The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-10

! the spring and summer months until last
year. IL had grown u be very large fish.
4 short time after it was seen last, lac
water was drawn from the wei, bat 30 fish
could be seen. We don't know how cid I o
fish Was when put in the well, but he re-
NAMED there thirty-oue years, and what
! became Of him. and how be SO mysterlOusiy
disappeared Is a qu stion.n
A. J. Thompson Of English Eddies re
Gently had some $500 stolen from him, all
Of which he recovered A few days ago he
! went 10 Brunswick with SIX drafts amount
ing in value 70 $500. Lott 4 Love casaed
the drafts for h.n, and then 80 boIg-t a
DILL Of goods amounting 10 800. The Re
manning $500 he stored away in ais pockets
and boarded a steamer for home. As he
nearef his residence he missed his money
and at once had scare Of the boat hands
m-ds. The money was found Oh ono Of
| them, but he was not arrested, Mr.. IbOmp-
son being too glad to recover his money.
At Fort Gaines Monday night some party
or parties broke open window in the rear
| end Of Gus He-tL's dry goods house, and
! made a heavy raid on his goods. The loss,
as close as it Is possible u estimate 1t, will
reach $3.50 or $40J. The burglars were
| pretty good judges Of merchandise, as they
| to k only tie very best In the shoe de-
partment they secured twenty-five pairs Of
the finest make, leaving the cheaper v4rie
ties untouched. Most of the goods and two
OF the negroes Implicated were captured
| the next day across the river, and posse
at last accounts was IN pursuit of third.
In the Senate at Atlanta Thursday 9
| bill to incorporate the OSeefiuokee Land
and Drainage Company AID TO sell the
! swamp for ~ cents IN acre came mp for
| third reading, AMI on motion Of Senator
! Hall was maize TIE special order for next
| Wednesday. Representative Hail, of the
| House, NJ. Lindormau, the agent OF Mar
| shall T.. Philips, tue proposed purchaser,
! Senator Folks and J. J.. Sweat, If Way
! cross, are wIrklng for the bill Ike beavers
and succeeded Ia getting a favorable ma
| lOfity report Of the committee on internal
Improvement, tn 1ugd tho minority wore so
! strongly opposed to the sale that they
| brought in a separate report.
Wmkor'5 chaPa. Is country church, about
| live miles over the Ocouee river from Mil
| ieigevlile, where tbs country negroes from
large territory gather. Wednesday
night an old fractional quarrel
was renewed. Henry Samples and Sam
! Reeves, two Of the leaders, took very
prominent part. IL seems that Samples got
The advantage of Reeves in fsticuf that
| ensued il the c urch, but its winding uD on
| the outside Of the church was decidedly in
| Reeves favor. He went home as soon as
released 10y Samples and got his shotgun and
| returned to the church where he emptied
heavy nd of lead into Samples stomach.
lie VIII die Reeves is under arrest.
Deputy Marshal W. n. Mcdonald arrived
at Atlanta thursday, bringing Tom Sosbee,
| noted Illicit whisky sIil3r, whom he cap
| tured last Wednesday in Iab5rsham count :,
after a long chase. Two months ago
| Mcdonald learned that Slsbe3 was running
still, but every effort to learn its location
was fruitless. A day or two ago he saw
| S1sbee coming down TIE road toward him
| Whe he reached the waterfall he looked
about and seeing no one, plunged through
the water apparently iato tho side of the
| rock, Mcdonald realized that he had run his
game 20 earth, and after giving Sos bee time
to get vol at work, he too plunged through
| the waterfall He found himself in a care
! fully followed cave in which was every
convenience for making whisky.
"Twenty-two years ago." said Repre-
sentative Rankin, speaking to
group of legislators at Atlanta a
day or two ago, Il got Off the
Cars at Calhoun, Ga, without % cent in ny
| pockets-not Ole single celt. Ibid without
breakfast, because didn't have any money
aud wouldn't beg Before dinner, however,
l had become acquainted with one Of the
school trustees, aud he invited ma to dinner
and supper with him. | had applied to him
for the position as principal Of the school and
| they promised 1t to mo II | could show
references. II borrowed money and went
| back to South Carolina for my references.
Six months afterward | weat back to
So lth Carolina for my wife, borrowing the
money b bring her home. Right there |
| have been ever since ] cali nv self the
| pioneer tramp and tramp II yer comes to
Calhoun and asks ms for breakfast without
getting what i have aud us much as he
| wants.
TO reporter of the Albany Nelps an IL
n icon, l,i,
| uon of his appointment as collector of iu-
| ternal revenue as follows.
/ "On my retIrn from Washington, after
having received the appointment, | found
! that nay brother, who has charge of my
! farming interests, was sick in bed at my
| house and the farms very much ne5le ted.
| 1 Went out to one of my places and found
| three mules at work and eight in the stock
ade, with no one 10 look after nv iuteress
and general chaos pervadiag their manage
| nent also went to NV
! Whitehall plaza, ana found everything
| there in bal condition, aud with several
| thousand dollars invested in the crops for
! this year, and no one to look after them /
! decided at once not to accept the Office, but
! to give my attention to my intere Is here.
as they are worth more to me than any
| Office lie says that lie is not a candidate
| for any Office. When he first decided to
| decline the appointment he kept tho fact
| quiet, in order to give Walter johnson the
inside track for the position.
Certain cniored ctizsns of Brunswick
think Gov. Gordon ought to give his atten-
| ton to the negro woman who has been
claiming TO work miracles among the peo-
pie of her race in that city They say the
governor has sent a special commissioner
TO Liberty county to look into the false
Christ business, and that the same commits
| sloner, or another, might make it profit
able to the negroes of Brunswick by coming
there and investigating the doings of the
woman in question. The woman's name is
Sarah Holland. She has made Brunswick
| her headquarters several weeks and, it i,
claimed, is daily widening her influence
among the ignorant class OF blacks. Sac
claims to raise the dead, to give sight to the
blind, to make the dumb speak, the deaf TO
heaTa and the lame to walk. She claims to
work other miracles and to cure all manner
OF diseases. She breaches under a bush tent
across the East Tennessee, Virginia and
| Georgia railroad, in the woods, at night
and on Sundays. During the day she has
| around her crowd Of impotent folks. rub
bling them TO relieve their pains for which
she charges fee of 81 each She claims
that she was once the Virgin Mary, and
that she is overshadowed by The Holy Ghost.
Calhoun Times: The neighborhood of
| llllman Lauier, about three miles from
town. has been in a state of terror for tae
past two weeks, on account of the appear
| auCe of some wild baaSt yvbOea mia mint