The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-14
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

A Fire Panic in n Church at Gaines
cursion to Nashville of the Georgia
Press ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Meetini
of the school Teachers of the State
An Augusta Woman Attempts t.
Blow Out Her Brains.
GEORGIA.
Alfred Iverson Branham will be at TIL
head of DougIasvnle College next year.
Mrs. Edward Parsons, the wife of one Of
Atlanta's Oldest and most respected citi
zens, died Friday.
An auditorium capable of accommodate
ing 10000 people is the latest enterprise in
contemplation for Macon.
II. H. Cabaniss, president of the Geor-
gia Press Association, has arranged trip
for the editors to the Nashville exposi-
ton, leaving Atlanta June "a.
DR.. Joseph Jacobs of Atlanta says he
will give $500 toward the erection of a
monument at Atlanta TO DR.. Crawford w.
Long of Athens, the discoverer of anaes-
thesia. He died of paralysis at Athens,
June To- 1878.
The Georgia school teachers will soon
hold their annual convention for the sum-
mer of 1897 Warm Springs has been Sc
lected as the place and the convention will
be in session from June 26 until July l.
The Georgia Directory Company. under
the management of A. L. Sholes, directory
publisher, has begun work looking to the
early publication of a new volume of the
- In for 8 a.
Mr. Sholes issued several volumes of this
work, his last issue being in 1883.
Lieut.. J. N. T. Particle has returned to
Fort Mcpherson barracks from the flood
ed district of the Mississippi river where
for seven weeks nast he aided in the dis
tribution of the relief fund to the sut-
ferers from the great floods. He was or
dered to 80 out by the Secretary Of war.
The Clarke Rifles of Athens may dis
band. They have been ordered to report
at Griffin next Tuesday, and if they are
not able to carry a given number OF men
they will be required to disband More
than enough men are willing to go if they
can get permission from those who en-
ploy them.
The Muscogee grand jury adjourned
Friday after returning the usual pre-
sentiments. The grand jury calls attention
to the fact that at the county poor house
the white and blacks commingle, and on
one occasion little white girls were placed
to work in the fields side by side with
negroes. 1t recommends a division of the
races at the poor house.
James Carswell, a friendless white man,
sought death on the railroad track at Au-
gusta Friday He placed his head on the
rail of the track in the yard of the Geor-
gia railroad, and waited the coming of the
engine. He was discovered by officer Ra-
chaels, just as an engine drawing a long
train of cars was approaching, and was
pulled from the track in time to save his
life.
Americas Times Recorder: The case OF
Joe Morris VS.. the Imperial Insurance
Company limited, of London, which was
taken up in superior court Thursday, re-
suited in a non-suit. Morris had insured
with the defendant company and also
with the Orient Insurance Company of
Hartford, to the amount of So 900. Counsel
for the defendant company, after all tes-
timony had been adduced, moved a non
suit upon the grounds that certain clauses
IN the contract, notably the iron safe
clause, had not been complied with by
plaintiff.
Elberton Tribune: Since the movement
Is on foot to admit girls to the state uni
versity, wouldn't It be a good idea tc
make boys eligible to scholarship in the
Girls Normal and Industrial College al
Milledgeville? They are both state insti.
tutions. What is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander. If the plan is to bt
co-education, let the boys derive some Of
the benefits. At the Milledgeville schoo
our modest and pretty young men car
learn how to sew and cook and darn
stockings, and do many things that will
be required of them in the future. Gal
liant and chivalrous women should see I,
IL that our boys are given a fair showing
Owing to a quarrel between herself an,
husband, Mrs. Charles billiard, wife o
a Harrisburg grocer, attempted to blow
out her brains with pistol on Thursda
night. Some time In the evening Mr.. Hill
Hard had told her that the sooner the
separated the better it would be for him
These and other acrimonious words caus
ed Mrs. billiard great modification. BE
coming respondent, she took a Single
shooter" out to the back porch, ans
pointing II at her head, pulled the trig
ger. Her nervousness probably saved he
life, for the bullet, tearing through he
hair, did not even Craze the scalp. Sh
was stopped before she could fire anothe
short.