The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21

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Clayton, including Clayton town. S72
Clayton Town ........... . $50
Tiger, including Tallulah Falls
TOWN. ................ .............. $50
Tallulah Falls town ............... 1874
IeISlHllhon .......... .............. 500
Moccdsln ....... .............. 525
Stonepile ....,..... ...... ......... 442
1otal ....'....... ............... $3.50
The headwaters of the Savannah
river are in Rabun. If one will take
canoe at Savannah and keep pad
ding up stream, and meets with no
accident in surmounting cataracts
Keeps off the rocks, and follows the
Savannah to the Tugaloo, and the
Tugaloo to the Chatooga. and the
latter to the Tallulah, his boat will be
well up on top of the Blue Ridge and
by portage of two or three miles
Through the Tennessee Valley, he can
descend on the other side by way of
the Little. Tennessee river and paddle
his way westward to Sioux City, Iowa,
or even further! That would be quite
a trip.
Leaving Savannah hack that didn't
come, and a car that was not
on schedule, was the cause of my
missing the night train on the Central
of Georgia. l arrived at the depot in
time to see the red lights rapidly dis
appearing from view towards Lincoln
Park. So 1 did not get away until
the next morning. One miss makes
many, and at Cornelia l had to charter
a locomotive and car to Tallulah Falls
where l spent the night SO as to make
an early start for Clayton. The road
thither skirts the Falls for some dis
lance, and then crosses them by
means of an iron bridge. From there
onward to Rabun's county seat, it is
nothing but mountains, but the roads
are good and safe. For a long distance
the road lies along Tiger Creek, which
at places is mountain torrent tum-
bling over rocks and through crevices
and then again where the valley broad
ems it is a quiet, meandering riverlet
Along this part of the road there are
sites for thousands of picturesque
mountain homes, and some day they
will be there.
A long climb brought us in sight of
the court house at Clayton and a harp
turn to the right from the direction we
had been travelling and we were at the
Wall House, kept by Mrs. Wall, a sis
ter of that great Georgia jurist, Hon.
Logan E. Bleckley, whose mountain
hcme on Mt. Screamer overlooks the
town. and of Col. F. A. 3leckley. We
We're guests of Mrs. Wall during our
stay.
Clayton was named after Hon.
A. S. Clayton. 1t was originally
called Claytonville, but the people
showed their good sense by cutting off
the meaningless willie"
The late DIR. H. " NJ Miller, the
"Desmothenes of the Mountains" who
was surgeon of the Eighth Georgia
Regiment, C. S. a, and after the war
Republican, and as such was elected
L. S. Senator but never took mis- seat,
was a Rabun county man, and I doubt
il there ever was an dhler man in
Georgia than he. Good at everything
he undertook, except his politics, he
was a power in Upper Georgia. His
mt merry is still kept green by the
TaountaineerS.
Judge Estes presided over the court,
end by his permission l addressed the
peopIe at the recess hour. | had
large and attentive audience, and from
the majority that Rabun gave me 1
think must have made an impression
upon my mountain friends.
Lounging on a veranda after tea, one
about but seldom meet, came up with
some friends to see the Judge and the
solicitor. After a roundabout talk, 1t
transpired that the visitor had son
who was to be tried for playfully
shooting at a man who tried to arrest
him. He told the Judge there
was nothing in it judge, only a
boy YOU know. just 20 years old,
and he didn't hit him. just shot So you
know. Judge, how boys do" 1t turned
ont that the Judge knew his caller
well. He had been a witness in care
when another party had put a rifle
bullet through him. Recalling the III
cident and trial to the judges mem
orv. our mountain friend said, II never
bla med Jim for shooting me. He had
IN do II, Judge. He thought ! would
shoot him, and ] guess he might have
hen right about that. but he gas
afraid OF me judge, and shot me be-
fore I mad a chance. Judge Jim and
! are friendly, Judge ! came mighty
near shooting him Judge. but Jim was
10 auick. Jim IL q right smart man.
T,tsge Judge, DO what you can fof
nv boy. he didn't hit Mr. -, the
bail tnst scraped his hair be easy
WITH him. Judge"
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