The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07

INDEPENDENT ticket. lie iS thoroughly I'M
bued with the idea OF Independence and
the people seem to entertain the same
feelings toward him.
Carroll Free Press; One of Carroll
county's best men and most successful
farmers says he pays from 81 900 to $1,000
a year for labor and has never employed
a negro. and has never had any trouble
with his laborers.
The Methodist Church in Jesup had
very narrow escape from being burned re-
Gently. 1t seems that a lamp exploded
10 have been bown out, exploded after
all the congregation had left, and was in
a fair way to setting fire to the building,
when the light was discovered and extin-
guished.
The old mill belonging to the Reppard
Lumber Company, located one mile west
of Sumner, and which has not been used
for five years. is being moved at last.
Part Of the machinery is being carried
20 Waycross for overhauling and repair
ing. and the balance has been sold to va
rious parties.
The last step in the conversion Of the
Atlanta Railway Company into part of
the great system Of street railways, which
the amalgamation of the two systems now
in operation will bring about. was taken
Friday. The last payment by the Consol-
idated Company to the officers for the
stockholders of the Atlanta Railway Com
pany was then made.
The Board of Pardon Commissioners has
been sitting since Monday in Atlanta for
the purpose of hearing argument on the
many applications for executive clemency
that have been recently fled with the
commission. A large batch of applica-
tons, which have been considered through
the various sessions of the board this
week, were addressed to the Governor, but
abe package has not been opened as yet.
Rome Tribune: The outlook for extern
sive development of valuable bauxite de-
posits in the southern part of Floyd coun-
~ near the line of Polk, is very promis-
ing just now. Parties from the east have
secured lease of big deposits on the Min
ter farm i'm Barker's district, and it is un-
derstood that they will develop 1t on an
extensive plan. The supply is said to be
almost inexhaustible and the mineral of
excellent quality.
During the current month Rome viii be
called upon to entertain four large assem-
blies, and her hotels and boarding houses
will be taxed to their utmost capacity. 1t
has been estimated that the firemans
tournament May and 10, will take there
from 5000 TO 5000 visitors; the Masonic con-
vention, May 10 and II, from 800 TO 1000;
the knights of Pythias, May 16 and IT,
from $500 TO 5000. and the odd Fellows,
May "a and 25, from $500 to 5000.
Dalton Argus: Not long since some hands
working In the orchard of Capt. d. c.
Bryant dug up some very fine specimens
of what he thought was onyx. 1t was
sent to the state geologist and mineralo-
gist In Atlanta, who returned it with the
statement that 1t was a very fine speci-
men of Mexican onyx" and that if It eX-
listed in any quantity here, was very val
liable indeed. Capt. Bryant is going to
prospect a good deal in that orchard.
Conductor Thomas NJ. Bryson has filed
a suit for $4,000 damages against J. c.
Dunlap, as receiver of the Gainesville,
jefferson and Southern Railroad, in Jack
ron Superior Court, at JeffersonVille, Mr.
Bryson sets forth that the train he was
running on the 18th day of last October
was wrecked on a trestle near Hoschton,
In this county, and thrown to the ground,
twenty feet below, and he sustained in
juries which will cripple him for life.
Early County News Wednesday morn,
up her bedroom, saw something in a cor
ner of tne room Not having on her
glasses, she stopped down and picked the
object up, which proved TO be four
foot chicken snake. She was moi bitten,
but dropped his snakeship in a hurry and
called to her husband, Capt. Stuckey, VINO
came and killed it. On cutting il in two
the captain found the snake had made a
meal off of five of his little chickens.
The last hanging, and perhaps the only
lawful hanging that ever took place in
Harris county, was in 1888. The subject
old inferior court. His crime was burg
lary, and five judges sat on his case. He
broke into a store at Whitesville and stole
a watch. He was hung on a gallows on
the old Whitesville road In 1910 another
negro was sentenced to be hanged but
died on the day he was to be executed. He
was sentenced for the murder of his mas
ter, and his own untimely death was
caused by a gunshot wound from one of
his guards, received on the previous night
The trial of w. T. Channel for murder
was concluded at Mount Vernon Thurs
day, the jury returning verdict of guilty
without recommendation to mercy. The
that section on account of the prominence
of young Thompson, a merchant of Glen
wood, whom Channel shot to death few
weeks since, and the court house at Mount
Vernon was crowded to its capacity dur.
ing the progress of the trial yesterday
and the day previous. Channel, who is
well known in Americus, was agent for
the Georgia and Alabama Railway al
Glenwood, a little town near Mount
Vernon. Several weeks since he had an
alteration with a Mr.. Thompson, a prom
fnent merchant and postmaster of Glen.
wood. The next morning after the diff.
Guilty as Thompson started for the trair
with his mailbag, Channel met him ant
shot him to death with a double-barre
shotgun. The killing of Thompson arous
ed much feeling and Channel was carried
to Mount Vernon and placed in Jail fol
safety. Hts victim never spoke after h,
was shot down. OF course, a new tria
for Channel will be sought, and the case
will remain in court for some time yet be
fore final disposition is made of it.