Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-06

every hand, a new danger threatens the
cotton crop with destruction. Several
times within the past week we have been
shown cotton bolls entirely rotten. Often
nearly dozen may be found on one stalk.
If this is not in some way arrested the
cotton crop will be almost totally de-
stroyed in those sections where it pre-
walls.
Brunswick Appeal: witnessed an
amusing scene from our office window
this week. Two negro boys were PLAYING
"bide the SWITCH" No. 1 went off 10 hide
the switch, whilst No. remained behind
and provided himself with a handful OF
dry sand. When called No. 2hunted aim
lessly for while and then, turning to No.
!, charged him with having "swallowed
the SWITCH" and demanded that he open
his mouth for him to see. No sooner had
the jaws of No. l opened than No. .
planted his sand into the cavity. You
can Imagine the rest.
Vincent Penebad, quarantine keeper,
near Brunswick, says that things were
lively at quarantine station last Tues
day night. The marsh hens, cranes and
other birds came up all around the house
and seemed to fear the presence of man
very little. The poultry cackled, the
dogs h0wled, everything was con-
fusion and noise except the
water, and that was as still as death.
Not fish was to be seen or heard. Even
the shrimp had all disappeared. The bird
and animal creation seemed to know that
something terrible was about to happen.
Martin d. Burgess was killed IN his
we'll near Pierce's Chapel IN Wilkes coun-
ty on Tuesday by the falling of a large
bucket of rock. He had been blasting in
the well, and had filled the bucket with
rock. When near the top the heavily loaded
bucket broke loose and went whizzing
down, striking the man and the bottom OF
the well with terrible crash.
The we'll was thirty feet deep and
only two and a half feet square. The
bucket must have fallen at least
twenty-five feet, and being confined in so
small place there was no escape for the
doomed man. Mr.. Burgess was struck
on the head, and the skull badly frac-
tured. When picked up he was conscious,
IN which condition he remained till late
in the day. when he breathed his last. He
was about 80 years old, and leaves wife
and three little children.
John Helms, of Darien, reports that
colored man was giving magic lantern
exhibition in one of the colored churches
last Tuesday night, and that he had just
thrown upon the canvas a representation
of the assassin alton of Garfield when the
shock came. The operator jumped out of
the window and the crowd went out of
the door. AS soon as the first shock was
over an old negro woman announced that
it was visitation "from de Lord for usin'
de church house for a show" and sug-
gested that summary vengeance be adj
ministered upon the wicked young man
who had dared to do such an unhallowed
thing. The crowd looked a 1t in the same
| light, aud the poor fellow sought refuge in
| flight, and only saved himself by reaching
the swamp before his pursuers overlook
| him, who returned TO the church and held
divine service by way of Precipitation for
the great sin.
Monday afternoon John SILVER, who
works with Sectionmaster |. B. Murray,
took some Of the hands and went down
near the bridge across the Alapaha river,
four miles east of Alapaha, to do some
work, Mir. Murray, with the other hands,
being al work on a broken down freight
| car. When he arrived there he saw two
men moving about at a distance of two
hundred yards beyond the bridge. lie
| could not see what they were doing,
and finally went over to satisfy
himself as to the matter. AS soon as
they discovered him, they ran into the
swamp, and he did not even get glimpse
of them afterwards. He was close enough
to see that they were white men. When
sa W them he found that they had been
engaged in building sort of CRIB on the
track with pieces of railroad iron, their
intention evidently being to wreck the
freight.
Hamilton Journal: Two negroes met
in the road near Miners cross roads the
morning after the earthquake. "Was you
skeered much by yer house shakin' last
nightr' asked the first. Eyes, was"
answered the other, growing mad rapidly.
sam rs goin' to hab you 'resled fer 1t.
too. Eff yer hadn't been dar takin' hand
in the deyilment yerself yer wouldn't
er knowed so much erbout it." In
the eastern part Of the county
cabin was full of negroes Tuesday
night, who we're attending the wake of an
old woman who had died that day. They
We're ranged around the large room, en-
| gagged in devotional exercises, all facing
the coffin, which was resting on two
chairs in the centre, when suddenly it be-
gan to culver and then to hop up and
| down like Que possessed. A stampede en-
sued, and the hair of any one Of those ne
groes stands on end now when he relates
his first experience with ''yethquake."
William G. Franklin. a young man
about % years old, living in the upper
| part of Epson county, attempted to COM
| nit suicide Thursday night by cutting his
| throat. For some time his mind has bsen
considered diseased and he was closely
| watched by his family. A few days ago
he came running from the creek where he
had been fishing, declaring that some one
| had tried to shoot him, and seeming to be
very much frightened. The earthquake
| Tuesday night increased his excitement,
and since that time he has been constant
| ly dreading an attack from some I'M
known party. Thursday evening he
declared that twenty men would
| be there to kill him that night, and tried
| to get gun with which to defend him
self. Failing to get this, he tried to bor-
row a razor. which was also refused him.
When he went TO bed he secreted razor
| in his hand. He made three cuts on the
right side of his throat, but owing to the
dullness of the knife the wounds were
very slight. On the left size was an ugly
cash about two inches long, which seems
| to have been stabbed with the point ofthe
knife. The blade passed between the
windpipe and jugular vein without sew
ering either. He will recover.
FLORIDA.
Travel over the South Florida railroads
! increases daily.