Brunswick for several
years" said Judge Arrow TO Il Times man,
but 1t was not this Brunswick. When
lived here the place was but country VIII
lage. 1t was in the SOS, and it doesn't seem
possible that such city could have grown
up here. am most agreeably surprised.
This IS my first visit here since the war"
Frank McAlster was arrested at Lumber
City on Saturday by Detective R. s. Farm
er, and Is charged with burning the livery
stables of Matt Cook at that place on Dec
IA, 1891. McAlister had preliminary hear
ing on Monday, and the evidence adduced
was sufficient 10 bind him over to the su-
periur court, and in default of bond he now
languishes in jail here. T. H. Davis, a
white citizen OF the same place, was also ar
rested there on Saturday, charged with
being accessory to the said burning, and at
his preliminary trial Monday he was re-
leased on bond of 81 900
Brunswick Times: The wet weather is
making lumbermen frown. There are now
10 this port vessels on demurrage, because
the railroads can't bring lumber in fast
enough to load them. This is no fault of
the railroads. The country roads are in
such an awfully muddy condition that it is
impossible for lumber and timber haulers to
do any work until che water dries out of
the earth through South Georgia. Reports
come from up the East Tennessee and
Brunswick and Western that teams have
been standing up in stables for two weeks
on account of the long wet spell.
When several pupils went to get their
books out Of desk which stands 10 a COR
ner OF the Gum Spring academy, at Tweed.
last Friday morning, they were astonished
to find huge rattlesnake ooied up on a
geography. The scholars became fright
ened aud ran to the door. A panic would
have occurred had it not been for the pres
ence of mind Of the teacher, who seized a
keen hickory switch and applied it vigor-
ously on some Of the refractory pupils II
made them submissive. The snake was
killed without any harm being done. How
the RATHER got in the desk Is a mystery.
The children had a narrow escape from
being bitten.
Q. H. Ellington, president of the state
alliance, and E. r Wilson a prominent
farmer of McDuffie county, had a fight on
Main street Thursday morning lust in front
of the bank at Thomson. Neither got hurt.
with the exception Of slight bruises. as
friends interfered and separated them.
When separated Mr.. Wilson was on ton.
and the presumption is, would have given
the president good drubbing. 1t orig
mated in the disturbance created during
Maj. Blacks speech there. Immediately
after the fight DR.. T. p. Reville
struck j. I. West a singing blow under the
left eye, but they too were separated with
out further damage. It looked at one time
as II general riot was imminent, but
cooler heads succeeded in quelling the din
Guilty. This is thought to be the last of the
matter.
McRae Enterprise: Complaints are al
ready being made in Savannah Of wet and
Ialsely packed cotton being received in that
market. This is rad policy, from other
tnan purely sinister rnntfve II "a dia