The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-13

laugh. The fist one dropped his nickel
wht re 1t would start the machine, and a e
certained his weight, but before steppi e off
the platform his friend stepped on. lie
found out his worth in avoirdupois, and the
! third of the economical trio stepped on
And there you are. Ten cents saved, and
the machine knew nothing about it.
The other day there arrived in Macon,
fir m a town in Florida, a photograph adj
dressed to a young man in Macon. 1t was
/ in an unsealed envelope, ard was evidently
the picture of some young lady who had
sent it to her Macon sweetheart 1t had
passed through a fumigating station, and
it seemed as though the funigator had taken
deliberate aim with his pun h at the eyes,
for both of them were punched out, and
their Soufulness was pushed through to the
( back of the head. The nose had been
skewed around to one side, and the nostrils
had been so enlarged that they looked like
caverns. There was row OF holes across
! the mouth that gave the girl double hare
/ lip, and the entire countenance looked like
a cribbage board.
/ George w Howard of Sloan has another
relic Of the aboriginss in the shape of a
sh1rp-poi ted hammer made of rock. 1t is
about So inches long and in the thckest
part ! inch through, gradually tapering
ei her way to a point. 1t is made Of hard
granite, and TIE most remarkable thing
about it is that it has a hole bored or drilled
through the center, evidently where the
handle went in. This hole is perfectly
made, being larger at one end than at the
other As the Indians had no implements
of steel or iron the mystery is, how was this
hole drilled so perfectly! II seems utterly
imp ssible to have accomplished the work
with another rock without shattering both
to pieces. The hammer, or whatever it is,
was found by Mr.. Howard in Warren
county.
w. r. Graham, who lives near Erin, some
time ago hired a negro by the name of Sol
Williamson to work for him. A few days
ago Mr. Graham reprimanded the negro for
not attending to his work promptly. The
negro became very much insulted, and left
swearing to avenge himself upon Graham.
He returned Wednesday afternoon and
went to Graham's gin house, where Ora
hams son was at work, and tod the boy no
was going to kill his father The son inn
mediately left and tod his father, who was
at work in the field near by. Before he
reached him. however, the negro attempted
to catch him. The boy drew his pistol and
called to his father and they both ran to-
ward the house. The negro drew his pistol
and fired four shots at them, none of which
took effect. The fire was returned by the
boy, and one shot struck the negro in the
hand. He escaped, and it was supposed
went to Griffin.
There is a fne-looking. well-dressed man
in the custody of the police at Brunswick,
whom nobody seems to know anything
about. His name is George Jenkins, and
he has on his person papers showing him to
be civil engineer, from New Bedford,
Conn. Thursday he boarded a street car
and told the driver to take him TO Central
park He kept his seat and continued TO
ride around the city, paying his fare every
time called upon. He kept this up nearly
all day, until he had paid out every cent,
and when the driver told him to
get off, he talked rather wildly about
vessel that he said was down on the beach,
and that he wanted to bring up into the
middle Of the city where he would anchor
it, ard live He said if they would just
take him to Central park that it would be
all right that he would get off. This talk
frightened the driver, who concluded that
he was an escaped lunatic. or something of
the kind, and, calling policeman, had the
man arrested. Officer Horton took the
man into custody, and sent for DR.. o. w.
Tucker, who, on examination, said
the man was either crazy or was recovering
from long drunk.