The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-18
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.


be an applicant for the postofice at Ma
rietta.
In the municipal election at Madison
Wednesday, Harvey Anderson was re-
elected mayor.
Joseph Bailey, &C years of age, was found
dead sitting before a CRATE in his room at
Atlanta Wednesday.
Henry Askew and Miss Jennie Powell
were married at PARROT Sunday The
groom is 70 years old, while the bride is
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Col. A. f. Seifert, former owner of the
Macon Telegraph and at one time promi-
nent resident of Atlanta, died in New York
Wednesday of paralysis.
Deputy Sheriff Vic Menard has closed
the store of George I. Harris & Co. at
Macon on mortgages amounting to A,l42
held by Lewis Wood and others.
The dry goods establishment of Peacock,
opened for business. 1t was recently clos
ed on account of financial troubles.
The commissioners of Bibb county have
cut down the salaries of county officers.
The salary of the clerk of the board has
heretofore been $1,000 per annum, but it
was cut to $1,000. The superintendent of
Rolf home. who formerly received $500 per
annum, will get $720 next year. The county
physician, who has heretofore received $780,
will receive 500 next year.
The only salary left uncut is that of the
court house janitor, who receives $3.50 per
annum.
Warren Leland. Jr.. former manager of
the Kimball house at Atlanta, has filed
suit against Joseph Thompson, the lessee,
claiming that he was engaged to manage
the Kimball, and was dismissed by Mr..
Thompson before the expiration of the
contract. The suit is brought for the pur-
pose of recovering from the lessee the
amount of salary which Mr.. Leland claims
would have been due under the contract.
Mr. Leland says he accepted the contract
and was ready to perform his part, when
he was told by Mr.. Thompson that his SER
vices were not needed any longer.
Atlanta Constitution: Col. p. w. Mel
drim of Chatham has under consideration
a unique method which he thinks might
result in a settlement of the vexed temper
anoe question. He has not fully develop
ed the scheme in his mind, but says that
his suggestion appears to him to be one
worthy of consideration by those seeking
a solution of the problem. Col. Meldrim's
idea is to establish a qualification for per-
sons who may have the privilege of pur-
chasing intoxicating drinks under all cir
cumstances. He proposes that no persons
be allowed. under law, to purchase liquors
and intoxicating drinks who are known to
be habitual drunkards or who are not fit
persons to be allowed to buy whisky by
reason of drunkenness at the time they
may desire to purchase such liquors. Col.
Meldrim says the law as it exists seeks
to prevent saloonkeepers and other dealers
from selling intoxicating liquors to drunk
en- persons and that it is just as reasona-
BILE to make it unlawful for any person who
is drunk to purchase liquor. He thinks
that it would be a good plan to authorize
some proper county officer, the ordinary,
for instance, who shall hear cases and is
sue licenses to persons qualified to pur-
chase liquors by reason of previous good
conduct He thinks that no person should
be allowed to purchase liquor unless he be
a person of good moral character and
standing and who shall hold license or
some clear certificate of qualification as
a fit person to have the privilege of buying
intoxicating drinks and liquors. He has
not enlarged upon his idea and says that
when it first occurred to him he regarded
ii as of little value, but that the suggestion
has met with favor by many to whom he
has explained it.
The trial of Lloyd James for killing his
CURED last January at the home of the
former, two miles from Douglasville be-
gan Wednesday before Judge c. G. James.
Both the family of the deceased and the
defendant are connected with many OF
the oldest and most influential families in
that section. This is the first murder trial
that has been held in Douglas county for
fourteen years. Lloyd James had spent
the afternoon in Douglasville, and on
his return home, at 6 o'clock, entered the
bedchamber usually occupied by his wife
and found her sitting before the fire
reading a newspaper. Without uttering
a word, he snatched the paper from her
hands and threw IL into the fire, remark
inS that she was an idiot and could not
read. lie then whipped her. After she
had been released, she fastened to her
fathers home, only quarter of a mile
away, and related the treatment to which
she had been subjected at the hands of
her husband, and persuaded them to ac-
company her to her home to get possess
sion of her three children, whom she fear
ed her husband would kill. Her parents
consented to accompany her, and awoke
Ed McKelvey, who was asleep in an adj
joining room, TO go with them. When
they approached the house James was
standing in the door with a shotgun la
his hands. Charley McKelvey told him to
put away his gun, as they came there to
reconcile the differences between him and
his wife, and let them go into the house
and talk the matter over. James told
him that he would shoot pointing the
gun directly toward his father-in-law,
who asked him not to shoot. James then
walked down the steps to where Ed Nc
kelvey was standing. and without word
OF warning shot him, the entire load
taxing effect In his neck, breaking 1t and
seNering the jugular artery. His father
mother and sisters, Mrs. James, who were
the only eye-witnesses to the tragedy
carried him into the house Life left him
in few minutes afterwards James
made his escape. but two days later was
captured by Sheriff Ward and posse near
Marietta, while on his way to the home
of a kinsman in Cherokee county. A cor
oner's inquest was held and the Jury
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