The morning news., 1889-04-27


a miracle that only one person was hurt
At LaGrange, Thursday, Prof H. B.
Slack Fl ished the analysis of NJ S. Dollar 5
stomach He found abundant evidence of
poisoning by stTycdnine. This will some
what al er tle case, and it IS likely now
that it i'll be proven a case Of suicide, and
her husband. j lie Dollar, who was suspected
Of killing her with a stick, will be cleared
of the charge of wife murder. He is; how
ever, guilty of maltreating his wife, and
this caused her to take poison and end her
life. The analysis was u tedious and rather
difficult one, as the stomach was in an
advanced state Of decay whsn received by
Prof. H. r. Slack, but by any accurate
analysis he proved the presence of strych-
nine, and thus tho science Of chemistry has
probably saved an innocent man from pun
ishment
The suit for $4,000, entered by w. A.
Huff against the dummy line, at Macon
| has been uspended. and, should certain
| conditions BE- carried out. will he with
! drawn entirely. One condition is that the
| fare be place / at cents for any distance
| from the court house TO Crump'i park.
| Second. the dummy to aband, m forever the
use of soft coal or wood. Third, the re-
! moval Of ce tain buildings in front of Mr..
| Huf's property in Vinevile, which Mr..
! Huff considers a special nuisance. Fourth,
| that he track be put in first class condition
! within six months. II all these conditions
! are complied with, then at the end Of the
| six mona S the suit is to be withdrawn,
! other wise iJ is to continue 10 force. Nog
| tiatons arc going on looking to the settle
mcnt of the Clay suit, but as yet no basis
| has been agreed upon.
State Sclool Commissioner Hook has sent
the following circular to the county school
| commissioners Of Geo 'gia: "You will t Ike
notice that you will ho,d public examina-
| ton of ap llcants fOrsteachers' license on
" edneslav, Tuursday and Friday May %,
80 and 81, 1889, giving in your clunly, IF
| teen or twenty days previous notice thereof
in your county paper, and by posted notices
at public p1l its in the county. You will
receive questions with proper structions
il due time. More than one day is given
| simply to meet the cases uf those counties
where all the teachers cannot be examined
in one day, and of this the county school
commissioner must be the judge In all
other cases ono day alone to be used, and
that the first day of the tn ee, to-wit:
Wednesday, May %, 1889 Your notices
will conform to the Instructions"
j. j. +. B ackshear of Dublin had very
singular incident with a moccasin the other
day. He was down on the side of the
branch near lis house, when be discovered
his snakeship beside deco embankmert
| and in a narrow part of a ditch leading to
the branch. Having long handled spade
in his hand he decided to cut his head off
and jaboe0 the spade at it, which went into
the sand about foot deeper than he calcu-
lated upon, and Mr. Blac6shear lost his
balance and fell in on the enemy. There
was general scufIling g)ilg on, during
which Mr.. Bllckshear was endeavoriDg to
get up, and finally succeeded after turning
over. He tnen Uegan to try the embanK-
ment, which provel t1o much for him for
some time, falling back on the snake for the
first two or three efforts HIS pants were
badly torn III the struggle, and his knees
slightly bruised, but he does not think it
was done by the snake.
Philadelphia Inquirer: One of the orig
inal fourteen members of the Fourth
Michigan cavalry, who captured JEFF
Davis on May ID, 1865, in Twin county,
Ga, has applied to Clerk Bird for a mar
riage license. 1t was Casper Knobel. He
is strapplng Swiss, who was born in the
| canton of Berne in lS4S He is now
molier and lives at 1924 Coral street He
is also a wild lwer, aud intends TO marry
! widow Annie StoIl, Of 263l Coral street.
! MIR. Knobel proudly displayed the memo
| rial medal presented to him and his thir-
| teen comrades for the great capture which
| they made. In speaking of the event ne
| said that only one of the captors was
dead. He told how Col. Pritchard
| the President of the cont ederate states, who
was trying tn escape to a seaport town.
with his family. After two days hot
search, they overlook Mr.. Davis. fJe was
in an ambulance with his wi aud chill
dren. There were also two wagoa-loads of
| retainers with him Mr. Knobal says that
Mr.. Davis was not arrayed in petticoaus. as
portrayed at the time, but in "A tull gray
SUIT OF a confede ate general. He was
greatly surprised but to0k his capture very
philosophically. Mr.. KnObel made n prize
Of MIR. Davis shirt collar, which he expects
TO wear at his approaching wedding. MIR.
Knobel also said tha5 the government ap-
propria ed 81 500 10 each of the captors,
but that he received only 500. He says he
would like very muca to know who got the
balance.
About 800 delegates, representing twe1ty-
| seven associations, thirty-hve churches and
| three societies met in tie court house at
Marietta Thursday, 1T being the sixty
seventh sessi N of the Baptist convention Of
| Georgia. Rev. A. }. Battle, president of
the last convention, called it TO order.
| Prayer was offered by Rev. S. G. Hillyer
| Religious services were conducted by Rev
J. j. Hyman. President Battle stated that
| Prof. j. g. Ryas was quite sick, and special
prayer for his restoration was made. Rev.
| l. I Tichenor read letter from Rev A.
J. Diaz giving an encourage g account Of
| Baptist progress there. Special prayer was
! offered in behalf Of Cuba. Rev.. J. Will
| lam Jones offered special prayer that the
! meeting OF the convention might prove a
| blessing TO Marietta. The conv veutIon met
| there 10 1850. The only ministers present
now that we're present. at that time are
| Rev. S. q. Hillysr, Rev. e. NJ. Irwin aud
Rev. II. c. Hornaiy. Dr. j. s. Lawt)n
nominated the Old officers for reelection by
acclamation. Rev. c. d. Campbell Of
| Athens objected. DR.. LawtIn then
nominated them and DR. Campbell Sec
onded the nomination IN handsome style.
! TIE ballot was taken, and pend
| ing the counting OF the vote tho con-
yentiou adjourned, At the afternoon ses-
sion the reelection of the old officers was an-
nounced, viz: Rev. A j BAIT g. preside t :;
! Rev. q. r. Mccall, secretary; Rev. f G. Mo
! Connel, assistant. IL Is said that Hon. w.
| }. Northen received a complimentary vote
| for president, as well as the two Kilpatricks
! President Battle thanked the convention in
q g. aceful manner Rev. G.. \. Tumln
pastor of the Baptist church, welcomed the
convention Rev. H. X Walker, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church. followed in brill
| ian aud tpking speech. Rev. f. C. McCon-
| nell, the Spurgenn ot North Georgia re-
! spo ded in behalf Of The convention In an
eloquent effort. Professor W. H. Whitsitt,
! OF the southern Theological seminary, at
! Louisville Ky, made rousing speech in
! behalf OF the students fund Over $500
! was 60 ltributed tn 10 ia few moments
| TIE claims OF religious journals were pre-.