The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-15

selling Messrs P. C. Clegg & Co.'S stock OF
goods MIR Subers owns a beautiful gutta
percha belt sent him by Henry NJ: STANLEY,
who is now in Africa, and which was oo-
tanned by him from native chief on the
Gorge river. The belt was beautifully
bound with silver, with gold clasp, ana
was suitably engraved in Paris and sent TO
Mr.. Subers after Mr.. Stanley had read MS
| famous snake story In the New ioih
Herald 1t is known as the worlds cham
pionship belt, and Mr.. Subers wears 1t as
gracefully as he would an electric Deli VI
| liver pad.
The last will and testament, with codlclls,
| of Josiah Sibley has been filed with Ordl-
nary A. r. Walton of Richmond county.
Mr.. Sibley leaves his large estate to be
| divided equally between his wife, MS
children and his grandchildren. The fol
lowing are the heirs: Mrs. Josiah Sloiey,
w. &. S.bley, r. p. Sibley, George h
Sibley's two children, Amory 81 ley, Mrs'
Mrs. Smedes, Miss Josephine Sibley, Mrs
A. S. j. Gardner, John Sibley and Jim
| Sibey The will covers twenty-seven pages
of manuscript, closely written. The fol-
| lowing are the executors: w. c. SiUley, Il.
z. Sibley, j. A. Siblev, j. L. Sibley. The
estate, it is thought, will foot up about
! S450.000
| Deputy SlerlH w llllHUlo u SdIOSiSF
| is a careful jailer, but his boarders came
near escaping last Monday by burning out,
| after failure TO agree on numbering their
| keeper, The plot was disclosed to the dep
uty by one of the prisoners. Mr.. Williams
then locked them in different cells, and
began an invest CATION. lie soon dlscov-
cred hole through the ceiling, which IS II
feet from the floor. They had burned
through the two-nch ceiling and mostly
through some four inch timber, and an
hours work more would have let them out.
The burning was done with three iron
weights which the prisoners b ld taken from
the windows. Carriers lille is on the div.d-
ing line between the limestone and fire. stone
belts. While the town has limestone water.
of different degrees of strength, 1t also has
the purest freeStone water
The L uisville correspondent of the
NEWS wrote as follows Dec 10: The farm
ers are rapidly closing out the cotton crop
of this year. Complaint is general as re-
CARDS short crop, but it is said by many
that there is a great deal of cotton in the
fields to be gathered. The corn crop is
about half of an average. Potatoes and
peas are very poor Notwith landing the
floods and poor crops, the Louisville and
Wadley railroad, under the management of
]. c. Little, is booming. 1t seemed for
while that everything was against it, but
with that "a headedness that is peculiar
to it's president, all thing, have been righted,
| and, more added, they will soon roll out
| from their extensive car shops most mag
nificent passenger cuach. G. Fl. Harrell
has recently sold out his carriage aid buggy
business to Brown 81 Co. Mr.. Harrell will
give attention to collecting and his planting
| interest Jimmie Polhill, son of Capt j. III.
| Polhill, is ONE on vacation. Mrs. John
FRYER of Hepzibah is visiting her father
Col. James Cam.
The Miaco company, after its dismal
failure at Macon of the night previous, left
for Americas early Thursday NORMA g,
| fourteen in number. The manager of the
troupe, it seems, is a female, or at leasJ
there is a female who carries the money
bags of the concern. Although clever in
many things, she sometimes makes some
| blunders in financial affairs. Such was the
case when she purchased tickets for
fourteen to Americas. The rule of the
road is that where compa lies of fifteen are
| carried on one ticket, or in one body, rate
of 21l cents per mile is given, but when
there are less than fifteen the rate is 219
cents per mile. This the little woman could
not unders aud, although cautioned by
members of the troupe. She insisted on
| buving tickets tor fourteen, when, had she
bought one ticket for the fifteen persons,
she would have saved 81 by the operation.
| Reaching the car, she Immediately went to
|
pulled out of the depot she was seen to wave
her hand at Ticket Agent Hoge, vowing
| eternal vengeance upon his head.
The visitor to Talbotton is pointed out
| the store where Leonidas Strauss, the mill
ionaire crockery dealer of New York, began
his business career. Long before the war,
Strauss drove into Tai oJton in a rickety
two-horse wagon containing some goods
and all his worldly possessions. He applied
to Barney Curley to rent little store, the
only vacant one in the place. And so un-
progressing was Strauss and his outfit
that Barney only relelted by prepayment
of one months rent. But Strauss pros
pered and sent his children to school. In
1861 he moved to Columbus. He specu
lated in cotton, and at the close OF
the war he left for New York with nearly
$1,000 He engaged in the fancy crockery
business, dealt & only in special importa-
tons. He is now worth 81, 000, 900 aud live
in princely style. Mr.. Cleveland appointed
his son Oscar, a lawyer, minister to Turkey
Mr.. Strauss had some of his beautiful
crockeryware on exhibition at Columbus
Barney Curley does business IN the same
little store rented to L. Strauss, lives mod
estlv, nor has he allowed time nor circum
stances, nor events to jostle him out of thu
even tenor of his way.
Joshua Capers, gingercake- coloreC
negro about 35 years old, Is lying on a small
couch in q little tenement house near th'
: colored church in New Town, suburb o.
Brunswick He is suffering great torture
from three gun shot wounds made witt
buckshot, one in the shoulder, one acros
the scalp and one that entered about on
inch below the left eye and one inch from
the nose. The latter is causing most of the
pain, and may produce death. Caper
lives near the twenty-one mile post on thu
] East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road
| About three miles from his house lives Jacl
( Andrews, another negro. Both men ar,
= raft hands on the Altamaha river, and hav
3 known each other for years. Some week
: ago he tiei up some logs to public landing
!, | and Andrews claimed them, saying they
S were stolen. He claimed they were taken b.
S mistake, and willingly gave them up to tn
rightful owner Bad feeling was engen Tered
however. Wednesday afternoon Ca er
5 sta ted to cross the river from work, pad
/ ding his way in batteau. Whensnear til
bank he observed Andrews and his so
r John standing in q clump OF palmettoes
4 Suddenly A adrews raised the gun, and be
' fore he knew what had happened almost
1 heard the report, felt the sting and wa
covered with blood. The shot for an instan
q stunned HIM, and losing his balance, b
nearly toppled into the water. He r.
/, covered sufficiently to paddle TO shore an
y crept TO the house of friend Andrew
, when the shot was fired, dropped his weapo
, and disappeared in the woods.