Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PORTLAND, oregon, had only ABOUT
5000 population twenty years ago. At
the Willard celebration the other day she
had procession two miles long.
JONATHAN c. BOwLEs, who recently
died poor and frlendless in the Cleveland
co. City Infirmary at the age Of seventy
five wears, was twice worth 100000, it is
said, and lost both fortunes in real estate
speculatiOns. Among his few effects was
found "A copy of Will Cartoons poem,
''OYer the Hill to the PO0rhOuse."
IN THE children's carnival in Saratoga,
one little girl was dressed to represent a
gold mine, and she looked like a forty
pound nugget. Her shoes were gilded,
her stockings We're of gOld-cOlOred silk,
her pantalettes were bOrdered with bull
lion fringe, and her dress was a mass of
gilded silk, punched up so that it looked
like a rough, irregular chunk Of gold.
THE LARGEST cattle ranch in the world
is said to be that of Charles Goodnight, at
the head of Red River, Texas. He began
buying land four years ago, securing 30,
600 acres at thirty-tive cents per acre. In
the meantime the price has advanced
from 81 to 81 per acre, but he is still buy
ing. and controls 100000 acres. To enclose
his landed possessions $50 miles of fence
is required. On the range he has 10000
cattle.
The Ogdensburg Journal gives this
modification of one of Col. Mulberry Sell
lers Jokes: cat BrOckville on one of the
cool nights the clerk at popular hotel
lighted a lantern and placed it within the
coal stove in the reading room. One by
one citizens and guests strolled in, walked
up to the stove. rubbed their hands with
satisfaction, turned slowly around so as
to warm their shivering backs, noticed a
broad grin, took i'm the situation, and sat
down to enjoy the discontinue of the
next victim
\ WONDERFUL story is told about a
horse owned by Mr.. Alonzo Hayes, of
Kittery, Me. Mr.. Hayes has been in the
habit of wetting his borse's hay and
sprinkling it with meal. The other day
he wet the hay. but forgot the meal. Soon
after. while in the other end of the stable,
he heard the horse coming out his stall,
and shouted to him to 90 back, which he
did not at once do. Upon going to the
stall he found that the horse had taken
the pail containing the meal from its
place, and had put its contents upon his
haV. to the great establishment of his mas
ter.
THE Philadelphia Times says: 1.-The
provision in stephen Girard's will eX-
Guiding ordained ministers from Girard
College has had an effect that probably
was not anticipated by the testatOr 1t
has put the unfortunate boys at the mercy
of amateur preachers, who usually have
the faults of amateurs in other professions
in an exaggerated degree. These we'll
meaning but prOsy persons go out on sun
days and discourse at great length IN
piOus platitudes that are seldom edlfying
or productive of reverence. 1t is good
idea. suggested by Mr.. Lex, to put time
limit on the chapel exercises, for the
diminution of twaddle and the relief of
the hopeless orphans.
CHARLES RAWLINGS, a stowaway, who
recently arrived in Boston in the steam
ship Bavarian, has an interesting history.
He is only thirteen years of age. After
his mothers death, some years ago, his
father deserted him, and the boy made his
home at the Liverpool docks, sleeping i'll
boxes between bales of cotton, or under
sheds. and getting his food from sailors at
the wharves. one of his companions,
Jimmy Welsh, having successfully slowed
himself away, young Rawlings determined
TO follow his example. He SecIeted him
self in a Bremen steamship and landed in
Germany. There he slowed away in
another vessel and reached Liverpool, and
then got into the Bavarian. After the ship
was at sea he assembled to the deck and
became one of the crew. In Boston he
found his friend Jimmy Welsh, and the
police got place for him as rivet heater
in the Cunningham Iron Works.
\ WHOLE series of unlucky accidents
have lately befallen he,Austrian imperial
family. Just as the Empress Elizabeth
was passing on horseback over a small
bridge which spans the torrent in the Sty-
rian Alps, near MurXsteg, plank gave
way under her horses hOOf. The animal
stumbled and threw his rider over his
head. On the very same day, at the same
hour. Archduke William. brother of Arch
duke Albert, while experimenting the
cavalry exercises at the camp of Bruck,
was taken Ill, and fell in dead faint of
his horse; and at the same moment the
Archduchess Clotilda, wife of Archduke
Joseph, who had been to visit girls
school near Buda-Pesth, having just step
ped out of the house, accompanied by the
Young girls, heard a frightful noise he
hind her. She turned, and found that the
roof of the school room had just fallen in
What Interpretation will superstitious
people place upon these condolences?
Mine would be that the Archduchess Clo-
tilda is luckier than her relations.
JEFFERSON DAVIS says he will not be
able to attend the unwilling of the monu-
ment to President Zachary Taylor in
Louisville, KY. on the 10Th inst, although
nothing could be more grateful to his
heart than thus to testify for the memory
of that great and good man the love and
admiration with which he regarded him
while living" Mr.. Davis continues:
His modest, self-denying character,
Il. 70 9Th.
and never to claim il for himself, has
caused him to no small extent to be
underestimate by those who had but
superficial knowledge OF him. Careless
ness in outward appearance, heroic dar-
inc i'm achievement, gave him the familiar
anneIlation of Rough and Ready from
which some have enormously inferred
illiteracv. Though richly endowed as a
soldier by nature, the precision he eX-
hibited i'm active campaigns was not
merely intuitive, for in military history l
have known few men so deeply read or so
profoundly learned. As gentle In peace
as formidable in battle, the figure which
would be emblematical of his character
would be a composite of the lion ana the
lamb
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