The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-03
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
NORMAL COLLEGE MATTERS
ARE TO BE CONSIDERED TODAY
BY THE TRUSTEES.

Differences Between President Bran
son and Miss Parrish Will Probably
weigh in the Election of the Fn-
cuIty--It Is Thought That Either
MIR. BransOn or Miss Parrish VIII
Fail of Recollection.
Atlanta, June 2.-The board of trus-
tees of the State Normal College will
meet here tomorrow at 10 o'clock in
the office of State School Commission
er w. B. Merritt for the purpose of
electing a new faculty. At that time
the differences between President E. C.
Branson and Miss Celeste Parrish, the
teacher of pedagogy and ethics, will
come up for further hearing, and the
case will be definitely decided.
The matter has been further compli-
Gated by the action of President Bran
son in intimating to certain teachers
that they ought not be reelected as
the result of their sympathy for Miss
Parrish, and Col. 2. d. Harrison, clerk
of the Supreme Court, will go before
the board in behalf of his daughter
Miss Emily Harrison, who was a
strong sympathizer of Miss Parrish. 1t
is said President Branson practically
told her that under the circumstances
she could not expect reelection.
The case is attracting a good deal of
attention, and 1t is the general belief
that either Miss Parrish or President
Branson will have to leave the school.
New Men for Committee.
While Chairman M j. Yeomans of
the State Executive Committee has not
yet named the four members of the
committee from the state at large, as
he was authorized to do by the State
Convention, it is pretty we'll under
stood who these men will be. From
an undoubted source at the Capitol it
war learned to-day that the four MEM
bers of the Executive Committee to be
named by Chairman Yeomans would
be Warner Hill of Meriwether, John
w. Bennett of Ware, Boykin Wright Of
Richmond and Hamilton McWhorter
of Clarke. The naming of these four
members will complete the entire state
committee for the next two years.
Going as Missionaries.
Harry A. Etheridge, one of Atlanta's
we'll known lawyers, accompanied by
his wife and 6-year-old son, will sail
for China within a few weeks. Mr..
and Mrs. Etheridge will go the Far
East as Baptist missionaries.
Wilson Makes. Explanation.
r. L. Wilson, Mayor OF Cordela, has
written a card to the Journal, in which
he states that the report that he in
suited an Atlanta lady was entirely
erroneous. He states that he went
to the Aragon Hotel to see IL any Of
his friends were there, bought a maya
zine and started up stairs to what he
thought was the reading room. 1t
was then that the charge against him
not notice any lady at all, and paid
no attention to any one in his walk
to the hotel. He says he did leave
Atlanta to avoid the publicity of trial
on such a charge, because he did not
care to go through with it even though
innocent.
Hill Took Laudanum.
George Hill, of 81 Kennedy street
Respondent over the loss of his wife,
took laudanum early this morning with
suicidal intent. He was taken to the
Grady Hospital. where 1t is reported
he has chance of recovery.
seaBOnrd's Returns.
The annual returns for taxation of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway were
made TO Controller General Wright to-
day. The total returns FOR this year
are S9,ls67S9, as against s9,141,577 for
1903. No increase was made I'm the
franchise and upon this the controller
general viii probably insist. The re-
turn OF the Georgia and Alabama d.
vision shows an increase o. s2625S.
The Lyons branch was Increased by
$40, 900, the Meldrim extension by $4,000,
while the Florida Central and Penin-
sular shows a decrease Of $4,000. The
terminal property in Savannah was re-