The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-06

Judge Cunningham fears that the expert
ence of past years will be repeated and the
association be forced TO ship east by ex-
press. The same trouble does not exist with
the western routes. Through the active in
terest taken by General Manager Brown
of the Western and Atlantic, satisfactory
schedules and rates have already been ar
ranged.
There was some little commotion created
at the union depot at Macon Tuesday morn
ing when the crowd began to thicken and
grow so large that it was evident all appli-
cants could not get aboard an excursion
train. A number Of tickets had been sold
TO colored people. The number is variously
estimated at from 200 to 800. There had
been several cars set aside for them and
most Of the ticket holders had gone aboard
and taken their seats Il soon became ap-
parent to all that there would not be room
for all who wanted to go on
the excursion. The management
were not long in deciding what
steps to take. They concluded that the
simplest way out of the dilemma was to bar
the negroes and have an excursion exclu-
sively for white people. They communi-
Gated their decision to the negroes, and told
them to go back by the ticket Office and get
their money back. But it was a sore dis
appointment to most Of them, and few
concluded that they would not take the
money back, but would demand that the
contract be carried out. The management,
however, secured the services of some
policemen and had the cars cleared.
Not long since J. A. Tillman, Jr., of Col
quit county, caught tremendous channel
catfish in Little river and carried him home.
On his fathers plantation lives a man by
the name of William Stripping, who had
said he never had succeeded in getting
enough fish at one time for a mess for him
self and family Of seven. Stripping was
present when young Tllman arrived with
this catfish, and Mr.. Tillman, Sr., picked it
up and asked him if be thought it would
make him and his family q mess. Strip
ling replied she thought it would,n and it
was presented to him. En- route to his
home, carrying the monster, his curl
osity was excited as to the capacity
of his NAV, and he inadvertently picked
up lightwood knot as large
as an ordinary mans fist and placed it into
the tish's mouth. Before he could say "Jack
Robinson" the knot had disappeared into its
stomach. The fish was turned over to his
wife, when he arrived at home, to butcher,
and nothing was said about the pine knot
At length Stripping was called to dinner,
and when he came his wife tried to persuade
him not to eat any of the fish, saying she
did not believe any fish was fit to eat that
had been so hungry it swallowed big pine
knot. STRIPPING feigned surprise, bnt the
pine knot was produced to prove the allega-
tions Stripling ate heartily of the fish
smacking his lips, and pronounced it fac.
His wife and children did not touch it until
he told them the secret how the knot came
to be in the fish's stomach.
The negroes have been at fever heat two
miles west Of Villa RIGA, on J. G.. w. Las
settlers farm, over what they thought was a
very brutal murder. The negroes all had
an excursion Monday. Nathan Duke ard
his wife Joined the excursion, leaving their
children and their brothers boy to take
care of the house. About | o'clock Mr.
Lassetter heard gun shot at the house,
and went down there He found the little
boy, the son of Nathan's brother, dead,
with hole through his skull. Nathan's
two boys said man had snot him with a
pistol from the railr ad bank, distance of
thirty yards, and that the man ran off down
the road. Just about that time Fred Chas-
tin, John Kinny and Bob Brown and an
other boy by the name of Homes came up.
They had been down to the creek near the
tank, on the Georgia Pacific, washing, as
they called it. The superstition is that their
parents didn't know where they were
These boys from town say they saw no one
run off and met no one and for while the
crime was about to be put on them. The
coroner was sent for and jury impaneled,
and The little negro boys still swore
that white man did the shooting, and
the four boys were brought before them,
and they said neither of them was the one.
After all the witnesses Had testified, Drs
Slaughter and Roberts held post mortem
examination and found the boz 3 head full
of shot of three different Sizes The house
was examined and an cd single-barrel shot
gun was found that had Just been dis
CHARGED and a bOttta IF shot rrar Fo,,v1
containing three sizes of shot. Mr.. Lasset-
ter testified that he let the boys have some
gun caps during the week, and the conclu-
sion is that they (the little negroeS) had the
gun down to defend themselves.
and carelessly let it go off,
killing one accidentally. The boys
mentioned above had alittle fuss with them
as they went by going to the creek, and
when they saw the white boys coming back,
the negro boys got the old gun down and
let the hammer loose. 1t went off and killed
one of them. The gun was examined aud it
was found that the hammer would not stand,
aud the supp0sition is that tine hammer
slipped out of his hand and caused it to
fire. The negroes generally are satisfied
that it was accidental since the doctors
found that the boy was killed with a shot
gun.
A desperate and bloody duel was fought
IA hftOuS 1lOuntdll 1ueSlldF morning, Out
no one was killed. The actors in the en-
counter were DR.. G.. II. Goldsmith and L.
G. Wilke. The gentlemen are brothers-in-
law. For sometime past there has been a
bad feeling between the two, and several
slight quarrels have been INDUCED in. The
trouble originated in lot belonging to the
Goldsmith family. 1t seems that Mr. Wilke
+. had been using the lot as a COW pasture,
and Tuesday morning he and DR.. Gold
smith met near it. Roth were in
a bad humor, and in few seconds
were quarreling, but separated with
out fight. During the quarrel it is said
that Mr. Wilke picked up Ratchet, where
upon DR.. Goldsmith drew pistol As the
pistol came out Mr.. Wilke remarked: You
have the advantage of me-" "Well, then,
heel yourself, said DIR. Goldsmith, putting
up the pistol. The two men then separated.
About IL o'clock DR.. Goldsmith was sitting
in his Office talking TO gentleman named
Killian, when Mr.. Wilke stepped in the
door Looking straight at DIR. Goldsmith
Mr.. Wilke said: II have come to settle that
matter with you now" AS he spoke Mr.
Wllke threw his hand behind him. DR.
Goldsmith was sitting at his desk, and
placing his hand on it as though intending
to get up, said: "Wilke, you are drinking,
and you had better go home" That's a
lie,' shouted the mau. mo, it isn't" said
DR.. Goldsmith. "You have family &c
take care of, and / don't want any trouble
with you. You'd better go home
This angered Mr. Wilke more than