The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-16

Home-A Building Boom at Athens
A Girl Held by the Heels Head Down
In a wen-A Cast of Thomas A Hen
bricks Hand-A Scandal in Lowndes
County.
GEORGIA.
Not less than 100 new homes are now in
course of erection in Athens, several OF
them being buildings that would do credit
TO any metropolis. This Is certainly q
wonderful showing for city OF 1900 H.
habitants.
The Woman's Industrial Home at Athens
has turned out its first lot of pants. consist
ing of some ,09l pairs The material used
is the best jeans, and all of the cutting and
making was done in the home. On an av-
erage of eighteen hands have been en-
ployed daily, and sometimes as many as
forty five pairs would be turned out as the
result Of twelve hours work.
DR.. James G. Armstrong of Atlanta, it is
said, will shortly present upon the stage
some dramatic readings, with scenic effect
His selections will be made from Hamlet, y
s.Faust" and Poe's Raven The idea of
DR.. Armstrong is to have appropriate music
interspersed during the reading. as, fer
instance, in the soliloquy of Faust" when
he contemplates suicide and hears the angels
some weird, strange music. which will be
prepared for the occasion, and introduced
Just at the moment when Faust" is
about to yield to temptation aud take his
own life.
The suit of the receivers Of the Citizens
Bank of Atlanta against the Atlanta
National Bank has resulted in victory for
the defendant. The suit was for $1,000.
The court held in effect that the receiver
was appointed to control the assets covered
by the assignment and that no assets dis
posed of prior to the assignment could be
recovered by the receivers. Suits involv-
ing practically the same points Of law have
been entered by the receivers Of the Citi-
zens' Bank for $4,000 against the Gats
City National Bank and for $50 900 against
the state road. The decision in this case
will control the other cases. So the judg-
ment practically involves about $45, 600
The case is of general interest because, had
the plaintiffs recovered, the state would
have been the beneficiary, Georgia never
having gotten her money from the Citizens
Bank.
jefferson Herald: Last Thursday a young
white man by the name of Robert Preston,
who has been working on the farm of D. j.
Pentecost, was passing the house of some
colored people on Mr.. Pentecost's farm, and
suddenly concluded TO have some fun. He
saw three negro children in the yard and
told them he was going to give them a
whipping. They ran into the house and
closed the door. Robert followed them and
pushed the door open, when the eldest, a
girl of ~ years, ran out of the
back door, Preston following in close
pursuit. Having captured her in the
back yard, he carried her to the
well, and taking her by the heels, held her
head first down the well. telling her he was
going TO let her fall and break her neck.
He desisted from his purpose, however, and
turned her loose and decamped. On Friday
the girl swore out warrant and had him
arrested He was carried before Justice
Mcdaniel for preliminary trial. and placed
under $50 bond.
Valdosta Times: The Times has always
shut out scandal from its columns when it
could be done, preferring to leave the task
OF feeding those appetites which demand
such reading to others, but occasionally it
cannot be escaped. For several weeks there
has been a great deal of excitement in Ber-
rien and Lowndes counties about a trouble
of this kind at Abel. Three men have been
shot, but not seriously, one bruised up
badly, and a wife's name furnished. A
committee of disinterested parties. chosen
from the friends of either side, took the
matter in hand, and, after three days and
nights of arduous labor, they found the
lady in the case not guilty, but the victim
of 'many indiscretions,n the result of cir
cumstances not easily explained to the
public, but satisfactory to the committee,
as we are informed by one of their number,
The committee say: with the most thor
ough examination Of all the witnesses that
we could possibly reach, we have come to
the following conclusion: That Mrs. Mollie
Parrish is not guilty of criminal intimacy
with the negro Fl. r. King, but that she is
guilty of many indiscretions."