Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-28

L. G., Hogansville, Ga; w. 5. Stevens.
~ A. and z. g., Atlanta
The salt Of Barry against Cooper for
SANDER, al Athens, has at last ended. The
case commenced last Friday, and ar2u-
hent concluded Saturday morning. The
jury went cut, and up to IL o'clock Satur-
Gay night had not agreed on verdict.
Inns OF course caused them to STAY in the
jury room all day sunday. Before the
court met on Monday mOrnirga settlement
OF the case was effected by Cooper paving
Barry 500 and the cost of the suit. Barry
kept books for the firm Il Cooper, Murray
y Co. for several months. A misunder-
standing occurred, and under the impulse
aud thought of bad treatment a good deal
was said that would have been better left
unsaid. Joe Barry brought suit for SLAM
der, and several other suits mad grown out
Of the trouble.
AT Bainoridge Friday negress told the
Marshal that Emma Bailey, cOlored.
living in central part of the city, had
been secretly delivered of a live infant,
that 1t died soon after, and was quietly
buried in the garden in the rear of her
mouse. Examination of the garden proved
the truth Of the information. The mother
claims that 1t died from natural causes.
Inc C0roners inquest developed the fact
that the child was born Sunday night,
MARIA McNair and Lizzie Hill, negro
nurses, beng present The child was
placed ia bed by its mother alive. On
Monday it was dead. Tuesday morning
1t was secretly buried at request of its
mother, who, being single and engaged,
did not want any publicity given to her
shame. The verdict was that the child
came to Its death from careless treatment
The mother and Maria McNair were
placed under arrest.
L. j. Lester, of Oconee, who was
burned out day or two ago, has always
been, and IS still considered one of the
pest farmers in the county. He makes
more corn and cotton to the acre than il
was thought possible for farmer toraise
Mr.. Holman joins plantations with MIR
Lester, and he, too, prldes himself on being
a good farmer, and between him and MIR
Lester there has been rivalry in farming
Mr.. Holman last year made a proposition
TO Mr.. Lester that he would plant so many
acres in cotton and that Mr.. Lester should
plant the same number, and that il
Lester made more cotton than Holman
that he Holman would sell him Lester
his plantation for so much money, and
that if Holman made the largest yield he
would take Testers plantation at Sc
much. They both agreed, and the papers
were drawn up and each one went to
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and a great deal OF good farming, the
crop was gathered, and it was found that
Holman had made more cotton, and the
trade was consummated.
In the destructive fire at GAINESVILLE
last year Moses Nussbaum was among
the sufferers Besides losing his property
exposure caused him to contract a neu-
ralgic sickness which completely under
mined his health. At Macon, Wednes-
day, he went into a closet in the rear of
Williams 81 Stevens jewelry store, on
Second street, and remained there for
several hours. His friends tried TO induce
him to leave, but he drove them Off with
threats of personal violence. 1t was
finally determined that he was crazy, and
Officers Long and Holmes were summoned
to arrest him. Nussbaum resisted the
officers vigorously and began to scream
with startling violence. lie was forced
into a hack and carried to the barracks,
screaming all the way. Nussbaum's lu-
macy was not unexpected, but it was not
thought that it would take such a violent
form. He imagines that ne is filed with
electricity, and claims that he is the
strongest man in the city. The unfOr;u
nate man appears to be about 10 years old
He has a mother who lives in New York
a brother in Chicago, and several relative,
in Macon. He will probably be sent tC
the lunatic asylum at MilledgeYille.