The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-13

! swim, the BIRDS t1AL ny, ana Ine NdTuiIuJS
that crawl and climb, mighty hunter and
an expert, said TO us a day or two ago, did
you ever eat a jaybirdF We said no VITA
| an emphasis "Well. my FRIEND" said
! Snipes. ''he is the best eating bird you ever
put in your mouth. cartridges and doves
/ amt nowhere compared to a jaybird nicely
| broiled.r Well. that put US to thinking
/ and we told Snipes when he had some jay
| birds fixed up, in his style, to call us in and
! let Us see him eat one, and then we would
! invite our stomach to consider the trial
! He promised to fix it up for US, and we will
| try it, if it kill US.
| Alex Newell, newsboy, who sells papers
/ in a bany, took a run up to Smithville, and
had a narrow escape. He was standing on
what he thought to be side track, unmind-
| full of any pending danger, when the Macon
train came IN. Several persons saw that
Alex had his back TO the approaching train
and called at him, but he thought they
were warning somebody else, and did not
move. A negro man finally ran to him
and reached him just as the train struck
him and knocked him down across the
track. The negro quickly caught him and
jerked him off the track. barely in time to
keep him from being run over. Alex real
lied that he had had a close call, and did the
square thing by the darkey by giving him
p cents
Griffin Neirs: O. H. Rogers, the ware
housenlau at the Senoia Alliance warehouse,
which burned down few days ago, arrived
in the city yeste DAY and is the guest of the
city hotel at the invitation of Policeman
Cunningham and by the instruction of the
marshal of Senoia. Mr.. Rogers is very
nice looking man, about 30 years old, and Is
only charged with forgery, though family
suspected of arson. He had some cotton
smuggled from the fire shipped to Griffin ON
Monday, although, unknown to him, it still
remains in Senoia, having been attached
heeore it got off, aud came here. yesterday
TO sell IT. IL is a coincidence worthy OF
some note that a warehouse in Forsyth with
which Mr.. Rogers was connected burned
down some years ago.
DR.. H. II. Cary of LaGrange sent to the
state fair at Macon the oldest gourd to be
found in Georgia, which eau be better de-
scribed by the following brief history, which
was attached to the ancient relic: This
trophy of the colonial days was grown in
the state Of Virginia about the year 1154,
by Ephraim Cox. At his death it was
given TO his son. David Cox, who was born
In 1772 At the death Of David Cox it was
given by him as a keepsake to his stepSon,
Z. ID. Pitman. in whose possession 1T has
been from 1S49 until the present time. 1t
was used by the original owner as powder
gourd, aud held powder during the revolu-
tionary war. 1t is about 1874 years oid.n
Attached to the history Of the gourd, II. Z.
Cary had an old continental bill Of the de-
nomination of $35.
Jabe Lucas, hackman of Macon, who
claims that he was shot by an unknown
man on Saturday night, was getting along
very well Sunday, and it is the opinion OF
the physicians that he will get well. He
claims that he was engaged on Cherry
street bv man who was on the sidewalk.
When near the corner of Fourth the hack
stopped and the man jumped out and asked
Lucas what his charge would be. The
reply was IS cents The stranger then be-
gan cursing, the hackman claims, aid
finally shot him in the mouth, the ball
lodging in the back part Of his head. There
is considerable speculation as to the shoot
ing. The police think it rather singular
that man should jump into hack and
ride that distance and then get out and talk
TO him without the driver being able to
identify him. A theory is that possibly
the man had grudge against Lucas and
decoyed him on back street to shoot him.
Others think that possibly he shot himself
accidentally.
When prisoners in jail at Macon quarrel
the jailor allows them to settle their differ
ences with fists in the corridor. George
Hook aud win Smith had 'spute and were
about 10 break buckets over each others
head, when Jailer Birdsong appeared on the
scene. The prisoners wanted the two men
TO settle the matter. The jailer took the
view that unless they settled it with fists
they might fight with buckets, brooms, etc,
and thus destrOp the county property, and
he therefore gave permission to fight it out,
provided no other weapon was used than
those furnished by nature. The
negroes then squared themselves
and went into the fight seriously. Then the
friends of both combatants rallied, until
there were six on a side As fast as one
person was knocked down others took his
place, and for few minutes there was
some pretty tall knocking about. 'Hit
him in the snoot, +" don't you let him lick
you" and other similar expressions were
uttered, and finally there was such a clinch-
ing and gouging and knocking down that
the jailer threatened to string them all up
by the thumbs if the noise was not stopped
at once The combatants finally shook
hands and the quietness of the Jail was again
resumed.