The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-18

found the trial was postponed until yester-
day. Moods temporary bond was placed
at $500, which he readily gave, and was re-
leased
City Sexton T. A. Clayton, through his
attorney, Arnold Broyles, paid the city tax
collector of Atlanta Friday $1,41397 in set
Element, as was supposed by his attor-
ney and the tax collector, of the amount
| Of his shortage, as reported 10 council
by the cemetery committee. But Chair
| man James G. Woodward of the cemetery
| committee declares that this sum does
not cover the shortage and that as the
! committees report had not been adopted
| by council, the aldermanic board having
| postponed action on it, the tax collector
| had no right to receive the money. Chair
man Woodward says that a mistake has
! been made, and that it may prove costly
! TO some one
A young woman giving the name of
Sophie Robinson and carrying a baby in
her arms called at the house of Hen
rietta Lemon colored woman, who lives
! at z Richmond street. ,at Atlanta, where
! she left her baby agreeing to pay 81 80
1 a week for its maintenance. Friday the
| authorities were notified Of the presence
4 of the baby in the city Henrietta Lem
! on, not having received her promised
| Sl.5O per week, and not being able to keep
| the child, gave him to another colored
woman, who lives at So Richmond street
| The little fellow is stil there. Chief
| Connolly has taken the matter in hand
and will attempt to locate the parents
Oh the child If he is unsuccessful. he will
| apply at the Home of the Friendless for
| an entrance, where the baby will have
| a good home
Berry Wright a negro who was for a
long time mixed up in the Castor emigra-
bo4
a great exodus of Atlanta negroes TO Az
RIGA, has been confined in the Fulton
county jail nearly two years for contempt
OF court He is kept locked in a cell
which he is never allowed to leave. and in
which he has been closely confined ever
since he was incarcerated Wright was
sent to jail by Judge Lumplxin on April
3, 1895, and he il beginning to think that
the judge has forgotten him altogether,
and proposes to let him stay there the re-
mainder of his life. No one can liberate
a prinsoner sent to Jail for contempt of
court except the judge of the superior
court, and Wright has an idea that his
case has been stricken from the docket
! ana that he has been forgotten.
Miss Matte Wilkes, the 22-year-old
daughter of David Wilkes, a farmer living
near Tweed, eloped with a young man
named John Curl day or two ago. Curtis
father was cropper on the Wilkes planta-
ton, and by this means he became ac-
quainted with the girl who soon became
infatuated with him. Two married daugh-
ters of Mr. Wilkes found out that young
| Curl had marriage license to marry their
sister, and impaired the information to
their father. All three confronted her with
the evidence, but Miss Matte stoutly de-
! MED that she would marry him. Tuesday
| night before elopement she told her father
she would cut her throat rather than mar
ry John Curl. Her oldest sister told her
she would rather follow her to the grave
than for her to marry Curl. Tuesday night,
after her father was asleep, she slipped
out and left for parts unknown. 1t is sup
posed she was married that night.
A frightful accident occurred at McCrim-
mons lumber mills at Lothian Tuesday
evening. A young man named Roberts was
connected in some capacity with one of
the train engines, which convey heavy logs
from the woods to the mill. He started to
his work after eating dinner, and in at
tempting to get up in the cab, his foot
slipped and he fell in the shafting. In a
moment the unfortunate man was revolv-
| ing around and around, the cogs drawing
| him in at every revolution. AS soon as the
accident was discovered, the machinery of
the engine was stopped and Roberts extri-
| Gated. He presented a horrible spectacle.
His entire body and limbs were manned
and broken, and his flesh lacerated. He
was conscious until the last, intimatng
| that he would be all right in the morning,
1 ready to go to work. He breathed his last
| Wednesday evening.
The case of c. c. Thorn against Harry
l., English & Co. which has been on
trial in the superior court before Judge
J. II. Lumpkin at Atlanta, for the past
two days, was concluded Thursday, the
| jury finding a verdict for $500 in favor of
| Mr. Thorn, this sum- including interest
| and costs. Mr.. Thorn, who was in the
| fire insurance business, sold out his agency
! to English & Co, for a certain percent
age of the business, as it appeared upon
| his books. English & Co., who were req
resented in the trade by the Riley-Grant
| Company, claimed that the contract of
sale was not in the terms that they had
understood. They offered to pay Thorn
| the amount which they claim they had
| agreed to give for the business, but this
was refused, and Mr.. Thorn sought the
courts to enforce the collection The total
amount claimed by Mr.. Thorn is about
5000.
Albert Smith, through his attorneys, filed
suit against the Southern Railway Com
pany at Atlanta Thursday to recover sew
eral sums aggregating $4,000, on account
of the loss of two unique houses built by
NitN RAfhAAAAAA anu dAAtktu 10 nave been
1 shipped over the lines of the defendant 10
| the recent exposition to be used for ex-
hibltion purposes Smith alleges that
| one Of the houses was constructed entire
ly Of ocean pebbles and covered with fish
scales and contained twenty-four sets
of furniture, valued at 5000. The other
house was built entirely of FISH scales, with
a capacity of seating FIVE persons at
one time and was valued at $500. Be
sides this the tools with which the houses
were built cost several hundred dollars,
The plaintiff alleges that II took four years
and five months TO build one OF the houses,
and four yearsiH which TO bull the other
which made them VerysvaBiRble to him. He
| alleges that he delivered them to the
Southern Railway Company to have them
transported. and that the company re-
ceived them in good condition, but he has
not since heard OF them.
A special to the Atlanta Constitution
from Columbus, o., says: "Col Luther
Hall. convict now serving time In the
Ohio pententiary for conspiracy In a muir.
der committed in Georgia several years
ago, is in dying condition. He is an APP