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

ern district Of Georgia. 70 which court the
/ Press association transferred II from the
/ city court Its settlement ends a case which
would have brought out some very interest
ing points in libel law as to who Is directly
responsible in publishing libel, the author,
/ or the ceWsuape~ printing It. In this par
tIcular case the Press association, Which
gathers and distributes news, sending it to
the smaller daily papers in stereotype
plates, sent out an article last February
regarding Jumbo Hunters turning over u
the medical college Of pauper dead body.
Hunter. thinking the article libelous, en-
tered suit against the ASSOCIATION, claiming
$4,000 damages.
On last Saturday the Banks county board
of education met at the court house to hear
AID determine novel question Of dispute
between two county teachers. The case
was between c. " Briggs, teacher al Silver
SaOals. and G. A. Meeks, teacher at
Griffin's school house. Briggs is a student
at Mercer university, aud IS popular
young minister in Banks county. school
was made for him at Silver Shoals while
no was OF Macon, but through a misundei
standing a number of the patrons of his
| school were induced to believe tuat ne would
not return to take charge of his school,
and subscribed to Meeks'. Briggs came
and opened school at Silver Shoals aud
! Meeks opened at Gri'iin's. This caused
conflict, and the matter was referred to
| Rev. j. ID. Gunnels, school commissioner.
| After investigation he decided that the
/ scholars enrolled in Mr.. Meeks' school,
through the above misunderstanding, be-
| longed to Briggs. From this decision Mr..
! Meeks appealed b the board Of education,
and employed Z. NJ. Edwards, while Mr.
! Briggs retained Hon. A. Z. WoifOrd. After
a full hearing of all the facts in the case,
| the board sustained the decision Of the com
missioner, and also authorized Meeks to 60
on with his school
For sometime past bad blood has been be-
| tween some OF the members of Bethel col
ored church Of Americas aud their pastor,
| Rev. Munson. The parson had held full
sway over the church ever since the noted
| Jasper StrOaR was dethroue1, and the mere
mention Of calling another preacher brought
| 70 tn the indignation Of the parsOu and his
followers. Ga account of differing with
them, two deacons and two common every
day members were expelled from the
church. One night last week a conference
was held, whom the question of calling an
other preacher was brought up. This was
he signal for general melee, and could
only he stopped By sending for the police,
VINO soon arrived and settled the question
that night, as it was getting along toward
TIE small hours. However, another meet
ing was called the next night, when the
scenes of the previous evening were re-
peated. The mayor has threatened to close
the doors Of the church If the fuss is not
stopped. just how the matter stands at
present Is hard TO state, as those who are the
pason's friends hold the fort while his enc
mics are kept out During the time the
brethren and sisters were swinging corners
the other night, some evil-displSed person
tapped the parson on the head, which caused
him to sit for awhile and watch the ball.
On Wednesday last Walter McKie
(colored) was arrested and committed to
Jail charged with entering the house Of
Henry Green of Maysvile, and stealing
some -four and other articles from the house
When the negro entered tho house he carried
with him an AK, presumably to kill Green's
wife, which was found standing near the
bed. Green was telegraphed, and upon mis-
return he became SO enraged that he do
termined to Kill the negro, and came into
| town last Saturday and obtained per
| mission from Sheriff SEQ Ggius to enter the
Jail As soon as he caught sight of tho negro
he drew his pistol and demanded of the
negro his reasons for entering his house. He
Iconfessed the crime, and said he went in TO
get some things. immediately Green
| cooked his pistol and presented it at the
negro, when Shelf Scoggins spraug for
ward and interfered, and by this timely aid
the negro's life was saved The negro com
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an hour or more, and fell upon the cell
floor IN helpless and apparently lfeless
condition. DR.. Lockhart was called in and
pronOuced the case one OF ecstacy, or
hysteria, which is common among cJlored
people during excitement. He remained
in this condition all night ana re-
fused TO swalloy, or speak, or even to move
On Sunday morning the doctor returned
and lad the prisoner taken out and placed
under the pump in the Jail yard The hose
was directed upon his head and full stream
turned on. The effect was instantane Gus
almost. He Immediately recovered his
powers Of locomotion and speech and de-
clared that he was all right. But the doc
tor believed in water, and the stream con-
tinued to flow until the negro begged to be
taken back into his cell. He then ate break
fast and was all right
st. Simons correspondence Atlanta Con-
Stttutf0n: One day monster Of the deep
was dragged ashore in a seine. No one
present, not even the seiners, could tell its
name We aftorward learned from an old
keeper of the light. house that it was a
whiprig. 1t was over four feet across, u foot
thick and had a tail ten feet long The
all was about the size of the smaller part
Of buggy whip, black, very flexible, and
nearly the same size throughout its longth
This caudal apUendage is armed near its
root with four dreadful spears or stings, the
poison OF which Is said to be nearly or quite
fatal This queer creature had lver-col-
ored skin that was as tough a,
leather. 1t had two immense lobss
or wings, head somewhat like
that of a frog, only more tapering, and tine
mouth was underneath like that of a shark
1t had two lit le round yellow eyes, one or
each side of its head, and two spout holes
on top. This mo stsr must have weigheC
200 or 800 pounds 1t was scarcely q fish
but seemed rather to be between q sea COW
: and a whale After being caught ant
dragged ashore it gave birth to three little
whiprigs. Our lighthouse informant asC
said that some distance below this plac,
1 l.where a certain creek empties int
S the ocean, and the waves are weak, a hun
D dred of these peculiar animals could some
times be seen digging holes in the sand anC
9 wallowing in the shallow water. He sale
= he had seen them Il feet across
r with tails rwenty-three feet long He hac
D caught them with hook and line by driving
9 a stake in the ground, to which a very stou
line was tied and the baited hook thrown
{ out. When whiprig was caught he woult
> make fearful effort to break tho line
! Finding this futile, he would sink to thu
i, bottom, suck his great wings or fioppers t,
/ the sand aud ROMAN there for four or fiy
- hours against any exertions to pull hin
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