Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08

placlhg OF small pieces of fresh beef, well
SJasoheu With arsenic, all around the
eagee OF the ponds. The happy result was
IhhI IN short time not one of these enc
mes Of hts fish was to be found where
they mad previously been so plentiful.
Athens Bonner WGtchmda: a merchant
iHln% IN Athens has a new but very
tHectuai way of collecting debt. He had
uunned one of his customers several
lilhes, but TO no purpose. Not long since
the customer came into his store and
asked for drink of water. The mer-
chant concluded that it was q good
chance to collect his debt, and while the
customer was back at the water nail
drinking he quietly got his double
oarreled shot gun and demanded the
amount OF the account. The customer
nad the money in his pocket, pulled out
his pOcketboOk and paid the bill. He
thinks that if he had left his pocketbook
at home that he would have been a corpse.
A negro woman named, Martha Collins
worth, who Is employed by Prot. Charles
Lane, at 1877 Orange street, Macon, hap
pened to rather curious accident Satur-
day morning. She felt sleepy and opened
her mouth TO cape. Whether she opened
1t too wide, or whether her lower Jaw de-
sired rest on account of overwork, is
unknown, but the cape dislooated the jaw
and she became u living example of a
woman who could no longer talk. She
informed her employer by signs that her
Jaw was "lOcked," and Dr. IL. j. Will
hams was summoned 10 unlock it. This
he successfully accomplished, and the
woman Is now talking at rate that will
SOON make up the time lost during her en-
y$0rced silence
Excelsior (Bulloch county, Pioneer
an Eqgte; We have n map of Georgia
showing the prohibition and ant-prOhibi-
tion counties. 1t reveals the fact that
Southeast Georgia is the dryest part of
the State, whisky being sold only in Chat
ham and Mcintosh counties, and this
calls TO mind the fact that both Of these
counties have very large colored popula-
tons, and that where ignorance is there
also Is vice. All the large cities and
towns are the strOnghOlds of whisky,
Athens being the largest dry town in the
| State. Savannah, Augusta, Macon, At
| lauta and Columbus are the cardinal
| points OF the drunkards' compass in this
State, and will be the last places to yield
to the temperance wave which is sweep
| ing over the land. If the ballOt-bOx is
allowed to decide the fate of whisky in
Georgia it will be swept out of the State.
OF the 1877 counties in the State 81 are
prohibition, and others soon will be.
Americas Republican: Americas has
but one specimen of the genus dude; a
chicken owned by a gentleman in the city,
which went to roOst one night, looking
like an ordinary chick, and next morning
appeared standing on its legs as erect as
a man. This was nearly four months ago
and it still persists in holding its position.
1t initiates its brother biped of the dude
persuasion in nearly everything except
that it don't drink, swear aud smoke
cigarettes. 1t holds its wings down
close to it's body and only needs
switch-cane under one of them,
an eye-glass, little round-tOp
Derby and toOth-pick shoes to make
the resemblance to the human specimen
complete. This chicken cannot get its
head to the ground, and has to be fed.
His human brother never eats except the
food be furnished by the labor OF others.
Now we expect this dude chick will
continue to grow in statue and poTpen-
dicularity, and when tall enough walk
into some fashionable saloon and call for
Julep or a cObbler. True, he may not be
very Ineligible, yet his Growing will be
as sensible as the affected slang of the
other. This wonderful chicken is now
four months old and healthy, and bids
fair to live to a green old age, and in this
the resemblance will not be broken, for
who ever heard of a dead dude any more
than he ever heard Of adead gray mule?