Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-26

upon ohackeltord fired. The ball passed
tT,nlrough the left lung and out the back.
Inc verdict was justifiable homicide.
Brunswick Adrertiser: In reply to a
question from us as to the present season
oelng good one for oysters, Mr.. Barnes,
the shipper, informed us that the past
winter was a success tor the oyster bust
ness. Said he: This is one good year.
FISHERMEN expect one bad year, one me-
ulum, and one extra good one. In the
Hrst we lose money, in the second we hold
our own and make wages, and in the third
we do more. This has been one of the
40 moreS." The difficulty, Mr.. Barnes
tells us, lies in the fact that the oyster
tattens much later some years than
others, hence ali shipments made before
they get fat are at a positive loss, as it
takes much more to shell out a gallon OF
the poor ones than of the fat, whilst the
gatherers and openers charge the same
for one as the other.
Calhoun correspondence NEWS, April
p: About IL O'Clock last night a negro
boy living with DR.. r. W. Thornton was
aroused by heat and smoke. He found
his way to the door, closing it after him,
gave an alarm of fire, which was taken
up by those who had not yet retired. and
soon the streets were alive with white
and colored people armed with buckets.
hC hiS wac lOCdl6u between Tue C6llln2
adjoining the hall on the first floor, and
extended up to the second floor between
the ceiling, charming the plank, and the
names Just peeping through the cracks.
by chopping holes in the ceiling below,
and watering well, the fire was soon eX-
tlnguished with loss of 500 tn 500 to the
house. The OVer-eXcited crowd chopped
holes through the ceiling in every room in
the house, and gave each hole half dozen
buckets of water. Every room being
filled with smoke, and the walls hot, it
looked as II the whole house was atire in
side. The cause of the fire is supposed
to rest with rats and matches.
cambridge Democrat: Many of our
readers will perhaps remember how near
dead Col. Jake Born was with a COM
pound ailment o. black jaundice and
brown skeeters about IA years ago. You
have seen pumpkin, brass dOor-knob,
yaller hOuse-well, Jake was twenty
shades deeper and brighter than either.
His color was a cross between a high
toned yaller, bilious green and a brown
bilious. Jake was in a fearful state; the
doctors fed him on one thing stirred him
up with another thing, and tapered him
of with something else. They blistered
and bled him, and with squils and anti
bilious pills and ipecac they fed him.
They soaked him, they boiled him and
shook HIM in the air; they poOh-poohed,
and shampOOed his black and shiny hair.
They went for him, and at him again and
again; but to tone his color down was all
in vain. So the jig was about up with
Jacob, his checks were about to be
handed in. One more avenue of hope re-
manned to him, and that was to go 10 New
York, whittier he went as quick as giant
steam could carry him. Jim Fisk, Jr.,
fhan hold forth in NVpl1 nd &c
Jake was the perfect image of Jim, he
was constantly being mistaken for the
great money king. But Jake was think
ing more OF getting well than of Jim
Fisk, and off he went to find doctor. His
name was DR.. Sands. Good evening,
Mr.. Fisk" said Dr.. Sands. Glow do We
do, DOCTOR" responded Jacob, giving his
physician hearty shake of the hand
Well, to be brief, DR.. Sands cured Jim
Fisk otherwise Jake Born, and made a
worldwide reputation. The same doctor
treated Gen. Grant the other day.
Albany Ne1s end Advertiser: A few
weeks ago the store OF Mr.. f. F. Putney
at Hardaway station, eight miles from
Albany, was broken into and burglarized
at night while Mr. Putney and his clerk
Mr.. Henry Galloway, We're absent
Shortly after the occurrence negro Henry
Wright, was arrested on suspicion, and
shirt and pair of shoes were found i'm his
posses ion answering the description Of
the same goods kept IN stock at Putney's
store. The shirt was of a peculiar
style, and WAS bordered in the yoke
with red tape, and bore the cost
mark of Mr.. Putnev in his own hand
writing. The shoes also We're fac Sinlilt
of a shoe sold and kept III stock by Mr.
Putney, having white and yellow lining.
They also were in Mr.. Putney's mark and
handwriting. These facts were clearly
established in court by the Solicitor Gen.
eral. Mr.. Arnheim, counsel for defense
called MIR. Einstein, Camilla merchant.
to the witness stand, and by him proved
that about the time of the burglary he
sold Henry Wright, the prisoner, an I'M
dershrt and pair of shoes, both of which
exactly correspond in appearance with
the aforesaid articles; aud on eXamina-
ton Of the cost mark and handwriting on
the articles he swore that the mark
was his and the handwriting that OF his
DoOkkeeper. Both these merchants and
their clerks are highly respectable and
credible gentlemen, and the remarkable
features in the case are that two mer-
chants living near each other should have
identically the same goods in stock, the
same cost mark, and that the handwrit-
ing on the marked goods of each one is so
similar as to puzzle the discrimination OF
an expert. The negro was convicted, the
point that went against him being that he
was irving to dispose of the goods, or per-
haps did dispose of the goods before he
was arrested.
The Stubbs-Bec murder trial has Just
been concluded in Jones county. The de-
PENDANTS, James W. and Stephen b.
Stubs, were jointly indicted in two cases,
but chose to sever, wnereupOn James w.
Stubs was put upon trial for the murder
of Benjamin Beck, Jr., some time last
November. The evidence disclosed about
this state OF facts: Benjamin Beck, ST.,
Benjamin Beck, Jr., and James Beck Oc-
cupied the same place with the defend
ants, who were step-sons of the senior
Beck. There seems TO have been frequent
family disputes among them, notably one
about the division of some rent, which is
supposed to have led up to the
difficulty, which resulted in the
death Of the two Becks. The State
relied mostly on the testimony OF
Joseph Beck, who claimed to have been
an eyewitness, and the dying declaration
OF the younger deceased. This evidence
made the two Becks unarmed and gently
demonstrating with defendants for at
tempting 10 leave home that sunday morn
ing, in violation OF an agreement 10 re-
main until a neignbOring Justice had ar
rived. to whom had been referred the rent
controversy. The Stubbses insisted on
leaving, the Becks further demonstrating.
Az this juncture the younger Stubbs Is
cold IN hnNo rpmurEDls 81 otis get otlr