The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-01

nj Clinton on n Charge of Attenpt-
ing to FeIOniOusly Assault a II
Year old GirI-A Match Game OF
Whist-Return OF a sword.
GEORGIA.
4 number of Massachusetts, mill own
ers will visit Athens next week.
Luther A. Hall. one of the Dodge coun-
Is cOnspirators in the Ohio penitentiarv
is superintendent Of flower gardens.
j. f. Bozeman. living near Parker's
mill, three miles from Amerfcus. die
friday morning after a long illness. The
deceased was s. years of age.
Charles d. Pearson of Macon is SQUARE
ly in the race for alderman from the
First ward to succeed Charles J. Julian
who resigned to go to Texas.
Henry Calhoun. colored, was found dead
Friday with his throat cut IN a well
five miles east of Montezuma. Jessie
Toomer is held as supect for further
investigation.
Jerry Jeffreths is to be hung at Quit
man next Friday, April 8. The hanging
will be in the Jail yard between the hours
of u and O'Clock p. m, and will be strict
~ private. Jerry is resigned TO his fate
Molena, in Spalding county. is going to
have an oil mill. Preparations are now
being made to erect the building. 1t is a
stock company, capitalized at $4,000. The
shares are $40 each, most of which have
been taken, and are held by the people
in and around Molena~
W. W. Leman, Sr.. one of the oldest
and most highly esteemed residents of
Macon, Is quite i'll at his home on HUI
guenin Heights. The trouble is due to
old age, causing debiltated condition Of
his system. His family and friends have
little hope for his recovery.
The first case made for violation of the
city ordinance prohibitOry to the sale of
cigarettes in Americas was the arrest FRI
day morning Of w =. Cowart the news
Macon. Young Cowart is employed by
T: G. Parker, and doubtless was ignorant
cites. Mayor Cults, after hearing the
facts in the case, let the young man off
with a fine of So. Several of the local
cigarette fiends purchased daily supplies
from newsboys on the trains, but this
practice will now come to an end.
Valdosta Times: There is a match game
of whist going on in Valdosta at present
that leads in interest any game that has
been played here before. The parties in
the match game are r. Y. Lane and DR..
Bass, against Alex. Peoples and b. S.
Richardson Both sides are composed of
crack whist players, who have downed
formidable rivals on many occasions in
the past, and the games being played now
are for the championship. The score on
Thursday night, at the end of that nights
game, was l84 to 137 in favor of the first
couple. The side which scores 1000 points
first viii be declared the winner Messrs.
Lane and Bass cad now by twenty seven
points, having increased their lead Thurs
day night seven points.
Americas Times Recorder: Another of
those pleasing incidents evidencing the
TACT that the war is over" and which
have been Of frequent occurrence of late
years, was the return recently by Capt
John A. Cobb of this city of a handsome
sword captured by him at Sandy Hook
near Harper's Ferry, Va, on Sept. H.
1862, after the retreat of the federals
from that place. The sword was the
property of Mai. W. d. Collins, First reg
iment Vermont cavalry bis name being
Cobb was at the time assistant adjutant
Of the confederate brigade commanded
by his father. Recently Capt. Cobb de-
termined 20 restore 1t to the original
owner, and a correspondence ensGed in
which many pleasant things were said
Dy each; The sword was expressed to
Maj. Collins, now a citizen of New Hamp-
ton, Ia, who was overJoyed at its return
after having been lost, as supposed, for
nearly thirty-three years.
DR.. Stanislaus B. Porter physician
living near the Twiggs county line, about
fourteen miles from Clinton, is under ar
rest and will have to answer to a very
serious charge. DR. Porter Is a successful
young physician and has been quite promi-
nent as a populist. He is about thirty-fve
years old, with a family. Friday he was
taken to Clinton and was given a pre-
liminary hearing upon the charge of as
sault with intent to rape. In default of
5000 bail he was sent to Jail. The charge
is that little 12-year-old daughter of a
netghbor named Moore, a poor, but highly
respectable man, was at Porter's home
with her brother, a year or two older. The
doctor, who, it is alleged, had been drink
ing, made indecent proposals to the girl
anu succeeded IN making 0er drink some
whisky, into which, her brother says a
white powder had been poured. He then
took the child in the house, and her
screams brought passers-by, who saved
An election will be held at Griffin on
April II, to ascertain the wishes of the
voters as to whether they are willing to
exempt the Griffin mills from taxation for
nfteen years, providing such an addition
is made as VIII about double its capacity.
At Columbus VIII Miles has been grant
ed a new trial. Miles is the negro who was
charged with an assault upon the person
of Mrs. Albright several years ago. He
was tried at Columbus at the last term of
the superior court, while Judge Marcus
Beck occupied the bench. He was con-
Victed and sentenced to twenty years inn
prisonment In the penitentiary. After the
conviction a motion for new trial was
hled, the hearing of which took place sew
eral days ago in Atlanta by Judge Beck
A new fire insurance company to he
known as the Mutual Assurance COMPANY
OF Georgia, is now applying for a charter.
A. ID. Gambler, secretary of state; w j.
Mallard, Jr., and L. c. Stacy, of the firm
OF Mallard & Stacy, and Hon. w. e. Ev-
ans The company's home office will be
located in Atlanta.
Augusta Herald: At the Augusta feed
and sale stables a crowd gathers every
Gay, TO witness the performance of Susie
Nell, a little mare owned by Gus Phil
lips. that can jump a hurdle feet inches
IN hight. A Herald reporter was present
Saturday and saw the little mare do her
down the middle of the stables a tenn
porary hurdle is made by tying rope
across from one post to another and hang
ing blankets thereon. The little mare
goes up in the air just as If she had springs
on her hind feet. Susie Nell is a genuine
irish Cob, such as are seldom seen these
days-one of that kind of whom Lover
and other Irish authors speak of in ac-
counts of fox chaSes. She is fourteen hands
Two inches high and has only been hand
led twenty days. Mr.. Phillips, in con
versation with the reporter, said that in
the course of a few days his colt would
be able to jump six feet. He has been a
jockey all his life and has ridden steeple-
ehases without end, but he says that Susie
Nell can jump easier and higher than any
horse he has ever ridden.
FLORIDA.
1t is rumored that cattle in Alachua
county have the black tongue