The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-08

Atlanta journal: Prize fighting is now
all the talk among sporting men, and many
persons not Of the sporting fraternity are
| keeping an eve on the Sullivan Kllrain
battle. "A strange and fatal prize fight Oc-
| CURED near Mobile, Ala, about which little
has ever been said, and probably nothing
ever published A wiry, athletic, light
weight yankee soldier was pitted against a
burly, heavy weight negro. The soldier
| weighed about l25 pounds; the negro about
| 240 TIE yankee knew the science Of box
ing and wrestling, while the negro had TO
depend upon natural strength. The fight
was 800 a side, with no rules. but each man
! TO 60 in to whip the other any way he could.
The scene of TIE fight was near a yankee
camp three miles from Mobile. The time
early one Sunday morning. Each man was
stripped to the waist. The negro was bare
footed and the soldier wore heavy wooden
sandals, which were destined to play con-
spiciOus part III the battle. The two men
scutfied and lodged about the ring for half
an hour. Suddenly the little soldier raised
one of his heavy sandals and gave his an
tagOnist a terrible kick on the shin. The
blow broke the leg, and the severe pain
threw the negro off his guard. He bent his
body forward and clapped his hands to his
shin. This was what the soldier wanted,
and when the Negroes head was low enough
he struck him on bis wind pipe with the
to break the Negroes neck. There was a
groan, and the negro dropped to the ground
dead.
Eastman special 10 Macon Telegraph:
At the regular August term of Dodge supe-
Tlor court there will be a case tried, inYolv-
ing the life or liberty of man, which bids
fair to attract a great deal Of attention.
joshua Coffee will be the defendant, and
the name OF bis daughter, Mrs. Bryant. APP
pears on the Indictment as the prosecutor.
Several years ago Murdoch Bryant was
welded to Mr. Coffee's daughter, after
brief courtship Shortly afterward an I'M
pleasant feeing Sprang up between the two
men, which, in time developed into bitter
hatred. Various difficulties occurred be-
tween them, but it appears that none of
them we're attended with any very serious
results. As the story goes threats to take
the llfe Of each other were made, and as a
consequence both, as rule, went pretty
well armed. Both men were game, and
consequently the terrible result was no sur
prise to those vino knew them. The fatal
day arrived about two years ago. Coffee
and Bryant met by accident at point in
Pond Town district. The quarrel was re-
newed, eliminating in the death of
Bryant, a ball having been sent through
his body by a rifle in the hands of
Coffee At the next term of Dodge
superior court Coffee was indicted for
murder by the grand jury, and, as before
stated, the name of his daughter, Bryant's
wife, appears on the bill as the prosecutor.
Coffee escaped, and all efforts to capture
him we're futile. Finally, however, to the
great surprise of nearly everybody, be came
to Eastman about two months ago and
gave himself up to the sheriff. On applica-
ton Judge Roberts granted him bond, fix
ing the amount at 5000, which was
promptly given. A daughter prosecuting
her father for murder is something out OF
the usual order of the proceedings in the
criminal courts, and the case will no doubt
attract great deal Of attention from this
fact alone.