Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-27


been peace able citizen. Both, however,
were at that time much under the infiu-
ence OF that great enemy OF the public
peace.
Sunday Aft Coleman, a negro living on
NJ. l. Gaissert's place, attended the mar
| rage OF Miss MollIe Gaissert and George
MOCK at the Catholic Church at Albany.
| All mad never been to a Catholic Church
1 before, and as he wenti in and came out he
noticed that the people went TO little
| basin, dipped their fingers in LIQUID that
IL contained and touched it to their faces.
! IL was nothing more nor less than the
usual molly water font performance OF the
islthful Catholics, but All took it into his
mead that the little holy basin con-
tanned cologne, and that the people
were amounting themselves with the
sweet smelling liquid on this wedding &C.
caslon; 80, when ne started to leave the
church, he loitered behind the crowd in
the Vestlbule and sought an opportunity
to dip his fingers into what he supposed
10 De basin OF cologne. When he had
oaptlsed the tips of his fingers he stuck
| tnem 10 his nose, expecting to smell some
thing sweet, but he was greatly disap-
pointed. He told the joke on himself the
next day, and after he found out what
good one 1t was he couldn't keep from
Laughing over it at mis- own expense.
The colored fair has filled Athens with
sWIndlers, and eight came in last Tues
day night. They did not lind the fair as
| big thing as they expected, and 80
turned their hands at other jobs. The
police kept them in sight, but this did not
prevent these sharpers from putting In a
lew licks. Wednesday morning one OF
! these fellows entered a store and asked
for DOC. worth OF goods, rendering u SO
bill for change. Five dollars in paper
and 81 90 in SILVER were returned. The
| fellow fingered at the door until
another party came in and handed
So to have changed. The sharper then
stepped up and stated that he had no use
Tor his change, and would like TO have u
bill for it, at the same time placing the
III 90 given him and SOC. taken from his
vest pocket on the counter. A So bill was
handed over. Tue stranger then raked
this money together, and, pushing 1t over,
| asked for the SO bill that ne had just had
| changed. Without thinking it was passed
| over. The fellow at once seized the money
and disappeared. In a few seconds the
party VlctlmiZed discovered the fact that
the So bill belonging 10 the store had been
carried away, and the police were at once
notified, but the thief had made good his
escape.
time to kill Webb Findley. On that even
ing Woody WAS travelling the road near
the church with wagon and yoke Of
oxen and jug OF brandy, and was intoxi-
Gated. lie ascertained that Findley was
ahead OF him, going toward the church.
lie hurried up, reached the church during
services. and went in, finding Findley
there. A bad state of feeling had for some
time existed between these parties. When
the congregation was dismissed and in
the yard OF the church a difficulty
sprang up between Woody and
Findley. and both drew their wea.
pons, Findley thirty-two cartridge
aud Woody large cap and ball Colts
navy. The shots were almost smu!ta-
neous, but it is said that the report OF
Woody's pistol was heard first. Kimsey,
the deceased, was between them. or
nearly so, and failed to get out Of the way
IN time, and was mortally wounded in
the body, the bail passing through. The
cOmbatants uDloaded their pistols at each
other. Findley was not hit, but Woody
was struck in the right hand and in the
shoulder. In probing the wound on
Kimsey tho patching OF the ball was
found. such as is used in loading cap and
ball pistols, which indicates that Woody
shot him.
At Augusta at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning tenement house, on Ellis street,
near Crawford avenue was entire
eHa
There is but little doubt, from what was
discovered, but that incendlarIes
, were at work, and that Charlie Loo
Chang was the object of the cewardly
incendiarIes. A gentleman living across
the street reached the scene in time 10 see
where kerosene had been poured all along
the northwest corner OF the piazza, and
coal, with kerosene poured over 1t, piled
under the corner of the building. The
flame, he says, followed the kerosene, and
it was with much difficulty that the well.
TODD colored people who lived there were
able to remove any of their furniture or
wares. In less than thirty minutes
the entire building had been consumed.
Charlie Loo Chang, the Chinaman
OF dynamite fame, whom some one at
tempted to blow into perdition n
few Sunday nights ago, was supposed to
have been living in the house that was de-
stroyed, from the fact that the mother
sister and brother OF the woman he mar
ried resided there. Shortly after the dyna-
mite explosion the celestiaps wife had
moved her furniture there and placed il IN
a room where the fire originated last night
Neither the Chinaman nor his wife, how
ever, were there, and for a second time
some low villains have been ioiled in their
attempt to rid themselves of the almond-
eyed inhabitant. The property is valued
at $1,000 and insured for about two-thirds
of the amount. A large portion of the
furniture was also destroyed, and Ed
Hughes (colored) states that he lost $235,
which ne had In a trunk in his house.