The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-31
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS o. TIE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


An Alleged Photograph Agent Charged
With Fleeing the People Of Bruins
WICK Burglars Crack the Safe in
Ceasrtown's Postofiics-Ths Basse;t
Woman Esc3pes From At.anta's
Chaiu-gsng.
GEORGIA.
The Covington Street Car Company has
declared q semi-aunual dividend Of per
cent.
Mrs Mary Bsssett, the white woman who
was sent TO the chain-gang at Atlanta last
week for attempting to decoy young girls
for immoral purposes. made her escape
from the s.Ockaie Sat lriay morning.
At Cedartown Saturday night the post
Office safe was blown open and the burglars
took away booty amounting to several
hundred dollars. Five hundred dollars Of
the amount was in postage stamps and the
remainder in cash. There is no clew what
eyer to the burglar.
At Atlanta, Saturday. jury in the city
court awarded William Mcconnell 81, 400
damages in his suit aga INST the Fulton
County Street Railroad Company. While
vhe road was building its electric line, Nc
Cornell was burt by his horses stumbling
over pile of track rails in the street. He
sued for SO 900.
A heavy damage suit was tried in the
superior court, at Rome. Mrs. Matte Bar
nett sues the Rome railroad for $4,000
damages for the killing of her husband.
Barnett 1t is alleged, was piling lumber for
the Patten Manufacturing Company, the
lumber being near defendants track. The
engineer seeing Barnett between the lumber
pile and track did not stop.
Mrs. II. ". Nix, who lives three miles
from r me, was arrested Saturday on the
charge OF attempting TO poison Mrs r. A.
MaroneY. 1t seems that the posoner is an
old friend OF Mrs. Marouey, and while Wis
iCing her two weeks ago dr. pped a mysteri-
Gus powder in the coffee pot Mrs. Ma
roney caught her in the act, and as there
was no liquid in the utensil the powder was
easily taken out and is now SAFE in Mrs
Maroney's hands. Nothing was said about
the matter at the time. Saturday night
Mrs. Nix again went TO Mrs. Msroney's, but
was made to leave. Mrs. Maroney was
incensed at the womans audaclty and swore
out a warrant
Brunswick Times: Charles Black, white
man, Is endeavoring to get himself in
trouble in this city BE has been in Bruins
wick for the past three weeks and bis tricks
for raising dollar are becoming monoto-
nous and nuisance. His way of doing
business is to call at a lady's house when the
husband is absent aud state his business,
which is that, so he claims, of representing
large photo made from it at a certain price.
He invariably requests a dollar, so that the
expressege on the picture and frame can be
paid. Several ladies have been victimized
here. Charles took their dollars and pict-
ures. Of which they have heard nothing
since
At Carter & Roberson's still near Bailey,
Saturday some Of the negro hands, having
lmbibed too freely Of liquor, made a muir
derous assault upon Mr.. Clark, one of Carter
q Robersop's WoOdmen, who narrowly es-
capped being struck by an ak tbro Kn at him.
He took refuge in his house. W. Fl. Boone,
another woodsman, and H. N. Buie, dis
tiller, endeavored 10 quiet the negroes, and
demonstrated with them to desist
from their Tiotous intentions, but
this only seemed to infuriate them
the more, and they made a muir
derous attack upon Boone and Buie Boone
escaped unframed, but Buie received cuts
in the back and on the wrist. His wounds
are painful and may be dangerous Jim
and Amos Herring. the leaders, were
wounded, one being shot in the shoulder
the other in the breast. Ii is thought the
wound will prove fatal Jim and Amos
Herring are from North Carolina, and are
supposed to be relatives Of Rich Herring,
the negro who assassinated j. G. Forsyth,
at Normandale, last October.