Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-12

lightning's flash, Mr.. Hayne seized his per
and reduced to verse his sensations on behold.
ing ms wonderful cOnyulsion Of the elements
+ ne describes cyclone as ''The untranslated
9laspnemies Of hell 1t is weird and Won
I derfuI poem, and will rank as one of the
[ grandest productions of this gifted gentle
man. When the storm had passed. Mr.. Hayne
/ walked out into his porch TO see the eX-
/ tent OF the damage, when, IN bower OF vines
! lHdl hlQes his porch. ne saw little bird
/ at work building its nest. The change was
/ so startling that the poet at once returned 10
/ MS manuscript, and concluded the production
/ with description of the winged sOngster's
I harbinger Of a calm
! Yesterdays Atlanta Constitution saws: ''The
/ Fulton county jail now contains four men who
/ are under sentence of death. three of whom
/ VIII die on three successive Fridays. Two OF
/ the condemned men are negroes, and one is
white The one whose death is decreed first
+ Is John Thomas, negro, who is to hang in
campbell county on Friday, March a.
Thomas VIII hang for murder. On Christmas
day, 1888, he Killed negro named Linsey
( Weaver. Thomas case has been through the
supreme Court. The next one of the two Ia
hang IS JObe Turner, who killed Sbuttles i'm
MerWether county about four years ago.
turner still asserts that he will not hang and
there are those who believe that he will Keen
MS word and escape the gallOws by taking his
own lie II an opportunity prespD ts
itself. Turner's execution is 6xed for
FTluay, April is, one month after
Thomas. Henry Curry's death SEN
lence Will be imposed on Friday the 25th of
April. Curry hangs for murder in Walton
county. His crime was a most heinOus one.
W lth an AK he killed a negro who was asIepp
curry alleged as his proyOcation an intimacy
between bis victim and his own wife. The
other condemned man is LeOnidas Johnson
who was convicted in Henry county Of rape.
Ills case went to the Supreme Court where
the sentence of the court below was affirmed
johnson Is now awaiting a second sentence.
IN ADDITION 10 these four the Jail contains All
Doyle, Of Spaulding county. whose case is
now IN the Supreme Court for the second
time; Caleb Henderson, who Killed JEFF
negroes"
The Atlanta Constitution of Yesterday con-
ialns the following Information, which is in ad-
dltI0n TO that printed in the MORNING NEWS
Of Monday ON the same subject. .1In tho
matter Of the Peacbtree street property com
plants were iled yesterday by John r. King
St al. against the following persons; j. q.
Fore4cre' Henry A. Fuller, Henry ii. Caba-
Mss, VIM; y. Speer, Charles T. Swift, VIM. +.
Peck, \. +. Buck, J. c. Kimbau. W. c. Nor
rell and John q. Reynolds. Several
cases VIII be filed to-day. Judge
iompklns, one Of Kings counsel. was
asked yesterday for clear statement
of tins case. said he: "Barrington was a man
VINO lived IN Marietta. Sometime during the
war ne ana man named Camp. who also
uFeu IN Marietta, bought the piece of prOp-
erty- which consisted of about H. acres. from
AlNin IL oeagO. The property was not di-
Nlueu. and King and Camp became tenants in
We're kiiled. One of them left two children
and the other left three children, and il is
these five heirs who now bring suit "On
what preteNt.' harrington King died in
ls55 or 1856. In 1863 Camp and the admins
traitor Of harrington King, who was the Rev
Mr. King Of savannah, fled a suit in the
superior Court there and had the property
parUuoned or divided between the two own
ers, namely; Camp, who was living. and the
estate OF harrington King. The administra-
tor then sold the part that had been set apart
as belonging TO the estate Of BarringtOn
hing. II was sold at public Outcrv. and
was bought by the widow of Barring
ton King and she afterwards sold it to C0l.
Richard Peters and he to various parties.
Inc part set apart to Camp in the partition
sult has also been sold by him. 1t is c0ntended
10y the plalnlihs who bring the suit that the
partition proceedings between Camp and Bar
rnGlon Kings administrator were invalid
ana Illegal, and did not divest the heirs Of
harrington King, those who are SUNG moi hav-
ing been OF age at the time the division was
made Those who are not barred bv the
statute OF limitations claim that their interests
can stlll be recovered by the suits which they
nave now filed. There are various grounds
OF objections 10 the legality of the partition
proceeding bat they have not been stated IN
the pieadlngs, and can only be determined bv
TIE record OF the Superior Court The an
nouncement of the suit created a big sensa-
ton IN Pe3chtree circles. 1t is probable that
the defendants Will band together for their
common protection