The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-28
GAINESVILLE GLsANINGs
An Ex-Slave Dies at the Age Of III
Years-A Scrap CT War history.

Years-A Scrap CT War history
GAINESVILLE, Jan. GA former slave
Of John Chambers, Dafney Wilson bY name
died near this city yesterday at the repor ted
age Of III.
Tie Presbyterian pulpit az this place will
be filed next Sunday by the Rev. D. w.
| Freeland, the Rev. A. b. Curry having TO
preach at New Bransord on the Suwannee
The negro shot by Allen at the Savannah,
/ Florida aud Western depot three weeks ago
is still alive, though paralyzed below the
| lumbar region.
A scrap of war history was told me yes
| terday by W. 4. Flyn, who was present at
| the time. He said that when Gen. Miles
ordered an inspection OF the guard which
was 20 have charge Of eK-President Jeffer-
son Davis at Fortress Monroe, out OF the
four regiments comprising the guard there
could only be found seven men who had not
been in the confederate army. and these
were daily expecting their discharge.
Mr.. Jarvis had been bothered for some
time with fox that was stealing his chick
ems. To he concluded that he would take
time and extermInate her. He did not find
the old fox, but did find her litter Of young
ones. Selling his brother 70 get his gun
ready, he moved the young foxes 70 an open
place. Knowing the old fox would soon
miss and hunt for her young ones, they hid
buOAAiocAfce DJ W hHAlb BoT COLQiBk anu
kill her. Soon she came in sight, oircling
aud wheeling here and there. taking ad-
vantage Of every tree, stump,
root, grub, stone and depres-
sion as she rapidly approached
her little ones, and when about twenty feet
from them, nerved by the mother instinct,
she gave mighty bound and, seizinE cub
she was away before either could fire. This
she repeated until all four OF her kittens
had been safely housed in one OF her dens in
the swamp hard by. This reminds one of
the sagaclty Of another fox l was oAce &C
quainted with. 1t got tired OF cooked food
and began to kill his mistress chickens To
prevent this he was chained to a stake in the
high weeds where il was shady and secluded
His food was brought to him In a platter.
Still the chickens disappeared. Suspicion
falling on bre'r fox from the feathers
around his place OF confinement, he was
watched, and it was found that he would
not touch his food, but leave il for the
chickens, he hiding in the weeds until they
came to get it, when he would pounce upon
them, sometimes getting two at a grab.
COUPLE OF MARRIAGES..
AT O'Clock yesterday evening L. J.
Burkheim was married to Miss Yetta
Endel, daughter of the late Moses EndeI of
this city. Rabbi Mendes Of the Forest City
performed the ceremony.
This morning at $50 o'clock Thomas J.
Swearingen was married to Miss Mamie
Watts a sister>in-law Of Representative s.
l.. Garter. at the residence Of the latter in
East Gainesville. The groom is a member
Of the firm OF Baird & Co., merchants Of
this city.
In a conversation with Judge Jesse ].
Finley, who was a confederate brigadier, a
few weeks ago, he recited to me the history
OF prayer book In his possession which be-
longed to the immortal Robert Edmund
Lee. To-day letter from the judge puts
me in possession of the particulars, which
are as follows The book entitled Book of
Common Prayer" was given to the Judge by
Mrs. Catherine Green, now Mrs. Henderson,
who informed him that her husband, Mai.
Green, was for time during the
war between the states in COM
mand of Arlington Heights, the
home Of Gen. Lee. 1t seems that Mai.
Green was so kind to the old servants who
remained on or about the place that an old
female servant brought to him the prayer
book, saying that she wished him 10 have IL,
also telling him that when Gen. Lees Ii
brary was taken she had saved this prayer
book, and that 1t was used by him the last
time he held family worship at Arlington.
On the margin of the fiyAleaf is inscribed in
pencil the name, "R. f. Lee," which one
familiar with the hero's autograph would
readily pronounce genuine.
4no JuuRo says bu6G uo WOul0 De very
happy to have It for his own but will send
it to Gen. Custis Lee at Lexington, Va, and
would have done so sooner but for pressure
of judicial business and the need Of Gen.
Lees address.
THE MEANING OF A SYMBOL.
Picking up odds and ends for the delecta-
ton OF the readers of the MORNING NEWS
l came across some curious things. / have
asked physicians without number almost
why it is that the publishers of medical
books universally use a symbol consisting
OF rod with serpent entwining In, in
closed in circle, and the meaning of said
symbol. Failing in every instance to get
the information desired, l went to work.
and having found out, / gave them the
benefit Of my labor. Every one who is the
happy owner of a ''sheep skim can
tell you off-hend that Esculapius was the
father of medicine. Well. In the Great
Mysia, afterward the Roman province Of
Asia Propia, in the valley of the river Cal
Gus, twenty miles from the sea, stood the
city OF Pergamum, or Pergamos. as st pres
emit called In this was a temple, erected in
honor of the great ancient physician, and in
this temple he was worshiped in the form
OF living serpent, fed in the temple, and
was considered its divinity. Hence he was
styled the God Of Pergamos, and on coins
struck by the city ne appears with rod en-
circled by a serpent
Before the days of expectation of the
papyrus shrub from Egypt the library of
Pergamos had been increased by Eumenes
ii. to 200, 900 volumes, which were all writ
ten on the dressed and dried skins of rats
and sheep, and as the art of dressing these
skins had been brought to perfection by the
people Of Pergamos, they obtained the
name of pergamena or parch ment.
This wonderful and priceless collection
was taken by Antony to Egypt and pre-
scented to his syren. Cleopatra, who had
about as much use for 1t as the sister Of
Caesar had for her.