The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-26
WALKS AND TALkS.

1t is said that Canada has never had
general panic.
The London banks have $1.15o. 100000
locked up at the present time.
The Japanese soldiers pay for all private
property taken in their march and treat
their prisoners well. The Chinese frequent
ly slaughter the captured japanese.
A New York woman is charged with
training her twenty months old baby to
Ioddle into the rooms of 4 large boarding
house and steal money and jeweiry-
From all L can learn Georgia will get
her full share of the immigrants that are
coming 10 the south this winter" said Mr.
Sam Hardwick, assistant passenger agent
OF the Southern railway, yesterday. Coy
ernor Northen is doing some good work
for the south At his bureau in the Eauit-
able building and am sure that good re-
suits VIII spring from what has already
been done"
The most tragis duel that ever occurred
at old Sandbar ferry" said = listener In
the conversation. was that which took
place good many years ago when a hand
some young Irish fellow from Baltimore
shot and killed another cCmbatant there.
1t was question Of love, and the young
men met TO tight il out. l have never known
what the real issue was. The handsome
yOuIiS 1IlSHilldn uiSpldAeU the coolest nerve.
He went oFt 10 the ferry from Augusta in
a carriage with his second, and as they
passed the residence Of his sweetheart, VINO
had caused the trouble. he went in TO see
her and talk with her just moment. She
begged him not to go. but he would, anu
after few moments with her ne returned
to the carriage ana was prompt upon the
scene of action. The other fellow
there, and they faced each other fer the
hpf Il gr all no in hpi
pistols and both We're killed, the Irish swain
dying after few days suffering
The one spot of al others IN the south
that is by right the birthplace Of fiction end
romance is famous old Sanlbar ferry
the Savannah river. the historic duelins
grounds said a well-known Augusta man
yesterday as he lighted cigar at the kim
bail house cigar stand and whitfield the fra
grant smoke as it went upward i'll the great
corridors. There is the place that invites
the bookwriter. There is the place that calls
for Old-Jime southern literary talent. So
rich and bounteous would be the harvest, 1
should think any writer in the south today
might spend 4 week looking into the history
of this famed spot of earth
The first duel that was ever fought there
was between two old time knights Of the
south, who in their flushed impulse of
youth, had quit a ballroom about six miles
away in South Carolina and silently stolen
away to meet at the point now known
Sandbar ferry. on the Savannah II was
about beautiful young woman al the ball
they became 50 angered that The duel was
resorted to. and they secured physician
and galloped off with their seconds quietly
from the scene of Sayety To fight. The pref
~ young belle of the evening suspected
something of the kind and summOning her
servants followed close in their pursuit She
reached the scene just in time 10 throw
,E.r,~. 4
prevent the shooting. The woman in the
case was distinguished South Carolina
woman and was direct ancestor Of Colonel
John Nlilledge, of this city"
q think it would be interesting to the
members of the Georgia legislature to go
over to Athens and spend n day on the
campus of the State university said Mr..
John Winder, general manager OF the Sea
board Airline
~ have thought OF il several times and
have been inclined to negotiate With the
proper parties about it to see if the legis-
lators wouldn't like to go over and view
the states college. There is always more
or less legislation about the university,
and the members, in order 10 get perfect
knowledge of the situation, would find il
both profitable and pleasant, l should
think to visit the states cherished insti-
tuition. The committee that sometimes
sent have no means OF conveying To the
minds Of the individual members Of the
general assembly just how they found the
condition of the buildings 1t is d matter
that would have 10 be looked into BY the
men themselves, if they sought to gain
perfect knowledge of the situation.
II youlu be willing to give the lawmakers
the trip and run q special train for them
if they wanted to so over TO Athens and
inspect the buildings and the grounds In
"a body. 1t may be that they would care 70
go over to Athens some Sunday, thus los
ing no time from their duties in the assem-
bly,. They could so and return the same
day. There may be some of the members
who have never seen the state university
and who would like to il Just for thit
interest that every members Of the genera
assembly feels in the states Pubic lhStlta,
tons. There others who would Hl'u
the trip particularly, agreeable py reason
of the fact that they are graduates o. W..
college and would like q VISIT the CAMPUS pi
or.ce more when within the reach OF u this
way" Htpr--eA i''
.sg, re55