Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-24

| weighs two pounds and ten ounces 1t
has peculiar shape-or rather no shape
| at all and looks like a pile OF twenty
| potatoes. Its formation is such that
| when 1t is laid upon the table 1t begins to
rock and only becomes motionfess after
long time.
Crawfordville Democrat: DR.. J.J. Kent
was telling a snake and fish tale not long
| since that capped all we have heard of.
| He said he saw, while fishing last week,
water moccasin catch large catfish
and hold it up out OF the water and swim
TO the bank, where the snake took pains
to make a nice swallow of the prey. He
swallowed the fish, fms, skin and all with
out batting his eyes.
| Athens Banner: Col. j. B. Eberhart
| presented the Banner w atchman with a
! bottle of peach brandy twenty years old.
| Col. Eberhart made the brandy in 1866.
and when his boy became twenty years
| old he opened the demijOhn and brought
the first bottle to the office Of the Banner
! Waterman. The editor and his associ-
ates being strict prohibitionists the brandy
| is here tor their friends.
| Albany has within her limits, accord
Ing to the best estimates that have been
made, 300 children of the school ages.
| OF this number there are 400 whites and
| 800 variegated-from black to lemon yell
| low. For them there are In that city six
white schools and eight colored; four of
| the former and two OF the latter are board
ing schools, thereby increasing the school
! population by bringing some pupils from
| other points.
! The editor OF the GAINESVILLE Mail is
irate. He says: "'The man who came into
| my office Monday and deliberately stole
| my umbrella is worse than a thief, meaner
than an assassin, lower than a black
! guard, and uglier than crazy quilt.
May each rain drop that falls upon it
turn into drops OF blazing vitrlol, and
each sun ray bristie with 10000 pointed
needles dipped in acrid poison to prick
| his putrid flesh.
| Near Roswell junction last Monday
evening, as Wat Adams was returning
| from Mechanicsville on mule, he claims
| that he was suddenly assaulted by large,
! burly black negro and relieved Of 81 in
! cash and a lot of other articles. Suspicion
| rests upon Charles Rogers, negro whose
reputation has. been considered fair, but
the evidence being so plain, he skipped
| before an arrest was effected, though 1t is
| thought he fingers near yet.
| Special Revenue Agents Chspman and
Coiquitt, with Deputy Collector Chisholm,
| made a successful raid into Jasper county
| Wednesday night. For some time past
the officers have known that Brown New
| by was running an Illicit dIstillery in
| that county, but they experienced coz
| siderable trouble in locating the still. A
| few days ago they succeeded in locating
| 1t in the middle OF cotton patch, about
half mile from his house. The owner
| was also captured.
j. II. Rigdon, who lives nearChambers'
mill, on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
| Georgia railroad, was lodged IN jail at
| Rome Wednesday charged with larceny
after trust. Phe household goods of Rig
don were levied upon and the house they
were in locked. After the levy was made
| RigdOn Moved his goods, which caused a
| warrant, charging him with larceny after
| trust, being sworn out. Rigdon claims
That he had not been made aware OF the
fact that the goods had been LEVIED upon.
Wednesday night ofIast week the dining
room of j. W. Jenkins, about four miles
from Dawson, was entered and crocKery
| and provisions stolen. Thursday night a
| search by some of the citizens of the COM
| nunity resulted in finding the stolen goods
| at the house OF a negro named Tom Sim
| gleton. Tom was taken to Judge Sears
| house and held until the next day, when
| he was committed to Jail. Several smoke
| houses were broken into In that neighbor-
borhood last fall and Tom is thought to be
the guilty one.
Mrs. Roena Hasty, of Dawson, relict of
| Obediah Hasty, has eighty-six descend
| ants. She IS the mother of seventeen
| children, and has fffty-One grandchildren
and eighteen greatgrandchlldren. Mrs.
| Hasty is now % years old and walks two
miles to church once every month. Dur
| ing Mr. Hasty's lifetime they ''lIved at
home' aud made their own provisions,
| and since his death Mrs. Hasty has con-
| tinued on the same line, looking after her
| affairs with the energy and zeal of much
| younger person.
Quitman Free Press: The so-called
"trout" of South Georgia and Florida is
not a trout, but black bass. Our
perch" are not perch, but sunfish. A
| Jack is pickerel. Our catfish are not all
| catfish. Some OF them are Dull pouts.
| Our red-fnned pike is FOUND only in
! Southern waters and near to the Gulf.
| Our Yarmouth perch is a rock bass. The
carp was imported by the Germans from
| Central Asia more than 500 years ago,
| and is esteemed very highly the world
over as food fish.
| LAGRANGE Reporter: 1t will be re-
membered that year or more ago we
Photographed the loss OF a wedding ring by
| Mrs. w. V. Gray, Of this city. 1t was
supposed to have been swallowed by
| chicken. The singular manner in which
the priced jewel disappeared created
sensation and it went the rounds OF the
press throughout the Union. The other
| day the ring was discovered partially i'm
bedded in the soil of the yard. Although
! Mr.. Gray had had a duplicate Of the Origi-
! nal made in New York, the recovery of
the original was no less a joy to the happy
couple of LaGrange.
The Gate City Gas Light Company, OF
! Atlanta, has filed a bill in the Clerks Office
| of the Superior Court against Messrs.
! Hunnicutt & Bellingrath for $780, 900 DANA
| ges. This suit grew out Of the gas eXplo-
ston at the store Of John A. Barry, 112
Decatur street, two years ago, when a ne
! gro woman was killed and several persons
| injured. Suits for damages were brought
| against the gas company, and these have
| been settled, it costing the company sew
eral thousand dollars. The company now
enters suit against Hunnicutt IL Bellin-
| grath, who were working on the gas pipes
at the time Of the explosion.
Lieut.. T. A. Starr, or Starrsville, gal
! liant member Of the Forty-second Georgia,
! has an interesting souvenir OF the siege of
| Vicksburg. 1t is a copy Of the Vicksburg
| Daily Citizen, June IL, 1868, printed on
! the blank side OF sheet of wall paper.
| Although little, the Citizen in those days
was lively journal. 1t was seventeen
| by twelve inches in size, with only two
columns to the page, but it keptup with the