Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

recently killed in Sonora, Cal.
THE Sun says of Butler that he is active
and picturesque, and that he appeals to
the imagination. Quite so.
AN Alabama negro woman gave birth
to a child one Thursday lately. Saturday
after she gave birth to two more. None
of them lived.
GRAPE PICKING for the California raisin
| crop was in progress last week. Santa
Anna valley promises $4,000 boxes. 1t
certainly has raison detre.
\ MAN from St. Louis arrived at salt
Lake City few days ago, having pushed
a hand-car the entire distance. His des-
tination is San Francisco. He must ham
ker after exercise.
THE Boston Post says: president Ar
thur drinks three kinds of wine at dinner,
and asks no blessing Mrs. Hayes hus-
| band omitted the expense Of the wine,
and asked blessing"
/ Mr.. CARLISLE, of Kentucky, is said, by
a warm personal friend, to be so attractive
a speaker, that an explanation of the null
/ tipHcation table by him is more interest
| ing than a well-told story by most men.
| PRESBYTERIAN and Congregational
ministers in st. Louis are no longer to
I
/ Sunday papers. 1t takes so long to find
! the notices that their congregations sell
/ dom reach church.
/ PICKING up the bones of dead butfaIoes
| is one of the industries of Texas. The
| bone mills in st. Louis pay Sl4 ton for
| for the best grades of this harvest CLEANED
/ by the squaws, who wander about the
plains in search of the bleached skeletons.
Two HORSES bitten by rattlesnakes at
! Billings, Montana, have been cured by
puncturing the skin around the wound
enough to make the blood flow and apply
! ing soda literally, renewing the applica-
! ton from time to time, and alternating it
/ with ammonia.
A COMPANY of Milwaukee men have
/ purchased sixty acres of land near Han
nibal, Mo-, in which they are to open
extensive quarries of stone for use in
lithOgraphing. The property is cOnsid-
/ cred very valuable, and the stone equal to
the BaYarian limestone.
THE ancient mounds found in WiscOn-
sin were made in the form of birds and
animals in different pastures. They rep
resent flying geese, eagles, jack rabbits
and panthers in the act of springing upon
their prey. One was in the shape of an
elephant, but is now DESTROYED. Others
resembled turtles and crawfsh.
AN attempt was made to smuggle opium
into san Francisco by hiding 1t in ordi-
nary blocks of wood followed out and
covered with a thick coat of oil and
| grease. The blocks were placed under
! the gangway of a steamer so as to sup
port it and mislead the custom house Off
GERS. prOtruding screw exposed the
fraud, and $1,000 worth Of the drug was
/ seized.
AN old Louisiana fisherman, speaking
of the millions of porpOises in the Gulf.
says: The porpOise is looked upon
kindly, as one looks upon Poland China
hog, an enemy to nobody, peaceable and
. goOd-natured fish. Fishermen and others
. have for him a kindly feeling as the enc
my and master of the shark, which he is
said to handle as roughly as a wild boar
handles a yard dog
IN the United States, during the past
year 2S9, 100, 7S3 persons, nearly six times
the total population Of the country, were
transported on 1O7, 900 miles of railway.
/ The total number Of persons killed on the
roads was something over 1000. In
Europe, in 1881, scarcely 1900, 900 pas
sengers were transported over 172, S04
miles Of railway. The European railways
in the year 1881 killed $500 persons. In
America the ratio of travellers per mile is
as $500 to l. In Europe it is only 900 to 1.
DIR. J. T. REEVE. Secretary Of the Wis
consin State Board of Health, has investi-
gated the story of the prevalence ofleprosy
in that State, and says it has no founda-
ton. He says there have been but four
authenticated cases of leprosy in Wiscon-
/ sin since 1869, these being among newly
| arrived NOrwegians. Two of these victims
Npa uoFta Tr11V nd In ha1T f1,nT-
all are. He says there are now living In
/ Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa perfectly
healthy widows, children and grandchild-
rem Of those who were lepers.
MACON" in his correspondence with
the Cincinnati Enquirer, the other day,
had this item: There is a street railroad
in st. Louis that pays its conductors 50 80
Il day and gives them one day in the week
to themselves and an extra evening. too,
/ without loss OF pay once in while,
uses no bell punches or other checks Of
the kind on dishonesty, and vet it is doing
I a land-Office business and its stock IS
worth 300. Most of its conductors have
been with it for years and are married
men, who own their houses. Julius Walsh
/ is the President of the road.
Two men in Miles City, Montana, pre-
( tended to have learned by telegraph that
the government had thrown open the east
/ ern part of the Fort Keogh reservation to
4 settlers. They whispered this cautiously
to special, friends eniOining strict secrecy.
/ Before night there was a stampede, the
I supposed public land claims were staked
/ off, shanties were put up, tents were
/ pitched, and the jOkers say that a town
was laid out, and real estate "boOm"
was under full Roadway before O'Clock
/ in the evening. But by 10 the Joke was
] ont nd tho plapp V0S dncar+od
THE Columbus Ohlo) Dispatch says of
the Hon. Samuel 5. Cox, who was in
1s53-j4 an editorial writer for the Column
/ bus StdteSHldR: st was late in the after
noon, and the sun was just dipping below
/ the horizon. suddenly Cox rushed into the
room. Boys he said, did you see that
sunset? It's the most beautiful thing l
ever saw And, Selling some paper from
the proof press and leaning over the inn
posing stone, he wrote the famous pen
/ picture that gave him the lifelong sobri-
4 quet of Sunset Cox. The article was
taken by the c0mpOsitors and put in type
piece by piece, and it appeared in that
evenings number Of the paper
A CHINESE placard posted over the Yum
nam province, next to TOnquin, gives this
interesting information: "The Europeans
do not belong to the human race. They
are descended from Monkeys and Geese:
besides, they much resemble monkeys.
Their hearts are like the Heart OF the
Devil; therefore they are called KOui-Tse
which signifies European devils. These
savages believe neither in heaven nor
earth, do not honor their fathers or moth
ers, do not venerate their ancestors; the
sanctity of family ties is unknown among
them. They are a veritable herd of pigs,
a pack of dogs; they are ever talking
about equality; they have no notion Of
social rank, and make no distinction be-
tween father and son, king and subject.
You will ask perhaps how such savages
/ could be skilltul enough TO make steamers,
railroads and watches. Know, then, that
/ those who come among us under preteXt
of preaching religion, do tear out the eyes
and the brains Of dying Chinese. and col
lect the blood of our children to manufac-
ture it into pills, which they sell TO their
countTymen in order to make them skill
full. only those among them who have
/ thus eaten Of our substance become intel
ligent enough to make those discoveries
of which they are so yainglorious."
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