The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
rvs OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


~.rress Burned TO Death-A YER
,,.t in Favor of the Plaintiff in the
,-..toenper Divorce Case-Biho
co,nty.s Income Tax Returns--A
RrunswicI< Timer Acquitted of a
charge of Larceny.
GEORGIA.
r-rr l. Terrell OF Milledgeville died of
reltsis Thursday.
sister Veronica died Thursday night at
5lrt DeSales convent at Macon after
brief illness.
III Il patton Thursday the jury found
- Quinn guilty of numbering his wife
i-r recommendation to mercy. He will
RI ID Jail for life.
. hfcvclist with a wooden leg is one
the odd sights of every. day life on the
4 -~a4ts Of Atlanta. He rides as well as
4 5s- men who have two legs.
HELPLESS old negress was burned to
s7th a day or two ago in a house be
7reing TO Reuben Reese, colored, on
Ehe plantation Of William /. Harper, near
Elsrwether.
r- is reported that Samuel Rumph of
hIarshalville recently declined an offer
n $4,000 for his peach crop this year.
IN is believed that the crop viii yield Mr..
|Tumph over 100000.
The indications are that the gross re-
|-urns of incomes in the city of Macon
Ind county of Bibb under the new law
4TyfH be about SZf0.UlU. The tax on this
Iar2per cent. viii yield $500.
There about 500 bales of cotton remain
linz IN the warehouse at Americas, nearly
IN of which belongs to farmers of Sumter
county. who were able to hold it. Pre-
Ivious to the recent advance in prices there
were over 5000 bales held.
A suit viii be filed at the approaching
term of Bulloch superior court against
eleven property owners. on South Main
street at Statesboro. for the recovery
of ali lands formerly belonging to the
heirs of Mrs. A. B. Miller of Savannah.
Charles Jones of West Point, a slave to
the morphine habit, while under the in
fuence of the drug. walks into other
" ne0ple's houses and makes himself nj
home He INDUCED in his habit at At
Fl lanta Thursday and was ordered out of
town.
Marion Erwin, the we'll known Macon
Ri attorney, has been engaged by several in
. diyiduals and corporation in Macon TO
T fight The income tax law. His clients arc
a among those who make the largest re-
4 turns in Bib county under the income
4 tax law.
A night or two ago two deputy United
States marshals went from Macon to
Laurens county and arrested J. S. Brady
on the charge of Illicit distilling. During
the night he escaped, taking with him
nine gallons of whisky the deputies found
n concealed in his house.
Eugene Hubbard. the sawyer at the large
a mill of the Wilcox Lumber Company at
Seville. met with a serious accident last
week A piece of timber was thrown
Z from the slab conveyor and struck him on
the head. His life was despaired of for
"a while, but he Is now recovering.
Suits amounting to several hundred dol
lars Will be filed against the firm Of J.
Il W. Ollin a CO. at the coming term Of
court Statesboro, for the recovery OF
4 sums paid to them for county rights for
Il the new-fangled bed brace which was
i introduced at Statesboro last year The
company bought several counties to spec
n. these
4 seven different parties to whom they were
Jimmie Edenfeld. an 11-year-old boy
/ living near Parrish, in Bulloch county
came near dying from rattlesnake bite
last week. The little fellow was digging
ont a gopher, and coming near the bottom
of the hole reached out his hand to take
hold of what he supposed to be the gopher,
when a twO-foot RATHER bit him in the
hand, His arm was corded tightly and
pOultices applied to draw out the poison
and at last accounts he was thought to
be in fair way to recovery.
In Houston superior court last week
IA the case of J. NJ. Culpepper versus
sally G. Culpepper. suit for divorce, the
4 returned a verdict in favor of the plain
uh' The father of the latter win fight
the case to the bitter end. The plaintiff
claims that he married the defendant
under duress but this IS stoutly denied
BY the defendant; The plaintiff and de
in Houston. The couple We're married
only three or four years ago.
Deputy Collector r. S. Henderson of
Jasper, and j. b. Curtis Of Canton, cap
tured a blockade distillery in Cher
about $500 gallons of beer and mash The
SIN would hold 125 gallons. The same Of
heers destroyed another distillery in Cher
ohee the same day. Al one of the places
ney captured new still cap and two new
worms. While they were at j. w. Blank
mship's house the still cap was rescued
L n in hraraf
ms escape with the still cap and all
The suit of Charles e. Damour versus
we mayor and council of the city of
Macon is set for trial in Bibb superior
Hz,Vp alleged damages to his property
on Fourth and Ocmulgee streets, caused
ny certain street work ordered done by
!ilt mayor and council. It is reported
mat one of the pleas 10 be submitted
ny the plaintiff is that four Of the alder
men by whose autharity the work was
Qone are not bona fide property holders
d. me law requires. II this question ~
sprung the result will be awaited with
interest, and if decided in favor of the
plaintiff may lend to the inValidation of
other acts of council.
4 novel plea of justification for the vio-
l5uon OF contract was made in the case
o. Kelley against DR. R. A. Vincent on
lrlal in the city court at Atlanta FRIDAY
Kelley was a clerk employed by Vincent
Well-known druggist He was employed
uHgef contract for one year, but at the
~ NlSnt luOllltlS ne was ulScndTReu
ana began suit to recover from Vincent.
IT Vincent justified his discharge of his
clerk by claiming that the young man
Paid more attention to ogling his girl ana
!duy customers than to business and,
tHereIore, was obnoxious. The clerk met
Ihe Doctors claim by introducing testi-
1ony intended to show mat il was the
qoctor who ogled the ladies, and that
ms discharge was occasioned by the doc
val -
"A special to the Macon Telegraph from
AIcRae says: Friends of L. /. williams
a r4 sons John and Stephen, request the
Geographic correspondent to inform
through the Telegraph, the party or par
Iles VINO offer the 300 reward for their ar
rest that If the cash TO cover the reward
Is put up in the Exchange Bank of Ma
Won, ana its payment guaranteed to who
tEer delivers the Williams above named
~ the United States marshal il will he
zone without further trouble or cost to
IN he federal authorities. These men say
oney do not fear the result of a fair trial
- they claim to be able to establish
.Aelr innocence, but they say they do fear
NE mted States court and the effects
oI the prejudice that has been created
sasaihsJ them by false charges and exag-
serated reports.
,Brunswick' Times-Advertiser Times
GU cruiser readers will remember the ar
Isl OF w. E. White. we'll known timer,
~ warrant sworn out by J. 3. Davis