The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-11

such place to work. l know that no
| Spring Hitler ever goes anywhere to work,
and firmly believe that the reason differ
| enG PEI sons are missing from this colony is
! that they have succumbed to the peculiar
| ideas of humor that Prevail there-proba-
bly, a joke in the form of little too heavy
load of shot, a too merry quip in the shape
! OF particularly venomous copperhead, or
an overdose of POPULARITY administered by a
whack of club that even Spring Hill skulls
! was not proof against.
The merry humor Of the Spring Hitler
is well illustrated by an incident that oc-
Cured not long ago. A resident of Lam
caster City, on his way to another part of
Little Britain, took the road over Spring
Hill. He was riding on bicycle. At Old
| Mang's blacksmith's shop he was surrounded
| by several big Spring Killers, who ex-
amlned his machine curiously. They then
| wanted to try a ride on the wheel,
! but the owner of the machine refused
to let any of them try the expert
ment, and, much to his surprise, sue
ceeded in getting away without having any
trouble. But the Spring Killers were de-
termlned to ride some kind of a bicycle, so
they appropriated wagon wheel at Old
Mang'S, and succeeded in rigging to it the
wheel OIL of a wheelbarrow, making rude
imitation of the machine they had seen.
They took their wheel to the top of the hill
falls and hard tumbles, half dozen of
them were able TO keep it balanced, and
one after another mounted it and whiz-
zed down the hill like the wind. This wild
sport was a novelty at Spring Hill,
and for several days Old Mang was left in
peace and there were no broken heads ex-
cept those that were obtained IN mastering
and riding the Spring Hill bicycle. The
sport became little tame for one merry
Spring Hitler, and one day he made up his
mind there were great possibilities in the
wheel that he would develop. He stationed
himself half way down the hill, which is a
steep one. A brother of his mounted the
machine at the top, and was flying along
twenty miles an hour when he came to where
his Jocose kinslnan was standing. Quick
as flash the latter threw a stick Of wood
foot through in front of the flying wheel.
The wheel struck it. The joker's brother
kept right on, landed on pile of stones q
rod ahead and lay there. The joker's loud
shouts of merriment brought others down
the hill to the scene, and the collective glee
was great. When the hilarity had spent
itself they picked the senseless bicyclist up
and carried him home. | have never been
over there since this joke was played, but |
have heard that the joker's brother never
got over it, his skull having been crushed.
There is only one man in the township
that these Spring Killers fear, and that is
Old Man Hickman, who keeps the only tav-
ern there is in the township, and that is five
miles away, at Oak Hill Hickman is q
big six-footer No man, no matter who he
is, can have two drinks at his bar in sue
cession. If Spring Hitler goes into his
place and attemOts to make the least bit
free, Old Man Hickman throws him out
without ceremony or tenderness. The
Spring Killers have great respect for Old
Man Hickman.
Lint Drake is one of the cutest of all
the colony. He is great trapper. Skunks
are his speciality. One season black skunk
skins were worth 81 apiece. Striped ones
were only bringing 40 cents Lint colored
all the white out of his striped skins with
ink and sold them to Jerry Swisher a near
sighted buyer, for prime blacks. Lint dis
posed of over 100 of the bogus skins to Jerry,
who didn't discover the fraud until the ink
washed out
Sam Cruikshank, the assassin of Farmer
Montgomery, now in Lancaster jail having
been captured down in the MARYLAND Bar
rens, is one of the most desperate of the
Spring Hill gang. He was in the habit of
wearing two large reviewers and big dirk
conspicuously displayed in his belt. He is
not native aaS t. the manor born, how
ever, having come among the Spring Killers
only few years ago. He boasts that he
was a member Of the Jesse James gang.
and participated in all of the desperate and
bloody exploits of that band of outlaws