The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07

GEORGIA.
A missionary Baptist church viii be
constituted in the Eleventh district OF
Dolly county. near Cobb places next
Sunday
A movement is on foot in Macon to
raise funds TO send the INDECENT confeder-
ate veterans 70 the reunion at Richmond
next month.
Mr.. Saul Winsted and Miss Lille Hale
were married Thursday evening at the
Baptist church at Waycross. Rev. W. II.
Scruggs, officiating
Peter Henderson, a young negro boy,
snatched a pocketbook containing SIS
from Mrs. NJ. r. Walker at Atlanta
Thursday He was caught and all but a
few dollars recovered.
Near Cordele, a day or two age, while
Mason Doughty was driving hogs out
of the lot at his stable the whip-cracker
hit the corner OF MS lett eye, taklae
out a piece of the lid. His eye was soon
terribly inhamed and he may lose the use
of IL.
Tom Harrison, negro. attempted IN
assault on Winnie Thorn. an orphan white
girl. about y years of age. a Pender-
grass. Sunday. The negro was arrested.
He waived examination and was sent to
Jail. There are threats of lynchIng, but
It is thought the law VIII be allowed 10
take its course.
J. Z. Foley. a young man who was en-
ployed by the Atlanta Consolidated Street
Railway Company as a conductor, and
was charged with having run his ,-dr
register backward in order to defraud The
company, was convicted In the criminal
court at Atlanta Thursday and sentenced
ed pay a fine of $50 and costs or remain
in the county jail for six months.
P. McAuline has purchased the prop
erty s23 Broad street, formerly occupied
by the Augusta Evening News and now
tenanted by Dunbar a. Seize. Mr.. Nc
Auliffe bought from are lc%aLees of The
late Miss Cumming-Maj. j. b. Cum
ming, Mrs Harry Hammond Of BeCcn
Island and Mrs Frank II. Miller, Jr. The
price paid was something in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000
The woman's Club of Rome has elect
ed the following officers: President, Mrs.
J. Lindsay Johnson; vice president, Mrs.
Christopher ROwell corresponding secre.
tary, Mrs J. ]. Printup; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. John c.. Printup. A COM
munication was read from the Atlanta
Womans CluD INVITING me Rome clIp
TO join the state Federation Of Woman 8
Clubs, and the matter was taken under
advisement.
few days since. according to his story,
T. b. F. Todd was in Athens. He is a
white farmer living near Bogart. He
had s3S with which he was to make Ger,
tain purchases. While at Athens he was
robbed of the money, but was unable
TO say who il was. The police took the
few clews they had and ran the case
down and succeeded in landing in Jan
a negro woman called "Lightfoot Lucy"
who had in her dress pocket S24, which
Todd claims is his money.
The case of Coney & Parker, ct AL,
against Horace Dart ana r NJ. Dart. a
petition for a sale of the tug Dauntless,
for the purpose of division among the
owners. was called in superior court at
Brunswick Thursday. but was settled be-
tween the parties. The terms of settle
ment agreed on are that the AIessrs. Dart.
owning 5-56 of the Dauntless, shall sell
their interest to the other owners. The
Messrs Dart objected TO the formation Of
a stock company. Their withdrawal from
partnership in the boat viii leave the
other owners free to form the stock COM
pany, and this will be done at once. The
tugs Dauntless, Inca and Angie and Mel
lie will go into the company