The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-25
JYKIL TYTHING.
The old Cemetery Earthquake.

JYKn TYTHING.
The Old Cemetery Earthquake.
1t was the hour of midnight. The moon
had passed far over into the western
quadratic. Long deep shadows from the
houses across the street enveloped the
walls of the old cemetery The streets
were desert ed and stiffness rotted around.
Footsteps of belated passengers occasion
ally broke the quiet and their echoes re-
sounded past the lanes without the &C
compartment of voices and then died
away in the silence.
AS the clock in the Presbyterian
church struck u o'clock, and the last
note quivered down over the sleeping city,
a man turned the corner of Liberty street
into Abercorn Pausing a moment to
look around him. he knocked the ashes
from his pipe and whistled a bar from
"After the Ball" From the De Soto
corner, on DraytOn street, an answering
whistle came while from under tree by
the convent across the way the same
notes were repeated.
Turning quickly toward the north the
man stepped along briskly,in tbedirection
of the old cemetery until he reached the
double iron gate in the western wall At
this point the crumbling brick work of
the gate post and wall removed by youth
full vandals of a neigh boringing school,
had left the enclosure, originally twelve
feet high, only five feet from
the ground, and easy to suruount
Placing one foot in the hole left by sew
eral bricks removed, he rapidly raised
himself to the TOP and jumped down into
the high grass and weeds in
side In few moments his
example was followed by another man,
and little later a third dropped over
almost in his very foot-tracks.
us that you Baltyln
Yes; is that you Kalamazoo"
YES; and here is Californy, too, all on
time. Move on, old whiskers, let's slide
over closter ter the Cops hotel, where we
will be more sartain of never bein' dis
kivered. Git right under his nose if yer
wants cop never ter see yer"
On the Wondering crypt of one of the
Sons OF the Revolution the king of the
tramps reclined his shins after first re-
newing the bloom Of youth on his bugle
nose by royal flush from the flask of fire
water which he produced. The second
fshed down in into the rent lining of his
fin de steele coat and brought IN q paper
bag full Of odorous dinner scraps; while
the third filled three Guilty pipes with
straight cut cigarette butts from the
afternoon sweepings of the Guards Club
"Ah, boysies; wat der bloated risti-
Gratis knows about hard work dds stuck
up town of cotton peddlers. Wot right
dey got to putin free Amerikin citizens
on de chain gang TO clean out deir dirty
swamps? WY dey don't put some of dem
Jail birds to cleanin' out dis
crazy boneyard} I've Travelled
all over this country, from
Californy to Coney Island and from Maine
oJacksonville, huntin' for work, but |
never in all my life see SIGH a place for
n DC
ground. And yet dey arrest free Ameri-
kan citizens for not havin work to do
Wen, Wen Jis give UNI a lessin.
"Calitorny, you got de dinnermite2"
es In de vault l got sixty-one
kittridges Maj. Stamford loaned US wen
we was BLOWN up stumps in de swamp"
Good! Balty, YOU got de wire2"
~ es, dc boys borrowed it Sunday night
from de power house"
We'll, got der macheen to tap de cleo
trio wire wild. Lets get ter work, only
don't bodder dat sarkofygus where de
sneak thieves rOost."
At this time terrific caterwauling
smote the air. simultaneously three
tramps made dive into the rank grass,
counted their heart beats and choked for
breath On the table stone of one of Gov
- Troup's departed aides de camps the fe-
line Ward AcAlisGer Of Oglethorpe square
bumped his spine, friZzed his tail and
emitted the most awe-inspiring chal-
lenges to the approaching maltese right
tackle OF 'eely's stable; dreadful sparks
shot from their eyes as they sprang to.
gether and grappled, fell, scratched and
rolled over the recorded virtues of the
departed
In the rapidity Of their revolutions
these doughty champions unwittingly fell
IN the yawning mouth Of an ancient tomb
nRAFhW Cd Fl,n 10 n.
grinning skulls chartered applause. The
cover of the bottOmless pit seemed for
moment opened while the means and
shrleks OF the damned in horrible tor
ment, pursuers and pursued, burst up
from the pent inferno. An instant later
The aureole whiskers OF Kalamazoo APP
peafed at the opening. Striking a lucifer
match ana throwing it down into the
ABYSS he uttered the exclamation Scat 7"
Two nights after this an event occurred
which renewed the horrors of 1886. The
coastv took a further slide OF the
Piedmont escarpment. A deep rumbling
noise which caused instructive alarm was
succeeded by the rafting and bursting of
windows. Houses rocked and swayed on
their foundations. An immense report
reYerberated through the air, accom-
panied by a succession of shocks ana con
eussions. The inhabitants, terror stricken
ana halficlad, rushed pell neil into the
streets. An immense cloud of dust hung
about the section of the old cemetery.
The entire gothic wall around it had dis
appeared. In it's place were huge holes
and heaps of brick. A section of
The wall had gone up several
hundred feet and descended upon the
firemen's quarters crushing through the
roof and killing, in its fall the finest pair
OF horses ia the department, affection
ately christened by the men for two
prominent politicians because each pulled
so well against the other. The fire alarm
was set of by the shock and the entire
department was summoned into the
streets by a confused set Of signals.
which added to the general confusion
and alarm of the citizens.
Another section of the wall landed on the
abandoned foundatin site of Savannah's
hrst choice for a new postoffice, where af-
forwards the government allowed 70 10 re-
main Tor three years for a lack Of an
available appropriation 10 remove IT, BY
q curious coincidence portion Of the
debris demolished the porch OF the house
occupied blythe health officer Just while
ne was engaged in putting the finishing
touches on an article for The Boston
tumlgator on the subject OF "Disinter-
mcnis, or The Origin OF the London
. ltafuci. aud which was "a demonstration
!. 81 tAe aDllty Of modern science Ia 1e-