The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-27
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
The News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs.

III lUl0SlOpMot
Merchants at Athens 10 Refuse Stu
dents Credit Hereafter - Coloreo
Girls Taken From Their House il
Alachua County and Cruelty Whip
ped-seven Cents More Than Called
For Found in the State Treasury.
GEORGIA.
JB. Wing, Of Roswell, has purchased
the Wood property and VIII greatly i'm
prove it.
John Keese. young white man, was
arrested at Athens saturday night at his
room over Pittard & Skies store, on the
charge of running blind tiger
A mink went to the home Of G.. G. Jones
of Alpharetta last Sunday morning and
killed fifty-two chickens. About thirty
more had previously disappeared Mr..
Jones has since succeeded in killing four
minks
The legislative committee found the
state treasurer's accounts of 7-cents out
7-cents too much in the vaults. Not a
deficit. but a discrepancy-th first ever
discovered in Uncle Bob Hardeman' ac-
counts He made the state have one
nickel and two pennies more than the
books showed.
-Four trunks, upon each of which is
printed the name of A. J. Peppers, New
man. Ga, were carried to police head
quarters at Atlanta Saturday night. The
trunks had been standing upon the side
walk in front of the Markham house for
three or four days. Nobody knows how
they came there. The owner could not
be found The Trunks will be opened
soon unless the owner puts in claim for
them.
During the storm Thursday afternoon
lightning struck the house of William
Lewis in East Athens, running down the
chimney and through the floor. No one
was fatally injured in the house, although
several of the inmates were shocked.
After the storm was over one of the in
mates looked under the house and found
that the lightning, when it went through
the floor, had killed fifteen chickens that
had taken shelter under the house dur
ing the rain.
Several of Atlanta's leading
lumber dealers met in session Saturday
with representatives of the railroads of
the state for the purpose of agreeing on
new estimates of weights of lumber 10 be
submitted to the state railroad commits
sion. Some abuses have grown up under
the present estimates. Among those
present were: Joe Graham, claim agent
of the Central; superintendent Beaupree
and Vaughn, of the East Tennessee; and
Martin Amorous, Major Smart, j. G. VIII
son and T. II. Foote.
A few nights since at Oak
Grove there occurred a romantic we'd
ding The Oak Grove Lodge OF Odd Fell
lows were in session and Noble Grand
John Smith was in the chair There
came q curious rap at the door and the
lodge came to a sudden silence, stranger
had evidently approached the anteroom.
The noble grand went out and down
stairs and stayed a while. When he
came back, the deed had been done. He
was J. p and he had married a runa-
way couple. He would not give their
names.
Caroline Humphreys, who says she is
an illiterate woman, began a suit in the
circuit court at Chicago, Ill, Saturday,
against the North American Deposit and
Investment Company for the conveyance
of a lot in Atlanta, Ga. She alleges that
the lot was obtained from her by fraud.
1t is worth s., 500, she says, and she APP
piled 10 the defendant for loan of 81 200
on it. The company agreed TO let her
have it and asked her TO sign an instru-
ment purpOrting to be a mortgage, she
SAYS but which was in reality a war
ranty deed. Instead of getting $1,000 in
cash. she says, they gave her $3.50 and
forty shares of stock in the company of
the par value of SO each. She says this
stock, however, is worthless. She learned
afterward, she says, that the instrument
was deed and not mortgage, and tried
to get her property back, but got no salts
faction, Mrs. Humphreys left Atlanta
three years ago.
Sunday morning thief entered Miss E.
j. Thorne's hardware store, No. 1919
Broad street, at Augusta, by breaking
one of the glass panels of the front door.
He then proceeded upstairs and stole
from one of the rooms a satchel contain
ing $50 in money, pair of diamond ear
rings and box containing So in gold and
$3.50 in silver. Detectives Howard and
Kelly were notified and visited the scene
of the theft In an out house the ear
rings, the box containing the gold and
silver coin and the empty satchel We're
found. Miss Thorne said she heard no
noise whatever but missed the money
and jewels when she arose. Only very
slight clue could be obtained. A young
white boy working in the store told the
officers that about II o'clock Saturday
night a negro boy about II years old
entered the store and asked to see some
knives. Customer and dealer could not
agree on the price and haggled quite
while. The negro carried a short, red
stick in his hand. Detective Howard
found a red stick under one of the win
dows, and as the clerk does not know
Nhdb Vic nGELO > ndlAAc ID WIN ndu luC
stick, the detectives have a very fiimsy
clue upon which to work.
Athens Banner: 1t is said that the
merchants will organize, and positively
refuse to credit students without written
orders from their parents or guardians.
This will not be done so much on account
of the losses sustained by failure to coll
lect the accounts of the students, but be-
cause of the objections of their parents.
Several letters have been received by
merchants from prominent men who have
sons in the university, that this indis-
criminate crediting students will ruin the
colleges. These letters state that the
students are sent monthly remittances
sufficient and ample to pay all
their college expenses and spending
money. But the merchants allow them
to run up large bills, covering probably
whole or half the term while the money
is blown in" and then the bills are sent
TO parents to be paid AS result of this
no parent can tell what his son is costing
him at college until it is TOO late to ad,
wise him to use the proper discretion and
economy in his living expenses. The ad
ditional amount of money TO take the
boys through college is not so much of al
objection as the dangers Of acquiring eX
travagant habits and tastes. Such case: