The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-25

Tat ground.
Taibotton Era Uncle John Mershon
says that he once sowed ten bushels OF
wheat that made him profit of $3.50 Said
| he: Il bought ten bushels Of wheat during
| the war at s. per bushel | sOwed the
| wheat and sold the crop for $500. The
| profit, you can see, was $780, How many
/ bushels OF wheat did you makeP he was
/ asked. i made exactly ten bushels, SAID
/ he. Eyes, but YOU planted ten bushels.
/ Where did the profit come inT Wen,
| said Mr.. MeTshon, Il sowed ten bushels OF
wheat. and my patch produced exactly ten
! bushels. But bought the wheat at 50 per
bushel, and when my crop came in wheat
had gone up to $50 per busheI. So you
see that the seed cost me only $50, and l
sold my crop for $500, making a profit Of
$50"
A number Of the representative business
/ men Of Americas met Monday for the pur-
! pose of discussing the trouble existing be-
/ tween the city council and the authorities
| Of the Savannah, Americas and Monigom-
| cry railroad, and to devise, if possible, some
means of Adjustment thereof. The result
\ of the meeting was the appointment or
committee Of six to present to the council
| petition numerOusly signed asking that the
| railroad company be permitted TO extend
| side-tracks across jackson and Finn streets,
which concession would settle the trouble
aud secure to Americas the conpany's ma
chine shop, which will be carried elsewhere
should ths request bs refused. A meeting
of the directors of the road will be called
| in day or two to hear the result Of the
meeting, aud to determine on the location
Of the shop.
Athens Chr0aicLe The easy manner in
which people may be humbugged, and the
great power that curiosity can exert, is
illustrated in little story told by DIR.
Richardson this morning. He told of
man who owned a SOW and pigs-ordinary
scrub stock. He placed one of the pigs in a
box and carried 1t to town, and with
mysterious air lndmated that the box con-
tanned great curiosity. His friends we're
anxious co get peep into the box. but he
Dersistently refused to let anyone look into
it. Finally one mans curiosity was 80
great that he offered q small sum for the
privilege of looking into tue box. While
disputing about it, Others made similar
offers until So was secured. The owner
then reluctantly consented for tho box TO be
ope ned, when 10. and behold, it was an ordi-
nary little pig People love to be- hum
hugged, and the man not only made So, but
was more popular than ever.
Smith Henry, harmless, inoifensive ne
gro, was brutallY murdered in Dough-
erty county, Sunday night, between 10 and
II O'clock. His death was caused by two
gunshot wounds, the gun being loaded with
buck shot, and both barrels emptied into
his body. The person who fired the deadly
shots Is unknown aud unsupported. AT the
investigation nothing could be learned or
ascertained concerning the murder.
No one knew of any suspicious
circumstances that would point
to the guilty party and the labors of the
jury we're finally abandoned, as the coroner
saw that further inquiry was useless. There
was strange negro in the neighborhood
Sunday night, but there was no evidence
to show that he was in the least implicated
In the crime Henry had 10 enemies that
any one knew of, aud the crime is alto
gether unacc9untable. He had not been in
any trouble with any one, and his death is
most puzZling.
Brunswick AdUertiser: Peter Davis and
John Keller, two negroes of st. Simon's
had a narrow escape from shark last Sat
urday afternoon. Davis and Keller are
two boys, aged about IA and IL, respect-
lively, and have been on st. Slmon's all
their lives. Saturday afternoon about 3
o'clock the boys got into row-boat and
went in search of oysters They soon
reached an oyster bed and were out on the
bank gathering oysters, when terrific
floundering Yves heard in the water,
and, looking around, they were
astonished to see a man-eating shark within
three feet of them. The boys were almost
afraid to re-enter their boat, but finally no
trace Of the shark was seen and they jumped
in the boat and showed off, They had not
gone far before they noticed the shark FOL-
lowing closely beside the boat. TIE boys
were terribly frightened, but they managed
TO keep no enough nerve to carry them
back, TO the island The shark followed
nearly all the way and appeared to be hun
CRY.
For weeks past patrolmen on the early
morning watch at Atlanta have reported
the my sterious blowing of a captain or
sergeaat's whistle or gong. The officers
! use a whistle called a gong" which is
made OF three different sounding whistles
joined together. Whenever an officer
wants patrolmsu he blows his gong and
the patrolman runs at onca t. the point
| from where the gong is sounded. The
mysterious gongn had almost grown
| to be regarded superstitiously by the
police. 1t would be heard in The early
| hours of the morning before sun-up, aad
the patrolman on that beat would rush I'D
only to see a patient, plodding new paper
carrier going meekly on his rounds. Monday
morning a discovery was made A carrier
was caught Ia the act of blowing the gong
to let the people know that be WAS on hand
| He said he bought the gong in New York
and he was allo ed to go his way. after his
name and address were taken. The matter
was reported to Capt. Wright, and the
gong will be confscated by the city govern
| meat.
Augusta Chronicle: Tho street railroad
company has abandoned for the present the
idea Of using electricity as motive power
on It's lines. The company thinks it very
unreasonable that they should be required
to pave aud keep up twenty feet of street
along each track, when they will employ
motive power that will in no way uso the
roadway, aud will be absolutely free from
wear and tear except ON their rails If they
had been using electricity or dummies all
along, and had asked the right to substitute
mules and horses, there might be some
equity in requiring the company to keep UT
its share of the street as It's mules would
help to wear it out. But when it is pro
posed to abandon mules aud substitute q
power which might be used a century with
out a dollars worth of wear and tear or
anything except its own iron rails, it doei
seem unreasonable for the city to add new
burdens to the company, and require it no
only to keep the part OF the street it uses il
as coed order as the rest, but to improve
20 feet of it, or where double tracks arr
used 50 feet.
A unique suit was tried in the city cour
at Atlanta, Monday. 1t was an action TO
breach of contract and verdict for TIN
plaintiff was granted. Mrs. Georgia Wat
son was the plaintiff. She runs q dairy
farm, aud, SO the evidence showed, ha(
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