The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-31

Cutter struck him blow upon the mouth
with his fist. The negro departed and Mr..
Gutter escorted the young ladies to their
homes When he was returning to his home
he heard some one running up behind him,
and as the person reached Mr.. Cutter he
stabbed him in the back near the left
side with knife and ran off down the
street and escaped The party doing the
cutting was the insolent negro alluded to
above. Fortunately the point Of the knife
struck against BONE which caused the
blade to glance, otherwise Mr.. Cutter
might have been fatally stabbed. His ply
sieians say it was narrow escape from
death.
Macon News: Shortly before / o'clock
Thursday afternoon a fourteen-foot sewer
ditch at the corner of Fifth and Bay
streets caved in and buried Ira Ansley,
negro workman, alive. There were 9TH
ers in the ditch, but they all escaped with
out injury except Ansley, who was slow
about protecting himself from the falling
dirt. 1t seems that the portion of Fifth
street at the intersection of Bay is made
ground" and 1t has been quite difficult
to lay a sewer in this locality, on ac-
count of the recent heavy rains the work
was even more hazardous. 1t is said that
the same sewer caVed In yesterday and
came near catching several Of the work
men. Since the heavy rains it has been
almost impossible to pursue sewer work
in any portion of the city, At 3 o'clock
this afternoon the negroes body - was
still in the ditch, but workmen had re-
moved the dirt TO within about four feet
Of the bottom without finding it. 1t is
down by the falling dirt. and that he
dead. ~
Albany Herald: At an entertainment
given for the benefit of the Methodist
church of Moultrie, Ga, a few nights
ago, the prettiest young ladies of the town
arrayed themselves in their best cos
tunes and sold kisses to the boys for
10 cents apiece AS a natural consequence,
the church debt has been paid in full,
nice surplus left and the young men
of Moultrie are bankrupt, whereupon the
Madison Advertiser adds: This new and
pratical osculatory exercise may be all
right, but 1t must strike the average read
er that the Moultrie girls have made a
big mistake. A kiss that isn't worth
five times as much as a pound of cotton
isn't worth having. Ten cents is reg
ular bargain counter price and should
never have been set. This kind of caper
for the relief of a church debt may spread.
1t may become a fad, and IL IL does and
strikes Madison, the young ladies of Moul-
trie will be shown thing or two. In the
first place the "kissables" will be classi-
fled just as cotton is.S Sixteen-year-olds
and so on up in age until the old maid
class is reached. Those in this class will
have to hustle for themselves, that's all.
A snake story OF good big proportions
is floating about the streets of Conyers.
This is the Banners version Henry, son
of Mr.. T. e. BrodnaN. and Lawrence But
Ter, son of Mr.. d. s. Butler have been for
month or more hunting all sorts OF
very successful in catching the reptiles.
Henry Brodnax had Gagged up in a box
at his fathers home quite a number at
one time, and had been feeding his pets
on milk and bread for several days be-
fore it was discovered what he was doing
with it, He was found one day last week
by Mrs. Davis, his aunt, while feeding
them and had two large snakes in his
hands, one of which was a moccasin, and
others were coiled about him. The snakes
were all of the very poisonous kind and
Mr.. BrodnaX lost no time in putting them
to DEATH but 1t was some time before the
captured their game It was learned at
last that they had by means of looped
string caught the snakes and then choked
them till their mouths would open: when,
with a pair of tweezers they carried for
the purpose, they pulled the fangs of the
snakes and then Gagged them. The boys
old. ''.''' = ~ '''1 = s"''
Jasper Herald: on last Monday at Mel
/ son there was an occurrence which will,
no doubt. result in the death OF highly
respected young man. Monday morning
Barney Arthur. Jr., went TO work in the
mills of the Blue Ridge Marble Company
as usual. little thinking Of any difficulty
and having nothing against any man so
far as known. A young man named Noah
Roberts also works for the Blue Ridge
company and hasn't very enViable repu-
tatlon, came through the mill and being
somewhat under the influence OF liquor
attempted TO raise racket with several
Of the boys. lie began on Arthur. and
| eye-witnesses say that Arthur was In fun
when he threw a rock al Roberts. Rob
erts had "A grit which is used for rubbing
marble. weighing about a pound In his
hand and threw It with all his power.
striking Arthur IN the back OF the head,
fractufing his skull IN terrible manner.
Roberts, as soon as he saw the result OF
the stroke, run and drew "a pistol and fired
once He was shot az by officers twice
and u is -thought was wounded. az he was
tracked some distance By blood. Drs
Tate, seag ana Hawkins were Immediately
summoned ana have been in attendance
constantly since the occurrence, but the
Young man mas never been able 20 speak
since, although al times ho seems NJ ~
conscious The phyaiclanf have taken out
four pieces u skull as large AZ "a auarter