The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-23
John wingfeld, of Washington. wilkes

as pen staff The snake has two distinct
heads, two mouths and four eyes. When
stirred up at the wash hole one head started
for a small boy, but the other head moved
TO reconsider and went back after another
boy. After a short scrimmage the snake
was captured and given a dose of alcohol.
He is now in a bottle of alcohol, upon which
be suhsists altogether.
The Taylor County Manufacturing Com
pany, which ships large quantities Of thread
daily, the Gordon syndicate and other i'm
provements, such as the Farmers Alliance
warehouse and guauo factory, will place
| Reynolds to the front as one Of the coming
towns. A new depot, vita all the Ia @ i'm
provements, will be built this summer 10
| accommodate the increasing trade of the
| town. Brick are there now for the improve
| nen5 II the artesian well. The town debt
| is small and tire bonds are at par The
schools and churches are prOspering and
every one is looking forward to an era Of
prosperity unknown ever before.
DIR, Hawthorne Of Atlanta will have a
| distinguished .uccesso.. 1t is DR.. Reuben
Jtfery of Brooklyn. The members of he
! First Baptist churcn have invited the Rev.
Reuben Jeifery TO become their pastor for
the ensuing three months, until the church
hiss had time to l1ok ar lund nth a great
deal of leisure ard make its selection of
permanent successor t. Dr.. Hawt horne.
Dr.. Jeifery has accepted and wi be with
the churca next week, AMI preach Sunday,
| March 81. IL is probable that he will at
| the nlihweek prayer meeting on March %.
| The church has taken n action regard "
a permanent successor to DR.. Haw hor re.
Brunswick Advertiser: So far about 200
sweet orange trees have bre1 reported 10
| us. Some Of them have been bearing for
| several years. Mr.. Charles g. Moore has
one that has been bearing for quite num-
Der # years. 1t was protected durio the
| freeze in 1885, and nas been bearing ever
| since. Mr. Howard Hi @ reports one tree
lie planted ON the place hs settled that has
| borne the past season nearly go elegant
| sweet oranges. These statistics, which are
| very meager, show that the sweet oranges
| will thrive in this section. Thousands are
raised on Butler Island, in tbs Attain tha,
fifteen miles above here, and numbers more
on st. Slmon'S Island.
s. T. Burkett, who has until ecently
| been running on the road as news agent for
| I. c. Parker, reported to Officers Jones and
Patterson at Macon Thursday that he had
| been robbed Wednesday night of $53, and
| that he could not find any traces of MS
room having been open by burglars After
| working on the case a OFT time Otiicsr
| Jones suspioned a room IN to Of the theft, a
young man named X. w. Fillyam, who
halls from Clifton and Americas, and who
is also a news butcher At 10 O'Clock
| Young FIllyam was arrested and locked up
! in the barracks, and at q later hour was
carried to Jail on warrant charging him
with simple larceny. Flllyam CLAIMS That
he Is innocent OF the charge.
At Reynolds, a joint stock company is
| being formed with the assistance of some
northern capitalists, t. utilize the swamp
timber in the manufacture of ak handles,
| siuglet ees hoe handles and other articles
used in the various trades. A large body
of land lying north Of the railroad Will be
purchased at once and be converted into a
stock and dairy farm. The cleared lands
will be planted in Bermuda grass for sum
mer pasturage, while the luxuria It
c,ne in the river swamp is ad mir
ably adapted for winter use. While
cattle are to be the main feature for the
present, hogs and other stock will be raisel.
A large fish pond Is to be built and Will be
stocked entirely with carp. Fruit trees,
suitable for shipping, will also be planted
Not less than twenty-five acres each will be
planted in muberries and wild goose plu MS
The mulbsrries and plums, with the unlim-
tied beech mast of the swamp, will be am
pie feed for large droves of hogs. B fore
the war the river planters raised their meat
entirely in the swamp on mast, but since
thea this has been neglected
About twelve years ago, when Judge
Pendleton was recorder of Atlanta, Bailiff
Mig Simpson was member of the police
force. One day Simpson was on duty at
the corner of Whitehall and Alabama
streets, when a white man came down
Whitehall street staggering from side to
side and yelling at the top of his voice. He
had every appearance of being drunk,
| and the patrolmaG C Haired him without
much ceremony. To tie surprise of the
officer, aid a number of people that had
seen the arrest, the prisoner had taken only
a few staggering steps when he suddenly
Strengthened up and began laughing,
erect. He was perfectly sober,
wel-dresssd and genteel Il appearance Tne
crown caught on and enjoyed the joke i'm :
| mensely. At the station houS9 the prise ler
put up s. 70 and was promptly relea ed.
| Next day when the case WAS called in court
the practical joker had no trouble in prov
ing that he was SOBER Even the patrolman
admit ed it. w ell, ;" said tho judge z ravely,
when man is real drunk--drunk sure
enough-and frightens ladies' | usually fl 10
him $40 rs; but they all say that this gen-
tleman was not druuk--n mo, sir, =" smiled
the defendant, 81 hadn't had a drop"
And" continued TIE judge, Gin this case
man can't help being boisterous, aud | am
very lenient with them. A sober man
ought to know better. Let the prisoner pay
a fine of $50 and costs"
DeKdlb Chronicle: Uncls Joe Walker
says that he Is 50 years old, and has not
tasted coffee i'll saventy-five years, nor =
oacco in seventy years. nor any intoxi-
eating liquors in fifty years He does not,
however, attribute his total abstinence
from coffee and tobacco to his own good
management, but TO the management of
bis parents, aud tells us the following
story of bow no came not to use them. He
says that when lie was a boy ) years old
his mother had occasion to give him
dose of castor oil, n thin that is very com
mon for mothers to do NOWADAYS, aud that
she attempted to give it in coffee, and it
made him vomit most profusely, and he
became 30 disguised with coffee that he
has not tasted 1t since. AS to the tobacco,
he says that in his bJyho1i days fat
tobacco, it was usually called, was rarely
SEGA In this country, and every farmer
raised his own leaf, and his father, who
lived forty mile from Augusta and went
there twice year for supplies such as he
did pot raise on his farm on one occasion
carried him with him. aud knowing tn It
Joe was dear lover Of ginger Ike, when
he was through trading bought him one,
and when they had driven out OF town,
and struck camp for night, and while his
father was attending to stock. he called
him aud said: Joe, there is ginger
cake in my pocket that | bought for
you in town" He went 10 where the coat
was hanging, and in his eagerness to get
the cake didn't notice that il was In