Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-17
G. ENEtSAE Nc gES.

William Schroeder drank ten whisky cock
tails in five minutes, to win a wager, at Den
yer, and his life was only saved by the use Of
a stomach pump and galvanic battery.
The aged mother of Thomas Huges is liv-
ing at Rugby and is hopeful that the colony
will yet be a success. She writes TO friends
in praise OF the productiveDess OF the soil
and salubritY of the climate.
A band of Indian hunters composed OF
Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Wild Bill, Merci-
less Ben and California Joe, started for the
plains from Ithaca, Mich. Their ages
ranged from twelve to fourteen years. They
were overtaken and captured by pale faces
before they had gone far, and taken back
home for castigation.
An exhibition OF skill with the lariat at
Austin, Tex, few days ago, drew crowd
of IO, 900 persons. Ten cowboys contested
for a silver trimmed saddle worth $500. to
be given to him who roped, threw, and
tied down a steer in the shortest space of
time. The winner accomplished the feat in
one minute and forty-fiVe seconds.
An English paper tells how a wealthy
north OF England man bought under sound
advice, little before the depression began,
an estate in Kent for S115O00 He died a
few months ago, leaving directions to sell
It. 1t was offered for $4,000 in vain, and
now, with q tenant, and 50 600 worth OF
timber thrown in. for $4,000 This is
within two hours Of London.
Remsen, of Mason, Illinois, aged fifteen,
read an offer of a reward for the arrest Of
desperate criminal. He set out upon a
search for the man, found him in an out-of-
the-way hiding place, commanded him to
surrender; fired upon him for refusing, and
took him to Jail badly wounded. The boy
gets the reward, but is to be tried on an in
dic,ment for assault with intent to kill.
The Russian Royal Commission to abate
drunkenness recommends: l. Liberty to
communities to close all drinking shops ?
Permission to communities to establish com
muual monopones for the sale OF drink. 3
Nh prfblic house 20 be established above 70
ner cent in exc S. Of one per 1000 OF the
population. 4 Tea aud food TO De soid
wherever drink Is consumed on the prt misses.
: Rigorous supervision OF pubic houses.
The wooing of Molhe Spurgeon by Albert
Eggleston, at Warsaw, Miss, made favora-
Bile progress until the girl learned that her
lover was forger, and then she dismissed
him. But he had no intention of giving her
M. Finding her alone in the house, he
placed a cooked revolver at her head, and,
under a threat Of instant death, made her
90 to boat in which he started with her
down the Mississippi. He said that he meant
to keep her a prisoner on the loneliest island
he could fad until she consented TO marry
him. But her friends went in pursuit so
promptly that she was sOon rescued.
A spectacle interesting to every English
man was recently witnessed in Portsmouth
harbor. On the 21st of October, every year,
Nelson's old ship, the Victory, now nearly
one hundred and twenty years old, is dress
ed ia laurels, and her masts once more
dIsnlsv the tsttered sails which besr such
evidence of the fierce fight at Trafalgar
seventv seven years ago. The brass plate
mon the quarter deck, with the inscription,
1Here Nelson FELL" receives an extra pol
,sb. and the tars on board solemnly drink
IN the memories of those who fell in the
greatest naval struggle England ever had.
The following is told of Norman Mac
Leod, who was pursued by tuft hunters be-
cause he was one of Her Msjesty's chap
1aips: He was dining at the house of one OF
those persons "a LADY, one evening, ana got
a little exasperated az the manner In which
he was treated. In addition to being pes