The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-17

The Albany correspondent of the NEWS
writes as follows: Henry Smith, a drunken
negro, literally cut F. ?. Pepper, another
negro, to pieces Saturday night at about II
! O'Clock. The particulars Of the difficulty
are about as follows: Henry Smith stopped
at Peppers house. and called for a woman
by the name Of Ella, and repeated the call,
until Pepper stepped out on the veranda
and spoke To Henry, saying: There Is no
one here by the name of Ella. No one lives
| here but my family This seemed to en-
rage Henry, and he replied, You are a
liar. Pepper and started into the house.
Pepper gathered a chair, Henry drew his
knife, and they began fighting In the
scramble Pepper failed b get in good
lick with the chair, and finally it was
jerked out of his hand, he being delicately
built man. Smith then cut him, making
at least twenty gashes. 1t is thought that
one stab reached his kidney, and there is
but little hope Of his recovery. Pepper IS
a well-educated negro and "A good ph0tOg-
rapheT! He has lived here TWO or three
years, running a little gallery on Broad
street and teaching in the public schools"
A Cumberland correspondent thus de-
scribes the fiddlers Of that island: after
fishing my attention was attracted by an
army Of fiddlers In the sand. Oh, such
funny little folks are the fiddlersl They are
a peaceable set, too, and in all the droves
aud drOves that / saw marching about on
the sands by the inlet. 1 saw only two who
were disorderly. They fought little, but
not fOrduag, aud the defeated fellow crawled
into his hole and tie army moved on. A
fiddler looks like very small crab. Some
are blue, others red and brown, and there
are black ana gray Some have no claws
and others have great white claw like a
crab, Which they seem to keep time with
They are the drum ma Ors A fiddler never
turns to run. They run backward, to the
front and sideways without moving their
bodies. They have little holes all over the
sand that reach lowell, | don't know, for
/ got a stick and dug and dug until got
tired, and | never did find the bottom.
They have a curious little way of making a
noise like smacking the lips, and it sounds
sometimes as though a lot Of folks were
kissing.
Excelsior almost equal to the product of
the cottonwood, linden and white pine of
the north and west is manufactured from
the light pine Of the Georgia forest. IL you
visit an excelsior factory you will see
great piles Of this wo cd, cut into from | TO
2 feet lengths and split into pieces of con-
venient size TO handle. The process of
manipulating it is very simple. The ma
chine consists OF a broad bit, the front of
which is cut into numerous points, fixed on
an upright frame of IRON. just above this
is knife that resembles the bit of smooth
ing plane, and IL is also firmly
fixed in the frame. Above and below
| these tive bits are rollers Of iron
with the surface cut into points so that
they hold the wood firmly, and by turning
gradually with each movement of the
machine, they keep the billet of wood
| firmly pressed against the pointed bit and
the knife. The wood is forced up and down.
| AS it moves upward the little points cut
into the soft wood and as the wood moves
downward the knife takes off the shaving
| from the face. This shaving has already
been split into as many fine pieces as there
are points on the lower bit, and
as il curls up on the floor at
the feet of the operator, it is the
product known as excelsior. The coarser
grade is used in beds. The finer is used in
packing furniture crockery and anything
else that requires easy handling. 1t is
elastic and clean, not easily displaced by
| jostling, and is one of the finest packing
materials known to commerce. 1t is
coming into demand from an unexpected
quarter. The fruit growers have found
| that it is a very superior article for use in
their business, as it is so clean and dry and
holds the fruit so nicely. One man at
Griffin has bought 1000 pounds during the
present season.