The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-30
CITY BREVFgIES.


The fourteenth annual meeting of the
board of trade will be held tomorrow at
II o'clock.
The American Mutual Aid and Life AS
ISOLATION was granted a charter by Judge
Falligant yesterday. Among the incorpo-
rators are w. j. Bush, w B. Ryals and
J. e. Baum.
A notice of Importance to superior court
Jurors is published to-day. Only thirty
six of them whose names are there given
are wanted. The others are discharged
subject to notice.
The rice planters are busy preparing
their land and sowing rice. With favor
able weather for planting 1t is believed
that the acreage will be increased some
what over last year on account of the
higher tariff. The increase, however,
will most likely be made on the June
planting.
The weather indications point towards
warmer weather than has prevailed for
the past week, and the truck farmers feel
easier now on the score of frosts and killed
crops. Reports from over the state show
that in no section have the crops been bad
ly damaged. Most of the reports indicate
that no injury has resulted, and where it
is thought the plants or fruit have been
nipped, the damage is slight.
Eli Veruki, in whose place Nicholas
Couchelles was stabbed Saturday night,
was before the recorder yesterday
charged with the assault. The case was
continued until to-day. Coucheles is still
in the hospital. Veruki says Couchelles
came into his store, and after cursing
him, assaulted him with a dirk. Veruk
siezed club, and as Couchelles struck
at him with the dirk, he struck back with
the club.
In the matter of changing the name of
South Broad street, a reader of the Morn
ing News suggests plan which will honor
the memory of Gen. Oglethorpe, the
founder of the colony of Georgia, and of
his friend Col. Bull of South Carolina
and at the same time give Savannahs
main boulevard a more euphonious name
The suggestion is to change the name Of
Bull street to Oglethorpe avenue, and call
South Broad street, Bull street or Bull
avenue
Mcmillan Bros. have just completed a
one-story brick storehouse on Bay street,
between Habersham and Price streets.
The building is 62 feet front by 100 depth,
and is fireproof. 1t will be occupied on
April l by the Union Grain and Grocery
Company, a new corporation, of which
President w. c. Powell of the Savannah
Naval stores Company is president. The
company, it is understood, expects to do a
large business among the naval stores OPP
orators.
The statement that the remark which
caused the difficulty at the De Soto Sat-
urday night between two well known
young men, was made in the Hussars
Club, was erroneous. The gentleman,
who made the remark, and the one who
repeated it, are not members of the Hus-
sars Club, but were in another club at the
time the conversation took place. The
report that 1t occurred in the Hussars
Club was due to a misunderstanding on
the part of certain parties who repeated
the story of the difficulty, and this state
ment is made in justice to the Hussars.
Five little negro boys, averaging about
years old, were before the recorder yes
terday morning, charged with setting fire
to the old house on New street, to which
the fire department was called out three
times Sunday. The boys acknowledged
that they were in the house smoking ci-
garettes, and that they set the place on
fire just to see the department turn out.
There were three fires, the first at 11:22 a.
m, the second at 2:45 p. m, and the third
at 5:25 p. m. The boys were turned over
to their parents with instructions to chas-
tise, as they were too young for legal
punishment. The place to which they set
fire is a miserable old shack that should
be torn down.
BY a decision yesterday afternoon by
Justice Waring Russell, Jr., Mr.. ]. c.
Cope won a suit for SIS against the Bald
win Fertilizer Company. Mr.. Cope was
employed at Beaufort at the company's
agency. His services were engaged under
contract to start from Aug. Is. He was
to remain with the company two months
on trial, when he was either to be retain
ed for year at a salary of SIS a month,
OF notified that he was unsatisfactory. At
49, he he bo
not notified, but two days later was dis
charged without, he claims, any reason
being assigned. He objected to this pro-
cedure, and was taken back for a month,
receiving SIS for his services. Being told
then that he was no longer wanted, he de-
cided to bring suit. He got a judgment
for the month from Nov Is to Dec. IT,
c. b. Whipper, colored, a printer by
trade, and a son of the Beaufort lawyer
of that name, was sent to Jail yesterday
| by Justice Nathans on a charge of assault
| and adultery that had been sworn out
against him. The warrants against
| Whipper resulted from q wrangle and gen
eral fight in which he and the Carriers, a
| respectable colored family, living at Gem
etery and Walburg streets, engaged on
Sunday. 1t seems that Julia Carter a
daughter Of that house, left her home
! Sunday morning TO visit her married sis
| ter, who lives on Tattnall street. Whip
per boarded with the sister, and the fam
| lily suspected that all was not as 1t should
| be. so the mother, three other daughters
and a man named Bel, a son, fol-
lowed her to the house. They went into
Whipper's room without ceremony, and
a free-for-all fight ensued. This was
| brought 20 stop before great damage had
been done. Whipper went to Justice Wick
| hams court and swore out warrants
| against the mother the son. While Bell,
and the three daughters for assault. They
were arrested and put under bonds. As
soon as they were released they went be-
| fore Justice Nathans and retaliated In
/ kind taking out the warrants on the
charges named against Whipper, who, they
said, Is married man. The girl Is II
years old.