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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1892
Page
8
The Board of Visitors delivers a comprehensive annual report detailing university governance, financials, and strategic initiatives. It highlights enrollment trends, research activity, leadership changes, and campus priorities across academics, infrastructure, and student support programs.
The Board reports on the University of Georgia visit in June, notes strong student work with no cheating, and details admissions, discipline, morals, and library. It praises faculty, military training, and physical culture while urging standardized entrance exams and limited new programs until state funding is clarified.
A congressional style survey discusses actions for the University of Georgia including faculty control of literary societies, weekly recitations, mandatory student uniforms, admitting women to lectures, building residences for professors, and overall revival of the alma mater. A note of thanks closes the report. A separate claim notes a man using Ayer's Hair Vigor restored his hair color and growth.
In Macon Georgia Judge Emory Speer heard the equity case Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia versus Richmond and Danville railroad seeking injunction and receiver. The defense moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and service, while counsel for both sides debated preliminary steps. The court allowed the case to proceed after discussions and noted prior receivership orders by Judge Bond.
A Cincinnati suit filed by W. W. Johnson & Co. and R. H. Einstrom & Co. seeks to halt the Queen and Crescent and the Louisville and Nashville from enforcing new whisky fright rates to the south. It alleges Cincinnati rates rise 28 to 90 percent while New York rates rise only 4 to 7 percent. The plaintiffs argue carriers with franchise cannot delegate rate fixing, potentially ending the Southern Railway Steamship Association. a temporary restraining order is in effect.
President Comer in New York discusses railroad differences with Richmond and Danville officers. A proposal offered a 2 500 000 bond to cover idle claims if the Central would bond for any recovery against the Danville, but the offer was declined.
Southern League games include Atlanta 0 Mobile 4 Chattanooga 0 Montgomery 3 Birmingham 10 New Orleans 1 Macon 8 Memphis. National League games Washington 7 Baltimore 2. Washington 6 Baltimore 1. Pittsburgh 4 Chicago 5. New York 5 Brooklyn 4. Cleveland 10 Louisville 2. Cleveland 6 Louisville 3.
In Danville Virginia on June 17 the local Black community reacted to the separate coach law by boycotting merchants who signed a petition urging Messrs Ige and Hay to support the bill. The pressure led two merchants to seek a statement from Senator Breckinridge confirming their names were not signed. Organizers have held meetings and vowed to fund legal opposition to the measure.
Paris Texas June 17 Colonel John Wanneck killed himself at the Smith house in Cynthiana by taking laudanum after leaving the city. He told his daughter he had no money home or friends and that he would take his life. Once a top sporting man in Coyin he fell on hard times and lost everything.
Leroy P. Box was renominated for judge of the seventh judicial district at Talladega on the 474th ballot amid a lengthy convention. The report also mentions ex Governor Cobb of Minnesota and a cyclone event in Sherburn, Minnesota with casualties.
Religious article urges pastors to keep studying and seeking fresh revelation. It warns against dry wells and stresses reading books and newspapers, studying people, and continually renewing faith to teach effectively amidst changing events.
A moral meditation on temptation as an oblique attack that erodes resolve. The piece cites a Russian war anecdote where artillery misfires by design yet fails until a higher shot shatters ice and sinks troops, illustrating how evil hides as light and avoids bold assaults.
A moral sermon urges against gloomy faultfinders who drain hope from others. True benefactors lift spirits with light in darkness, comfort in sorrow, and divine grace. We should strengthen rather than discourage, inspiring bravery and resilience in those facing hardship.
June 18 report says Aryondale crevasse closed but large crews remain at work to strengthen lines. Balmont crevasse widens with 600 twenty feet depth. Floodwaters from Reisertee crevasses approach within 1,000 feet of Kenner six miles away. Illinois Central track remains out of water, while overflow risk grows with the immense flood volume.
The piece discusses how tone reveals inner state more than words and urges stopping hurtful pranks. It shares an example with a teacher who hurts a student to illustrate why harmful fun should end. It ends with a moral on confessing faults to parents and notes a medical ad for Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
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