The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-03

W. fAoil fLtI f1uludY kIiSs NUio STAINING
| outside the Kimball house at Atlanta, when
a large roach wriggled out Of a crack and
perambulated across the sidewalk. One OF
/ the young men, who IS known to be far
from a total abstainer, noticed the insect
and called his companions attention TO 1t.
| All looked where he pointed and then looked
at their friend in an inqulrlng way, and
| denied that they saw anything at all. A
| frightened look came over the youths face.
| He looked dOubtfully at the roach for
| minute and then turned his back on 1t and
! said; ''Of course you couldn't see 1t; how
| could you when there was no roach there.
was only joking" But he continued TO
look fearfully over his shoulder until the
parry broke up, Then be went straight home,
sslt fdra docuor and swore never TO take
another drink.
Dawson %fuqs: Strangers in the city last
| Friday we're surprised to see so many jugs
being hauled through the streets of the city.
| They were naturally under the impression
| that they were the product of one of Daw-
sons big manufacturing enterprises. While
not made here, these jugs were to be used
by one Of DawsOu's enterprising citizens.
| They were sent here to be filed by Frank
| Bethune, but for whom'is nObOdy'5 business.
| Mr.. Bethune will send some Of these jugs
TO Shelman, some to Cuthbert and some to
| other places. He has been prevailed upon
10 use few of them here at home, but as
the supply of "bug juice" is equal to the
demand here he will mostly use bottles in
this immediate vicinity. In Cuthbert and
| Snellman 1t Is different, The supply Is not
equal to the demand, hence the jugs. The
| jugs, it is calculated, will hold 5000 gallons
| of whisky, and $4,000 DRINKS for an ordin-
| airy man. This tends to show that Daw-
| sons Importance as a distributing point is
recognized throughout large section Of
! Georgia, especially the dry" section.
Col, Whitlock, the veteran hotel keeper
at Marietta, tells the folio wing story, and
| there are few batter story telers in
| Georgia than Col Whitlock: "It.Was many
| years ago, and one of our leading mer-
chants was Dutchman, a quarrelsome old
1 Yellow, who loved his beer better than his
| nelghbOrs. One day couutryman brought
| two wagon loads of loose shingles IN town
and offered them for sale. A young man
named Winters, good-hearUed fellow, who
| loved his joke, bought the shingles and
| ordered the cOuntryman to throw them off
into the Dutchman's store AN old fellow
in the store Will get mad aud try to stop
you,' said Winters to the countryman, but
| don't you mind him; he is my clerk, and
| can't understand English Sc the country
| mon drove around to the Dutchman's store
and began to throw off the loose shingles
right into the front door. The Dutchman
| raved, and cursed, and swore, but the
handfuls of shingles kept falling upon the
| floor until both wagons were emptied. The
| old Dutchman was too stingy to hire help,
and 1t took him two days TO get his store
cleared of the shingles"
Sidney Golf, negro railroad hand, was
shot and killed Sunday night in a house on
Hazel street in Tybee, suburb of Macon,
opposite the Methodist church, below the
Georgia mills. Golf and two negroes
| named Asa Williams and Dembo Brisbv
| n hua win Pa
man named Cronin and rented to Brsby.
| Williams, losing heavily, became angry
| with Coli, and, Jerking out a 3S-caliber re-
| volver, threatened him, saying that he
| (Goff) was playing unfair. Golf resented
| the accusation, and, rising to his feet,
started toward Williams, when the latter
| fired at him, the ball entering the left
breast, striking the collar-bone and then
| DETECTING toward the heart After he had
| been Shot Golf ran out of the house and into
the street where he fell on his back, dying
| in a few moments. A large crowd collected
| and the house was quickly locked up and
| Williams and Brlsby took their departure,
Brlsby, it seems, taking the revolver At
| midnight Williams was arrested. He had
an ugly stab in the right side of the neck,
which he claims was done by Golf in the
early part of the night, at tho Brisby house
| in Tybee. Williams will not acknowledge
the shooting but says after the cutting he
went to Hammond's bar on Fourth street
after police officers.
| The African Methodist Episcopal church
| has apparently done much good among the
colored people of the south. its member
sip is constantly increasing. This denomi-
nation has an organ published ia Philadel-
| phIa, whence the sect first sprung. This
organ is a neat monthly magazine known
as the 4. NJ f.. church ReUielC. 1t has
| been usually we'll edited and a really inter
| esting periodical. The April number of
us magazine apparently made a new de-
parture. lnste of preaching gospel of
peace and purity it is filled with low, OBJ
scene and inhammatory utterance, such as
are calculated to do untold harm in stirring
up the lowest passions of the negro. This
number of the ReUielo has done direct harm
in one Instance at least. The
other day, down in the
neIgnborhood of Ty-Ty, a colored preacher
took the magazine as his text, and instead
| of delivering a sermon, read with great
uuction the debasing utterances therein.
| lie dwelt particularly upon the first article
in the book the contribution of William
Hannibal Thomas, a former Lake CITY
| (Fla.) negro, in which he recommended that
the shotgun be used against the white men
in protecting the virtue of the colored
women. Thomas reiterated the statement
that from time immemorial the white
| women OL Jue SOuOn nave Deen particularly
partial to their colored men servants. and
that this fondness is increasing under the
mellowing influence of freedo A." and his
statement that the young lady who was
raped some time since by negro, who was
lynched for the crime, had been for years
the Negroes paramour, "as was well known
| by the lynchers" This was all most heartily
enjoyed by his sable hearers, who, coming
from the adjoining turpentine farms and
saw mills, were generally the off-scourings
of the negro race. Shortly after the
harangue was ended, the preacher suddenly
disappeared, and the country knows him no
more. 1t was as if the earth had opened
and swallowed him up. No trace of him
can be found. His unannounced departure
is enveloped in an awful tragedy and his
people fear that some dreadful mystery has
happened. A large number of the Rerietcs
have been circulated among the negroes in
the pine belt.
FLORIDA.