Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-15

The False Prophet has been defeated
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Name. the snow Is so ueep lnai runners
are still used.
\ North AndOver eat has slept on a
cows back in the barn every night for
nearly three years.
The telegraph companies do not object
to pay a ''pole-tax.'' as it enables them to
do their 'wire-pulling' to advantage.
New England must look TO her laurels.
I A colored man in Florida has already re-
I ceiyed $500 for his bean crop this season.
HE had attended 167 funerals" was the
/ proud distinction awarded deceased
1 Vermont citizen on the occasion Of his
+ 16Sth and last.
+ On the Fourth Of July the monument
/ TO be erected in memory Of President JEFF
/ fersOn. in the graveyard at Monticello.
/ viii be unveiled.
The Hartford Times says Mr.. Hurlbert,
! late of the New York World, is probably
I the best journalist and poorest editor that
/ New York has seen in the past 20 years.
i 1t is not we'll to expect TOO much. Even
+ if We have got a good Postmaster General,
I the country will have to put up with a
+ great many Fourth class POstmasters."
Victor Hugo writes TO female auto
/ graph hunter in Michigan: ITO love is to
act and the Boston Herald adds that to
+ love is not unfrequently to act like fool
/ The Parnell fund has now reached the
+ sum of S33,6S0. Captain Finerty, of Chi
/ cag0. is entitled to the credit of starting
and pushing this fund to save Parnel's
estate from being sold for debt.
Probably the oldest banker in the cOun-
try is Mrs. Deborah Powers, who at SO is
President of the banking house of d.
| Powers 4 Sons, at Lansingburg, y. Y,
though the management is largely in her
/ sons hands.
/ \ prominent criminal lawyer of Chi
4 cagO, commenting on the probable acquit-
4 tai of Dunn. says that a man who has
+ $1,000 and is willing to part with it need
I never be convicted of murder or anything
/ else in that county.
I Bass, of ale fame, is noted also for his
I benevolence and abundant charity. Sew
eral towns have been given by him parks,
/ public baths, libraries, churches, parsOn-
4 ages, schools and auxiliary institutions,
/ aggregating, probably, over million dol
/ lars in value.
Dukes, murderer and traducer of his
victims daughter, goes about UniOntOwn,
/ Penn. with his eyes cast upon the ground
and his hat pulled over his heavy brow.
i Ills OlllN companion - 'lLe LOW IL DlulScI.
chronic fighter and by all the rest of
the people he is OstraciZed.
Martin Luther's statue, to be erected in
Washington on the 10th of next Noyem-
Der. has been ordered from the LAUGH
/ hammer Foundry in Germany. The
statue will be a counterpart of the bronze
/ statue unveiled in Worms, June -, 1868.
1t will cost. when completed, about 81, 300.
Prince Napoleon, having been jeered
and threatened by French Socialists, who
cried out in chorus that when hogs were
fattened it was time to kill them, won the
sympathy and enthusiastic admiration of
his assailants by alleging that he was an
! unfortunate American hog. eXiled from
Germany by the brutal hostility of Prince
Bismarck.
David Davis said he would have retired
from the Supreme bench anyway, even
had he not been elected Senator The
! labor was too great for man of his habit.
1T is not the writing Of opinions that
wears one out. ne says, "but the constant
wearing labor of finding out the truth
about matters concerning which opinions
are to be written
An exchange calls attention to the quiet
way convicted murderers get out of the
way in Montana. 1t says: Five persons
in Miles City, Montana, have been con-
yicted of murder within the last eight
months, and these five have committed
suicide by morphine 1t is, after all, an
/ inexpensive method, and has its advan-
tages over choking with rope.
There is in Schuyler county, Missouri,
a young-Old man, who, without apparent
cause, living plainly on a farm, has in
eighteen years passed through the physi-
/ cal changes of fOur-scOre, At the age of
6 he had all the development of strength
and muscle usually in lad of -. At y
his beard was grown and gray hairs APP
peared. Now, at Is, he is as decrepit as
/ any old man OF 80, and seems lettering on
the verge of the grave.
The Raleigh, n. g. Ne,eS says the line
of breastwOrks which in 1864 was thrown
up around that city is now nearly obiter-
ated. But in some places for hundreds
Ofyards the nearly perfect line yet stands.
In one or two places cannon lie rusting
in the grass and oOZe. Much of the line,
| which was continuous, runs through Gull
| tivated land, and can only be discovered
by a red band on the lighter soil Yearly
/ the plOuw is putting in its work, and be-
tore many years not single sign of Raj
/ eigh's defenses will remain.
The most conspicuous pupil in the pub
III cOnpOio VI ! AtAobNi ttAN wv ~ A'tC VI
the Chinese colony of that city, is a Ce-
lestial lad of Is years, named Lum Yam,
I who arrived in this country last NOVem-
Der, and went directly to his uncle in
Pittsburg. The uncle had already come
under Christian influences, and was glad
/ to have his nephew follow his example.
| 1t was feared that the public school chill
dren would make life a burden to the
/ yOung-Orental, but their sense of manli-
ness and fair play was deity touched by
| the teachers, and they at once became
his champions. He wears his cue coiled
on top of his head, but dresses like the
! other boys, plays like them, and, to say
the least, cuts as many capers. He obeys
the rules, tells the truth, and makes eX-
| traOrdinary progress in his studies.
The Dublin police are said to have con.
elusive proof that Carey, the mtormer,
was implicated in the killing of his proto-
type Talbot, the Fenian spy; in the killing
of Clark, another mformer; and in the
/ murder of a bricklayer named Behan, who,
! in Carey's own language, was ''remOved''
SO as TO make way for himself Carey as
foreman of Meade Bros, the Dublin
/ builders, He was also implicated in an
attempt to murder David Murphy, at one
time bookkeeper of the Irish People, with
whom he had some difficulty, 1t is be-
lieved that after he has rendered the ser.
| vice the crown demands of him he will be
! placed on trial for these crimes. His con-
yictiOn and execution will be prayed for
! by every honest man. No more inhuman
| or miserable cutthrOat ever disgraced
/ humanity. He is a fitting instrument of
| the base power in whose employment he
1 is.
When the noon train from Detroit on
the Canada Southern Railroad had pro-
I ceeded few miles last Friday three quiet
and well-dressed gentlemen started for
/ the smOking-car. AS they were crossing
/ the platform one of them broke from the
grasp of the other two and tried to
! Jump off, but he was seized.
| and a terrible struggle ensued
! The train was running at forty
miles an hour, no assistance appeared,
and a moment the situation became des-
perate, for it was apparent that the one
! was more than a match for the
/ other two, and was determined
/ to drag them with himself from
! the train. Only one means of es-
| cape was offered, and with a common
/ impulse and a supreme effort they
threw him from the platform and then
/ pulled the bell cord. The train stopped,
! and they explained to the conductor that
/ the man was their brother, Van Epps
| Harvey, and that he was a maniac. They
went back, found him uninjured, and
! procuring a conveyance, carried him back
| to Detroit, when they conveyed him by a
| later train to their home, in MIddletOwn,
| Ny. The Detroit Free Press states that
| Van Ems Harvey was graduated from