The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-18

There is going to be war on Taylor street
at Americas when a resident of that
! fashionable thoroughfare makes q certain
! discovery pretty soon. A indy living up
! trait way set turkey hen on a dozen eggs
that she paid fancy price for some time
since. The irrcpressibe small boy who
/ lives on the next lot found the nest of
course, and, bad boy like, scared the old
/ hen OFF. and punching small hole in each
! END OF tho eggs, he "blew" the con-
| tents from every single one. TIE old hen,
| IN hliSStul ignorance Of the wrong done her.
| C ,ntl IueS to sit upon the empty shells, while
| visions OF a beautiful brood of young tur-
k VS. loom ~ before her. The owner knows
nothing of thu affair, and the little boys
mam ma is securing the country over III
search Of another setting of eggs with
which TO replace the ruined ones before the
storm bursts.
! Mi 5 Sophia Metzgal runs a dressmaking
esta, | slnent over the store Of j. NJ. High,
! at Atlanta. Wednesday morning she en-
tered her establishment, and, after remov-
| log her hat, laid down pocketbook, which
contained $40, on a table in the room
having occasion to use the money later on
she looked for it and it was gone She i'm
mediately announced her intention of
searching every young lady she had in her
employ, and proceeded TO put her threat
into execution. The following young ladies
were subjected to the indignity, each one
being taken separately into an adjoining
room, where the search was thorough:
Misses Lena Smith, Florence Shackelford
Mary Sloan, Minnie Gilmore, Fannie De-
loacn and Mrs. Hoke. The relatives Of the
young ladies', upon hearing of the matter,
became furious, and have caused the '-0ung
ladies' TO Institute SUIT against the dress
maker for assault and battery
j. NJ. Akin, in GAINESVILLE Gazette:
About twenty days ago dog came into
my lot and two or three Of my hogs were
bitten by him. Thursday last one of them
complained of being sick, by living about
and taking no food. Friday the hog would
take things in his mouth and shake them in
playful way, as they do some times on the
approach of cold weather. Later in the
day, however, the hog seemed to
get worse-so much so that l sepa-f
rated the hog from the other stock
Saturday morning on going out to look
after the hog, before l found him, Fcould
find small bushes torn in pieces. Following
that up, found the hog; when found he
was biting and shaking bushes, as he would
come to them, ! advanced on the hog, and
he moved off slowly from me. Not yet being
satisfied, confined the hog in close pen, to
await further development. This morning
Sunday it has developed into clear case
OF hydr1Phopia The hog grew weak very
lay down, aud try to bite something to the
last. He died about 10 o'clock
A Sparta special to the Macon Telegraph
says: Some weeks ago street fakir came
here and spent most of his time trying
to sell preparation of his own making on
the streets under the claim that il was q
marvelously good medicine, and was the
result of long study on his part during a
residence of seven years in the West and
four among the Indians The man calls
himself DR.. Blackwell. He found it expe-
dent TO leave our town either between suns
or Sin the shank Of the evening"" and
without paying hotel bill, leaving
board and barroom bills. Tuesday he
was taken of the cars here
and brought before His Honor Judge Little.
who fined the great medical discoverer $40
and costs. The doctor cried piteously,
and Judge Little relented 80 far as to re-
init all the fineibut 81, and others interested
gave up their part of the costs. SO the
world-renowned discoverer goes free
When the doctor" left town he left one of
his two valises in the hotel heavily loaded
with rock, which, it is presumed, contrib
uted to the shaving qualities at the hotel.
We hear the doctor" contemplates bring
ing suit against Mrs. Ferguson, of the
Edwards House, TO recover damages for his
arrest, ETC."