The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-24

furnished with guns. The boys have been
provided with uniforms at considerable COST
The guns viii be furnished if possible.
The rattle of the 500 bill under the
auspices Of the Synagogue fair at Bruins
wick, came off at LArioso Friday after
noon at O'Clock. Considerable interest vas
taken in the rails, and alm0s ali of those
who had chances at the money were there
to throw them of. Capt. j. 5. Thomas and
| Z. IT, Moore won the money jointly in a
/ throw of forty-fve- Capt, Thomas is out
of the city, aud it is not known whe Their the
money will be divided between him and Mr.
Moore o. the tie be thrown off.
The Emperor Of Germany has appointed
Gen. Estes Of Washin ton, d. c., as COM
missioner to look up the heirs of Baron
Fisher, who fed from that country in 1773
10 avoid Imprisonment for shooting deer in
the emperor's park. The baron fed
IN great haste, leaving his
business affairs unsettled, and
| all his property behind, and for fear of ar
rest never reclaimed it, and it passed to
the next of kin. The line to which it passed
having now become extinct, it reverts acl
to the baro IS descendants. Gen. Estes has
/ been untiring in his researches, and has
| found forty-five Of the heirs-there are sup
posed to be forty mine The fortune left in
| Germany has accumulated to sucl an ex-
| tent that it now reaches the enormous sum
of S5l, 10000, and each heir viii get about
! Sl,O4l, 600.
The Milton Democrat describes what it
calls a dumb bull, not an animal with
| horns. but an instrument equally objection
able if made to do duty in quiet commu-
| nifty. A dumb bull is made by stretching
piece Of ra hide over a hollow piece Of
OF wood, and passing a cord through a
hole in the rawhide. 4 pull at the cord
makes hideous and unearthly noise.
few nights ago some boys went through
the Rucker and Broodwell settlement, near
Alpharetta, with these dumb bulls, and the
| racket they kicked up frightened the inhab-
| itants terribly. Dogs left their houses and
took to the woods, mules, horses and COWS
broke out of enclosures and stampeded, and
chickens sought refuge in the tops of the
trees J. L. Maytield's mules refused to eat
what was placed before them, and no one
cauld bride them for fear Of being kicked
to death If they approached the panic
stricken brutes.
Athens Banner: Mrs. Lyle, the lady
who came 50 near getting the Athens post
Office, is the wife of James r. Lyle, form
erly OF Athens, and is a most estimable
lady. She would have filed the position
most creditably, and it is a matter of uni
versal regret that she did not get the ap-
pointnent Mrs. Lyle had many relatives
in Virginia, who, by their eudeavors in her
behalf, brought strong influence to bear
upon the President Mr.. Harrison would
have given her the Office but for the strong
protest of Boss Buck and Mr.. Wanamaker
After the President had decided to send her
name to the Senate for confirmation, Buck
and Wanamaker went to him and insisted
that it would kill his chances IN Georgia in
the next campaign. They showed that by
appointing Matt Davis he would carry a
solid republican delegation from Georgia.
This Is the way they worked it, and their
game was successful.
DR.. A. B. Duncan is the Albany Ne,Cs
and AdUertiser's authority for the follow
ing unique snake story: Thursday night a
party of four or five young men near Lees
burg went on 'possum hunt, one of them
carrying along brag dog, sa d to be the
best 'possum dog in the nine counties. After
short hunt the dog struck a trail and fol-
lowed 1t long distance, and freeing the
'possum, as the young men thought, in
large hollow tree. The young men cut down
the tree and saw-not a 'possum, but huge
rattlesnake, about six feet long. They killed
it and discovered that it had some animal
inside of it, which it had swallowed whole
The young man who owned the dog was
loud in his praises of his dog, declaring that
he had followed the 'possum's tr Ill until
the snake swallowed it, and then had even
followed the scent through the snakes BODY
until the snake sought refuge in the tree.
But the beys cut the snake open and dis
covered aiarge, black fox squirrel
A special from Leary to the Macon Tel
egrdph says: Jessie Pierce and Miss Nix.
neice of Frank and Lewis Nix, went to
Morgan and were married by Judge Raglan,
the marriage being very much in opposition
to the wishes Of the young lady's uncles, she
being an orphan, and under their guardian
ship The couple, after being married, went
to the home of Nose Iimmons to
spend the night. aud just as they were
getting ready to retire, there was rap
on the door, which, upon inquiry, was
found to have been made by one of the
uncles OF the bride, who demanded that she
leave her husband and return to the roof
she had deserted. Fearing that objec ions
to this demand would excite her uncle to do
something desperate, she acquiesced and
returned home win him. Pierce sued out
a peace warrant for the Nix brothers. and
also sought to recover his bride by writ
of habeas corpus. A trial was had
before Judge Boynton, at Nor.
gan, last Saturday, in which
the right of possession, so far as
the bride was concerned, was tried. Judge
Boynton told the young bride that she had
perfect right to return to the home of her
| uncles or that of her husband. She decided
| upon the former The next step in the pro.
| ceedings will be a suit for divorce, which.
| from the fact that the husband was de-
| serted by lis bride, will be an easy matter
to obtain. She will have no grounds for a
counter suit, as their separation took place
| before he could prove unkind or untrue to
| her, or show his inability to support herr