The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14

! viii make his record greater than that Of
the whole of England for twelve months.
At Donalsonville Wednesday night G. w.
| Warwick, convict guard, was killed by
| j. w. Ward. another guard 1t Is thought
| that the men quareled over a woman to
| whom they had both been attentive. This
| is believed to have been the cause of the
| difficulty. Warwick was shot in the back
| with the Winchester Ward carried and
| died instantly. Ward remained in Donal-
| SonVille several hours after the affair and
| Capt. Smith paid him off No attempt
was made to arrest him. Thursday night
brother of the dead man arrived at Dom
alsonville from Offerman and procured
warrant, which was placed In the hands
of Sheriff Patterson, of Decatur county.
Ward is from South Carolina. Nothing Is
known of the direction in which he went.
Gov. Atkinson has just taken action IN
the case of Bob Giles, alias farrell, who
was indicted by the grand jury of Clarke
superior court of the two offensea of
burglary and larceny from the house. He
plead guilty of the crime of larceny from
the house and was found guilty of bur
glary. In the larceny case he was sent
fenced to the chaln-gang for twelve
months or pay fine of $50. In the bur
glary case he was sentenced to three
years in the DenitentaTy. 1t has since
developed that at the time the crimes
were committed Giles was subject to fits,
and on occasions of this kind he did not
is signed by many prominent citizens and
the county officers. His sentence in the
burglary case was commuted to two years
and four months, and the larceny case
was left undisturbed.
Pelham correspondence Morning News:
Last Wednesday. at Clifford S. c., DR.. w.
S. Hill of this place was married to Miss
Alice Clifford, the bridal party reaching
home yesterday. The bride is one of South
Cardinals fairest daughters. The groom
is leading citizen, a member of the al
dermanic board and stands high in his
profession. An elegant dining was
given them yesterday by Mrs. w l.. Car
ry Among those present were Misses
Simmie Twittv and BETTY Underwood of
Camilla, Col. f. Il. Twitty of Brunswick,
Misses Bowen, Green and Heam, and
Nichols. Turner and gs.--Pelham has
received 1900 bales sea island and 5000
bales upland cotton the past season. -
The Hand Trading Company expect to
commence building as soon as the plans
are prepared, large annex on the south
of their present large building, TO be used
as carriage repository and furniture and
crockery room, while on the north they
will erect a bank and office building
Hand & Carter will build, at the same
time a large store.-If the handling of
fertilizers is any sign, a big cotton crop
can be expected In this section this year.
Gov. Atkinson has receive a letter from
Richard Olney, Secretary of the United
States in which he says that the Swedish
government mas maze q request Tor repay
ment of the loss occasioned the comman-
der of the Adele, a Swedish merchant ves-
sci, by the illegal proceedings of justice
of the peace of one of the Georgia seaport
towns in unnecessarily OBTAINING the YES
sci in port. The offense was committed
about two years ago, and this is the sec
ond communication the governor has re-
ceived from Secretary Olney. In reply to
the first communication the governor said
the state had no money to pay the claim,
but that he would call the attention of
ha 10 ~, a ttnr nd aalr
to set aside the necessary appropriation to
square the debt. This the legislature did
not do. Secretary Olney writes that the
swedish government only claims $295.64 in
demnity and that il the state of Georgia
does not remuerate them in that sum the
debt will devoive upon the federal govern
ment The injury is the direct result of
the wrong doing of a state official, and
Secretary Olney thinks that the state
should be responsible for the action.
When asked what ne would do about the
matter, the governor said that he hadn't
had time to decide.
Atlanta Constitutions: A peculiar case
has come up before the controller in which
a tax collector exemplified the adage that
the early bird catches the worm. The
showing has been made that Tax Collec-
tor Wilson of Baldwin county, whose term
of office expired Dec. 81, started out early
on the morning of Jan. / and collectea the
liquor license tax of $50 from each of two
saloon keepers in Milledgeville. The IL
QuOr Incense Tor 1870 was nXeO at SlUO, out
for 1897 it was raised to $3.50 per annum
and Wilson collected $500 from the two sa-
loon men, retained his commission which
amounted to SIS. and forwarded the re-
mainder to the state. The incoming tax
collector, Stembridge, complained to Con-
troller Wright about the matter and ask
ed his advice. AS a matter of course the
answer was that Wilson was not entitled
to the commission and had no right, un-
der the law to collect the tax, which was
not a part of the tax of 1896 but of 1897,
and was a perquisite of the incoming tax
collector, who was entitled to the commits
sion. The case was finally adjusted to the
satisfaction of all concerned, but on
close examination of the verbiage of the
law different construction might he plac-
ed on IL. The law reads plainly that the
terms of all such officers shall begin on the
lst day of January succeeding their cleo
ton and shall expire on the LIST day of
January two years thereafter, thus
stretching the calendar so as to give them
two years and one day in Office, instead
Of two years, as was contemplated in the
act. But in spite of this apparent defect
in the statute the rule has been that every
tax collector should collect the taxes due
for the term during which he was in office
and that his successor should take charge
of all the new business for the year fol-
lowing his election, including ali specific
taxes due the state on the LIST day OF jan
uary of every year.