The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-26
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
A DUEL THAT WASN'T FOUGHT
STILL TALKED OF.

A Cninaman's Wife On Bender With
White Man-Railroad Tax Returns
Savannah Military Commissioned
Wife stabber Sent Up for Seven
Years-A Row Among the Rifles.
ATLANTA. GA, June 25.-There has been
q great deal of talk here about an impend-
ina duel between Capt. Thomas Lyons of
Gainesville and A F. Woolley. The re-
port never assumed the shape of reliable in
formation IN Atlanta, and people here took
the whole thing with big lump Of salt 1t
appears, however, that there was something
like a beIligerent correspondence between
the gentlemen named on account Of Mr..
Woolley's salty card in reference to the
Understandable race. Capt. Lyons
was in the city to-day and said that Mr..
Woolley declined to give him satisfaction,
without stating reasons. 1t is said that
Capt Lyon may denounce Mr.. Woolley.
A CHINAMAN's WIFE ON A DRUNK.
Henry Leon is a Chinaman who has an
Irish wife and runs laundry on Marietta
street The pair were married fifteen years
ago in Philadelphia and appear to have
gotten along together remarkably well, all
things considered. Seven half-breed chill
dren frolic about the laundry, and Leon, as
the only family man among the Atlanta
Chinese, has been in the habit of holding
his head fraction high, but yesterday his
wife went on a drunk with white man
named ID J. Griggs, and the inebriated
couple grew so familiar that the Chlpaman
had to call in the police, who found Griggs
and the woman in the laundry cellar sunk
in drunken stupor. Arrests followed. Then
Griggs wanted to kill the Chinaman and
the woman swore at a most terrific rate
This morning both were fined In the police
court for disorderly conduct. The China
man at once had Griggs rearrested and
carried before magistrate, where $500
bond was required of him to keep the peace
This he was unable to give, though his son
offered to furnish it, provided the father
would 90 home. The inebriated parent re-
jected the proposition.
WIFE sTABBER SENTENCED.
Wife Stabber Patterson was to-day given
seven years in the penitentiary by Judge
Richard Clarke. Patterson has tried to kill
his wife so many times and has been tried
: so often in consequence that the public have
grown nearly as weary OF him as OF Tolle-
son. The new trial granted has cut off
three years Of Patterson's original sentence.
MILITARY COMMISSIONS.
Commissions were to-day forwarded 10
First Lieut. George T. Cam and Second
Lieut.. J. Ferris Cam of Company c. Third
battalion, Georgia Volunteer Guards.
RAILROAD TAX RETURNS.
The controller general having repudiated
the tax return of the Charleston and Sa-
vannah and Atlanta and Florida railroads,
the governor to-day appointed Eben Hillyer,
W. L. Clarke and W. J. Singleton to
examine and appraise the property of the
roads in question under the tax act of 1855.
ha To
road sent in a statement to-day. Its
property is returned at 81, 600,000 less than
last year. The controller will promptly
reject it.
The Northen club had a meeting to-day.
w. Fl. Venerable was elected president and
". L. Peek vice president.
VERDICT FOR s11,2
r. 7. Allison has obtained verdict for
81, $50 from the Richmond and Danvllle
railroad. Mr.. Allison was a postal clerk.
On Nov. u, 1888, car rolled down an en-
bankment, owing to the defective condition
of the newly laid track, and injured him
frightfully. The run-off that night has
been a remarkably fruitful source of dam
age suits.
A ROW AMONG THE RIFLES.
There is a big split in the Atlanta rifles,
and the two junior lieutenants have re-
signed. 1t was at first reported that the
prize money won at the Kansss City drill
was at the bottom OF the trouble. That is
not true. The unpleasantness did not grow
out Of finances, and the report will be de-
MED tomorrow. The truth is the victorious
company came to grief over the shattered
remnants of a shivered chandelier.
A telegram from Quebec announced the
safe arrival at the home of relatives there
of the son of Joel Chandler Harris, who was
reported missing.