The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-20

deed OF assignment Saturday 10 B. +. I
Aderhold. Their assets are $4,000, liza
buites, $13.14S. The deed is for all the
creditors except r. II. Burness for 10000 |
and =. 4. AderhOld for $3.50. Poor cOllec-
uons and dull trade caused their failure.
Everett Ridley-Ra Company, &,8072;
Bates. Kingsberry & Co. 81 .02425, Gram
ng-Spalding- Kings SHERRY Company, ST.
1906; John Sileuy 4 Co. S6gA34, are the
heaviest Atlanta creditors Drury. Hughes
4 Co. Richmond, Va. ST 323.58; Stokes &
Simmons, Richmond, Va, S363l0, are the
largest creditors outside Of Atlanta. The
other debts are i'm small amounts and
scattered all over the country. With
proper management the assets VIII, II is
thought pay them out.
Athens has near at hand an immense
water power that can be utilized at small
expense, and movement Is on foot to
make use of IT at once. AIR. Rice, an
electrical expert from Dayton. o.. came
to Athens a few days ago and nadia con-
sultattOn with a number of citizens of
Athens in regard 20 this subject The re-
suit is that these citizens, who are full
of energy and determination, have re-
solved TO utilize the water power of Tai
Lessee shoals, eight miles from Athens, for
the purpose of generating sufficient cleo
trio power TO run the street car line and
other manufacturing interests that may
desire to purchase this power. Tallesee
she also has 1907 horse power. all of which
can be easily utilized. 1t was pronounced
by Mr.. Rice to be one of the finest water
powers he ever saw.
Albany Advertiser: Probably the best
joke Of the season is on Neal Mooney,
one of the cleveTest and most cOnscien-
tious police officers who ever apprehended
criminal. Several nights ago officer
Mooney, then patrolling along Broad
street, came face to face with one Of the
most dilapidated specimens Of the genus
homo imaginable. Officer Mooney arrest
ed him on supicion4 But the suspect was
not long in custody. He had come pre-
pared with the ducats, if not the ap-
parel and he said to the officer; 81 have
done nothing to be arrested for-I always
pay my fare" With this the stranger
brought forth from one of the pockets
Of his ragged vest a sum amounting to
something over 500. The suspect proved
to be Walter Elliott, Of near Milford
whose check is good for any sum between
$4,000 and $50 600.
Great interest centers nj the prospec-
tive reorganization of the state normal
school on more extended scale than
ever before This results from the re-
cent appropriation of $4,000 by the general
assembly for its maintenance and support
and with that sum, supplemented as 1t
VIII be by a donation from the Peabody
fund, most successful normal school
viii be obtained for Georgia. The COM
mittee that has in charge the affairs of
the state normal school consists of State
School Commissioner S. D. BradUel
chairman. Chancellor w. T.. Boggs Prof
Lawton b. Evans, Prof. a. ]. Battle and
Prof. w. il. Parker Mr.. BradWCll will
be superseded in January by J. r. Glen
the new school commissioner II is given
out that a meeting of the commission will
purpose of mapping out the plans for the
school and the perfection of as much of
the necessary organization as possible.
Hon. Walter r. Macarthur died at his
home at Lumber city Sunday. He was
taken sick while at the Kimball house at
Atlanta and gradually grew worse until
last Thursday, when he was taken home
in q sleeping car in q very critical cOndi-
ton, escorted by Representative J. G. Gle
ments of Montgomery county. He did not
get any better ana gradually sank to death
Ma r-ffa Of
entail citizens of his region of Georgia Mr.
Macarthur was born in Montgomery county
Aug. B. 1887. He was in the confederate
army, enlistng in the militia service. He
was a member of three democratic con
Ventons, viz: 1876 at St. Louis; 1884 in
Chicago, and 1899 in Chicago. He was also
a member Of the state Senate from the Fiji
teenth senatorial district of Georgia.
from 1868 to 1871. MIR. Macarthur was
Knight Templar and thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, also a prominent
Knight of Pythias, being district deputy
grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of
knights of Pythias of the state of Geor-
GA.
The end of an interesting series of liti-
cation was reached when a settlement of
the Dickson-McCaslan suit at Atlanta
was made Friday morning. Mrs. Mary Q.
I Dickson is again in possession Of land
that must have increased very much in
! value since 1892 when she sold it to Mr..
w. G. MCCaslan 1t was in 1892 that W.
( j. McCaslan purchased from Mrs Mary
G. Dickson a fine piece of property on
Peachtree street, the selling price being
$32 500. Mr.. McCaslan paid $1,000 cash and
assumed mortgage amounting to 5000
He was given a bond for title to the prop
erty. and before the time Cor the payment
of the second note had arrived he claims
to have improved the property to the eX-
! tent of $500. Mr. McCaslan gave a note
for 81 400 to cover the balance due, dated
payable one year from date. The note ma
4 tured and was sued on, judgment being
rendered by default at the July term, 1894,
1 of the city court. 1t was then advertised
/ TO be sold the first week in August. OBJ
] structiVe litigation followed, but settle
/ ment on private terms has been reached.
A sensational suit ended Saturday morn
/ ing in Judge Van Epps. court at Atlanta,
when the demurrer OF Palmer & Read
4 and Charles Read to the suit filed against
them Jointly by II. T.. Gould for 5000 for
alleged mismanagement of the Hall
/ Gould libel suit, was sustained by the
/ Judge 1t will be remembered that some
4 time last spring Mrs. Selma Cole Hall
/ sued T. f. Gould for $4,000 for an alleged
/ libellous publication which she claimed
reflected upon her. There was much tes-
/ timony for and against Mr.. Could but
the outcome of the case was that YER
4 dict of Sl500 was rendered in Judge West
I moreland's court. The attorneys repre-
senting Mr.. Gould were Palmer & Read.
/ and several months after the verdict was
! rendered they sued Mr. Gould for their
fee for representing him. Shortly after
this suit was fled, q suit was entered hv
! MIR. Gould against Palmer q Read FOR
I 5000 damages. Mr.. Gould alleged that
/ they had not used the proper skin in de-
Tending the Hall suit. and that this was
/ evidenced by the verdict against him. It
was to this last suit that Palmer & Read
/ filed demurrer, and the argument was
/ had before Judge Van Epps on Saturday
/ morning. Judge Van Epps was of the
/ opinion that the demurrer should be sus-
I tanned, and with it held that there was
/ nothing In the suit against the attorneys
\ and dismissed 1T. The argument of the
! case went 10 show that Palmer & Read
! had not mismanaged the Hail case at ami
! but had been very efficient in lighting it,
! Mrs. ban having sued for $4,000 and Sc
! cured only S1.500.
large portion Of the business mart
/ q stone Mountain was destroyed bv fire
| tuesday morning &C daylight About 4
! O'Clock hre was discovered in the store