The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-18
A NEW THING FOR ATLANTA.
THAT CITK'S ONLY REGIMENT AT
LAST STERED OUT.

Even Then the Men DID Not Get Int"
the city to spend Their Cash.
school commissioners Inspected
the TechnoIogicaI SchoOI-A ses-
sion Held Thcre-Mrs. WiswnII
Allowed to Testify-MadRm ROI-
Iins' Testimony Hefuted.
Atlanta NAY 1.-THE Third Regiment
United States Volunteer Engineers, was
mustered out of TIE service al Fort Nc
Pherson to-day. The regiment has been
here waiting 20 he mustered out for a
couple of weeks. having been brought
from Cuba. where il mad seen considerable
active service since the surrender.
This was the first regiment that Atlanta
has seen mustered out and there was a
good deal of disappointment expressed III
some quarters because the railroads ran
special trains from the barracks camp in
stead of allowing the men TO come into
the city 10 take the cars, which would
have thrown them in the way of local
merchants. IL would have caused the men
a great deal of Inconvenience and hard
ship. however. II the roads had not run
the specials from the camp ground and
while some of the shopkeepers and saloons
probably didn't get as much money out
OF the regiment as they expected, the
men themselves were generally pleased
Many of them came into the city, how
ever. and spent their money, and az the
Kimbal House there was "A merry scene
The officers and squads OF men gathering
there for last social glass ana thelr
good-byes Tonight the officers had
dinner at the Aragon, 60 celebrate the oc-
casion of their dispersion. IL took about
S125 600 to pay the regiment of.
The school commissioners.
The feature of the second days session
OF The convention Of county school com
missfoners and members OF boards OF edu-
cation was a visit paid to the state School
~ Technology by the whole convention.
This visit was made during the afternoon.
The DELEGATES were shown through the m
stitltiou hv President Lyman Hall and ms
faculty. and much thai was new ana IN
terestine 10 them was exhibited especial
IL in the textile department, which mas
lust been added TO the school
A short session was also held IN the as
sembiy room of the "Teck. Presideht
nan read a paper on the subject of The
was appropriate To the occasion. Hon. W.
r Power. commissioner from Cobb coun-
~ also read "a paper on the subject OF
'.The Value Of Nature Studies IN the COM
mon School Course"
Tonight the convention held session
at the capitol at which the federation oil
women. and the common schools was the
chief feature
The morning session of the convention
-f,, If ma of
detail in the management of schools, ana
IA hearing papers from. members. Prof. H.
g White of the State University, deiiV-
cred an interesting address dealing with
the subject of education as relative 10 the
agricultural interests of the state upon
the proposition to incorporate scientAhc az
riculturaf education as part of me com
mon school curriculum. Hon. M. Is. Den
MS County School Commissioner OF Put
nam county, read thoughiiui paper ueai-
ine with plans Cor testing the value OF
work. done In the schools by the County
school Commissioner when he makes his
wish so them Former Gov. Northen was
on the programme for a paper but could
not reach the city, and therefore his pa
Der was omitted.
WiswaII Damage Suit.
In the Wiswan-DeGive damage suit to-
dav Judge Reid ruled that the widow
might testify under some restrictions as
TO the fidelity and general good character
of her deceased husband on account of
whose death she Is suing for $4,000 dam
ages. Yesterday when Mrs Wiswah was
-p0t upon the stand, and asked to retute
the allegations that her husband as
what might be called "a gay bird the
defendant objected upon the ground that
her testimony on that point was not com
petent. as a wife would naturally TESTIFY
in her husbands favor regardless of cir
cumstances or facts.
witnesses were put up to-day by the
plaintiff TO prove the fa!sity of testimony
by Madam Rollins and her daughter who
swore that Wiswall had been opening
champagne at their house and was drunk
when he fell in the stairway, They We're
impeached. 1t was proven that upon one
day when the women swore the deceas-
ed was at their house he was in fact on
the train somewhere between Atlanta and
Boston, as he could not possibly have
arrived in the latter city upon the date
at which he did IL the testimony of the
Rollins woman and her daughter was
true.
The speeches in the case which has be-
come locally celebrated, will be made to-
morrow and they viii be particularly
warm ones on the part of the plaintiff
on account of the attack made by the
defense upon the character of the de-
ceased