Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-20

! III clrcul&tlon IN Boston, ana Few nave
been discovered In the banks.
Twelve million bushels of corn was last
year made into glucose in the United States
alone. Brewers were the largest consumers.
An electric light wire, buried beneath an
asphaltum pavement at San Francisco,
somehow lost its insulating envelope re-
Gently, and the result was that the electric
fluid found its way into the asphalt, which
was soon in lively sizzle and fume.
Should Minister Lowell be recalled from
England, rumor says in Massachusetts, that
| he will enter the race for the Republican
| nomination for Congress In the Fifth dis
! trict. The district Is now represented by
Mr.. Bowman, who desires reelection. 1t
includes Cambridge and some Of the most
sristocratic parts Of the city Of Boston.
Since the fail of Napoleon III. Emile OIL
vier has lived In the country in grand style,
his second wife having brought him large
| fortune. He has now returned to Paris, less
the famous blue spectacles and sinister x
preston of countensnce, and with much
more flesh than he carried during the en-
pire The remainder of his life, he says,
he will devote to literature.
Secretary Folger, 1t is said, will modify
his recent order, prohibiting the use OF coal
oil OF any kind for Illuminating purposes on
board OF steamboats,. 1t was shown that
| lard oil could not be used for signal lights.
The oil which has been In use upon North
| ern steamboats, is made OF paratdne, and
Secretary Folger, after testing 1t, found 1t
was not so explosive as he had supposed.
Robert Bonner has invested about $780,
| 600 In fast horses altogether. His first pur-
chase of the kind was made in 1859, when
he bought Lantern and Light for SO 600
| He paid $40, 600 for Pocahontas, $50 600 for
Dexter. $40 600 for Edward Everett, 800, goo
for Stsrtle, SIC. 600 for Edwin Forrest and
S36, 900 for Rirus. Last year he bought Els
cort for 50 900. Halcyon for s. 600 and Keene
Jun for $4,000.
The A. T. Stewart farm, at Garden City, is
the model farm of Long Island. Everything
is growing well. There are ninety solid
acres of potatoes, 800 acres of oats, 500 acres
of corn, 300 acres of rye 40 acres of turnIps,
| 10 acres of carrots, and over 500 acres of
grass. There are 800 sheep on the farm
| One hundred men and s. ty horses ere EN-
ployed under the supervision OF Mr.. Cunliff
1t has yearly been increased in size, and its
earnings are very large.
There is wild excitement in the Cherry
Grove pa oil field over the opening of the
Anchor Company's second well on lot CAT.
A six hour gauge shows that the well is
gushing q 1872 barrels a day. The original
GAG we'll and the Murphy well were both
| drilled deeper, and are now gu 'hing about
2, 400 barrels day. These, with the Anchor
well previously opened, and doing 500
barrels, make total production from four
wells OF between 5000 and 10000 barrels
per day.
At the Royal Naval Hospital in Great
Yarmouth has died at the age Of 1O2 John
Mooring, survivor Of the battle Of Ira
falgar Moorlng entered the service when
lad OF thirteen, and, after serving In vari-
GUS ships, became Captain of the N aintop
of the Thunderer, In which capacity he was
present at Nelson's great fight. uutil re-
| Gently he had clear recollection of the bat
tie. For some years the debility coDse quent
upon his great age confued him to his bed.
Serious obstacles have risen to the fur
therance of Mr.. Laurence ELEPHANTS scheme
to re-establish the Jews In Palestine
Turkey opposes him. Russian Jews are
welcome, says tie Porte, to any part OF the
dominiOns OF the Sultan except this very
part. No Russian Jew will be allowed to
settle in the land of lis fathers. Reasons
are not given for the decree, hut it is be
| lieved that the Sultan has concluded 1t to be
the part of prudence not to give the Jewish
nationality centre around which Il might
grow.
Interest now attaches to the Citadel of
Cairo, for Arab Pasha has secured osses-
sion OF 1t and also of the Mokattsm Hills
behind, which completely command 1t. It
was erected by Ssladin in 1166, and its walls,
tradition says, were foTmed of blocks of
stone brought from the smaller pyramids of
Gizeh. Mehemit ALI captured this castle
from the hands of Khoorshid Pasha by
erecting and armiDg battery on the adja-
cent hills, and it was within its walls that
occurred the memorable massacre OF the
| Mamelukes. From the TERRACE one has
magnificent view of Cairo, the Delta, the
Nile valley, and the pyramids of GiZeh and
| Sakkarah. krGpp guns have been set up
within the citadel.
Mr.. Macksy, the millionaire, was men
toned in a story that went the rounds of the
press some weeks ago as very ungrateful
man. The gist OF the story was that an old
fellow who had befriended Mackay, the boy,
is now allowed by Mackay, the man, to end
his days in the Ulster County IN. Y. Aims
house. Mr. MackaY rises to say that he
never saw or heard af the almshaqse person,
/ never was in Ahankaden, as the story has 1t,
| and never was helped to an education.
| When about twenty one years of age he
found himself an uneducated youth at work
as q laborer in the mines of Sierra county,
| California, and since then his days have
been passed on the Pacific coast.
Representative G. g. Dibrell, of Tennes
see, has written leIteF to the Democrats
Of his safe advising harmony, and suggest
ing that the canvass for Governor be made
on national Issues, and the debt-settlement
question be submitted to the Legislature,
no decision to be final unless subsequently
Endorsed by the vote Of the people. He
writes further "If we can hold the ap-
preaching convention together, and nomt-
nate an acceptable man for GoVernor-one
who will make an aggressive war on Haw-
kins, on the 1904 and bp.1, aud show oil up
| together, we can defeat him; otherwise we
are doomed to defeat again. The Demo-
Gratis who voted for 90 6 l hope will be for
ever retired to private life."
Philios Alexln, who is dead In Greece al
the age of ninety -four, had in his youth a
part in the Greek rebellion Of 1921, which he
remembered with terrible emotions 10 his
| last day. He was master carpenter al
Lsmia when lmer BrioniS Pasha entered
that town in triumph, bringing In his train
several prisoseTs, among them the cele-
| brated leader, Athanasios Diakos, whom he
/
| and roasted alive. Ga pain OF death he re-
| quired the young carpenter to construct the
| implements of torture and fire needed for
| this barbsrous execution. Alexin did his
/ work and BECAME witness OK the toTments
through which, with unf'nching fortitude,
the heroic Diakos was forced to pass.
There has just died in a miserable garnet
in the miserable Rue Moufetard, at Paris,
woman aged 20, Of whom nothing was
known by her neighbors, not even her name,
although she had occupied the same room
for nuInbefs sf years. She was believed
| by all to be miserably poor, and the land
| lord, from charity, had allowed her to oc-'
cupy the room rent free. Her death was
only made known FROM suspicious aroused
In the mind OF the concierge, who had failed
! to see her leave the garret for three or four
days. When the room was broken into
she was found upon the bed IN a semi-nude
| condition, and the doctor deg AIRED that she
had died OF starvation. But an examipa-
ton OF her bed disclosed beneath the mat
tress 10 DOOR. in notes and 20 000f in god
and silver coins.
New York "society" authority reports
that. at a stylish Wedding soon to take place
in fashionable church up town, the brides
maids are to consist of six cherubic little
girls, ranging In age from Gig to ten years.
| They are to be atllred IN charming looking
Kate q -eenaway costumes. made OF seashel
pink foulard, and trimmed with lace and /
natural rosebuds, with broad sashes of pink
MORE, and bewitchirg little Queen Nab
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