Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-13

depot yesterday he took his pOcketbook out Of
his pocket to get the check for his trunk aud
then put the book back into his pocket. This
was the last Mr. johnson has seen of the
pOcketbOOk- He missed it about o'clock when
he needed some change to pay hack driver. p"
Milledgeville Herald: "a large corporation
of English capitalists are AZ out to place some
So, ,OOe, 900 in the hands Of Georgia men, to be
loantd to the farmers and others who can
make il safe at low rate OF interest. Hon
F. q: DuBignon has been made the attorney
Tor the company at this point, and we under
stand that those safe, judicious men, Windsor
q Lamar, viii probably undertake the man
agement Of portion Of this fund This will
be good thing for our farmers, enabling
them TO borrow money and buy for cash, in
stead OF pursuing the present rulnous credit
system"
Atlanta Post-AppeaI: 'sThe unfortunate
case OF young Marable. an account OF whose
arrest for theft from his employer. Capt. w.
n. Brotherton, appeared in the Appeal, ex-
cited much interest in the boy and sympathy
Tor his fall at so early an age. The youths
guardian came to the city yesterday from his
home In Walton county and after consultation
with Captain BrOthertOn and satisfactory
settlement Of all claims, the case against the
boy was nolie PROSE-, and, in combany with his
guardian, he left the city for his home, at least
a wiser il not a better youth"
Atlanta Constitution: AT Hall station on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, just sixty
miles from Atlanta, negro boy named Harry
SnOwden. whose home is in this city, was
fOun1 hid in a car Friday last. The conductor
after learning that Snowden had been stealing
his way from Nashville made him alight, but
just before the train started again. he crawled
under a freight car and secfSted himself on top
or the truck. where he remained untilthe train
stopped at theFOrsyth street crossing in this city
yesterday morning about O'Clock Snowden
then erept from the track and started to crawl
from under the car. but the train began NOV
ing. and, although he escaped with his life, he
left a part Of two fingers on the track. In
far nj "a hannanad n MI @
hand on the track, and before he could move
II after getting his body from under the train
the wheels caught and crushed two fingers so
badly that anputatiOn was found necessa ~.
DR.. Martin amputated the index finger and the
one next to It P"
COnyers Erdminer: "An old negro man,
about eighty years Of age, was lodged in Jail
at COvingtOn last week on the charge OF at
tempting to commit murder by poisoning lt
seems that the old man had become enamored
with another mans wife, and in order to get
possession OF her, she probably consentiDg to
the arrangement, endeavOred to obtain poison
to administer to the husband He applied to
Dr. Perry, who gave him some ipecac. The
dose was administered, but only had the usual
effect The old man then got an order written
oy another negro for strychnine, but the order
stated that he desired to poison the husband
OF the woman. and advised his arrest The
Sheriff was notified, and, armed with war
rant, arrested the old negro, who Is now IN
jail awaiting trial before the Superior Court,
and will no doubt end his days in the chain
gang. 1t IS probable that the woman is the
most guilty of the two. having used the old
man as the instrument to rid herself Of her
husband"
Washington Gazette: "Mr Barber, of tni'
place, was on a visit to Mr.. E c. David, of
Banks county, recently, and while there saw
wonders in German carp raising that he had
once thought incredible. In October, 1873 Dir.
David received ten German mirror carp, none
Of them longer than two and half inches.
These he put in his mill pond on a creek He
saw them from time to time and was very
much encouraged by their rapid growth. On
the 9th of last month Mr.. David dew of his
pond to repair the dam, when he found several
large carp and an innumerable number Of
small ones One Of these large Onys was
wounded in being caught and IL was cOncluded d
best TO eat it. Mr.. Barber weighed the fish
and took Is dimensions by placing it on a large
piece Of paper. Ii weighed z pounds, was
221k inches long and 1881 inches in circumfer-
ence The fact that this fish in less than two
years time had grown from "a inches to this
great size is quite astonishing to people unac-
clstOmed to German carp. Mr.. Barber says
this was the finest favored fish he ever tasted
These carp are of the species known as the
mirror carp, having scales on only portions of
the body, a large place on each side being
scaleless A drawing Of the fish. measured
by Dir. Barber, can be seen at Mr.. G. E Smith S
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