The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04


nal Libel suit at CartersviIIe Con
victed.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. J. J Neador OF Atlanta died very
suddenly Thursday afternoon
The Swift Manufacturing Company and
TIE Hamburger Mills at Columbus nave
Just closed a contract for $1,000 worth OF
new machinery.
on Wednesday. Aug. a. the first annual
reunion of the union and confederate vet
Grams association, formed az Buchanan
last year. VIII De held at IallapoOsa-
The annual encampment Of the Grand
Lodge of the Independent order OF odd
Fellows Of Georgia VIII be held al Grimm
Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug ~ and Il
Henry Garrett was fatally shot by John
Grower at Round Mountain thursday.
The men, both white, we're quarreling
while walking along the public road
Grower became angry at some thing Gar
ROT said. and shot him three times.
Grower fed and has 50 far eluded ar
rest
A day viii be set apart during the expo
6ItiOu al Atlanta for the special entertain
mcut OF tine Colonial danes. Mrs. Hugh
Hagan, Mrs. Grant-Jackson and Miss Ida
Glenn viii give receptions In their honor
and very brilliant ceremonies Will be instl-
tuted. The exact date has not yet been
settled, but il viii probably be some time
in October Invitations have been issued
TO all OF the thirteen societies Of the tnir-
which, will be well represented.
Cherries T. Broadheld. a successful
young farmer of Sumter county, was
in Americus Friday with a lot OF the
largest and finest watcrmelons seen there
this season. eight of the melons weigh
ed 80 pounds. an average Of sixty pounds
each. Mr.. BrOadheld Is raising melon
seed this year for seed house In Rock
ford. Ill. and the eight melons We're eX-
pressed there as a sample of the Geor-
gia article. Mr.. Broadfeld has forty acres
planted in melons. and Will harvest 1000
bushels of seed therefrom
In chambers at Augusta Friday Judge
Galloway rendered his decision in the case
of Charles Il. Lombard vs.. the city council
of Augusta During a freshet the city
closed certain gates, and the resulting
pressure caused an overflow into Mr.. LON
bard's foundry and machine shop and COM
siderable damage followed. Mr.. Lombard
brought suit and the jury awarded him
about $500 damages Friday before Judge
Galloway the city moved for new trial,
but Judge Galloway OVerruled the motion.
The case w.ll be taken 20 the supreme
court.
During the trial Of c. II. Conyers and
Dr. T. II. Baker for criminal libel at Car
tersville Thursday, Solicitor General Ftte
charged Baker with having a pistol IN
his pocket ready to shoot him (Fite). The
judge required the solicitor to make
affidavit TO that effect and the pistol
was produced in court. The libel suit
was the outcome of charges against Mr.
Fife than when Baker was the populist
nominee for senator he, Fite, brihed the
negroes Of Pine Log church 10 vote for
Lumpkin, the democratic candidate. 1t
was further charged that the letter stat
ing these chrges was published in the
Daily Press, the third party paper,
through the efforts of Conyers and Baker.
The defendants were convicted.
The boarders of Atlanta are being asked
70 vacate their rooms in order TO accom-
modate the transcients who viii sWoop
down upon Atlanta when the exposition
opens and the regular boarders Will have
10 seek lodging just where they can best
find II. Nearly all of the boarding houses
have informed their guests that their
rooms will be needed after Sept 1. The
Aragon has notified its regular bOarders
that the guests of the exposition Will be
given the preference and so has the Bal
lard house, and in fact, all Of the leading
hotels and boarding houses, with the eX-
ception of the Kimball and the Markham
These two hotels will retain all the regular
boarders, but will, of course, be compelled
10 double uD 10 some extent. The board
ers are undecided as to what is best to
do under the circumstances and they have
been given just thirty days in which to
decide the matter 1t is very probable
that they will be compelled to rent rooms
wherever they can be obtain and take
their meals from the restaurants.
Twenty survivors of Company c, Third
Georgia Regiment met at Penfeld in re-
union Wednesday. The company has
record scarcely surpassed by any company
in either army. The company left PEN
under the command of Captain,
afterwards Maj; r. L. MeWhor-
$50 men, of whom about forty are now
alive. It was the first company of Geor-
gia troops to cross the border of Virginia,
and was under fire nearly one hundred
Eimes. The company never had a man to
desert. 1t never had a man shot in the
back, nor q man court-martialed for dis
obedience TO military law during the war;
nor has any bill of indictment for viola
ton of civil law been found against any
of its members. The company never had
a member captured by the enemy without
first having been wounded until the re-
treat from Richmond to Appomattox. On
this retreat the men were three DAYS
without food. fighting by day and march
ing by night, and in consequence a few
became exhausted and were picked up by
the enemy. out of less than fifty men,
bers on the roll at the surrender at APP
gospel, and she remainder. without ex-
ception, became honest, law-abidng citi-
zens.
Rome Tribune: A B. Mcdonald has
fled a suit for $4,000 damages against
A Dougherty for personal damages TO his
character. The suit is based on the allie
cation that Mr.. Dougherty, in the pres
ence OF witnesses, accused Mr. Mcdonald
OF causing the death of his brother Dock
Dougherty, while an inmate of the Kee-
ley Institute. The story connected with
the suit is one of a very substantial char
acter. Early in January Dock Dougherty
was taken to Kelley Institute for treat
ment for alcoholism. After remaining
there about a week under treatment he
died. The family We're notified of his
dangerous condition before his death and
several of them visited him. Some time
after his death Mrs. Dougherty
the mother of Dock Dougherty, instituted
a suit for $1,000 damages against A. b.
Mcdonald, manager, and Others connect
ed with the Rome branch of the Kelley
Institute, alleging that they had maltreat-
ed Dougherty and caused his death Tes-
fimOny was taken before the ATTORNEYS of
Mrs. Dougherty, Fouche q Fouche. and
now the case will come up next December
Ia the meatime, Mr.. Mcdonald has insti-
tuted suit against Mr.. Dougherty as above
stated Fresh complications have arisen
from the fact that the Rome branch was
never incorporated and an organization
completed, which will cause some discus
sion when the case comes up for trial, as
TO who are the parties really liable in case
Mrs. Dougherty gains her suit.
The Georgia Horticultural Society has
been in session at Cuthbert during the
past two days. President Berkman read
his annual report. In this he made sew
eral important recommends tions, which
If Needed will prove of great value to
horticulture in Georgia, President Berk-
man thinks that there should be a state
entomologist, and if not by a separate and
distinct appointment, he thinks there
should at least be one appointed as a
part of the state experimental farm
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