The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-18

I that il was an excessive verdict.
| Brunswick Times Advertiser: Bruins
wicks police force has an invaluable as
| slstant IN Officer Tom Gordon,s bull dog.
/ The sagaci0us animal proved his eff
/ cheney Tuesday morning by capturing
/ negro burglar While on his beat at 3
4 O'Clock, accompanied. as usual. by his
! dog, the officer heard a door slam. He
went In the direction from which the
| sound came and saw a negro run around
i the corner OF W. A o. Andcrson's store,
/ down Oglethorpe street. The dog took
! AFTER the fugitive. Don't try TO run from
] that dog" yelled the officer. hell tear
you in pieces. When the officer came up
> to the negro he was trembling and afraid
| TO move. The bull dog held him firmly by
/ the sleeve. The negro proved to be Dan
johnson, a country boy II years CID who
/ was employed by Mr. Anderson as dray-
man II developed that he had stolen
| the store key earlier In the night from
| Alr. Anderson's trousers pocket, and had
/ entered the store He had 1913 In his
| pocket taken from the cash drawer, and
| some groceries.
| Sandersville progress: Last week the
| ordinary Of Washington country received
a letter from young man residing in the
lower part OF the county. The young fell
/ IN the neighbOfhOod and expected to
marry her at an early date. but recently
NE rather of the boy notified the ordinary
| mat MS son was too young to marry and
/ Tor that reason ne objected TO the issuing
| OF a marriage license. He was sad but as
soon as ne recovered TO some extent from
I
| Idthef 8 protest, he determined to get
| even with the Old man. Mr. Fulford his
Latner' Is q widower, 57 years Old, and he
mdhted 70 get married too. The son
| knowing this fact, wrote the letter above
ts.SsaaSSIred 70, which read about this way:
lalher notified you that he objected
| 70 ule issuing of marriage license to me
because ne considered me too young Vet 10
| contract marriage. His objection was suf-
hhtS ,s ana now notify you not to issue
t hlih q incense II he calls or sends for H.
because he is too old" The Old gentle
n niti ZANE IN Friday morning, and over the
ana VIII be married Immediately.
very interesting case for da,,,,,o,
-, So a,tist the elty IS ON trial in the city court
~ az a., AaIianta before Judge Westmoreiand. Ii
| sued for 81 200 damages. He sted me ~,
afd Cdpt ID. q Wylie, the commlssionar
! OF pubic works. He alleges that he was
| arrested and carried to the station house
/ dIthouBh he was guilty Of violating no rifv
| Viulhahces. he offered to put an money
| ~ cola teral to secure his release. which
/ was rSI used MN, and he was locked IN "a
! cell with other negroes. These negroes he
says attempted TO escape, but he was MOI
/ W. M-tH a mem. -Ihey were tried. He protested
| ms innocence, he says but in spite of this
! was sentenced to pay fine Of $40 or serve
! ten ana three-quarters of a day In inc
ssoSAtIe. ne says he went out to the
StoCkale ana worked THE time required bv
| law, and when II was out he asked To ~
discharged. He was told that he would he
! whipped II he asked about his time ITe
| says the others who We're In the celI Win
| nm We're sentenced TO thirty davs in The
stockade and that he was made to serve
| une same time, although he was sentenced
| 10 serve only ten days On this account he
asks mat damages be awarded him. The
sur as Tar as the city q concerned was
dismissed, aud II Is now progressing
against the other defendant, Capt. Wylie,
columbus Enqurer-Sun: There arrived
| IN TINS city on Sunday from Griffin the
H W, !, known plano tuner Charles w. Rice.
I1S Is IN the early forties, and has the
1 misfortune to be cripple but he is an
expert IN the art of bringing back to a
piano the sweet soft. clear tones that
| its keys have lost In pursuit of his
profession he has Travelled constantly
over Georgia and is familiar figure in
many clues. Monday he told the follow
| ing remarkable and rather romantic story:
1ou ana not know | was married, and
nave not until yesterday seen my wife
! IN Twelve years? Well that is true l
| came to Columbus to work at my pro-
tession in 1881. Before many months I
met Miss Julia Decker a Young Iadv
/ 10 whom l became greatly attached. ana
IN lo2 we We're married. After living
! happily together for a time, there arose
some apparently intolerable differences.
ana one day in the year 1888 | hacked
my bag and babe her and the home fare
! Wen. went on the road again, resuming
] my wandering life My business took me
into many cities and far away at times
! ana after years i began to think of INV
Wire as dead, and as there was no COM
| muhcation between us, her memory al
most fadetl from my mind About a
| week or ten days ago. however, by acct
! htiil discovered Inat she was still lVfna,
IN columbus, and still unmarried, as she
had never thought of getting divorce
from me: A correspondence was opened
I With such effect that ] Yentured to come
| TO Columbus Sunday, and found that she
/ still loved me, and that my hear. turned
agaln 10 her, so that we are now living
l together happily again"
Atlanta journal: J. L. Hand, the Geor-
/ Sia watermelon king of Pelham saws
mat thls year there will be an increase
| IN the acreage of melons IN Thomas
| county. He will not plant as much as he
dld last year, as he has about three hun
| dred acres less than he had last year He
| does this for the reason that SO many
others are increasing itheir acreage. He
| SAYS there are very few seeds to be had
/ ana that they are in demand from ali
! sections, especially from South Carolina.
! ana FLORIDA. lie has just sold three hun
| dred pounds OF water melon seeds to one
| man IN South Carolina at thirty-fiye and
| I'D cents pound. Florida will not have
as many seed as she would like to nave
| The freeze KILLED out all the early veeera-
! bles there, and IL was too late TO plant anV-
| thing else except NaterTnelons but the
| planters have been unable to get the seed
and a large per centage OF the land which
would have been planted in melons will,
on this account. have to- be planted ir
something else. The young plants are up
/ says Mr. Hand, but they are not looking
/ as healthy as they should on account az
the cool nigtats which have held them
back and have made the leaves look puck
/ cred or 'possum cared, " as the farmers
call II. With favorable weather however
| from this time on, the plants win improve
anu IVY ill SUM- an TO take on "a NfgOFOtls
I growth. From Megs no less than Ten or
nfteen car loads OF grapes viii be shipped
/ 20 the northern markets. The farmers OF
/ Mitchell county, SAYS MIR. Hand. are aban-
= dGsIug the cultivation OF the old-fash-
Toned or short staple cotton and are 10
| ginning 10 cultivate the long staple cotton
/ Nhieh can Zoe raised very successfully "a,
I tine lands OF the county.
Atlanta Journal. a postal card with a
few lines on writing OF II passed from
/ young man 20 a youag lady In 81
Y LMkc'a Methodist church Monday night
/ Was the iunoeenf cause OF tho younr
( mans arrest 90 charge ~ disorderiy
I conduct IN also caused thf arrest of
! Two other young men nu fhf sanlo charge.
] N aofiua thHt George n she'll who "a
I fno ron ~ ihf south Caroline congress
} man " Iai paipei came 90 Atlanta f0mc