The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-18

ments as to marks A number OF the lead
ing wholesale and retail merchants viii
have TO answer indictments.
Athens Banner: Patsy Holbrooks is thu
name of a half witted darky in Athens.
He is about As years old. and lives
down in Lickskillet The negro is without
mind, and wears dresses all the time instead
OF the ordinary apparel of the male sex.
He used to run around the streets OF Athens
until the police ordered him kept indoors,
because he frightened children. Friday
Patsy came near being burned TO death. He
was sitting in his room by the fire, and his
mother was washing clothes out Ia the yard.
A negro girl came to the fireplace to get
a few Goals, and in passing him dropped
some fire in his lap. The Goals set his dress
on fire and he was soon enveloped in flames.
| He is almost dumb and can make very little
noise However, he made enough noise to
! attract the attention Of his mother who
came into the house in time to put out the
flames and save his life.
BlAkely NetCs: An attempt was made to
poison the family OF Sam Strong on Thurs.
day night last. Just before retiring Mrs.
! Strong went out on the plaza to get drink
| Of water. AS soon as she got the water in
her mouth she noticed that it had a dis
agreeable taste and smell. Call her hus-
| bands attention to the peculiar condition
| of the water, an investigation was begun,
when IL was discovered that some one had
poured harness oil into the water bucket.
Immediately it flashed through Mr.. Strong's
| mind that sone one had put poison in the
water Suspeotiug Sam Shack, son
OF Dick Shack, alias Richard George, he
got after him concerning the matter. and
after q time succeeded in inducing
him to make a confession. He acknowledged
that he put poison ia the water, and said
he was hired by another negro, Perry Hays,
to commit the deed for 81. So far Mr..
Strong has not been able TO handle the
negroes with the law. He has sent a por-
tion Of the water to Atlanta to have it
analysed and TO see whether it really con-
tanned poison or not. Rough on Rats is
supposed to be the poison used.
Albany Neps and Advertiser: When
the Central train came in Friday morning
from Montgomery the railroad employees
had tale Of woe to tell that made the hair
of each man who heard it stand up as if it
was electrified. A bold, but fortunately
unsuccessful attempt was made 10 wreck
the train, and made at such a point that
serious results would have ensued. About
twenty-seven miles out from Montgomery
crosstie was placed by some felonous per-
son right in the middle OF the track. This
was right In the middle Of trestle and the
croSstie was standing perDendicularly be-
tween the ties proDped In such manner By
being leaned against the tie that stood
upright and was great obstacle
in the way Of trains that might pass.
The cauuon-ball came laundering
along and encountered the obstacle before
the engineer had time to avert running
upon it. Ordinarily this would have de-
rallied tire train and would have sent the
entire load OF human freight hurting into
the awful abyss below but the speed OF the
train seemed to be providential. The cross
tie was struck by the pilot with such force
that it was shattered into splnters but the
pilot suffered the same damage also The
bars composing the pilotrwere twisted and
broken and the engineer says that one piece
Of the pilot few as high as sixty feet in the
air, so strong was the blow when the two
approaching appointments met The train
was not derailed but the pilot OF the engine
was destroyed.