The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12

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the cash boys as well as the factory chill
dren.
Ben and Bob Burd. two boys Of Far
borough, Camden county, had terrible
! light with q rattlesuaEe the other
day. One Of the boys thre a plank on the
| snake, but it rapidly liberated itself and
I went for its antagonists. Oae OF the boys
! tried TO PICK up the plank, but the snake
/ sprang at him and he got out II danger.
The other boy attempted to pick up the
| plank at its other end, but the snake Sprang
at him and succe ssfully guarded tle plank
| for fifteen minutes Finally an ak was
i procured and the reptile chopped to pieces.
! Old Uncle Ed Hines, an aged negro man
/ who runs grocery store at l49 West Pc
| tors street, Atlanta. dropped dead Satur-
| day. Some chickens got out Of coop in
/ front of the oil mans store. He started
| two Of his boys after the chickens, but one
of them refused 10 60. THIS argered the
] old man. and ne started after the boy %
whip him. Tho boy OWNED tho old mans
purpose and ran, with his father after him.
| lhe chase lasted for several blocks, but
when the old man reached the corner of
| Thompson and Brotherton streets he tot
tered and fell 10 the sidewalk. 4 few min
utes later he was dead.
A negro man named John Richardson,
who lives on the land Of Mrs. Biuns, near
day night by an unknown party, or parties
About midnight he was called TO his door,
and without any other warning he pro-
ceeded 20 receive the bullets which were
directed at him . He will recover. The
occasion for the shooting is a mystery, and
it is not known whether those who did it
are black or white. Tne negro seems to be
a bad one, and it is said tnat one day last
week he made. il a rude manner, some
white lad es give him the entire road, and
acted other wise insultngly toward them.
Vienna Findic1tOr: Mrs. J. E. G. Var
nedOe was in her kitchen cooking dinner a
few days ago, when one of her old hens
came into the room where she was and
after making few monkey motions, such
As would convince anyone that she was
crazy, the old hen laid an egg that was
fully as large as goose egg. Mrs. Varne-
doe decided as she was frying eggs for
dinner that she would cook this one. Upon
breaking the egg common white aud yell
low run out into the pan and there was
still another egg there. This one was
broken and found to be just like any other
egg. After these two eggs had been placed
in the pan, Mrs. Varnedoe could see no diff
ference between them and the others that
she was cooking.
Baker Bros. Of Gambler have invented a
novel way of catching owls u night hawks.
AHSf ia - Scy up u iOIls lJlb ueuT Lue lDWl
house The pole is about 10 feet high,
with the top end sawed off smooth, and a
little steel trap, such as is used for catching
salamanders, Is set on top of the post, fast
ened by string to the post below Notches
are cut in the post by which it is easy to
climb. On moonlight night the owls
when they are around are likely to
light on something near the fowl house.
The other night an owl was heard not far
off, and thinking that he would be likely
20 come for chicken during tho night, the
brothers went out after supper and set the
trap on top of the pole. Before they went
TO bed the family heard lutterinG in that
direction, and going out found that they
had trapped an owl that measured feet
D inches from tip TO tip.
Tax Receiver Hollingsworth of Richmond
county has just completed his digest Of
taxable property, and despite the low re-
turns-many property holders declaring a
depreciation of % per cent. and more in
vauation-the digest shows a difference of
only SlS,710 from last years figures. In
recognition of the heavy losses sustained by
the planters, the assessors have been lenient
in assessing tho valuable farming lands
along the river bottoms, and the aggregate
value of land shows decrease of $3.50.
while on the other hand despite heavy
Losses in the city, the value of city and town
property III the county shows an increase of
S3l, $40. The value Of bank stock shows
decrease of $4,000, stocks and bonds
$50, 30, and money and solvent debts
Sl32, 40. Cotton manufacturing shows an
increase of $1, 800, household and kitchen
furniture $23 $50, and other property not
enumerated S52,22O.
Lewis Butler, the Old negro who wal ked
from Dooiy county to get seat in the legis-
lature, Is political crank. He is very Ig-
uOrant and has bean Tarsua6 Had for a ,,u,,,
Der of years that his county was piuing to
have him take e seat among the lawmakers.
When hs appeared at the capitol Yesterday
he carried cheap black vaiS3 broken in
at either end, and his shoes, which were cut
open down the front, had his pants stuffed
into taem at the top. After being refused
admittance to the House, ne am lied down
stairs and asked to see President Harrison.
he was told that the President was not in
Atlanta. He persisted that he must
be, and showed telegram from
him asking him to come to Atlanta.
He was finally referred to Capt Tip
Harrison, who advised him to return to his
cotton patch. The old man took this ad-
vice and left In 1880 Lewis Butler ran
for the legislature in W orth county against
Joe NJ. Sumner, receiving one vote, cast by
himself. Lewis remlined at home during
the winter session, but when the summer
session convened ne was persuaded that it
was his time to take tho seat and came to
Atlanta for that purpose, but was I'M
tremendously hustled from the House. In
1882 he again entered the political field in
Worth county against Billy Ford The old
man received his own vote, aud when the
summer time came tramped to Atlanta,
over 2OO miles, to serve his half of the
session. He moved over into Dooly county,
ran against Mr.. Collier, received the Same
old Lewis Butler vote, but remained at
home until he received the telegram from
Harrison. Lewis says he is done with
politics.