The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-28

! plowed field, and at each bound seemed to
sink into the moist earth. Finally good
ground was reached, and he was soon lost
/ IN the old corn stalks. Those who were in
/ the field and saw him bound away, meas
| ured the length of the jumps he made on
| the plowcd ground where it had been bedded
/ Tor corn, and found them 10 be 9 feet, while
| on the hard ground the length was II feet.
A regular system of stealing has been
! gong on on the Albany division OF the
| Savannah, Florida and Western railway for
| some time past. and a few weeks ago two
negroes were caught burglarHng a car in
| the yard Of that road in Albany. Last
/ Thursday night as the freight tram from
! brownsville was Oh its way o Albany, En-
! gineer $. A. Lloyd saw two men break open
n car while the train was stopped at Camilla,
| and as tn. train pulled out he saw them en-
| ter tie car Their evident intention was TO
/ throw OH such freight Of value as they
could find, and afterward 60 back and pick
! il up. After proceeding some distance
! from the station the engineer stopped his
! train and ran back to the car to capture
| the burglars, but they both made their es-
cape lie got hold OF one of them, but he
was powerful fellow and freed himself
| from the engineers grasp. 1t is thought
that both the burglars were white men.
| w. II. Armistead, purporting to be a
minister, has been the subject of much com
ment at Miledgeville because of some
startling propositions made by HIM. He
was first thought TO be an evangelist, ana
under that impression Rev. j. r. King ten
dered him the use of the Methodist church
for a series of services. He preached sun
day night at the Methodist church. Ga
Monday however, discovering that
his guest was a ContrOversiOnalist IN
stead of a rcvivalist, and proposed to
prove that if John the Baptist was
baptized 10y immersion, he was a perjurer,
and if Curlst was immersed he was an i'm
poster, Rev. Mr. King refused him the use
of his church. Armistead then rented the
opera house and gave "a lecture Monday
night to an audience of eight, and Tuesday
night to an audience Of six. He spoke two
hours both nights, the sizes of his audiences
having but little effect on the length Of MS
discourse or the volume of his voice.
Baxley Banner: BARLEY, GA, Feb. II,
lSSS-Gents / am Sorry TO Say that a mer-
chant in our town has failed in Business
and is due you some and if you will come
at once you can save yourself Your
FRIEND. The above is an exact copy of
letter that was sent to Lppman Bros. of
Savannah, Ga, some time during the frat
of this week. There were also similar let
ters of the same date, and worded 50 as to
mean the SAM, sent TO several wholesale
houses Of Savannah, Macon and BrunswicK.
Who the parties are that wrote these let
ters seems to be n mystery The writing is
in a good legible hand, and what such per
son can mean in writing such letters no one
can understand. There is not a business
house in the town that is in any way en-
barrassed, and whether it was written to
put the wholesale houses to trouble and
expense in looking after it, or whether it
was done to cast a reflection on our mer-
chants no one knows But one thing is
certain, if they are caught with evidence
enough to convict, it will be some time
before they are allowed that privilege
again
A L. Ellison, of Milledgeville, has in
vented a continuance for the prevention of
railroad collisions. Regular railroad flags
are placed at distances of a mile apart, or
whatever distance is desired. These flags
are placed Oh the edge of the track so as to
be out of the way of trains in passing. A
mile down the track will be what is called
flag raiser. 1t is simple
contrlyance placed about the end Of
crosstie. 1t is about three feet
in length and foot abroad. 1t stands in
al upright position, but can work back
wards or forwards on a bolt through the
center. To the lower end is fastened a
cable wire that runs over friction rollers up
the side track to the flag ahead The cable
wire is attached to the flag at the top. A
heavy lever fastened on to The engine, is
extended downward and backward, and is
placed in such position SO as to strike
the upper portion of the piece
called the flag raiser," as the
train passes over it, The lever
presses the top of the flag raiser down in
the direction the train is moving. OF course,
since the cable wire is fastended to the bot
tom of this piece, as the top is pushed down
in front the wire is pulled backward This
raises the flag from a horizontal TO a verti
cal position a mile ahead When the train
reaches the upright flag, the same lever on
the engine presses the flag down just in the
same manner that it did the flag raiser; this
in turn brings the flag raiser from the YER
teal posit. the train left it in, to an up
right position. Both flag raiser and flag are
then ready TO make the signal for the next
train passing The contrivance is placed on
both sides of the track. One train throws
up the signals on one side, and the other
throws up a signal on the other.