The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-10-15
FROM ABINGDON.
The Baker Case-.U. :. Court in SEES.
sion. Other Items Of Interest.

The Baker Case--U. :. Court in SEES.
SiOn.-0ther Items Of Interest.
THE COMET must wait to learn
whether Judge Kelly will award or re-
fuse Il writ of error in the Dir. Baker
case. He has heard three days of
argument by very able lawyers on
both sides and has before him the de-
lectable recreation of reading and an
alyzing COO pages OF evidence, that has
passed between the rollers of a type
writer There Is no prevailing opinion
as to what he will do in the case.
Judge Paul's L, S. Court has been in
session for the preceding five days and
business has been transacted with Il
speed, celebrity and absence of friction
that are remarkable 1t has become
notorious that Judge Paul can run
through the court in a given length of
time, more business, with less friction
and with less uniayorable criticism,
than any judge of his official age on
the federal bench in these parts. The
western district of Virginia con
tains sixteen counties Already ten
of these counties have been fol-
their terms disposed Of, and these
embrace the heaviest portion Of the
business. The order has been COOL,
the character OF those in attendance
better than heretofore, the juries are
objects Of more encomium and the
methodical arrangement and working
of the term superb.
Marshal Watts has the money to
pay al legal demands. Result, salts
factory
AT last there has been in Virginia 6
conviction for resisting, under Federal
statute, the free exercise of suffrage
Jack and Esaw Mullins, Of
Buchanan county, were in
dicted for hindering, delaying
and intimidating one G. c. Lester from
voting, at Slate precinct, Buchanan
county, in 1888. Both were prosecuted
and tried before juries composed 0
both Republicans and Democrats
Esaw Mullins was acquitted, and Jacl
Mullins was found guilty and sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment
and fine of $500.
The civil docket will be reached
next Thursday and the court is likel,
to be engaged on it during the re
maiader of the month.
Probably the most hotly contested
case will be the one OF Van Gunden e
al VS.. the Virginia Coal and Iron CO
ct al. This suit embraces the title t.
a large body of mineral lands near Biz
Stone Gap, in Wise county.
DR.. r. A. Atkins, a Pocahonta
physician, has removed with hi
family to Abingdon, and will keep tn
boarding house at the Abingdon
Male Academy.
Mrs. Rev. P. d. Stephenson is no.
in Richmond under treatment OF Dl
Mcclure for injuries received earl
last summer by a runaway hors,
which threw her from phaeton. Sh
is somewhat improved.
The statement made in certai
papers recently that the ladies {
abingdon had petitioned for a ne
trial for DR.. Baker is said to have e
cited in town considerable indignatio
on the part Of number Of gentleme,
who are said to be inquiring fl
the author. The foundation fl
the allegation | do not kno
J and have not been able to lear
anything reliable about, and so far {
my inquiries have extended | ha'
. not learned of a single Abingdon lad
who has 81. ned any such petition.
have not mentioned the matter her
= tofore III any of my letters to any
d the newspapers for the reason that
v seemed to me nothing should be sa
to prejudice the case of DR., Baker
any way, either for or against him.
e | would not mention now that Il
s. said petition is one | have never BET
st able to hear of other than aforesai
e but for the reason that | learn OF
r suspicion that it originated with Il
II correspondent, which prompts me M
, to say that the suspicion aforesaid
j. absurdly incorrect and wholly and I
Of terly unfounded.