The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-19

B. Carter. j. s. Turner, Samuel Quincy,
William h. Anderson, j. L. Cottrell, J. p.
Reddish, uninstructed, but solid for Mall
lory. The primary plan was adopted for
selecting county officers. One OF the dele-
gates reports the delegates standing five for
Mitchell, one for Bloxham as first choice
and Mitchell second and one for Bloxham
first choice and Crawford second.
At St. Augustine Special MasterA. J. Cor
bett Is taking testimony in the case OF Rug
giles VS.. DIR. Garrison and wife. in viii CHI the
former brings suit to foreclose a mortgage
of IS, 900 on the property OF the defendants.
The case is peculiarly interesting, owing to
its bearing on the organizing of national
bank" In this city, which recently failed
through peculiar circumstances. DR.. Gar
rison applied to II. J. Richie for a loan,
and through him Miss Ruggles advanced
Garrison the sum of S., 000 The testimony
shows that the defendant received the
money, executed the mortgage and put the
sum into the hands of the bank organizers
as agreed upon by him. This gave the de-
PENDANT the position which he was to
have in recognition of the 5000 in stock,
and it also gave him his salary for the
time-between the time of paying In
the money to the time of the failing of
the st. Johns County Savings Bank, which
failure burst the new national scheme.
The defendant brought suit and made all
sorts OF threats against George w. Gibbs
and Mr.. Hopkins. but was appeased by their
transferring to him some 200 lots and other
considerations in payment for the IS 900
which he obtained by mortgage through
Mr.. Richie. 1t is also shown that he paid
the interest on the first quarter In the First
National Bank, all OF which goes to prove
where it is necessary that he got the
money from Miss Ruggles. The mortgage
was executed in May, 1890. The limit has
gone by and the mortgage is now being
fAranlnSal ~ o,.I 30,
wife into the courts to fight the foreclosure
for the reason (theY assert) that they did
not receive the money. They make a denial
Of everything, even to the paying OF the
$1,000, the receiving OF the equivalent and
the emoluments OF the some kind of office
position which he held during the "organiz-
ing" Of the national bank
The convention OF the democrats of Mas
sau county Tuesday was lively one. The
nominations for the offices OF treasurer as
SCISSOR, county surveyor aud collector were
made by reclamation aud resulted as fol-
lows: Treasurer, w. o. Jeffreys; assessor
w. H. Garland, surveyor, L. W. Higgin-
botham; collector, J. II. Jones. Nomina-
tions for superintendent OF public instruc-
ton brought forth six candidates, aud the
contest was finally won by Il. L. Matsair.
All the parties mentioned above are the
present incumbents Balloting for sheriff
began at O'Clock, and was finally settled
after ) o'clock by the election of w. +.
HigginbothAm. The following were canii-
dates: c. +. Mann, W. f. Higginbotham.
J. j. Cone, n. Priest, John Hughes, John
Acosta, A. j. Higginbotham, J. T.
O'Nei aud M. j. Wilds. T. A.
Hall received the nomination for
county judge by so votes against 10 for R.
3. Schuyler. the present incumbent A
resolution commencing the course OF
Senator Pasco was unanimously carried
amid a storm Of applause. After ballottinR
three hours George E. Wolff was nomin-