The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-22


| free by Swift Specific Co, Atlanta, Ga.
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be fatal the young man is now in a fair
| way TO recovery.
Thrasher Mead, a Georgia negro, was ar
rested at Birmingham. Ala, Friday upon
the advice Of United states Postofice In
spectOr Ed Barry of Atlanta. He Is an
| expert safe blower and Is wanted Tor sew
eral daring jobs which he has done over
] the country In December Of last year,
! Mead blew open the safe in the postoific>
| at Akron, Miss. and secured therefor
| 81 600 Mead is a Georgia negro, and was
! formerly from Owens Ferry, in Camden
county. He is feet inches in hight,
weighs 200 pounds and with a scar on the
| back Of his head is very easy TO identify.
| He has been working with gang Of chi
| cago crooks for several years and has the
| reputation of being one of the most expert
| safe crackers In the country His wife
runs grocery store in Chicago, and is
said to be quite wealthy.
w. T. NJ. Brown of Dewy Rose is one
of the most prosperous farmers in the
state He has fifty acres of land which
| four years ago yielded one-fourth of
bale of cotton to the acre. This year
ne raised on the same land torty-one
| bales of cotton. which he sold for $lliS,
| and the seed for $246; 500 bushels of corn
| for $780, 100 bushels of oats for $50, and
| 100 bushels of sweet potatoes for SIS. Be-
sides this he sells weekly four dozen eggs
| at 10 cents a dozen, forty pounds of but
| Ions of buttermilk at cents a gallon,
4 making for the year 4l0.S0 This added
to the produce of his land makes an ag-
| gregate sum of $2.129.S0. Mr.. Brown Cm-
ploys three men at an expense of 1876 per
! month. He spent $40 for guano, Incl
| dentals 800 and SIS for the keeping of
| three mules, making the general expenses
| S1, thus showing profit OF $l,352.SO for
| the year.
| Echoes of the republican bitterness in
| Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia
| over Gary's appointment have reached At
| lanta. The appointment was made by
| the Observation-Disclosures combination,
| which fought Evans on the ground that
| he belonged to the carpet-Dag element.
| Their pleas was that if southerner was
| to be recognized he should be a native.
| They discounted Bucks support of Evans
| on the ground that the carpet-bag Cle-
| ments were sticking together BY their
| arguments 1t was presumed they would,
| If successful, bring about the nomination
| OF some native-born southerner il was
| hard argument TO meet now that Gary has
| been chosen. develops that he is a
| Connecticut yankee, and Buck, Evans ct
/ al awake to find themselves himfiammed.
A dispatch from Boston says Miss Car
| rie Ruckley of Gloucester has brought q
| $4,000 suit for breach of promise against
| Stephen Elliott Billiard of Atlanta, Ga. Ii
is understood that Billiard is a nephew
| Of President Elliott of Harvard College
| None of the Atlanta papers have been
able to locate the defendant.
Atlanta Journal: Next Thursday night
w. G. Conyers will exhibit quilt and a
lace cap at the West End Presbyterian
| church which have attracted attention
| and comment, everywhere they have been
| shown. The quilt is known as The Ma
| tional Patchwork Quilt America" and Is
| a marvellous specimen of skill. The quilt
| orange and yellow. II is American cloth,
| thread and dye. The colors were dyed
| by herself. In the center OF the quilt is
| the compass at the right of which is the
|
| stars, and at the left the nag of the thir-
| teen original states. Above and below the
| compass are two handsome ornamental
| designs. The quilt is composed of 10,S06
| pieces, with 500 feet of thread. The
| number of stitches is over $4,000, There
are 1910 seams to the inch TO each dia-
mond i'm the body, and 1856 square pieces,
each one inch square, with II stitches to
the inch. The three stripes in the border
| represent 220 feet of straight sewing. In
cluded in the quilt are 4sS feet 9 inches of
| straight seams. The cap, which is to be
exhibited on the same evening, Is made
of lace and the owner claims that 1t was
made in 1913.
Atlanta Constitution: Charles H. Nit
chen was bound over to the city court
under a $500 bond TO answer the charge
of abandoning mis- minor son by Judge
Bloodworth Friday. 1t will be remem-
bered that this is case growing out or
| the somewhat noted mock marriage be-
tween Mitchell and Mary Wingett, at a
house on South Forsyth street, in 1894.
Miss Wingett says that they were mar
ried at the house of a man named Car
SON. in the presence of a man named Wi-
hanson and CarSon's wife, by man who
was represented to be DR.. f. r. Robbins,
the Methodist minister. In 1895 Mitchell
married Miss Cora Penn, and then the
trouble began. This was after the birth
of his first wife's boy, whom he is now
charged with abandoning. Immediately
after this Mitchell was arrested, charged
with bigamy. Some two weeks ago iho
case came on for trial before Judge
| ~ lIa,- An tlAa nnr1n ffFf hpf hn-
cause Of the fact that the law forbids a
wife swearing against her husband he was
not convicted. The woman represented
to be Mrs. Carson died In the early part
OF 1885, Carson. as well as the man who
was represented as n minister, disap-
peared without leaving any trace, and
there at the present time; therefore no
evidence remained, except that of Miss
some letters written by Mitchell to her
the two first of which were received by
her while she was In Greenville, Ca, and
the other while she was lying sick at the
Grady hospital. Mitchell could not have
been bound over for abandoning his child,
and could not be convicted were II not
for the fact that his wife. Miss Wingett.
Is made by statute, a competent witness
against him. This is one OF the most Pc
culiar cases on record. The defendant
either, yet he cannot be convicted of big
amy for the reasons stated above.
Atlanta Constitution: The kick from
the Milledgeville insurance agents over
the insurance on public buildings has
brought out the fact that they carry about
$500.000 OF the total insurance on public
| property in this state. The insane asy-
ium property and the college buildings
constitute the bulk of the public prop
erty Insured. The buildings OF the North
Georgia Agricultural and Military Insti-
tute at Dahouega are insured for five
years out Of an appropriation made IN
1896. The state school for the deaf at
Cave Springs and the normal school al
Athens are all the buildings outside OF
Atlanta that are insured by the state, eX-
cept the property at Milledgeville and
the insurance on those buildings is III
Vided up among various companies. Prior
TO 1883 the governor insured the public
property out of the contingent fund The
loss by fire Of the college buildings al
| Dahlonega caused a good deal of COM
ment, and In 1883 Col Robert T. Hum
Der, then a representative from Putnam,
| introduced a bill appropriating $1,000 for
the purpose Of insuring all the public
property, except the arsenals at Afilledge-
willie and Savannah, the penitentiary and
the property of the state In the hands oi
the Western and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany. In after years the appropriation
| was increased, until in 1896 IL was fixed
| al Ss 700. with $3.50 additional on the Dron.