The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-03

Nothing more was seen Of him until Mr..
| North. the foreman, found MS body "
ing upon the floor of the freight car.
| Coroner knight held an inquest and the
jury returned q verdict 20 tnc effect that
the deceased came TO his death from nat
| ural causes.
Saturday at Rome Lucinda Eunice. a
| l8-year-old white girl was put on the
/ train and sent back 90 Cedartown after
! a short career there. She arrived in the
early part Of the week and told piuful
| story Of restitution. She had worked al
the bag factory of WellhOuse Bros. on
/ Decatur street, Atlanta, so she claimed,
and had finally drifted to CedartoWn
1 where some of her relatives lived. she
left there and beat her way TO Rome
Becoming desperate. she jumped from an
| electric car going at a high rate OF
| speed and came near losing her life. The
/ authorities decided that she was an un-
necessary luxury and sent her back to
| CedartoWn as soon as she recovered sufi1-
GENTLY.
Early County News: Meager news
! reaches us Of the death, I'm Miller coun-
y, or Mrs. Buck Davis, formerly Miss
I Eula White OF this county, under a train
/ or clfcuIns tances which justify the sus-
{ picion that she was murdered. our in
I formation Is that she was in ordinarily
| good health Sunday night, ate supper as
| usual. and al o'clock on Monday morn
| inS was found dead in her bed with blue
/ spots or marks on her throat Her re-
i mains We're brought through BIakely Tues
| ddy night and deposited lin Sardis Church
| cemetery rms matter should be thor
| oughiy investigated. II could work no In
| Justice to any innocent person. and IL
| mufder ~ IS the perpetrator should have
| Claxton Press: Last Saturday morn
| ing Claudius Smith. who lives two miles
! south Of BellVille, took party Of friends
! 70 ms watermelon patch. Discovering
! large melon lying in a shady place, ne
! stopped 10 sever il from the vine Al he
| uiu so ne discovered a large rattlesnake
within few inches of his face. which he
! quickly dispatched. on the following
morning the same party returned to the
! patch Tor another melon. Mr. Smith
splea one that suited him, and had just
| started for II, when he heard a rattle
| beneath his feet A twelve-fOOt jump car
/ RED him out of danger and sending for
ms IIne ne quickly dispatched the second
fattler. Both were narrow escapes. One
| OF The snakes had seven and the other
nine rattles.
Quitman Free Press: a representative
ntse95lng OF the melon and pear growers
/ OF BROOKS county was held at the court
house on Aug. p. The object of the
meeting was 10 discuss and devise ways
| and means for securing cheaper freight
! rates. The following resolution was in
! PRODUCED and passed unanimously: To the
honorable Railroad Commissioners OF the
| state OF Georgia: We, the undersigned,
| melon and pear shippers of Brooks coun-
! W respectfully petition that $1,000 pounds
! pe made the minimum weight for a car
/ lo2d OF melons to all points east and
! west that all cars be mace neutral ans
! that prepayment of freight be required il
NE railroads so DESIRE we also petition
! quced one-half and that prepayment OF
| freight charges be required
a N officer Of Americas returned from
| aI1any saturday in charge of w H.
| strickland, arrested there the day before
| upon Information from the officers here
| charged with larceny from the house
MT strickland IS charged with taking a
| idilWdy ticket from the Central depot
! mere, purchased by Deputy Sheriff Hen
| derson or Amercus Mr.. Henderson pur-
chased ticket for Albany several days
a ton,
/ tracted elsewhere for a moment the tick
| CT was taken from the counter at the
| Once window. The number was obtain
! ca from Agent Flinn, and notice given
| the conductors to look out for IT, The
| next day. Il is said, ticket No. 1888, Amer
| icus to Albany, was presented to a con-
| ductor by Strickland. This was the num-
Der of the ticket bought by Mr. Hender.
son, II Is SAID and Stricklands arrest
quickly followed. He gave bond yester-
Gay N the sum Of 500 and demands in
dictment by the grand jury.
News and Banner: The colored people
had riot at State Line church, near
| Franklin, Sunday evening. A travelling
negro passed along by the church going
to see his sister and finding that she was
| at church, called by TO see her, and told
her he had started to her home She said
| the services were over. He consented to
I remain over for her and went down to
the spring to get some water. Five ruffians
7 followed him, and while at the spring
they raised a row with this travelling negro
! and began firing at him, so he sought ref
uge in the church. Still he was pursued
by these five brutes. Services We're going
on in the church, but they did not stop
/ at the door but rushed in the church with
pistols and rocks in their hands. Several
shots were fired and several Innocent par
ties We're shot. Three of the parties have
been arrested and bound over by Esq, ].
w. Ray to await the action of the grand
jury. Warrants are out for the rest, but
they have skipped over into Alabama.
Brandy Is the whole cause
Morning Call: Saturday. at Griffin. a
large and representative number of citi-
zens of Spaulding county met at Patter-
sons opera house, in response to a call
from the chairman of Spalding County
Agricultural Society, to consider the ques-
ton of the present location and manage
= ment Of the State Agricultural College at
Il Athens. At the recent meeting of the
State Agricultural Society, on Cumber-
land Island, a resolution was unanimously
adopted memorialiZing the next legisla-
ture to pass law removing the Agricul-
tural College from Athens to the expert
! ment station at Griffin. 1t was authori-
! tatvey stated that Hon. Pope Brown OF
Pulaski county, chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture Of the legislature, would
1 Introduce a bill at the next legislature re-
moving the Agricultural College from I'M
der the domination of the State Univer-
sity at Athens TO the experiment station
at Griffin, and that all his energies would
be utilized TO secure ITS passage If neceS-
sary. To aid as far as possible the un-
dortaking Of Mr.. Brown, large commit
tee was appointed yesterday to cooperate
with him, by all honorable means posi-
ble to bring about this result, by talking
and visiting Atlanta when the bill
was pending and work for the passage OF
the bill.
Rome Tribune: Folks that are ever
familiar with the lay of land often gel
mixed up among our rivers. their name,
and where they rise and whittier they
I flow. There are three of these mighty
streams in sight of the court house-thC
EtoWah, the Oostanaula and the Coosa
and the greatest of these is the Coosa
upon whose broad bosom is borne mucr
: of the commerce Of the North Georgia
metropolis In the sequestered wales OF
: the Northeast Georgia hills is the source
of the beautiful Etowah, river of gold,
, that flows through region Incompatible
in its natural resources, mineral and ag
' ricultural, stone quarries and timber for
! ests. The Ellijay rises in the shadow o.
the Cutlog range and brawling alonf
II through shadowy glens and swamps o.
4 / fragrant alder, meets the Cartecay Z
. rapid mountain stream that dashes dOwr
: 1.-the yam side o. the mounting" At tn,
! lovely mountain town of Ellijay the two
streams meet and form the Etowah, which
J. twines itself gracefully around the base.
II Of the hills until 1t takes in the SailiduoV
| and energies into the teeming valleys O.
a \ Barlow and glides placidly. bv the tow,