The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-29
depot is in remote and very undesirable

depot is in a remote and very undesirable
part Of town.
A Serious accident to John Pickett, a
son of Rev. julius Pickett former MEM
Der of the legislature from Gilmer county,
IS reported. on Sunday afternoon he was
driving a pair of mules along rough
road, when they became frightened and
ran away. Pickett was thrown out and
the wheels passed over both legs, break
ing them badly. Physicians were sum-
mOned and did all they could for the
young man, but he will probably be
cripple for life.
When Congressman Livingston went to
Washington Monday he was armed with
a scheme for the relief of Venezuela from
the encroachment Of Great Britain. He
viii put his plan before congress at the
very earliest opportunity after it meets
on Monday next Mr.. Livingston's plan
viii cause a national sensation. He pro-
poses that the United States government
snail demand that England surrender to
Venezuela the territory which she has
taken from the weaker country.
A novel order has been issued by the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad in
the way of improving the morals Of its
1 employees. The order prohibits any en-
ploye of the road from using profane lam
guage within hearing distance of any
station on the road, whether on duty or
not, the penalty being suspension or dis
missal. The order, it is claimed, grew out
| of the complaints of passengers getting
on and off at some of the stations in the
mountain sections, where profanity is the
rule. The order has met with general
I favor among the people along the line of
the road, who are no longer annoyed by
the eursing and swearing of the railroad
! hands.
Within the last three weeks nearly 81
! QJ9 worth of diamonds have been stolen
from residents on Peachtree street a
! Atlanta. About three weeks ago an un-
known thief entered the house Of Isaac
Boyd and secured a handsome diamond
\ brooch ana costly diamQnd ring belong
/ ing to Mrs. Boyd, valued at SlC0O. Last
Monday afternoon, Mrs. A. e. Thornton
was at the, exposition on her return
home she missed a number of costly dia-
mond ornaments, including solitaire
rings and other handsome and valuable
trinkets, The value of the, lost Jewels
aggregate 81, 300 They had been left on
the dresser in Mrs. Thorntons Jewelry
casket. Last Thursday Mrs. Harry Be
wick had two valuable diamond rings
stolen from her dresser.
The Marietta Paper Manufacturing
Company, which has recently been made
a stock company with paid up capital
of $lJO,0QQ, will build another three-story
for a large waste mill. The managers
have ordered a lot of machinery from
England and will manufacture machine
waste, cotton batting, ropes, etc. The
city has granted this company the fran
chise for putting in complete system Of
water works, which will be owned and
operated under the same management.
Work will begin Dec. !, and will be finished
in ninety days. This company also owns
. Two paper mills seven miles out IN the
country, on Loops creek, where they
have 200 acres of old field pines, which
! they grind into pulp with which 10 make
paper In three months time they viii
have the three paper mills, waste and
cotton batting mills and waterWorks plant
in operation, which means much for Ma
riettai
The dispute between Murray and Cor
don counties over the question of keeping
up a. bridge over the Coosawattee is likely
to be settled in a most summary manner
1t has been discovered by the attorney
for the Murray county authorities that
Hon. Parish Carter, previous TO his death,
had an act passed through the Georgia leg
islaure cutting a portion of his lands
that lay in Murray county into Gordon
! county, where he lived. He owned an i'm
mense estate, his tax returns in Gordon
running up TO nearly 100000 worth of
lands, He was uesirOus of keeping it all
! Together in body, and so secured the ex-
/ tension of the county line so as to in
I. clude. his lands lying south of the line
under the jurisdiction of Gordon county
/ Ihe bridge chanced to be located on his
lands and, as consequence Murray coun-
ty is relieved from any obligation to help
pay the expenses of building and keeping
up the bridge. The case is d very knottV
one, and has excited much interest
Tennessee and Chicago capitalists have
| about closed a trade for the Legal Ten
der; silver mines at Fort Mountain in
Floyd county The shaft sunk by the pres
emit company developed plenty of ore of
a very superior quality and of the galena
variety with silver in paying quantities.
Somer time ago Pope Cole, one of the
acknowledgements andFthe man at the head
of the development of the property was
out prospecting near the old fort. when
he missed his footing and fell from bench
to bench, down the face of precipice and
was. Instantly killed. This cast a damDer
on1 the work Recently, however, reSre-
sentattYes of the concern that is now about
I to Become the owner of the mines went
out-there and secured a quantity of the
ore of a quality sufficient to encoIra &c
them and their associates to close the
bargain. When mined a stamp mill viii
be necessary or else the ore will have